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A volume containing copy correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Most of the letters are manuscript copies of Fr. Senan’s outgoing letters but the volume also includes some copies of letters received by the friar. A partial alphabetical and page index of correspondents is included at the start of volume. The spine is gilt-titled ‘Minute Book’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes correspondence with Peter F. Anson, Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Séamus Ó Braonáin, Aodh de Blacam, Michael A. Bowles, Frank E. Benner, Captain Charles Brennan, Séamus Campbell (James J. Campbell), Maire Comerford, C.P. Curran, Eugene Collins, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Alice Curtayne, Joseph Connolly (Melford, Westfield Road, Dublin), Fr. Terence Connolly SJ, Archbishop John D’Alton, Bishop John Dignan, Fr. James Enright (Castleisland, County Kerry), Kevin R. Egan, Seán Feehan (Mercier Press), John English & Co. (printers), Patrick Gallagher, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Carl Hardebeck, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Seán Keating, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Delia Murphy, T.J. Kiernan, Richard J. King, D.L. Kelleher, Benedict Kiely, Charles E. Kelly, Frieda Le Pla, Sir Shane Leslie, Dr. George Little, Patrick John Little, Fr. Frank Moynihan, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., An tAthair Micheál Ó Sé OFM Cap. (Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap.), Fr. Christopher Mangan (Archbishop’s House, Dublin), Francis McCullagh, Herbert Mackey, Bishop William MacNeely, John McCormack, Lily McCormack, Maud Gonne MacBride, Cardinal Joseph MacRory, Major General Hugo MacNeill, Seumas MacManus, Br. Brendan Neary (Salesian Missionary College, Ballinakill, County Laois), Fr. James T. Nolan, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), May O’Connell (Melbourne, Australia), Seán T. O’Kelly (President of Ireland), Art O’Brien, Vincent O’Brien, Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Jarlath A. O’Connell, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM (Papal Nuncio to Ireland), Canon Patrick Rogers, Colin Johnston Robb, Máirín Cregan (‘Mrs James Ryan’), Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (Cathedral, Simla, India), William Frederick Paul Stockley, Germaine Stockley, Iseult Gonne (‘Mrs Francis Stuart’), Oscar Traynor, Éamon de Valera, Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Mrs F.L. Vickerman, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Victor Waddington, Mervyn Wall, Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Joseph B. Whelehan, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), and Jack B. Yeats.

Press photographs (mainly of Capuchin friars and Observant Franciscan friars) compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Some of the photographs are annotated. The file includes the following images:

• The Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. at celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchins in Kilkenny in 1948.
• The celebration of Mass at St. Adam and St. Eve’s Church in Dublin.
• Gabriel Fallon (1898-1980) with rosary beads blessed by the Pope for presentation to the actress, Margaret O’Brien.
• The consecration of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 Sept. 1950.
• The arrival of President Seán T. O’Kelly and Archbishop John Charles McQuaid at St. Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, for a Mass commemorating the 1798 Rebellion.
• Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. preaching in St. Francis Church, Kilkenny, in 1948.
• Fr. Ephrem O’Sullivan OFM Cap. (1904-1958).
• The funeral of Chief Superintendent Sean Gantly at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Merchants' Quay, Dublin, in January 1948. With images of his funeral procession along O’Connell Street.
• Presentation by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. to Captain Robert Monteith.
• Rev. H. Canon Murray speaking at a Pioneer Total Abstinence Association meeting. Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. is also in attendance.
• Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap. (1896-1972) speaking at a sale of work in aid of the Capuchin Foreign Missions.

