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A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex, a journalist, writer and war correspondent. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / I’. The content of the letters includes references to contemporary politics in Britain and Ireland, literary matters, Catholic publications, and general religious topics. Atteridge's letters suggest some support for Irish republicans and Éamon de Valera.

A bound volume containing the correspondence of Fr. Henry Rope. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / VI’. The volume includes several letters from Aodh de Blacam. Other correspondents include Fr. James Routledge (St. Dunstan’s, Moston, Manchester), Lillian Metge (Yew Tree House, Chester Road, Erdington, Birmingham, reverse of the letter has a printed handbill by Metge titled ‘No Vote – No Register’), Eoin O’Mahony (auditor, university philosophical society, Cork), H.S. Dean (editor of ‘The Universe’), Fr. Stephen M. Browne SJ (Miltown Park, Dublin), Fr. Joseph Keating SJ (editor of ‘The Month’), Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Patrick Langford Beazley (editor of ‘The Catholic Times’), Fr. P.J. Connolly SJ (editor, ‘Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review’, 34 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Bridget Lynch (Clifden, County Galway), Mary Faherty (Kilronan, Aran Islands, County Galway), and Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’, 205 Pearse Street, Dublin). The first item in the volume is a letter from Father Rope to Fr. Senan and refers to his archive of correspondence from Aodh de Blacam which he will send to the friar. Reference is also made to the disposition of his letters from George Noble Plunkett and ‘other Irish letters which seem to me well worth preserving … in your archives’. (12 July 1951).

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex, and from Fr. Joseph Keating SJ, (editor of ‘The Month’), 31 Farm Street, Berkeley Square, London. The volume is annotated on spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / V’. The file also includes a solitary letter from Mary Faherty (Kilronan, Aran Islands, County Galway). Faherty refers to the ‘Man of Aran’ film (1934) and suggests that it ‘didn’t do us any justice anyway, it is not the real Aran life that this generation saw’. (13 Jan. 1935). The Keating letters primarily refer to literary matters while the Atteridge letters mainly relate to publishing and contemporary political developments in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere.

A bound volume containing clippings of newspapers and articles (and some correspondence) compiled by Fr. Henry Rope. Some of the content relates to the Irish political situation (1919-22) while there are also articles and ephemera relating to religious subjects with extensive annotations and notes by Father Rope. Typescript annotation on first page reads ‘The Rev. H.E.G. Rope, Plowden, Lydbury North, Shropshire’. The volume was previously a printed publication titled on the spine ‘Empyrean Building’. The contents include:
• Typescript titled ‘The defender of small nations at Millstreet’ with manuscript additions by William Frederick Paul Stockley. (Aug. 1918).
• Typescript titled ‘Statement of Charles Kenny, of No. 1, Ulster Terrace, North Strand, Dublin, taken at the Mansion House, Dublin’. (19 July 1918).
• Letter from Fr. Joseph Darlington SJ, editor of ‘The Irish Monthly’, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, to Father Rope referring to ‘Irish Affairs’. (15 Mar. 1922).
• Copies of the ‘Irish Bulletin (London Edition)’. 1922.
• Clippings from the ‘Universe’ and the ‘Catholic Times’ re sectarian riots in Ulster.
• Louis J. McQuilland, ‘The image in the mirror’, ‘The New Witness’ (3 Jan. 1919).
• ‘The death of Right Rev. William Bernard Kelly, Bishop of Geraldton’, ‘The West Australian Record’ (31 Dec. 1921).
• Manuscript copy of a poem titled ‘Inaugural Ode’ by Aodh de Blacam (1935).
• Letters from Fr. Albino, League of International Peace, 22 Ainger Road, London, to Father Rope referring to the Anglo-Irish Treaty and his efforts to promote wider peace and conciliation (1922).
• A clipping of an article titled ‘University Extension / Meeting at Cambridge’, ‘East Anglian Daily Times’ (Aug. 1902).
• ‘Abbey Rebuilt by Monks / Labour of love on the Buckfast Pile / War Memories / Retreat were “enemies” worked in peace’, ‘Daily News’ (3 Mar. 1922).
• Clipping of an article reporting on a sermon on the dangers of proselytism by Fr. Francis M. Browne SJ at St. Francis Xavier Church on Gardiner Street in Dublin (‘Irish Catholic’, 18 Feb. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (14 January 1922). Includes large format advertisement for the Irish White Cross.
• Letter from W.B. O’Dowd, Saint Agnes Academy, Houston, Texas, to Fr. Rope. (10 Mar. 1920).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (15 Apr. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (22 Apr. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘The Catholic Gazette’, Vol. V, No. 3 (Mar. 1922).
• Clipping of an article by Shane Leslie titled ‘Impression of Rome’, ‘Catholic Times’ (1922).
• Articles reporting the death of Pope Benedict XV (d. 22 Jan. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘The Far East / Organ of Ireland’s Mission to China’, Vol. V, No. 2 (Feb. 1922).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘Extermination Plan in Belfast’, ‘Irish Independent’ (22 Apr. 1922).
• Clipping of a letter article by Maud Gonne MacBride titled ‘The Women of Donegal / How other women may help’ (‘Irish Independent’, 22 Apr. 1922); Clipping of a photograph showing ‘Mrs O’Callaghan and Mary MacSwiney, women members of the Dáil’ (‘Daily Mirror’, 28 Apr. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (29 Apr. 1922).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘The Jews’ by Shane Leslie, ‘Catholic Times’ (29 Apr. 1922).
• Colourized postcard print of Saint Brendan’s Catholic Church in Birr, County Offaly.
• Clipping re Jack B. Yeats’s paintings published in ‘The Leader’ (6 May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (6 May 1922).
• Letter from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge to Fr. Henry Rope (7 May 1922).
• Letter from Lennox Robinson, 1 Clare Street, Dublin, to Fr. Henry Rope. He writes ‘Things are very dark and distracted over here but not more than elsewhere I suppose. Perhaps, somehow, good may come but one often despairs of it’. (3 Apr. 1919).
• Letter from Seumas MacManus, 264 West 94th Street, New York City, to Fr. Henry Rope. (1 May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (13 May 1922).
• Letter from C.E. Chesterton, ‘The New Witness’, 20 & 21 Essex Street, London, to Fr. Henry Rope. Refers to the ‘Irish affairs’ and the Anglo-Irish Treaty. (1 May 1922).
• Letter from Fr. Herbert Vaughan, ‘The Catholic Gazette’, to Fr. Henry Rope. (19 May 1922).
• Copies of the ‘Irish Bulletin (London Edition)’ (May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (20 May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘The Far East / Organ of Ireland’s Mission to China’, Vol. V, No. 6 (June 1922).
• Letter from Aodh de Blacam, Falcarragh, County Donegal, to Fr. Henry Rope. (1 June 1922).

