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A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. returning a copy of an article by Thomas MacGreevy which has ‘given him great pleasure to read’ as it ‘treats my paintings handsomely’. Yeats also promises to send some ‘mental notes about the scenes of the three pictures’.

Letter from Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., thanking them for their generous gift (seemingly a pen). Yeats writes 'I hope it will take the bit in its teeth and write handsome and beautiful thoughts for me – what a wonderful thing would be a pen which could only write the truth'.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats, 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his admiration for ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942). Yeats refers to the reproductions of his work in the publication which he describes as ‘wonderfully successful’. He adds ‘I would like to thank whoever was so good natured as to put in a photograph of me in my youth’.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats, 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Leo Smith, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, granting permission to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. to reproduce some specified paintings in both ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and ‘The Father Mathew Record’. (Volume page 108).

A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding a tribute article for the late Abbey Theatre actor, F.J. McCormick (1890-1947). Yeats refers to McCormick as ‘a very great actor’ but indicates that he will be unable to contribute to a tribute to be published in the 1948 edition of the ‘Annual’.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats, 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., declining to write anything on 'this sad Irish question and the cruelties that go with it’.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. conveying some notes regarding three of his paintings (‘Bachelor’s Walk, in Memory’, ‘The Funeral of Harry Boland’, and ‘Communicating with Prisoners’). Yeats notes that he found ‘it very hard to recall, in words, scenes which I registered with my eyes’. In reference to ‘Bachelor’s Walk, in Memory’ he writes ‘The flower girl threw the carnation with a quiet strong gesture without hurry. She slowed her steps and did not stop. I think the boy, though he was looking away toward the east[w]ard, saw, and understood, the event’. Yeats also recalls his personal impressions of the funeral of Harry Boland in Glasnevin Cemetery and his good fortune in witnessing the scene he depicted in ‘Communicating with Prisoners’. He concludes, ‘I believe events are events and passers by have the honour of passing by and should not forget it’.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his delight on hearing that his painting ‘Men of Destiny’ has been purchased for the national collection.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the suggestion of holding a national loan exhibition of his work. Yeats wrote ‘The honour and pleasure to myself would be very great – But I am afraid such an exhibition would go against the sale of my paintings. The suggestion might come to people that I have retired’. He promises to take a few more days to consider the proposal before writing to Fr. Senan again.

A letter from Iseult Stuart, Laragh Castle, Glendalough, County Wicklow, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She writes ‘My son, Ian, who is doing sculpture at the Art school was fascinated by the Laurence Campbell pictures’