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A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D2’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Tomás Ó Riain, Adolf Morath (photographer), John English & Co. (printers), Fr. J. McShane (Parochial House, St. Oran’s Road, Buncrana, County Donegal), H. Martin Hamilton, Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Seumas MacManus, Fr. Celsus O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Clare Sheridan (sculptor), D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Otto Richter, Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Nuala Ní Riain, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Eilish M. Sharkey, F. O’Reilly (Secretary, Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950), Hugh P. Allen (Catholic Truth Society of Ireland), Joceyln Harcourt, Fr. Tom Ryan (Vatican Secretariat of State), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap, Fr. W.B. Ryan OP, Elizabeth Corr, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Maud Gonne MacBride (enclosing letters from Vincent Crompton, an Irish republican), Patrick John Little, Michael McLaverty, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, and Canon Patrick Rogers. Enclosures include minutes a meeting of the governors and guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland (6 Dec. 1950) and printed lists and other documentation re the Chester Beatty collection in the Gallery; Manuscript notes re the cartoonist (probably Charles E. Kelly) of the ‘Dublin Opinion’ and his denial that his work constitutes an ‘active participation in politics’.

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mostly to contributors, authors, and printers associated with 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume contains letters to: Francis MacManus, Kathleen M. Murphy, Fr. T.J. Walsh, Dorothea Barclay, Chrles O’Connell, Fr. Cyril Barrett SJ, James Flynn, John Desmond Sheridan, James Lyons, James Eccles, Fr. William Coughlan OFM Cap., Márie Cotter, Capitola R. Guthrie, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Margaret Holland, Brian MacGiolla Pádraig, Philip Rooney, Mannix Joyce, Professor J.J. Murphy, and Dollard Printing House.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘XXIV’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Maud Gonne MacBride, Germaine Stockley, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Helena Concannon, Ermengarda Greville-Nugent, Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Frank E. Benner, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Caitlin Hutchinson (the mother of Pearse Hutchinson, Rathgar Road, Dublin), Séamus Campbell, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Vincent Evans (Mourne Road, Crumlin, Dublin), Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Seamus Murphy, ‘Rutherford Mayne’ (Samuel John Waddell), Charles E. Kelly, Pearse Hutchinson (‘Findrum’, Rathgar Road, Dublin), Doran Hurley, An Cumann Gaelach, Trinity College Dublin, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Mary Hardebeck, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. P.J. Dunning CM (All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. John D. Sheehan (editor, ‘Our Lady’s Missionary’, Altamount, New York), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Seán O’Boyle (Arthur’s Villas, Armagh), Hugh Greer, Eoin O’Mahony, Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., and Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘II’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Fr. Philip John Adamson (Secretary to the Archbishop of Liverpool), Fr. Cuthbert Hess OFM Cap., Jack Donnelly (Derryvolgie Avenue, Belfast), Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap., Leo O’Brien, Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (Cathedral, Simla, India), John English & Co. (printers), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Charles L. Wagner, D.L. Kelleher, Wilfrid Cantwell (architect), Mary Hardebeck, Maurice Lavanoux (Liturgical Arts Society, New York), Patrick Lawlor (Catholic Writers’ Movement), Mary O’Connell (Beckett Street, Melbourne), Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Seamus de Faoite, Michael A. Bowles, Aodh de Blacam, John Desmond Sheridan, Alan Macauley (Irish American Film Corp.), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ (Boston College, Massachusetts), Peter F. Anson, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Tomás S. Cuffe, Oliver Saint-George Hawksley (Isle of Gigha, Argyll, Scotland), Fr. A.J. Cleary (Saints Peter and Paul Presbytery, South Melbourne, Australia), Séamus