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A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. enclosing a prayer. Ó Laoghaire adds 'How I as detest the note of presumption which often pervades English prayers!' He later affirms that 'The English mind does not seem to know how to conduct itself even in the presence of the Divinity. I have often read English players which actually patronise God'.

Note from Pádraig Ó Máille possibly to Patrick Pearse re the formation of a Gaelic League branch in Moycullen, County Galway.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from [John McGuire] regarding his donation to the St. Enda School fund.

A letter from Michael Mallin to Patrick Pearse in which the former agrees to act as a judge in a competition being organised by Pearse. Mallin also affirms that two teams from the Irish Citizen Army will participate in the drill competition.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from Captain [James O’Sullivan?], Wexford Brigade, Irish Volunteers. The letter to various meeting with Volunteer officers in County Wexford.

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) published in the ‘Waterford Star’ (30 April 1942). Reference is made in the article to work of the Capuchin friars during the temperance crusade, to Ring College in County Waterford, and to Canon Patrick Sheehan.

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 George A. Little, 28 Rathgar Road, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., congratulating him on the 1942 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Little suggests that the publication is ‘one of the two or three most important works on the War of Independence’.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats, 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his admiration for ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942). Yeats refers to the reproductions of his work in the publication which he describes as ‘wonderfully successful’. He adds ‘I would like to thank whoever was so good natured as to put in a photograph of me in my youth’.

Colour print showing Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC administering the pledge (probably at the Custom House, Dublin). The caption reads: ‘The Very Revd. Theobald Mathew / Administering the Temperance Pledge / I promise to abstain from all intoxicating drinks &c except used medicinally, and by order of a medical man, and to discountenance the cause and practice of intemperance / Prayer / May God bless you and enable you to keep your promise’. The frame backing has a printed flier from the ‘Association of Men of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus / Church of St. Kevin, Harrington Street, A.D. 1914’.