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A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘X’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Seumas MacManus, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Seamus de Faoite, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Piaras Ó hOisín (‘c/o McClory’, Pax House, Fr. Griffin Road, Galway), Pearse Hutchinson (‘Findrum’, Rathgar Road, Dublin), William Frederick Paul Stockley, Bishop John Dignan, Mary Wren, D.L. Kelleher, Sir Shane Leslie, Stanley B. James, Tomás S. Cuffe, Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Fr. Vivian O’Connell OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork), L.V. Mill Arden (Main Street, Killarney, County Kerry), Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Canon Patrick Rogers, Thomas MacGreevy, Myles Farrell, Br. Laserian O’Connor OFM Cap. (Holy Trinity Friary, Cork), Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Peter F. Anson, Germaine Stockley, Máire de Blacam, Br. Fergus Buckley OFM Cap. (Sichili Catholic Mission, Northern Rhodesia), Pádraig Ua Duinnín, Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Moira O’Scannlain (Red Forest Hills, New York), Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. (Capuchin Franciscan College, Rochestown, County Cork), Maud Gonne MacBride, Séamus Campbell, Benedict Kiely, Joseph Colligan (37 Lower Buckingham Street, Dublin), Elsie Crichton-Stuart, Mary Hardebeck, Sister M. Christopher (Assumption Convent, Cork), K. Murphy (Honorary Secretary, NUI Club, Shaftesbury Avenue, London), Marion King (3 Eaton Square, Monkstown, Dublin), David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Colin Johnston Robb, Máire Ní Shúilleabháin (Rodeen, Castletownbere, County Cork), Pat Lawlor (Nathans Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand), Francis McCullagh, Ellen McCann (15 Tower Hill, Armagh), Máirín Allen, Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (Holy Trinity Friary, Cork), Sr. Mary Bernadette (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Richard King, C.P. Curran, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., and Dr A.T. Schofield (Inglewood, Melksham, Wiltshire).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Hermes Kreilkamp OFM Cap. (St. Felix Friary, Huntington, Indiana), Ada P. McCormick (editor of the ‘Letter’, Tucson, Arizona), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ (re a Richard King exhibition in Boston College, Massachusetts), Fr. A. J. Molyneux (Presbytery, Glenflesk, Killarney, County Kerry), Adolf Morath (photographer), Tomás S. Cuffe, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Liam Andrews (Springfield Road, Belfast), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India), C.J. Woollen, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Albert Dryer (11 Kenyon Stret, Fairfield, Sydney), Doran Hurley, Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Johanna Coakley (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Frieda Le Pla, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Sister M. Magdalena (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Colonel John L. Throckmorton (Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army, Washington, United States), Thomas MacGreevy, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Mannix Joyce, Hamish Fraser, Jennie Dowdall, Sister M. Patrick (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Liam Brophy (Roebuck Road, Dundrum, County Dublin), James D.B. O’Toole, James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Sister Mary Berchmans (Medical Missionaries of Mary, Rosemount, Booterstown, County Dublin), Maurice J. Moriarty (Muckross, Killarney, County Kerry), Mary Purcell (32 Gardiner Place, Dublin), Sister Mary de Pazzi (Presentation Convent, Killarney, County Kerry), Sister Angela (St. Joseph’s Convent, Upper Lindum Street, Lincoln), Alison King (Vico Terrace, Dalkey, County Dublin), Séamus Campbell, Winfred Ford (43a Albany Street, Leith, Scotland), Joseph Szövérffy (Irish Folklore Commission), Rev. H. Stoneley (Ince Vicarage, Westwood Lane, Wigan), Winfred M. Letts (Verschoyle), Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), James McGurrin (President, American Irish Historical Society, New York), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Michael J. Kennedy (‘Manresa’, Trimlestown Park, Booterstown, Dublin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Ana O’Reilly (Botanic Road, Dublin), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Robert Monteith, Merrill Proctor Ball (Williamsburg, Virginia, United States), John Bennett Shaw, Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Dr. J. Vincent Carroll, Sister Mary Joseph SL (Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, refers to Kate O’Brien, 1897-1974), Michael A. Bowles, Marie J. McGee Hynes, Fr. J.A. Shiel