Campbell (editor, ‘Irish Bookman’), Fr. John Crowe (Saints Peter and Paul Church, Athlone, County Westmeath), Fr. Piaras de Hindeberg SJ, P.A. MacMahon (Secretary, The Thomas Moore Society), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Joesph Connolly (Melford, Westfield Road, Dublin), Sister M. Patrick (Convent of St. Columban, Chinese Mission Convent, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Major General Hugo MacNeill, Dr. J. Vincent Carroll, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. M.P. O’Sullivan, (Oak Park Lane, Monrovia, California), Seán Moylan, Archbishop Thomas O’Donnell (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Jack B. Yeats, Fr. Victor Sheppard OFM (Franciscan Friary, 4 Merchants’ Quay, Dublin), Fr. Emil A. Heiring (Mount Saint Mary of the West, Norwood, Ohio), Maud Gonne MacBride, R.R. Figgis (Secretary, The Friends of the National Collections of Ireland), Francis McCullagh, Patrick John Little, Margaret Mary Pearse, G.P. Daly, (Palmerston Road, Rathmines, Dublin), Maureen McManus (Secretary, The Legion of Mary, Belfast), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Frieda Le Pla, Micheál Ó Ceanáinn, Seán Ó Baoighill, J.J. O’Connor (National College of Art, Dublin), Sydney Gifford Czira (‘John Brennan’), J.P. O’Brien (Manager, Irish Tourist Association), Fr. Peter L. Danner SJ, Mervyn Wall, Secretary, Office of the Higher Commissioner for the Irish Free State, London, Mary O’Doherty (Carlisle Street, Dublin), Fr. M.J. Dalton (Mount Alvernia, Mallow, County Cork), Jarlath A. O’Connell (solicitor, Dame Street, Dublin), Nuala Costello (Tuam Art Club), Joseph Patrick Walshe (re the fate of Seán Russell), Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Philip Rooney, Seán O’Sullivan, Máirín Allen, Benedict Kiely, and J.A. Power (Knock Villa, Salthill, County Galway). Enclosures include letters from Brian Furey (The Parsons Arms, Flushing, Long Island, New York) to Benedict Kiely (1946); Typescript list of ‘IRA Prisoners at present serving sentences in British Gaols’ (1945).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘XXIII’. Includes numerous letters from Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow) with some enclosures of letters to her from William Frederick Paul Stockley. Most of Lady Yarrow’s letters are addressed from ‘Journey’s End, Baily, County Dublin’. Other correspondents include Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (Catholic Presbytery, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa) and Seumas MacManus.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D 5’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Nicolò Falchi, Jocelyn Harcourt, John MacCourt, Adolf Morath (photographer), Patrick John Little, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., John English & Co. (printers), Bishop John Dignan, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Rita McGoldrick, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Victor Waddington, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., the Catholic Stage Guild, Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Kathleen Bowles, Aodh de Blacam, and Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959). Enclosures include agenda of meeting of the governors and guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland (Feb. 1951) and a print of St. Augustine’s Abbey Church, Fox Hill, Nassau, Bahamas.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘Angelic Shepherd’ and contains letters offering congratulations for this publication and requesting copies of the book which was published by the Capuchin Annual Office in 1950. Includes letters from various Catholic clergymen including Bishop Eugene O’Doherty, Bishop James Fergus, Archbishop John D’Alton, Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Bishop William MacNeely, Rev. Owen Noel Snedden, and Fr. Denis Fahy CSSp. The volume also includes letters from Doran Hurley, Margaret Hennessy, Peadar O’Curry (editor of ‘An t-Iolar: The Standard’), Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Lily McCormack, Frank Duff, the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, ‘Catholic Times’ (London), Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Douglas Newton, Seán Mac Eoin, Maud Gonne MacBride, Pádraig De Brún, John English & Co. (printers), and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.

Letter to Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. from Dichmont & Dichmont, attorneys, 55 St. George’s Street, Cape Town, South Africa, re a certificate for payment for the transfer of Capuchin property to the municipality of the city Cape Town.

