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A volume containing copies of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The volume includes letters to:
• Sister Mary Magdalen, Convent of Mercy, Ennis, County Clare, referring to the appointment of Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. as editor of 'The Father Mathew Record' (26 Feb. 1958).
• Fr. Jerome Kiely
• Fr. Gabriel Loughrey STL
• Piaras Mac Lochlainn
• Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap., re an article on his work as a missionary on St. Helena which was published in 'The Father Mathew Record' (14 Mar. 1958).
• John T. Collins
• Monsignor Pádraig de Brúin, President, University College Cork, requesting a tribute article for the late Margaret Burke Sheridan to be published in 'The Capuchin Annual'.
• K.M. Murphy
• Doran Hurley
• Dollard Printing House
• Alison King
• Francis Mac Manus
• Fr. Denis Keogh OFM Cap.
• Sidney Z. Ehler
• Seán Ronan, Irish Consulate, Chicago, regarding the circulation of The Capuchin Annual in the United States ‘which has improved’ (25 Mar. 1958).
• Tadhg Gavin
• Fr. Leo Clifford OFM
• Arthur O’Callaghan

Letters from the Most Rev. Owen McCann (1907-1994), Archbishop of Cape Town, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. (1923-2004) , Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983) reporting on the missionary efforts of the Irish Capuchins in Parow (Parish of the Immaculate Conception); Matroosfontein (Parish of the Holy Trinity); Athlone (St. Mary of the Angels); Welcome Estate (St. Theresa’s); Langa (St. Anthony’s). The Archbishop also requests that an Irish Capuchin priest (Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap.) be sent to St. Helena and Ascension Island – part of the Cape Town Archdiocese. He writes: ‘There are 5,000 persons on [St. Helena] Island but only 3 to 4 Catholics at present … the prospect of conversions is uncertain. The Anglicans are well established. The schools are under the Government, as also the hospital’. Reference is also made to an application of Ronald Hinrichsen, a convert from the Dutch Reformed Church, to join the Capuchin Franciscan Order (24 Sept. 1952); to the death of Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. and the resulting vacancy in Parow parish (16 Aug. 1957); to a draft agreement with the Capuchins re Belgravia parish which has been separated from Parow (1 July 1961); to the need for new priests to meet the growing population in the Cape Flats district (20 June 1966); to Archbishop McCann’s desire to see Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. return to South Africa (4 Nov. 1968). Later, Archbishop McCann expresses his condolences on hearing of the death of Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (22 Mar. 1984).

The file includes photographic prints of prominent individuals compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Many of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes prints of the following individuals:
• Pope Pius X (1835-1914) (Postcard print).
• Pope Benedict XV (1854-1922).
• Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) (Postcard print).
• Pope Pius XII (1876-1958).
• Cardinal Joseph MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh (1861-1945), at his consecration in the Aula di Benedizione, Vatican. 19 Dec. 1929.
• W.T. Cosgrave (1880-1968) with Cardinal Joseph MacRory and other clerics.
• Members of the Dublin Corporation Lane Bequest Claim Committee including Mary Sheehy Kettle (1884-1967), widow of Tom Kettle, J.J. Howe, secretary to the City Manager, and J.J. Reynolds, councillor.
• Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara OFS (1900-1999).
• Saint Leopold Bogdan Mandić OFM Cap. (1866-1942).
• Seán MacBride (1904-1988).
• Neil Armstrong (1930-2012).
• David Giles (1926-2010), BBC Director.
• Richard King (1907-1974).
• Douglas Hyde (1860-1949).
• Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911-1978).
• Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) (Postcard print).
• Robert Kennedy (1925-1968).
• Most Rev. August Hlond SDB (1881-1948), Cardinal Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, and Primate of Poland. (Lying-in-state following his death on 22 Oct. 1948).
• Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician.
• Jack Lynch (1917-1999) at a religious procession in Cork.
• Seamus Murphy, sculptor (1907-1975).
• Cliff Michelmore, broadcaster (1919-2016).
• Patrick Hillery, politician and President of Ireland (1923-2008).
• Seamus Hughes, first announcer on 2RN (later Radio Éireann).
• Gerard A. Hayes-McCoy, historian (1911-1975).
• Most Rev. Arthur Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (1904-1988). One of the photographs shows Archbishop Ramsey with the Most Rev. John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin, during a visit to Archbishop’s House, Drumcondra, Dublin.
• Most Rev. John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin, with President Seán T. O’Kelly at a garden party in honour of the Boston Pilgrims at the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin.
• John A. Costello (1891-1976) with an unidentified Franciscan friar.
• William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne (1868-1942).
• Delia Murphy Kiernan (1902-1971).
• Elisabetta Barbato (1921-2014), an Italian operatic soprano.
• Rev. Brother Bernardine, a Marist brother, Sligo.
• Very Rev. Adrian Convery CP, Irish Provincial Minister of the Congregation of the Most Holy Cross and Passion.
• Very Rev. P. McLoughlin, Salesian College, Pallaskenry, County Limerick.
• Fr. Mannes Cussen OP.
• Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1936-2010) at the Berlin Conference for Peace in 1972.
• Fr. Charles O’Mahony, Superior, House of St. Camillus, Order of Clerics Regular Ministers of the Sick.
• Mervyn Wall (1908-1997).
• Fr. Rudolph Blockinger OFM Cap., Kansu, China. He worked as a missionary in China from 1922 until he was expelled by the Communists in 1952.
• Philip Monahan, Cork’s first city manager.
• Máire Cotter.
• Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983) with dignitaries in Dublin.
• Most Rev. Edward Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin (1872-1940).
• Most Rev. Patrick Morrisroe, Bishop of Achonry (1869-1946).
• Most Rev. Michael Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe (1859-1955).
• Most Rev. Jeremiah Kinnane, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (1884-1959).
• G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936).