SJ (St. Joseph’s Church, Bihar, India), Mona de Cruz (3 Westlands Road, Penang, Malaysia), Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Críostóir Ó Floinn, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Seán Lemass, Fr. Denis McEnery (Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Virginia, Minnesota), Michael Tierney (President, University College Dublin), Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. J.C. Morgan (Redemptorist Fathers, Bangalore, India), Archbishop William Godfrey, Seán P. O’Reilly (Instituto Mangold, Madrid, Spain), Peter F. Anson, Pádraig De Brún, John English & Co. (printers), Canon T. Gunnigan (St. Mary’s Church, Ballinrobe, County Mayo), C.E. O’Gorman (De Villiers Street, Johannesburg, South Africa), William D. Ryan (North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois), John J. Kelly, Lillie Le Pla (St. Enda’s, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire), David Marcus, Quintin Montgomery Wright, Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, John Jordan, James D.B. O’Toole (41 Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin), William F. Shaughnessy (The Courthouse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Fr. Peter Keane OMI (Immaculate Conception Church, Brownsville, Texas), Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., R.T. House (‘Books Abroad, An International Literary Quarterly’), Susan Hughes Goetz, Willie Fitzpatrick (Irish Union of Distributive Workers and Clerks), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Fr. Thomas McLaughlin OSB (Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland), Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB (St. Mary’s Abbey, High Street, Newark, New Jersey), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Fr. Daniel J. O’Donovan (Sacred Heart Church, Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, San Diego, California), Bishop William MacNeely, James M.B. Wright, Móirín Chavasse, and Archbishop James Thomas Gibbons Hayes SJ. The file also includes faculties granted to Fr. Senan by Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans (10 Jan. 1952); A list of licensed bookmakers in Dublin (26 Feb. 1952).

Letter from John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, 81 High Street, Kilkenny, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a copy of the will of Margaret Carthy (d. 6 Mar. 1940) in which she leaves the sum of £5 for masses to be said for the repose of her soul. The solicitors assert that ‘there are not sufficient assets to meet any of the legacies contained in the will of deceased, as all available monies will go towards paying her funeral expenses …’.

• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on the founding in 1819 by Fr. Mathew of ‘an association which was the precursor of the St. Vincent de Paul Society’. The Josephian Society ‘was a body of young men who taught catechism and instructed poor children to read and write’. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Notebook containing entries relating to Fr. Mathew’s temperance crusade extracted from 'Battersby’s Catholic Directory', 1840-7. The entries were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 10 pp.
• Letter from Sr. Mary Aquin, Convent of Mercy, Cobh, County Cork, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re ‘a tradition in the Convent that one Sister saw him [Fr. Mathew] frequently in his last illness and were edified by his holy dispositions’. 4 June 1930. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. confirming that the Christian Brothers ‘have a quite a lot of matter re Fr. Mathew in their records’. Fr. Bonaventure also refers to his efforts to locate unbound and missing editions of 'The Father Mathew Record'. 9 Feb. 1939. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re the numbers who took the Total Abstinence Pledge from 1839-52. The figure for 1839 is given as 63,387. The figure for 1852 is 6,486,851. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re references to Fr. Mathew, Apostle of Temperance in 'Bullarium Ordinis FF. Minorum Francisci Capucinorum', Vols X-XII (1841). Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on Bishop John England (1786-1842). ‘From the sermon of the Most Rev. Dr. [Francis] McCormack [1833-1909], Bishop of Galway, at the celebration of the centenary of Carlow College, Sunday, Sept. 23, 1888’. MS, 2 pp.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘A XII’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from James Mason (English actor, 1909-1984), Georgie Yeats, Michael A. Bowles, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Germaine Stockley, Adolf Morath (photographer), Sister Mary Stella Phelan (Novitiate, Medical Missionaries of Mary, Drogheda, County Louth), Edward Ardizzone (English painter, 1900-1979), and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.