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Memoranda of agreements from Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., guardian, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, for the yearly lease of stores and premises on Pennyfeather Lane. The file includes agreements with Nial Godwin, High Street, Kilkenny, at £7 yearly (30 Dec. 1948); with John Carrigan, The Parade, Kilkenny, at £7 yearly (5 Jan. 1949); with Quality Shoes Ltd. at £18 yearly (20 Jan. 1949). With a cover letter from John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, Dublin.

Letter from James G. Robertson to Fr. James Edward Tommins, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, granting permission to remove a building which the Capuchins hold from the late Lady Harty. 29 May 1876; Memorandum of agreement (dated 19 May 1896) by James G. Robertson, Merton Cullenswood, County Dublin, to Fr. Jarlath Hynes, Superior, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, and Fr. Matthew O’Connor, for the yearly letting of a dwelling house on Walkin Street at present vacant but formerly in the occupation of Miss Moore at £16 per annum. With an identical agreement (bearing the same date) amended to indicate that Richard Samuel Owen Robinson and Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson, 5 Fisher Street, Kinsale, County Cork, are the lessors; Letting agreement (dated 4 Jan. 1900) for the said premises at £16 yearly; Letting agreement to Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC of the dwelling house on Walkin Street lately occupied by Mary Stapleton immediately adjoining the Capuchin Friary at the yearly rent of £16. With copy. See also CA KK/2/1/1/1/14.

Letting agreement of Fr. Honorius O’Neill OFM Cap. with Cross Refrigeration for a lease of a portion of the premises known as the Assembly Rooms, 22 South Mall, Cork, for a year at the rent of £75; and with the Cork Gas Company for a portion of the same property at the monthly rent of £26. It is noted that the Cork Gas Company will let the property until such time as the construction of their new store and offices at Charlotte House on Father Mathew Quay is completed.

Bound volume of replies sent to William O’Connor in response to his gifts of engravings of the ‘Father Mathew Tower’ in Cork. The engravings were sent to individuals who agreed to act as patrons of the tower. The correspondence runs from 1846-7. The file includes letters from George Howard, Viscount Morpeth, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Capt. Forbes of the 'Jamestown', Admiral Edward Codrington, Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, and Asenath Nicholson, author of 'The Bible of Ireland' (1852). A dedication on the title page reads ‘I am with high respect Dear Mr. O’Connor, your grateful and affectionate friend, Theobald Mathew, Cork, 26th November 1846’. Some of the covering envelopes are also pasted into the volume.

Letters to Patrick Pearse from M. Lally, Irish Industrial Development Company, 514 Parkway Building, Philadelphia, re arrangements for a meeting in Wilmington in aid of St. Enda’s School.

letter to Patrick Pearse from Martin Jerome Keogh, Supreme Court of the State of New York, New Rochelle, New York, re donations to Pearse’s St. Enda’s School fund. The file includes a letter from John Sheehan, 253 Broadway, New York City, to Keogh enclosing $25 for the fund.

This section contains a small of collection of letters to Patrick Pearse. Many of the letters relate to Pearse’s fundraising trip to the United States from March to June 1914. The purpose of the visit was to raise funds for St. Enda’s School in Dublin and many of the letters are from potential donors and Irish Americans sympathetic to Pearse’s cultural nationalism and his efforts to promote the revival of the Irish language. Other letters relate to the routine management of St. Enda’s and to Pearse’s involvement with the Irish Volunteers.