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Letters from J.H MacDonnell, solicitor, 3-7 Southampton Street, Strand, London, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Church Street, Dublin, referring to his hopes for a settlement in relation to the release of Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. He writes: ‘I think the Prisoners will be released during the negotiations. I know Bob Barton is very keen on the matter and as I am personally known to all of the delegates who are coming over, I shall press them to push this matter forward’. He also refers to improving conditions of Fr. Dominic’s confinement.

Schedules of title deeds and leases of properties held by the Capuchins on Father Mathew Quay and on Father Mathew Street, Cork. The deeds were received from the Official Assignee, Four Courts, Dublin. The lists are titled: lots 1-3, and were compiled by Donal McMenent, solicitor. The numbering system devised for these lists is still present on some of the deeds catalogued in this collection.

Specifications, contracts and bills of costs of Robert Walker, architect, 17 South Mall, to Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (1836-1910), Commissary General, for the construction and furnishing of the library and reception room wing of the new Capuchin Friary attached to Holy Trinity Church, Charlotte Quay, Cork. The total cost of the building work was noted as £2,593 6s 9d.

Secretary’s book of the Sacred Heart Sodality attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The volume provides a record of total numbers of male and female members of the sodality from 1927-1959. Information is also give in relation to attendance at meetings and at Sunday Masses. The end of the volume contains a list of prefects of the sodality in 1943 and in 1956-7. The title page gives the name of a Miss M. Kendrick as secretary in Sept. 1927.

Notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. mainly on individual friars comprising the Capuchin community in Cork. The manuscript includes notes on houses and places of residence, a chronology of important events, community lists in the nineteenth century, superiors of the Cork House from 1832-1934, and some general information on historical sources in the Irish Capuchin Archives. The title page reads: ‘This book contains various notes referring to our Cork Convent and taken from various sources. … The notes are entered of necessity in an unconnected way’.

Letter from John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, 81 High Street, Kilkenny, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a copy of the will of Margaret Carthy (d. 6 Mar. 1940) in which she leaves the sum of £5 for masses to be said for the repose of her soul. The solicitors assert that ‘there are not sufficient assets to meet any of the legacies contained in the will of deceased, as all available monies will go towards paying her funeral expenses …’.

Attendance notices reminding brothers of the monthly meetings of the Third Order of St. Francis at the Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, Kilkenny.

Correspondence with the Performing Right Society Ltd., Chatham House, 13 George Street, Hanover Square, London. The correspondence relates to the granting of licences to perform and make use of music controlled by the members of the aforementioned Society at entertainments held in Father Mathew Hall. The correspondents include the Presidents of Father Mathew Hall, Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap., Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. Responding to the claims of infringement of copyright, Fr. Columbus referred to the amateur status of the performers in the musicals and the philanthropic nature of the Association which ran the Hall (21 Nov. 1927). The file includes printed literature from the Society and newspaper clippings reporting a judgement made in a court case taken by the Society against Bray Urban District Council for infringement of copyright ('Irish Independent', 16 Nov. 1927). The dispute was eventually settled when the Father Mathew Hall Committee agreed to pay £3 3s for performing rights’ fees at the Hall. A letter of 12 Oct. 1943 referred to the intention of the Hall Committee to apply to the Metropolitan District Court for a licence to stage dances in St. Brigid’s Hall

The volume contains approximately 489 copy letters written by members of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee mostly relating to the raising of subscriptions for the Father Mathew Statue on Sackville (later O’Connell) Street, Dublin. The volume is partially indexed by recipient. Correspondents include the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the editors of the 'Freeman’s Journal', the 'Irish Times' and other national newspapers, various local temperance societies and associations, the Irish National Foresters’ Benefit Society, George Noble Plunkett, Mary Redmond (sculptor), John Redmond MP, various trades councils and societies, the Most Rev. William Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, Alfred Webb MP, and Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne. Most of the letters are carbon copies and some are partially illegible.

• Copy inventory of the works of John Hogan (1800-1858), sculptor. The photocopy is from John Turpin, 'John Hogan, Irish neoclassical sculptor in Rome, 1800-1858 / a biography and catalogue raisonné' (Dublin, 1982). The extract refers to the busts of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Reference is made to No. 41, a marble bust of Fr. Mathew in the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin [now in the National Museum of Ireland]. The bust is inscribed ‘Hogan’ in monogram. No. 43 is described as a plaster bust of Fr. Mathew in the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. It is inscribed ‘Fr. Theobald Mathew, Ord. Capuchin. He is wearing the Capuchin habit with folded hood. The face is slightly more uneven and less glassy than the marble, for which it is principally a study. W. Strickland, "Dictionary of Irish Artists", in his list of Hogan’s works, mentions a bust of Fr. Mathew in the collection of H.J. Maguire, Anglesea Road, Dublin, which may have been identical to this one …’. With photographic print of Hogan’s marble bust of Fr. Mathew (21.5 cm x 16.5 cm).
• Copy prints of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.
• A photographic print of the grave of Fr. Theobald Mathew in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork. Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap. is seen standing beside the grave. c.1960. 11 cm x 6.5 cm.