A bound volume titled ‘Book No. 2 / Blocks on Hand’. The volume contains printed copies of block pulls for photographs and illustrations published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The block prints are numbered Block 1-91. The volume appears to have originally been used to list names, addresses and amounts subscribed (possibly for the Third Order of St. Francis Sodality, or the Association of Patrons of 'The Capuchin Annual'). The volume includes the following copy prints:
• The Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia.
• Fr. Clement of Milwaukee OFM Cap., Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans.
• The Sacred Heart Sodality Choir, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
• Drawings by Peter F. Anson.
• Drawings by James Malton (1761-1803), an Irish engraver.
• Drawings by Richard King.
• St. Patrick’s Basilica, Lough Derg, County Donegal.
• The Capuchin Friary, Prague.
• Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., editor of 'The Capuchin Annual'.
• Archbishop Ettore Felici (1881-1951), Papal Nuncio to Ireland.
• Captain Robert Monteith.
• Aodh De Blacam (1890-1951).
• Lough Veagh, County Donegal.
• Alexandra Park, Belfast.
• Armagh City.
• City Hall, Beflast.
• Lismore Castle, County Waterford.
• Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. with Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
• The Custom House, Dublin.
• Carl Hardebeck (1869-1945).
• Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament at the Grotto, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
• Drawings by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D2’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Tomás Ó Riain, Adolf Morath (photographer), John English & Co. (printers), Fr. J. McShane (Parochial House, St. Oran’s Road, Buncrana, County Donegal), H. Martin Hamilton, Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Seumas MacManus, Fr. Celsus O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Clare Sheridan (sculptor), D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Otto Richter, Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Nuala Ní Riain, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Eilish M. Sharkey, F. O’Reilly (Secretary, Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950), Hugh P. Allen (Catholic Truth Society of Ireland), Joceyln Harcourt, Fr. Tom Ryan (Vatican Secretariat of State), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap, Fr. W.B. Ryan OP, Elizabeth Corr, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Maud Gonne MacBride (enclosing letters from Vincent Crompton, an Irish republican), Patrick John Little, Michael McLaverty, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, and Canon Patrick Rogers. Enclosures include minutes a meeting of the governors and guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland (6 Dec. 1950) and printed lists and other documentation re the Chester Beatty collection in the Gallery; Manuscript notes re the cartoonist (probably Charles E. Kelly) of the ‘Dublin Opinion’ and his denial that his work constitutes an ‘active participation in politics’.

A bound volume titled ‘Book No. 2 / Blocks on Hand’. The volume contains printed copies of block pulls for photographs and illustrations published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The block prints are listed by box number and other locations in the Capuchin Publications' office. The volume appears to have originally been used to list names, addresses and amounts subscribed (possibly for the Third Order of St. Francis Sodality, or the Association of Patrons of 'The Capuchin Annual'). The volume includes the following copy prints:
• Cardinal József Mindszenty (1892-1975), Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary.
• Drawings by Richard King.
• Drawings by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
• The Most Reverend Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Archbishop of Delhi and Simla.
• Consecration of Monsignor Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone by the Most Rev. Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio, at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 September 1950.
• Francis P. Matthews, Ambassador of the United States to Ireland.
• Powerscourt House, South William Street, Dublin.
• St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare.
• Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (1904-1989), Irish Capuchin Mission Secretary.
• Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. (1893-1977), Master of Novices, with newly professed friars in Rochestown, County Cork.

