Copy letter from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Vicar Provincial, to Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Definitor General, informing him that the Archbishop of San Francisco has offered the Irish Province a Canonical Foundation in Easton, Burlingame. The letter is signed by Father Edwin, Fr. Colman Griffin, Fr. Angelus Healy, Fr. Mark McDonnell, and Fr. Aloysius Travers.
A photograph of (right) Fr. Mark McDonnell OFM Cap. on O’Connell Street in Dublin.
A clipping of a photograph of Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., Fr. Mark McDonnell OFM Cap. Rev. Francis Ryan OP and other clerics at a Franciscan centenary celebration in St. Saviour’s Church on Dominick Street in Dublin.
A photograph of (seated, second on the right) Edward Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin, and (seated, first on the right) Joseph MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, with a group of Capuchin friars. The group includes Archbishop Anselm Kenealy OFM Cap., Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap., and Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap.
A studio photograph of Fr. Mark McDonnell OFM Cap.
Letters mainly from patrons forwarding subscriptions in favour of the Brigade. The file includes letters from Richard O’Shaughnessy, barrister, 3 Wilton Place, Dublin, to Fr. Mark McDonnell OSFC, Church Street, passing on his good wishes to the Boys’ Brigade. He claims that ‘the richer Catholics, and a large, a very large number of Protestants would be among its subscribers … if they only know the work it is effecting’.