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Photocopy of a letter from Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap., Capuchin Franciscan College, Rochestown, County Cork, to Winifred Etheridge, c/o Major F. Etheridge DSO, Broadway Cottage, Littleham, North Exmouth, Devon. The letter (27 January 1923) provides a detailed, eyewitness description of an engagement between Free State soldiers and irregular republicans near Rochestown College in August 1922. Winifred Etheridge was a sister of Ian McKenzie Kennedy, a Scottish-born republican, who died during the battle. The file also includes a photocopy of a letter (26 August 1922) from Nora Lucey, 3 Pembroke Street, Cork, to Mrs McKenzie Kennedy providing further detail on the skirmish and on the death of her son, Ian McKenzie Kennedy. A copy sketch map (drawn by Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap.) showing details of the battle between Free State forces and Anti-Treaty irregulars around Rochestown is also extant in the file.

A letter from Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. to Joe McGrath, Cabinteely House, County Dublin, outlining the difficult living circumstances being endured by Robert Monteith and his wife and his promotion of a fund to allow them to purchase a house in Dublin.

Copy letter from Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. to Fr. Louis A. Gales agreeing to his proposal re American reproduction rights for Richard King’s Mysteries of the Rosaries published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Moynihan provides technical details re the originals and the technical requirements for any reproductions.

A copy letter from Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. to Éamon de Valera asking if he would open the National Loan Exhibition of the paintings of Jack B. Yeats. ‘Such an exhibition’, Moynihan suggests, ‘would constitute a nationwide tribute to the artist’.

Copy letter from Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Yeats refers to a 'loan exhibition' which Fr. Senan wants to organize for the artist. Yeats writes 'I am afraid that such an exhibition would be against the sale of my paintings. The suggestion might come to people that I had retired'. A later letter from Yeats in the volume states that he would be in favour of such an exhibition to be held in 1945.

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘The fact is I am extremely disgusted with what I read in this morning’s papers, especially the action of the ungrateful Irish Party’.

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I am placed in a very paradoxical position – an image maker by profession and an image breaker by inclination’. He adds ‘I have been dangling – to use a scriptural phrase – between Hell and Heaven for the last twenty five years of my life: only that I reverse the meaning of the words: - everything appertaining to ecclesiasticism I regard as the former; and to be free of which, I regard as the latter’.

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I have written a letter to the “Agnostic Journal” upon [the] same subject (agnosticism and atheism) principally because my name was mentioned therein’.