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Letters of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (1898-1953) relating to his experiences as a missionary in Barotseland. The correspondents include Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap.; Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap.; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Reference is made to the work of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. who is in ‘some God-forsaken native village about 9 days from here building a school [and to] Fr. Phelim [O’Shea OFM Cap.] and Fr. Seraphin [Nesdale OFM Cap.] in Loanja’. (11 Dec. 1933). Later, Fr. Fintan refers to the establishment of further mission stations around Mongu and ‘other remote centres … where we won’t conflict with already established Protestant missions’. He also affirmed that ‘Barotseland is not “virgin soil”, it is chuck full of Protestant Missions, some of them 30 days by river from Livingstone’ (20 June 1934).

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 Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Edward Joseph Little (Cliftonville, Bray, County Wicklow), Germaine Stockley, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), H. Martin Hamilton, Fr. P.J. Brophy, F. O’Reilly (Secretary, Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950), Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Susan Hughes Goetz, Redmond Corbett, Fr. Gilbert OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, Holywell, North Wales), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Albert Dryer (11 Kenyon Street, Fairfield, Sydney), Seumas MacManus, John English & Co. (printers), Charles Travers (Secretary, Owen Roe O’Neill Memorial Committee), Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Patrick John Little, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Margaret Devlin, Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia), Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Mary Hardebeck, Gerald Pyne (Harehills, Leeds), Adolf Morath (photographer), Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh, Matthew Feehan (editor of the ‘Sunday Press’), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Zoltan Lewinter-Frankl, Patrick J. Doyle (Columbia Avenue, Hammond, Indiana), Denis MacDaid, Benedict Kiely, Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, George Francis Troup Horne (Birbeck College, London), Philip F. Roden (Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Séamus Campbell, and Max Gluckman.

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.

The catechism in Silozi (Lusaka: Teresian Press, 1967). With the Imprimatur of the Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Bishop of Livingstone.