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Specification for the reconstruction of seating arrangements at the rear of the auditorium in Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, by J. Seward, 26 New Ireland Road, Rialto, Dublin. Includes a schedule of work to be done, materials to be used and form of tender.

Specification for electrical installation works at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, by Nicholas Mathews, engineer, 104 Grafton Street, Dublin. With a statement of the general conditions of the contract.

Specification for the workmanship and materials required in the building of a retail shop and premises on Bristol Street in Birmingham for James Pearse, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. The specification was compiled by John Smith & Son, architects, 88 Colmore Row, Birmingham. James Pearse had inherited his father’s shop in Bristol Street in Birmingham and seemingly had an architectural firm draw up plans for it to be converted into a newsagent and domestic dwelling.

Specification and contract of agreement with Alex Chestnutt & Company, organ builders, Manor Street, Waterford, for the installation of a ‘two-manual organ’ at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The agreement (dated 28 July 1914) with Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, guardian, notes that the consideration money for the installation of the organ was £580. The file includes letters from Alex Chestnutt to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC in which the former notes that ‘owing to this unfortunate war there is very little doing in the organ building trade … and having many bills to meet now at the end of the year I have no other course to take but to ask if you will kindly oblige me with another £100’. (30 Dec. 1914). With letters to Fr. Pius Duggan OSFC, guardian, regarding an estimate from the cleaning and overhaul of the organ (8 Feb. 1930).

Includes; black and white photo showing girl with special needs learning how to use a sewing machine in "Sheltered Workshop" (undated c1970s); black and white photos entitled "South Presentation Deaf Nurseries Unit" (undated c1980s); "Queen of Angels" school for children afflicted with Polio in Cork set up by the Presentation Sisters of the South Presentation, list of Sisters that volunteered to teach in the school (27 September 1959).

Copy of a circular sent from an Allied Irish Bank manager detailing the nature of special cheques with a further attached circular detailing income tax deductions for managers and teachers at national schools.

The file comprises an undated note from Francis Wendell Butler-Thwing titled ‘Impressions of Russia’ enclosing twenty-three photographs of everyday life in the Soviet Union. Manuscript annotations are extant on the reverse of many of the prints. There is some uncertainty over both the provenance and dates of these photographs although it seems likely they were taken in the late 1940s. Francis Wendell Butler-Thwing (1891-1964) was a former British Army officer and a First World War veteran. He was a captain in the Coldstream Guards from 1917 to 1921 and was later a published poet and author. In 1918 he married Lady Gertrude Minna Kerr, an English aristocrat (she was a niece of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk). The circumstances of how Butler-Thwing was able to take (or obtain) these photographs of life in the Soviet Union is unclear, but he may have sent them to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. with a view to their potential publication in ‘The Capuchin Annual’.