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Canoncial visitation report compiled by Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap. for the Irish Capuchin custody in the United States. The report includes extensive commentary on the spiritual, physical and financial condition of various churches and friaries in Oregon, California, and Delaware. Father Murtagh notes that while the previous 1938 visitation was highly detailed – marking the first comprehensive inspection since the mission was elevated to a Custody – conditions changed very little over the following year, allowing this 1939 report to remain brief. He commends the friars for maintaining a high level of spiritual observance, pastoral work, and cooperation, describing the visitation as a pleasant experience akin to a ‘triumphal tour’. Reference is made to death of Father Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., who died in June 1939 and was buried in a newly acquired plot at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Photograph of a group of Capuchin friars taken on the occasion of a visitation by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. The group includes (standing) Fr. Fergus Lawless OFM Cap., Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Fr. Conleth Killian OFM Cap.; (seated) Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., Fr. Joseph O’Mahony OFM Cap., and Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap.

A group of Capuchin friars outside the new St. Francis parish rectory in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California.

A group of Capuchin friars outside the new St. Francis parish rectory in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California.

A group of Capuchin priests and novices in the garden of the Church Street Friary in Dublin. A manuscript annotation provides the names of the friars. The group includes Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Sebastian O’Brien, Stanislaus Walsh OFM Cap., Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Paschal Stapleton OFM Cap., and Luke Sheehan OFM Cap.

Photograph of Capuchin friars at the Provincial Chapter in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.

Photograph of Capuchin friars at the Provincial Chapter in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.

Legal document issued under the Land Law Acts recording a Civil Bill Ejectment for Non-Payment of Rent brought before the Recorder of Cork in the East Riding Division. The legal action is initiated by Plaintiff Alexander J. Glasgow of Waka Waka, New Zealand, through his solicitor R. Hayes of 59 South Mall, Cork, against the Defendants Father Thomas (John Edward) Dowling OFM Cap. and Father Lawrence Dolwing OFM Cap., Rector of the Monastery Rochestown. The suit seeks clear possession of a portion of the Lands of Rochestown, situated in the Parish of Carrigaline, Barony of Cork, which was held under a year-to-year contract tenancy at a nominal yearly rent of ten shillings. The document claims a total ejectment arrear sum of £5 5s. 0d., itemizing a continuous ten-year backlog of unpaid rent stretching from a half-year ending on 25 March 1890 through nine consecutive years ending each March from 1891 to 1898. The bill summons the defendant to answer the charge at the Cork County Court on 16 October 1899.

A bound collection of printed pamphlets titled (on the spine) ‘Communism unmasked’. A manuscript index is extant on the first three pages. Includes pamphlets by Professor Alfred O’Rahilly, Fr. Stanislaus M. Hogan OP, Fr. A.M. Crofts OP, and Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. Many of the pamphlets refer to Catholic social teaching.

Correspondence of William Connolly & Son, contractors, 37-39 Upper Dominick Street, Dublin, regarding the repair and decoration of the altar and other furnishings (including confessional boxes) at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. Correspondents include William Connolly, Ashlin & Coleman, architects, 7 Dawson Street, and Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, guardian, Church Street. On 21 Jan. 1908 William Connolly proposed to Ashlin & Coleman that he would ‘execute the works in the manufacture and erection of screens at St. Mary of the Angels … in accordance with your designs … for the sum of £575. The work to be executed in the best, seasoned Austrian oak, wax polished, and in the highest class of workmanship’. Other work included the building of a new stone porch to the south side of the Church. With bill of costs for said works. See also CA CS/2/6/1/1.