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Letter from Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, reporting on several administrative and community matters within the mission. Father Fenelon describes visiting ‘the whole ground with Luke’ to discuss plans for a new school and community house in Bend, Oregon. He relates that Fr. Albert’s health is deteriorating. He has undergone a second operation at Santa Barbara hospital, where a significant amount of water was removed from him. While he showed brief improvement, he is now reported as ‘somewhat weaker’ and is not expected to live much longer. He also notes that Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. wishes to remain in Santa Barbara with Fr. Albert but Father Fenelon suggests that would not serve him well and that he should go back to Santa Inés and see Fr. Albert ‘now and again’. Fathers Raphael, Leo, and Brendan are mentioned as requesting to go home for the summer.

Letter from Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. reporting on administrative and clerical updates in the American mission. Reference is made to ongoing efforts to secure an interview with Bishop Fitzmaurice regarding the Wilmington Diocese, and there is continued discussion about taking over the St. Francis of Assisi parish in Los Angeles. Several friars (Fathers Mark, Thomas, and Basil) are scheduled to depart for Ireland on 9 June aboard the S.S. ‘Adriatic’. Father Fenelon also acknowledges the appointment of Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap. as Provincial Superior in the United States until a permanent successor is chosen.

Letter from Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, referring to the aftermath of the sudden death of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and the resulting administrative reshuffling of the Oregon mission. Father Fenelon plans to drive back to Bend with Fr. Ephrem for the funeral on Wednesday. He also mentions a concern regarding potential trouble with the ‘Republican Brotherhood’ during the funeral, promising to update the Provincial after the burial. He recommends leaving Fr. Finnian with Fr. Luke, returning to the arrangement they had during Fr. Leo’s previous illness.

A photograph of Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Fr. Cassian O’Shea OFM Cap., and Fr. Leo Sheehan OFM Cap. in Rome in 1925.

A postcard print of divine service in rural Somalia. A manuscript annotation on the right of the card records that ‘the priest saying Mass is Fr. Luke [Sheehan], an Irish Capuchin’. The postcard (no. 17) was part of a series published by the Catholic Mission of Somaliland.

Letter from Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, about which friars in the Western United States mission wish to return home to Ireland in 1932.
Friars Requesting Return:
Fr. Sebastian: Notable for having been away from home for 30 years.
Fr. Reginald, Fr. Leo, Fr. Ambrose, Fr. Sylvan: All last visited Ireland in 1925.
Fr. Pacificus: Last home in 1923.
Fr. Enda: Last home in 1926.
Bro. Didacus and Bro. Conrad: Both will have been away for six years by this summer.
Bro. Brendan: Last home in 1926.
Father Fenlon notes that Fr. Luke Sheehan has not yet decided if he will return this year.

Letter from Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, referring to personnel matters. He writes ‘I have just received a letter from Bro. Florian and I am communicating to his Fr. Provincial your decision.

I told him to send the Brother to Bend, as Fr. Luke is in need of a Brother. I have also by this mail received a letter from Fr. Brendan stating that the General intends paying a visit to all the houses or to see all the Friars. I have'nt received any formal announcement of same. He will be quite welcome if he does turn up.

The foundations of the Church in Ukiah are laid, the next thing will be the Blessing of the Cornerstone’.

Letter from Mother Mary Gertrude, Mother Superior, St. Joseph’s Academy, Tipton, Indiana, to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. She explains that she met Fr. Luke Sheehan on a ship from Ireland in 1908, and he has since written to her ‘making a great effort’ to get sisters to help his mission. Mother Gertrude proposes a plan to recruit young women from Ireland to join their order specifically to serve the Oregon mission. She describes their ‘young and flourishing institute’ in Indiana where these young women could be trained in religious and secular subjects before entering the novitiate.

Letter from Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minster, on his preaching of sermons in Portland and additional reports of his findings in Oregon. He writes ‘Catholicity is very strong here. The Catholics occupy very influential positions, and I have never met a more charming character than Archbishop Christie’.

Circular letter from Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. marking the golden jubilee of the establishment of the Western United States mission by the Irish Capuchin friars. The letter reads ‘It was in the year 1910 that the first Bishop of Barker City, Most Revered Doctor O’Reilly, appealed to us for help. His appeal found a sympathetic hearing even at a time when we were not rich in numbers. … It is gratifying to know that the first Capuchins, who went from Ireland to the West, participated from the beginning in the life of Diocese of Baker City. But it is with a certain exaltation of spirit that the great pioneer, Father Luke [Sheehan] of Cork, distributed the Palms and Mass at Hermiston in 1910 for the first time in the history of that town’.