A volume containing copy letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine has a gilt title ‘Minute Book’. Contains copy of personal letters to Fr. Senan (with some replies) relating to the Capuchin Publications Office and contemporary political matters. The volume has a partial alphabetical index of correspondents. Most of the correspondence dates from 1943 to 1945. Includes copy letters from Peter F. Anson, Professor Leonard Abrahamson, Aodh de Blacam, Fr. John Brosnan, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), David Barry, Pádraig De Brún, Michael A. Bowles, Helena Concannon, Nuala Costello (Tuam Art Club), C.P. Curran, Joseph Connolly (Office of Public Works), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, James Joseph Campbell, Sidney Carroll, Seán Crawford (The Square, Warrenpoint, County Down), Fr. William Dargan SJ, George Gavan Duffy, Eamon Donnelly, St. John Greer Ervine, John English & Co. (printers), Seán Feehan (Mercier Press), Charles Robert ffrench, 6th Baron ffrench, Joseph H. Fowler, Seamus de Faoite, Fr. Louis A. Gales, Gertrude Gaffney, Tadhg Gahan, Senator Denis Healy, Archbishop James Thomas Gibbons Hayes SJ, Carl Hardebeck, Cahir Healy, Bulmer Hobson, Douglas Hyde, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Denis Ireland, D.L. Kelleher, T.J. Kiernan, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Seán Keating, Sir Shane Leslie, Frieda Le Pla, George A. Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Seán Lemass, Bishop Daniel Mageean, Dom Aubert Merten OSB, Fr. Frank Moynihan (editor of ‘The Advocate’, Melbourne, Australia), Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Edith M. Scott Mason, Sister M. Magdalena (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Dr. Regina Madden, Seán Nesson, Maud Gonne MacBride, Michael McLaverty, Francis McCullagh, Dr. Colm McDonnell, Thomas MacGreevy, Bishop William MacNeely, John McCormack (Moore Abbey, Monasterevin, County Kildare), George Noble Plunkett, Séamus Ó Braonáin, Vincent O’Brien, Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Moira Ó Scannláin, Eoin O’Mahony, Art O’Brien (Connaught House, 53 Pembroke Road, Dublin), Máire Ní Shúilleabháin, Seán T. O’Kelly, Kathleen O’Brennan, Terence O’Hanlon, P.C. O’Mahony, David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Canon Patrick Rogers, Philip Rooney, Dr. James Ryan, Colin Johnston Robb, Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Germaine Stockley, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Archbishop Bernard Mary Williams, Alfred White, Victor Waddington, Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), and Jack B. Yeats.
The volume includes a copy of a letter from David Gray, United States Minister in Ireland, to Cardinal Joseph MacRory re partition and the presence of American troops stationed in Northern Ireland (7 Oct. 1942, pp 19-25).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office from Charles E. Kelly (enclosing a humorous cartoon of Fr. Senan), Eugene F. Collins (Temple Chambers, Eustace Street, Dublin), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Ada P. McCormick (editor of the ‘Letter’, Tucson, Arizona), Sister Mary Gertrude Cain RSHM (President, Marymount College, New York), Tomás S. Cuffe (225 Harold’s Cross Road, Dublin), Sister Teresa Dymphna (Carmelite Sisters, Mount Carmel Convent, Nairobi, Kenya), Ermengarda Greville-Nugent, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Claude Vogel OFM Cap. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Christopher T. Rooney, John Hennig, Fr. Peter Dempsey OFM Cap. (St. Bonaventure’s Hostel, Cork), Fr. Francis OFM Cap. (former Vicar-General of the Diocese of Allahabad, India), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Hospitals’ Trust Limited (20 Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin), Germaine Stockley, Thomas J. Carroll (Ballycolman Avenue, Strabane, County Tyrone), J.F. Reynolds, Patrick Duffy (Clonfert Avenue, Portumna, County Galway), Gary Mac Eoin, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad), Fr. P. O’Donnell (The Presbytery, Tilbury, London), Peter F. Anson, Art O’Brien (Connaught House, 53 Pembroke Road, Dublin), Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Charles G. O’Connell (St. Anthony’s Road, Cork), T.J. Kiernan (Via San Martino Della Battaglia, Rome), Percy Jones (St. John’s, Queen’s Parade, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Australia), D.L. Kelleher, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Patrick Begley (Radio Éireann announcer), Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Myers & Co. (80 New Bond Street, London, antiquarian booksellers), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa), Georgie Yeats, Tadhg Ó Séaghdha (Ros a’ Mhíl, County Galway), Maud Gonne MacBride, Peter F. Anson (enclosing a typescript article titled ‘Notre-Dame du Grand Retour’), Archbishop Finbar Ryan, Aodh de Blacam (enclosing a manuscript article titled ‘Talks with Æ (George William Russell) / and unpublished writing’), Clare Sheridan (sculptor), and Robert Monteith. The file also includes some copy letters from Fr. Senan to Jarlath O’Connell, Eileen F. Quinn, Edward A. Harrigan, Phyllis Thompson, Rev. A.J. Cleary, Aodh de Blacam, John P. Moynihan, and David A. Garrity. The file has some copy letters re the Carl Hardebeck Fund (1946). Enclosures include a copy of the faculties granted to Fr. Senan for his appointment as Extraordinary Confessor to the Convent of Mercy, Gardiner Street, Dublin (1 Feb. 1945).