Letters from the Most Rev. Owen McCann (1907-1994), Archbishop of Cape Town, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. (1923-2004) , Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983) reporting on the missionary efforts of the Irish Capuchins in Parow (Parish of the Immaculate Conception); Matroosfontein (Parish of the Holy Trinity); Athlone (St. Mary of the Angels); Welcome Estate (St. Theresa’s); Langa (St. Anthony’s). The Archbishop also requests that an Irish Capuchin priest (Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap.) be sent to St. Helena and Ascension Island – part of the Cape Town Archdiocese. He writes: ‘There are 5,000 persons on [St. Helena] Island but only 3 to 4 Catholics at present … the prospect of conversions is uncertain. The Anglicans are well established. The schools are under the Government, as also the hospital’. Reference is also made to an application of Ronald Hinrichsen, a convert from the Dutch Reformed Church, to join the Capuchin Franciscan Order (24 Sept. 1952); to the death of Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. and the resulting vacancy in Parow parish (16 Aug. 1957); to a draft agreement with the Capuchins re Belgravia parish which has been separated from Parow (1 July 1961); to the need for new priests to meet the growing population in the Cape Flats district (20 June 1966); to Archbishop McCann’s desire to see Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. return to South Africa (4 Nov. 1968). Later, Archbishop McCann expresses his condolences on hearing of the death of Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (22 Mar. 1984).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office from Charles E. Kelly (enclosing a humorous cartoon of Fr. Senan), Eugene F. Collins (Temple Chambers, Eustace Street, Dublin), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Ada P. McCormick (editor of the ‘Letter’, Tucson, Arizona), Sister Mary Gertrude Cain RSHM (President, Marymount College, New York), Tomás S. Cuffe (225 Harold’s Cross Road, Dublin), Sister Teresa Dymphna (Carmelite Sisters, Mount Carmel Convent, Nairobi, Kenya), Ermengarda Greville-Nugent, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Claude Vogel OFM Cap. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Christopher T. Rooney, John Hennig, Fr. Peter Dempsey OFM Cap. (St. Bonaventure’s Hostel, Cork), Fr. Francis OFM Cap. (former Vicar-General of the Diocese of Allahabad, India), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Hospitals’ Trust Limited (20 Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin), Germaine Stockley, Thomas J. Carroll (Ballycolman Avenue, Strabane, County Tyrone), J.F. Reynolds, Patrick Duffy (Clonfert Avenue, Portumna, County Galway), Gary Mac Eoin, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad), Fr. P. O’Donnell (The Presbytery, Tilbury, London), Peter F. Anson, Art O’Brien (Connaught House, 53 Pembroke Road, Dublin), Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Charles G. O’Connell (St. Anthony’s Road, Cork), T.J. Kiernan (Via San Martino Della Battaglia, Rome), Percy Jones (St. John’s, Queen’s Parade, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Australia), D.L. Kelleher, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Patrick Begley (Radio Éireann announcer), Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Myers & Co. (80 New Bond Street, London, antiquarian booksellers), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa), Georgie Yeats, Tadhg Ó Séaghdha (Ros a’ Mhíl, County Galway), Maud Gonne MacBride, Peter F. Anson (enclosing a typescript article titled ‘Notre-Dame du Grand Retour’), Archbishop Finbar Ryan, Aodh de Blacam (enclosing a manuscript article titled ‘Talks with Æ (George William Russell) / and unpublished writing’), Clare Sheridan (sculptor), and Robert Monteith. The file also includes some copy letters from Fr. Senan to Jarlath O’Connell, Eileen F. Quinn, Edward A. Harrigan, Phyllis Thompson, Rev. A.J. Cleary, Aodh de Blacam, John P. Moynihan, and David A. Garrity. The file has some copy letters re the Carl Hardebeck Fund (1946). Enclosures include a copy of the faculties granted to Fr. Senan for his appointment as Extraordinary Confessor to the Convent of Mercy, Gardiner Street, Dublin (1 Feb. 1945).