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A proof copy of a petition (with signatures) to present Ireland’s claims before an ‘impartial non-British Tribunal’ of nations. The accompanying letter stresses the need to present such claims immediately as ‘if such reference were postponed to a date after the end of the war it would be too late to avert the dangers that are now imminent’. With a copy of names of individuals (with professions and addresses) endorsing such a presentment to an international tribunal.

A short typed document about additional pastoral availability for people to come into All Hallows College, rather than priests and students only going outside.

Draft biography of the architect, James Joseph McCarthy (1817-1882) with a list of his principal works (including the Capuchin Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin). References are made to his Royal Hibernian Academy exhibitions, to his appointment as Professor of Architecture at the Catholic University of Ireland, and to controversies over the restoration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin and the commission to build St. Colman’s Cathedral in Queenstown (Cobh). The file includes a newspaper clipping referring to the history of the Capuchins on Church Street. The clipping includes a photographic print of the old Capuchin Chapel on the street which was built in 1796 and was replaced by St. Mary of the Angels in 1864.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘I’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Gwynfor Evans (Wernellyn, Llangadog, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Wales), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), H. Martin Hamilton, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Cathal O’Byrne, Pádraig De Brún, Aodh de Blacam, James Roberts (Boulevard of Allies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), David Marcus, Adolf Morath (photographer), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist), Vincent Evans (Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Monsignor Edward R. Gaffney, (Vicar General of the Archdiocese of New York), Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, D.L. Kelleher, John Pike (editor, ‘Renascene’, Marquette University, Wisconsin), John Desmond Sheridan, Denis MacDaid (Dun Laoighaire, County Dublin), Major General Hugo MacNeill, Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Bernadette Mary O’Byrne, Fr. P.J. Brophy, Séamus Campbell, John Rohan (Irish Cottage Imports, Palo Alto, California), Germaine Stockley, Fr. John Baptist Weldon OFM Cap., Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Matthew Feehan (editor of the ‘Sunday Press’), Seumas MacManus, Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Charles E. Kelly, Sister Francis (Poor Clare Convent, College Road, Cork), Eoin O’Mahony, Philip F. Roden (Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Desmond Hickey (41 Dufferin Avenue, Dublin), Máirín Allen, Séamus Ó hEocha (‘An Fear Mór’, Coláiste na Rinne, County Waterford), Maud Gonne MacBride, The Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), John English & Co. (printers), Peter F. Anson, Maureen McManus, Stanley Donald Nisbet, James Joseph Campbell, Hugh Greer, Fr. John Power (Our Lady of the Rosary and St. Therese of Lisieux, Saltely, Birmingham), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Douglas Newton (Aubery House, Paddington, London), Arthur Campbell (11 Magdala Street, University Street, Belfast), J.C. Coleman (Whitehall, Dublin), M.A. Keating (photographer, Nelson Street, Clonmel, County Tipperary), Patrick Power (photographer, Point Road, Dundalk, County Louth), Lily McCormack, Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap., Max Gluckman, and Gerald Boland. Enclosures include a typescript list of the officers and council members of the Military History Society of Ireland (1949).

Diary of mass celebrants (and confessors) at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. Includes bookings for masses at St. Luke’s Hospital and at other locations.

Copies (made by Michael Buggy, solicitor) of two fee farm grants by James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde to Mary Pape of houses and premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, lately held by Alderman John Pape, deceased, in consideration of £24 13s 4d at the yearly rent of £6 3s 4d (9 Sept. 1705); and in consideration of £81 17s 0d at the yearly rent of £4 with ‘two fatt capons as accates or four shillings sterling per annum in lieu thereof’ (25 Sept. 1705). With a manuscript copy of the deed of 9 Sept. 1705.