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The subseries comprises a collection of original ink drawings relating to the life of Father Jerome Hawes (1876-1956), an English Catholic priest who led an unorthodox life as a Franciscan hermit on an island in the Bahamas in the mid-twentieth century. The drawings are most likely the work of Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975), the English spiritual writer and artist. The original drawings were probably sent by Anson to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

Born in 1876, John Cyril Hawes trained as an architect before being ordained as a Church of England (Anglican) priest in 1903. His first mission was in the Bahamas where he was sent to repair churches destroyed by a hurricane in 1908. He later led a nomadic existence in the United States where he converted to Catholicism. He was ordained a Catholic priest in Rome in February 1915 and was subsequently sent to Western Australia where he built several churches. In 1939 he returned to the Bahamas and settled on Cat Island. Increasingly attracted to the solitary and hermetical aspect of Franciscan spirituality, he built by hand a small stone monastery he called Mount Alvernia Hermitage on Como Hill, the highest point in the Bahamas. He resided there in effective isolation as a hermit for the remaining sixteen years of his life. He died on 26 June 1956. At his own request, Hawes was buried in a cave located beneath the Hermitage he constructed on Cat Island.

The subseries comprises a small collection of letters and clippings relating to the Fianna Fáil politician Cormac Breathnach. The clippings are tribute articles and obituaries published following Breathnach’s death on 29 May 1856. The file also includes some letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. from Breathnach’s wife Bríd, and from Thomas MacGreevy and Margaret Mary Pearse.

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’.