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A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The volume contains letters to: J. Rooney, Dollard Printing House, Seán T. O’Kelly, James Lyons, John P. Barton, Mannix Joyce, Monsignor Arthur Ryan, Richard R. Lawton, Brian O’Higgins, Liam O’Shaughnessy, Dr. Liam Brophy, Fr. Denis Corkery OFM Cap., Dermot Flynn, Tadhg Gavin, Fr. T.J. Walsh, Fr. Fergal O’Connor OP, Rev. Thomas A. Egan, Richard J. King, Dorothea Barclay, William Daly, Kevin Faller, Joseph Foyle, Sean Gaynor, Fr. Thomas Halton, Doran Hurley, Margaret Holland, John Irvine, Peter D. Thomas, Elizabeth May, Fr. Bartholomew Egan OFM, Paul Martin-Dillon, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. William Coughlan OFM Cap., Basil Payne, Professor Anthony Hughes, James Johnston, John Robinson, Seán Nesson, Horst Stein, Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap., John G. O’Neill, Canon Sydney MacEwan, Desmond Fennell, Benedict Kiely, and Alison King.

The series contains records compiled mainly by Capuchin friars relating to the history of the locality around Ard Mhuire Friary including material on the previous owners of Ards House in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Much of this historical research was amassed by Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. (1912-1995) who spent nearly sixty years of his ministry as a Capuchin friar in County Donegal.

A guide to Ards Forest Park and Sheephaven Bay published by Irish Forest and Wildlife Service. The book has been annotated by Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. The guide reads: 'The Stewart family held Ards until 1926, the property being known as the Stewart-Bam estate in its later years from the marriage in 1910 of the heiress, Miss Eva Stewart to Sir Pieter Bam, a native of South Africa. The great estate was finally broken up following its acquisition by the Irish Land Commission in 1926 and the area that was to become our Forest Park came into our possession in 1929'.

Photographic print of a Franciscan retreat at Ard Mhuire Friary, Creeslough, County Donegal. The group includes Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap., Fr. Adrian Curran OFM Cap. and Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap.