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A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Letters from Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private Letters’. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes many references to the financial difficulties experienced by the office. A partial alphabetical index of correspondents is provided at the beginning of the volume. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Aodh de Blacam, Frank E. Benner (Fruithill Park, Andersonstown, Belfast), Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (Provincial Minister, refers to efforts to alleviate the deteriorating financial situation in the Capuchin Publications Office, 3 Apr. 1951), Frank E. Dubrey, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., John English & Co. (refers to the use of the ‘Annual’ printing blocks for ‘The Father Mathew Record’, his wish to return the ‘Record’ to its former size, and a print for the ‘Record’ of between 12,000 to 15,000 a month, 20 May 1951), Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., John Lloyd, Gertrude O’Brien (Adams Street, Chicago), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Hugh O’Hagan, Michael O’Leary (Sutton, County Dublin), James M.B. Wright, Albert Dryer (Kenyon Street, Fairfield, Sydney), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Denis O’Shea (Evergreen Street, Cork), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Adolf Morath (photographer), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Diarmuid Breathnach, Fr. Otto Richter (Jablonec, Czechoslovakia), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, John J. Kelly, Doran Hurley, Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Thomas MacGreevy, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India),Fr. George Macarius Korb (Nagoya, Japan), Sister M. Patrick, (The Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahircon, Ennis, County Clare), Michael J. Kennedy (‘Manresa’, Trimlestown Park, Booterstown, Dublin), Mannix Joyce, Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand), James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Eileen Crean, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (refers to his intention to publish a lengthy article in the next edition of the ‘Annual’ on Tom Cream, the Antarctic explorer ‘who was a neighbour of mine in Kerry in the old days’, 20 Feb. 1952), Richard King, Seumas MacManus, Mother Mary Martin (Our Lady of Lourdes Convent, Drogheda, County Louth), Fr. Jack Hanlon, Kathleen O’Connell (Government Buildings, Dublin), Ada P. McCormick (editor of the ‘Letter’, Tucson, Arizona), Kevin MacGrath (Mespil Road, Dublin), Hamish Fraser, Aileen O’Reilly, Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin, claiming that ‘all our financial difficulties would be resolved if we could succeed in getting a few thousand new life-members for the Association of Patrons’, 5 Apr. 1952), Rev. John O. Buchmann (St. Leo’s Rectory, Irvington, New Jersey), Alice Rynne (née Curtayne) (Downings House, Prosperous, Naas, County Kildare), Fr. Andrew Carew OFM Cap. (Guardian, Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), Michael P. Reynolds (Abbey Terrace, Ballymote, County Sligo), Alfred White (162 Crumlin Road, Dublin), Margaret Mary Pearse, Owen McCabe (Clones, County Monaghan), Archbishop James Thomas Gibbons Hayes SJ, Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, seeking permission to read and retain ‘books and periodicals treating of communism and periodicals written or edited by communists’, 22 June 1952), Frieda Le Pla, Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. (refers to Matt Talbot’s prayer book which he lent to Fr. Canice some fifteen years ago and which he would now like returned, 4 July 1952), Séamus Campbell, Winefride Nolan (Aughrim, County Wicklow), and Bishop Daniel Mageean.

