Letter from Sister A.E. Woodward RSCJ, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Aberdeen, Scotland. The letter is addressed to Frances Woodlock (possibly William Woodlock’s wife) and refers to the school recently established by the religious sisters in the city. The letter adds ‘Aberdeen is a most interesting old place owing its origin to St. Machar, a disciple of St. Columba. It had many holy Bishops in the good old times and the tombs of several of them are still to be seen’.
A letter from Sir Shane Leslie, 18 Knightsbridge Court, Sloane Street, London, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFMCap. re a painting titled ‘The Eviction’ by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson, 1846-1933).
A letter from Sir Shane Leslie, 107 Sloane Street, London, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., affirming that he has ‘avoided writing anything about Ireland’s problems during “the Emergency”’.
A letter from Sir John Loader Maffey (1877-1969), ‘United Kingdom Representative to Éire’, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., thanking him for sending a copy of the 1942 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
Letter from Sir Bertram Windle to Fr. Richard Henebry referring to the latter's application for the Chair of Irish language and literature in University College Cork.
Letter from Sir Alfred Cope, Assistant Under Secretary for Ireland, Dublin Castle, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Church Street, confirming that Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. is still being detained at Wormwood Scrubs and that he will be moved to Parkhurst Prison in the coming days. Cope also refers to the conditions under which Fr. Dominic will be detained.
Letter from Sinn Féin, 23 Suffolk Street, Dublin, to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Church St., Dublin, forwarding a resolution from the party regarding the recent death of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. In Irish
Letter from Sinéad de Valera, Greystones, County Wicklow, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. referring to the suggestion of holding a ‘national novena to the Sacred Heart’ for the welfare of Ireland.
Letter from Sinéad de Valera to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. referring to her anxiety over ‘the midnight raid and Saturday’s paper’. She adds ‘Dev is in Gloucester prison. I had a message from the Governor saying to send on some clothes’.