A small pouch annotated on spine with ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / XII’ containing letters and cards to Fr. Henry Rope from Fr. Joseph Keating SJ (editor of ‘The Month’), 31 Farm Street, Berkeley Square, London. The correspondence mainly refers to matters pertaining to the ‘The Month’ publication.

A volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Irish correspondents. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / IX’. The file includes many letters and Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex. The volume also includes individual letters from Alice Chichester (Exton, Oakham), Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI, Fr. Andrew Macardle SJ (St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin), Fr. Stephen M. Browne SJ (Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin), Fr. Columban Tyne CP (St. Paul’s Retreat, Mount Argus, Dublin), Fr. Lambert McKenna SJ (Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin), Patrick Fogarty (‘The Irish Catholic’, 55 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), and Fr. T. O’Herlihy CM (St. Peter’s Church, Phibsborough, Dublin).

Small pouch annotated on spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / XI’ containing letters and cards to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Fr. Joseph Keating SJ (editor of ‘The Month’), Fr. Stephen M. Browne SJ (Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin), Fr. Lambert McKenna SJ (Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin), Fr. P.J. Connolly SJ, editor, ‘Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review’, 34 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin, and other Jesuits involved in publishing. ‘The Month’ was a Catholic review magazine published by the English Province of the Society of Jesus. The letters mainly refer to literary matters and contributions by Father Rope to various periodicals. The file also includes several cards from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex, William Frederick Paul Stockley, and Germaine Stockley (Woodside, Tivoli, Cork).

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope from William Frederick Paul Stockley (Woodside, Tivoli, Cork). The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / VIII’. The first item in the volume is a letter from Fr. Rope to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to his long-standing friendship with the late Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941). The letter is dated 25 April 1951 and contains information about Atteridge’s life. The Stockley letters are mostly personal correspondence with references to contemporary politics and various religious subjects.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex. The volume is annotated on spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / IV’. The file also includes letters from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge’s wife (Helen Atteridge) and several letters from Fr. James Routledge (St. Dunstan’s, Moston, Manchester). Other correspondents include Fr. Finbar Ryan OP (editor of ‘The Irish Rosary’, St. Saviour’s Priory, Dominick Street, Dublin), Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI (New Priory, Quex Road, Kilburn, London), and Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’ Office, 205 Pearse Street, Dublin, referring to the political stance of her newspaper, 5 Mar. 1936). Atteridge letters refer mainly to literary matters, Catholic publications, and contemporary politics in both Britain and Ireland.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex. The volume is annotated on spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / II’. The letters refer mainly to literary matters, Catholic publications, and contemporary politics in Britain and in the Irish Free State. Some of the Atteridge’s letters suggest a degree of hostility to the leadership of Cumann na nGaedheal and a sympathy for the republican opposition. The file also includes letters from Fr. Andrew Macardle SJ (St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin), and Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’ Office, 205 Pearse Street, Dublin).