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A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘II’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Fr. Philip John Adamson (Secretary to the Archbishop of Liverpool), Fr. Cuthbert Hess OFM Cap., Jack Donnelly (Derryvolgie Avenue, Belfast), Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap., Leo O’Brien, Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (Cathedral, Simla, India), John English & Co. (printers), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Charles L. Wagner, D.L. Kelleher, Wilfrid Cantwell (architect), Mary Hardebeck, Maurice Lavanoux (Liturgical Arts Society, New York), Patrick Lawlor (Catholic Writers’ Movement), Mary O’Connell (Beckett Street, Melbourne), Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Seamus de Faoite, Michael A. Bowles, Aodh de Blacam, John Desmond Sheridan, Alan Macauley (Irish American Film Corp.), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ (Boston College, Massachusetts), Peter F. Anson, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Tomás S. Cuffe, Oliver Saint-George Hawksley (Isle of Gigha, Argyll, Scotland), Fr. A.J. Cleary (Saints Peter and Paul Presbytery, South Melbourne, Australia), Séamus Campbell (editor, ‘Irish Bookman’), Fr. John Crowe (Saints Peter and Paul Church, Athlone, County Westmeath), Fr. Piaras de Hindeberg SJ, P.A. MacMahon (Secretary, The Thomas Moore Society), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Joesph Connolly (Melford, Westfield Road, Dublin), Sister M. Patrick (Convent of St. Columban, Chinese Mission Convent, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Major General Hugo MacNeill, Dr. J. Vincent Carroll, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. M.P. O’Sullivan, (Oak Park Lane, Monrovia, California), Seán Moylan, Archbishop Thomas O’Donnell (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Jack B. Yeats, Fr. Victor Sheppard OFM (Franciscan Friary, 4 Merchants’ Quay, Dublin), Fr. Emil A. Heiring (Mount Saint Mary of the West, Norwood, Ohio), Maud Gonne MacBride, R.R. Figgis (Secretary, The Friends of the National Collections of Ireland), Francis McCullagh, Patrick John Little, Margaret Mary Pearse, G.P. Daly, (Palmerston Road, Rathmines, Dublin), Maureen McManus (Secretary, The Legion of Mary, Belfast), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Frieda Le Pla, Micheál Ó Ceanáinn, Seán Ó Baoighill, J.J. O’Connor (National College of Art, Dublin), Sydney Gifford Czira (‘John Brennan’), J.P. O’Brien (Manager, Irish Tourist Association), Fr. Peter L. Danner SJ, Mervyn Wall, Secretary, Office of the Higher Commissioner for the Irish Free State, London, Mary O’Doherty (Carlisle Street, Dublin), Fr. M.J. Dalton (Mount Alvernia, Mallow, County Cork), Jarlath A. O’Connell (solicitor, Dame Street, Dublin), Nuala Costello (Tuam Art Club), Joseph Patrick Walshe (re the fate of Seán Russell), Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Philip Rooney, Seán O’Sullivan, Máirín Allen, Benedict Kiely, and J.A. Power (Knock Villa, Salthill, County Galway). Enclosures include letters from Brian Furey (The Parsons Arms, Flushing, Long Island, New York) to Benedict Kiely (1946); Typescript list of ‘IRA Prisoners at present serving sentences in British Gaols’ (1945).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Some of the correspondence refers to the ‘Orange Terror’ article originally published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ while other letters reference the artwork of Jack B. Yeats and Richard King, and contemporary political matters. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Seumas MacManus, Michael O’Higgins, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Lily McCormack (provides his recollections of the funeral of John McCormack, 8 Jan. 1948), Aodh de Blacam, Bishop John Dignan, Thomas MacGreevy, Alan C. Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Patrick John Little, Myles O’Farrell, Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), General Aodh MacNeill, Maud Gonne MacBride, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Thomas R. Lynch (South Hill Street, Los Angeles), Delia Murphy (refers to her performance at concert in aid of the Carl Hardebeck fund in Belfast, 4 Oct. 1945), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Seán Moylan, Seán T. O’Kelly, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Edith M. Scott Mason, Frank E. Benner, Frieda Le Pla, Hubert Rooney, Jack B. Yeats, Oscar Traynor (Minister of Defence), Ellen O’Grady (Tralee, County Kerry), Tomás S. Cuffe, Peter F. Anson, Sir Shane Leslie, Fr. John Brosnan (St. Mary’s Church, Los Angeles), Éamon de Valera, Victor Waddington, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Sara Allgood, Richard James Hayes, David Marcus, T.J. Kiernan (Irish Legation, Canberra, Australia), Michael McDunphy (Director of Bureau of Military History, refers to McDunphy’s hopes of obtaining recollections of the 1916 Rising from Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap., Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. and Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., 19 Sept. 1947), Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Philip F. Roden (Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), Seamus de Faoite, Germaine Stockley, Kathleen M. Murphy, Séamus Campbell, Fr. Henry S. Glendon OP (Holy Cross Church, Tralee, County Kerry, refers to the artist Michael Healy), Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Fr. Frank Moynihan (Nazareth House, Hammersmith, London), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Frank Fahy, James Mason (English actor, 1909-1984), Francis McCullagh, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), H. Lytton Wilson (Secretary, The F.J. McCormick Memorial Committee), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), James McGurrin (President, American Irish Historical Society, New York, refers to the purpose and ethos of the ‘Annual’ and need for support from patrons in the United States, 2 Feb. 1948), Colin Summerford, Mary Hardebeck, Fr. J.F. Forde (Diocesan Inspector, Cathedral Presbytery, Cork), Eduard Hempel (refers to the case of Kurt Von Burgsdorff, former Governor of Kraków, Poland), Fr. Louis A. Gales (Catechetical Guild, Minnesota), Jarlath A. O’Connell, Mary O’Connell (‘The Advocate’, Beckett Street, Melbourne), Vincent Evans, Benedict Kiely, Ernest Musgrave (Director, City Art Gallery, Leeds, referring to a loan of ‘The old road, Dungarvan’ (1925) by Jack B. Yeats, 23 Apr. 1948), Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Francis J. Little (Rathgar Road, Dublin), Ellen McCann (15 Tower Hill, Armagh), Frederick May, Clare Sheridan, Richard King, Richard Hayward, G.F. Troup Horne (Birbeck College, London), and Bishop William MacNeely.

The file comprises the following editions of this weekly publication:
16 Oct. 1915 (Vol. XXVIII, No. 42)
20 Nov. 1915 (Vol. XXVIII, No. 47)
29 Jan. 1916 (Vol. XXIX, No. 5)
1 Dec. 1923 (Vol. XXXVI, No. 48)
7 Nov. 1925 (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 14). 2 copies. This edition contains a report of a sermon in Kilkenny by Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, on the history of the Irish Capuchins.