A small album containing photographic negative sheets relating to the work of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Africa. The album has the following index to the negatives:
• Sr. M. Vincent and Sr. Bernadine
• Maramba Orphanage
• Sr. M. Vincent and orphans
• Mass at Grotto, Feb. 11th
• [Biamba?] and child
• Bishop with group at Maramba
• First communion at Sawmills
• Fr. Peyton
• Fr. Peyton with Sawmills children
• Mankoya Church
• Sichili orphans
• Sichili friary and convent
• Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. and class
• Sr. Theresa in village
• Sichili trade school
• Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. (1928-2006)
• Teaching the sign of the cross
• Maramba first communion. March 1956
• Maramba baptisms. Easter 1956
• Fr Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. at Sichili Hospital
• Paramount Chief at Maramba

Letters of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (1905-1972). Correspondents include Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Most of the correspondence relates to developments in the Irish Capuchin mission in Northern Rhodesia and to a lesser extent in the Cape Province, South Africa. The subjects include: the arrival of Fr. Jerome MacQuillian OFM Cap. and Fr. Marcellus Carroll OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia. (18 Aug. 1935); the establishment of the Lukulu Station in Barotseland. (1 Sept. 1935); Fr. Casimir Butler’s desire for chaplaincy work in Parow Parish, South Africa. (10 Dec. 1935); co-operation with the Holy Cross Sisters. (20 Dec. 1935); work on the Sancta Maria (Lukulu) training school and the need for each Rhodesian Mission Station to have spiritual books for ‘retreats and ordinary reading’; arrangements for the arrival of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. and Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. (5 May 1936); the establishment of a Prefecture for the Barotseland Mission (13 July 1936); enclosing a copy of the annual report on the Irish Capuchin Mission in Northern Rhodesia. (28 July 1936); the appointment of Fr. Killian as Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls. (11 Aug. 1936); Fr. Killian’s investiture as Prefect Apostolic (25 Nov. 1936); negotiations with the Paris Missionaries regarding the limits of the Sancta Maria Mission at Lukulu. (1 Jan. 1937); enclosing a copy of the 1937-8 report for the Victoria Falls Prefecture. (14 Sept. 1938); the boundaries of the Parow and Athlone parishes, Cape Town, South Africa. (6 Nov. 1939); the health of Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap. (9 Nov. 1939); an outbreak of the bubonic plague at Sancta Maria Mission and the dangers of transferring priests from Europe to South Africa due to the U-Boat threat (18 Mar. 1940); the proposed new status for the Irish Capuchin houses in the Cape Province, South Africa. (13 Oct. 1940); the position of interned ‘alien priests’ in Northern Rhodesia (25 Apr. 1941); the arrival of Polish refugees in Livingstone. (12 Aug. 1941); the ill-health of Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia (5 June 1942); the provision of doctors in Catholic Mission Centres. (23 June 1944); the Katima Muliho mission station. (11 Dec. 1944); copy report on the state of the Northern Rhodesia mission sent to the Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. (28 Jan. 1945); a proposal to circulate a local mission magazine. (19 May 1945); the jubilee letters of Fr. Phelim O’Shea and Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon (24 June 1945); extending an invitation to the Irish Sisters of Charity to establish a ‘foundation for coloured work in this Prefecture’ (31 Dec. 1948); the pressing need for more priests to be sent to the Northern Rhodesian Mission (28 Aug. 1949); the arrival of Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap. and Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. (22 Nov. 1949); on the need for priests to take ‘sociological courses’ before departing for Africa. Fr. Killian wrote ‘I am becoming more and more convinced that not by Baptisms alone is Africa going to be converted and that priests must be thoroughly versed in sociological principles. How can anyone keep the Commandments in a modern African compound hut?’ (11 Feb. 1952).