Includes a list of subscribers for a charity concert and benefit held in aid of the missionary work of Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. in India (Oct. 1946), pp 45-54; A letter to Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap. reads ‘For almost twenty-five years I have been intimately associated with printing in this dear country of ours but never have I found conditions worse than they are at present, fantastic is the only adequate word to describe the increase in the cost of production of both the ‘Annual’ and the ‘Record’. And my only hope of survival is to enrol a few thousand good Americans as members … of the Association of Patrons’. (11 Feb. 1952, pp 93-5); a biographical note and reflection on Bishop William MacNeely (pp 166-8).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A manuscript annotation on the title page reads ‘Private Letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / 11 March 1949’. Includes references to the Captain Robert Monteith fund and contemporary politics. Other letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health (which required lengthy periods of hospitalization in 1949 and in 1953) and to the serious debts accumulated by the Publications Office. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair,), Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, John J. O’Kelly (‘Sceilg’), Aodh de Blacam, Charles E. Kelly, Br. Colmcille Ó Conbhuidhe (Mellifont Abbey, Collon, County Louth), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., John Desmond Sheridan, Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, H. Martin Hamilton, Bishop John Dignan, Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Doran Hurley, Adolf Morath (photographer), Thomas Francis O’Sullivan, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Séamus Campbell (James J. Campbell), Lennox Robinson, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Christopher T. Rooney, Frank E. Benner (Fruithill Park, Andersonstown, Belfast), Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Frank Gallagher (Glór Na Mara, Sutton, County Dublin), Ernest Newman, Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Bernard T. Hart (Brooklyn, New York), Monsignor Denis McDaid (Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Pádraig De Brún, Cadogan Travel Bureau (Sloane Street, London), John MacCourt (Manitoba, Canada), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), John English & Co. (printers), Sister Augustine Murray (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Monsignor Hugh Finnegan (Saint Joseph’s, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan), Robert Monteith, Michael A. Bowles, Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Judge John J. Kelly (West Washington Street, Chicago), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap. (Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans), Eileen Crean, Frieda Le Pla, Michael Tierney (President, University College Dublin), Winefride Nolan, Fr. John Ryan SJ (35 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Fr. Patrick Gannon SJ (Miltown Park, Dublin), Lily McCormack, Tomás S. Cuffe, Philip F. Roden (11a Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), D.L. Kelleher, Archbishop John D’Alton, Archbishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Benedict Kiely, J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin), Peter F. Anson, Thomas MacGreevy, Joan Hammond (referring to her reception into the Catholic Church) and Fr. Dominic Meyer OFM Cap.

Includes: A long draft letter to Joseph O’Connor provides a description of Fr. Senan’s interview with Páraig ‘Paudeen’ Ó Caoimh, deputy military governor of Mountjoy prison in Dublin during the Civil War (1949); A letter to O’Connor affirms that Seán O’Casey ‘abominates everything a Catholic Irishman holds sacred’ (22 Nov. 1952); A letter to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, refers to the crippling amount of debt accumulated by the Capuchin Publications Office over the past twenty-five years. Fr. Senan wrote ‘for a good few years the yearly income amounts to £22,000 but unfortunately the outgoings in any given year amount to £24,000 or so’. He also confirms that the profits from the ‘Angelic Shepherd’ publication has failed to clear the office’s debt and asks for a new letter of authorization for the bank. He asks for Fr. Colman’s forgiveness and refers to his hope that assistance from ‘two wealthy American friends’ will help clear the debt (22 Apr. 1953); A letter to Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. refers the death of Maud Gonne MacBride. Fr. Senan wrote ‘She was terrific character. God rest her. I used to love to get her to tell the story of how she went to Spain, was it in 1907, to assassinate King Edward VII’ (28 Apr. 1953).

A notebook containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters. The notebook was compiled while Fr. Senan was visiting England and receiving medical treatment in a clinic on Wimpole Street in London. Dr. Colm A. McDonnell accompanied him for a portion of his trip. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Private letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / June 1954 – September 1954’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Church Street Friary, Dublin), T.J. Molloy (art editor, Independent House, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Jo Crean (Baymount, Tralee, County Kerry), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Joan Hammond, Rev. John O. Buchmann, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (refers to his sorrow on hearing that O’Hara will be leaving Ireland to take up a new diplomatic appointment in England. Fr. Senan also wrote ‘twenty-six years in an editor’s chair should be a stretch long enough for anyone’, 14/15 June 1954, pp 13-15), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Leo Smith (Dawson Gallery, Dublin), Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Thomas MacGreevy, Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Mary Wren, D.L. Kelleher, Bernard Sheppard, and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. The volume includes pasted-in newspaper clippings and postcard prints mainly acquired while Fr. Senan was in England. The postcards include images of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Royal Family, and some views of Stoke-on-Trent.