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Copy contract between the Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Bishop of Livingstone, and Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, outlining the ‘mutual rights and obligations’ in respect of the relationship between the Irish Capuchins the diocesan authorities in the Livingstone. The appendices specify the parishes, foundations and properties belonging to and administered by the Order in Zambia.

Copy correspondence of Fr. Melchor a Benisa OFM Cap., Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., and Fr. Paschal Rywalski OFM Cap., General Ministers, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., and Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, re the status of the Irish Capuchin missions in Africa. Reference is made to the request made by Bishop John Colburn Garner, Vicar Apostolic of Pretoria, seeking more priests to work in South Africa (see CA AMI/1/6/7). Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. wrote: ‘We felt that this arrangement with Bishop Garner will lead to an expansion of our work in South Africa’ (21 Dec. 1948). The possibility of separating the mission in Cape Town from that in Rhodesia is also discussed (31 Oct. 1950). Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap. later referred to the establishment of Cape Town as a ‘separate mission’ and to the appointment of a Regular Superior (25 Nov. 1968). See also CA AMI/2/5/7.

Letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. mainly from authors re articles due to appear in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1967). The file includes letters from Máire Brugha, Elizabeth Corr, John P. Barton, Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Bonnie Kate Shaw (Columbia Records Book Publishing), Fr. Michael Hurley SJ, Kevin Faller, Fr. John Heuston OP (a brother of Seán Heuston), Fintan Brennan, the Cork Examiner, the Connaught Tribune, Edward MacLysaght, Seamus Fitzgerald, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., C.F. Neenan, Florence O’Donoghue, Mannix Joyce, Seán Ó Luing, Richard King, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Sidney Ehler, William O. Bush, Brian Lenihan, Alison King, Piaras Mac Lochlainn, Brian Mac Giolla Pádraig, the Kilmainham Jail Restoration Project, Richard Mulcahy, M.W. O’Reilly, Seán T. O’Kelly, Basil Pyne, Liam Russell, Fr. Jerome Kiely, Dr. S. Bolshakoff, Seán Ó Luing, Michael McDonald, Seán Ó Síocháin, Julester Shrady Post, Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Rev. James Good, Rev. Daniel J. O’Donovan, Bryan MacMahon, Professor John M. Barkley, and Thomas Wall

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mostly to contributors, authors, advertisers, patrons and printers associated with 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume includes copy letters to: Fr. Jerome Kiely, Liam Brophy, Fr. T.J. Walsh, Alison King, the Most Rev. Peter Thomas McKeefry, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Marie Noelle Kelly, Tadhg Gavin, and Seán Crawford.
• A copy letter to Doran Hurley refers to the prospects of increasing sales of the 'Annual' in the United States (3 Oct. 1957).
• A copy letter to Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. refers to the appointment of Br. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Fr. Henry’s nephew, as editor of 'The Father Mathew Record', and to Fr. Senan who ‘keeps in the best of form and is enjoying the quiet life – relieved of the onus of this place’. (21 Feb. 1958).

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).