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Typescript letter from Risteárd Ó Maolchatha (Richard Mulcahy), Chief of Staff of the IRA, to Terence MacSwiney, expressing his alarm on hearing that he ‘had been going about Cork during the day and even staying at home and elsewhere at night without any protection’. Mulcahy added ‘I want you to try and realise what a blow it would be to our prestige, if, after, what has happened in Cork, you should be attacked without having a scrap of protection … . A simple general instruction is being issued on this matter, but you must understand that your position is unique …’. Manuscript annotation on the reverse: ‘Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne’.

A letter from Richard King, Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd., 6-7 North Frederick Street, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the ‘voucher copy of The Capuchin Annual’. He also expresses his thanks for Fr. Senan’s appreciation of the studio’s work.

A letter from Richard J. King to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his support for the proposed Jack B. Yeats national exhibition. King refers to Yeats as ‘our great Poet in Paint’.

A letter from Richard Hayes to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing €5 for the Monteith fund.

A letter from Rev. Martin Sherlock to J[ohn] Nichols, printer, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London. The letter mentions money issues and references his literary talents. Sherlock writes ‘I could write very successful books; and what very few men can do (what no man ever has done, except myself), I could write books in French that would succeed in France; and books in English that would succeed in England’. He also affirms that he has ‘the greatest wish and desire to write, but my fortune will not let me’. A faded pencil annotation on the first page reads ‘Martin Sherlock … author of the ‘Letters of an English Traveller’ (‘Lettres d’un Voyageur Anglois’, published in 1779).

A letter from Rev. Hugh Jackson Lawlor, Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, to Douglas Hyde thanking him for sending the collection of Gaelic hymns printed in ‘Dánta Dé’.

A letter from Rev. Henry Edward Manning to [Rev.] Milliken.

A letter from Rev. Henry Edward Manning to [Rev.] Milliken.

A letter from Rev. Henry Edward Manning to [Rev.] Milliken.

A letter from Rev. Henry Edward Manning to [Rev.] Milliken.