Letter from Major Gerald Henry Pomeroy Colley, Headquarters, Irish Command, Parkgate, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., declaring that he is ‘glad to say your kind offices will not be required to night’. Colley was referring to Fr. Aloysius’ attendance to imprisoned rebel leaders.
Dated 9.30 am. Letter from Major A.F. Owen Lewis, General Staff Officer, Irish Command, Headquarters to The Governor, Arbour Hill Detention Barracks: ‘Please allow Father [Columbus] Murphy to interview Pearse the rebel leader and any other rebels whom he may wish to see’. On Royal Arms embossed paper. Faded Ink-stamped: Headquarters Ireland.
A letter from Máirín Allen, 183 Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. on a proposal for her to write an article on the fine arts in Belfast.
Letter from Máiréad Ní Ghráda to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing her admiration for the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She also makes reference to León Ó Broin’s article in the periodical.
Letter from M. Mahony, St. Helen’s, Blarney, County Cork, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC (1871-1926), referring to the recent death of Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC (d. 26 Dec. 1904).
Letter from Louis J. Walsh (1880-1942) to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., guardian, Ard Mhuire Friary, welcoming the arrival of the Capuchins in County Donegal. He writes: 'I hope … above all that the Holy Mass is being offered up every morning in the halls where alien lords revelled and plotted against our religion and our race. … Your monastery will add wonderful richness to the spiritual life of Tír Chonaill and of Ulster and bring down countless blessings on us all'. He also suggests that Ard Mhuire Friary would serve as an excellent location ‘in which lay men could make retreats’.
Letter from [L.J. Colbert], Shanagolden [Limerick] expressing happiness that ‘the poor martyrs are not forgotten’. Reference is also made to the ‘cruel treatment of the poor young fellows and the gentle and tenderly reared Countess [Markievicz]’.
Letter from Lillie Connolly, 37 St Patrick’s Road, Drumcondra, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., affirming that she has ‘started the Catholic Belief this morning taking it from the beginning’. She assures Fr. Aloysius that ‘I will study it right through’. Final page is endorsed (in a different hand) with a list of Catholic devotions.
Letter from Lillie Connolly [wife of James Connolly], 22 St Patrick’s Road, Drumcondra, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., expressing her joy that her son Roderic has started school and has promised to make for ‘lost time’. She also expresses her delight on hearing the ‘little message from the dear Countess [Markievicz]’. She adds ‘I pray and long for the day when she may enjoy her freedom’. With cover.