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A letter from Dermot MacIntyre to Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. referring to the history of the former Stewart-Bam residence in Ards. An extract from the letter reads:
'In regard to Ards and Ards House, I have just found an old notebook of my father’s. He used to jot down bits and pieces on anything to hand and in this old notebook he has an entry dated, Friday, December 30, 1910. He writes: "Was at a dance in Ards House last night given by Sir Pieter Bam. Charlie Coll and I played for them. Bam came in about 9 o’clock. I did not like it all but would rather be in the poorest thatch house in Doe, with the Gaelic sounding round me, than in the midst of it all. Bam does his best to unbend, but it is plainly an effort and he seems to know himself that it won’t be successful. His wife is outrageously proud. She sat all the time like an incarnate goddess and noticed no one. Such pride is a sin against Heaven. You would think the ordinary people were less than dogs to her. Her sister is not one whit better"'.
Further extracts from his father’s journal refer to the landlord’s relationships with the workers and tenants on the Ards estate, to the histories of various local churches, to a Feis at Doe Castle in 1910, and to the building of the Lough Swilly railway in Donegal.

Letter from DeWitt Wallace, editor of the ‘Reader’s Digest’, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., thanking him for sending a copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.

Letter from Diarmuid Ó Murchadha to Br. Senan Moynihan re Máire Nic Shuibhne’s assertions about the publication of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”.

A letter from D.L. Kelleher to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) and describing it as ‘an extraordinary production in the present “darkest ages” of war’.

A letter from Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery, 1878-1964), University College Cork, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

A letter from Domhnall Ua Buachalla (1866-1963), Donnybrook, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

Letter from Donal O’Cahill, 27 High Street, Killarney, County Kerry, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., congratulating the friar on the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.

A letter from Doran Hurley to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding an offer to write an article on American Irish Historical Society for the next edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.

Letter from Doreen de Padilla (Doreen Vanston) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing her pleasure on the reproductions of her woodcuts in the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.

A letter from Dorothy Godfrey (1893-1975) to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. on her anger on hearing of the death of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. She writes ‘I want to tell you and your good friends, that Fr. Albert did die broken-hearted over the treatment he received from F. P[eter Bowe] and the two who went over to England to have his faculties taken from him. What he suffered for God and Ireland he did not mind, but to think of his own in religion doing such mean things almost broke his heart'.