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Letters from Bishop Bernard Cornelius O’Riley (1868-1956), Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope, Western District, and Fr. John Morris, editor of the Southern Cross, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, and Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, regarding the prospects for establishing Irish Capuchin missionary foundations in the Athlone, Parow and Langa parishes in the Cape Province, South Africa. Fr. John Morris wrote: ‘There are only about thirty priests in the whole vicariate. This number includes three Jesuits, two Redemptorists, and some six Salesians. … Alas, there are no Franciscans in South Africa. You will therefore be real pioneers’ (16 May 1927). The Bishop wrote: ‘There are pagans and heathens in abundance in my Vicariate which covers some 17,000 sq. miles and I can assure there is endless scope in the Vicariate for the missionary efforts of your good Fathers’ (30 Mar. 1928). Later, he affirmed that the ‘poor people of “Athlone” (which is the name of the place of your first mission in South Africa) are nearly all coloured, a good simple lot, who have been working hard for some months past in their spare time to build with their own hands school-rooms’ (6 Dec. 1928). Reference is also made to the provision of a school for coloured children at Claremont (16 Feb. 1931) and to the financial state of the Vicariate (20 July 1932). The file includes a memorandum and agreement for sale from Bishop O’Riley to the Irish Capuchins of sites at Claremont, at Athlone, and at Parow (1 Nov. 1931), and a letter from Fr. John Morris requesting the Irish Capuchins supply a priest for the Philippi mission in the Vicariate (17 Mar. 1950).

Letter from Fr. Basil Cryan OFM Cap. (1898-1968), Capuchin Foreign Missions, Church Street, Dublin, to Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, re arrangements for the payment of monies into the mission account.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘IV’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Canon Patrick Rogers, David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Rita McGoldrick, D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Archbishop Anselm Edward John Kenealy OFM Cap., Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Francis McCullagh, Fr. Francis Moynihan (‘The Advocate’, Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Australia), Frank Ryan (‘An Reult’, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath), Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr, Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., William Frederick Paul Stockley, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Peter F. Anson, Alison King, Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Thomas MacGreevy, Seán O’Sullivan (Headford Cottage, Avoca Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin), Fr Dermot MacIvor (Ardee, County Louth), Mary Wren, Sister M. Agnes (Poor Clare Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Dorothy Day, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Brian Walsh (optician, Mount Southwell, Letterkenny, County Donegal), Germaine Stockley, William Magennis, Maud Gonne MacBride, Jack B. Yeats, John Desmond Sheridan, Fr. Henry S. Glendon OP, Seán Moylan, Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., Pearse Hutchinson, Germaine Stockley, Bishop John Dignan, Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), and Una O’Connor (Santa Monica, California).