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Lease from John Smith, Lucan, to James Willis, Church Street, of nos. 138-139 Church Street ‘with four houses at the rear of 139 Church Street … formerly called Coles Court’, for 99 years at a yearly rent of £50. With a copy.

• Poem titled ‘Fr. Mathew’s Cornet’. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Poem by ‘A Parish Boy’ titled ‘Capashine [sic] Fathers’. The first lines read:
‘Oh God bless the Capashine [sic] Fathers
For their hard and toilful strife
By which they’ve raised our city
To its present state of life …’.
Manuscript, 3 pp.
• Copy letter of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to H. Sharp re a visit to a Mr. Brabason. 3 Nov. 1841. Typescript, 1 p.
• Copy extract from the 'Saunder’s News-Letter' referring to Fr. Mathew administering the pledge to nearly five thousand people at the Custom House in Dublin. 31 Mar. 1840. Typescript, 1 p.
• Copy poem by Seaghan Ó Laoghaire titled ‘Glory be to Whiskey’. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Copy letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Dr. Shiel, Ballyshannon, County Donegal, referring to his visit to state prisoners and his attitude towards William Smith O’Brien. 26 Aug. 1844. Typescript, 1 p.
• Copy letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Rev. George Whitmore Carr, New Ross, County Wexford, 8 Dec. 1839. Reference is also made to Fr. Mathew’s visit to New Ross. The extract is from an obituary of Rev. George Whitmore Carr (1779-1849). Printed, 9 pp.
• William O’Connell, ‘Three documents relating to Father Mathew / A famous Irish Chancery action of 1839’, 'Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society', XLVI (1951), 5 pp. An offprint presented to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap.
• Poem by J.E. Murphy titled ‘Lines suggested by seeing the beloved Apostle of Temperance, returning from the Charity Sermon preached at the Cathedral, Cork, 17th April 1852’. Manuscript, 1 p.
• A note affirming that Fr. Mathew entered Maynooth Seminary ‘as a student from Cashel’ in 1807. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Extract from the annals of the South Presentation Convent in Cork re the celebration of the golden jubilee of Mother Clare O’Callaghan at which Fr. Mathew attended in January 1845. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Copy letter of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Richard Foley, 37 Francis Street, Kilrush, thanking him for his kind gift of £5. The letter reads: ‘It has graciously pleased the Almighty to smite me with general Paralysis, which fixed particularly in my right arm, consequently I write with difficulty and almost illegibly. My exertions in America, preaching temperance to the expatriated Irish, in that vast Republic, exhausted my strength’. 31 May 1854. Typescript, 1 p.
• Copy articles from 'The Constitution or Cork Advertiser' reporting on the death and funeral of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 9 Dec. 1856-13 Dec. 1856. Manuscript, 3 pp.

• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on the founding in 1819 by Fr. Mathew of ‘an association which was the precursor of the St. Vincent de Paul Society’. The Josephian Society ‘was a body of young men who taught catechism and instructed poor children to read and write’. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Notebook containing entries relating to Fr. Mathew’s temperance crusade extracted from 'Battersby’s Catholic Directory', 1840-7. The entries were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 10 pp.
• Letter from Sr. Mary Aquin, Convent of Mercy, Cobh, County Cork, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re ‘a tradition in the Convent that one Sister saw him [Fr. Mathew] frequently in his last illness and were edified by his holy dispositions’. 4 June 1930. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. confirming that the Christian Brothers ‘have a quite a lot of matter re Fr. Mathew in their records’. Fr. Bonaventure also refers to his efforts to locate unbound and missing editions of 'The Father Mathew Record'. 9 Feb. 1939. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re the numbers who took the Total Abstinence Pledge from 1839-52. The figure for 1839 is given as 63,387. The figure for 1852 is 6,486,851. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re references to Fr. Mathew, Apostle of Temperance in 'Bullarium Ordinis FF. Minorum Francisci Capucinorum', Vols X-XII (1841). Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on Bishop John England (1786-1842). ‘From the sermon of the Most Rev. Dr. [Francis] McCormack [1833-1909], Bishop of Galway, at the celebration of the centenary of Carlow College, Sunday, Sept. 23, 1888’. MS, 2 pp.

• Letter from M. Hendrick to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a temperance certificate belonging to his late father dated 12 Apr. 1840. He writes ‘This pledge was taken when Fr. Mathew was visiting North Wexford that year in Gorey chapel yard outside the old chapel (now St. Michael’s Cemetery)’. 14 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 3 pp.
• Letter from Margaret Cave to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re an old print of Fr. Mathew. 19 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Letter from [J. Glennon?] to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to David Leahy Arthur from November 1846 which she would like to offer (for sale) to the Capuchins. 17 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from Bridget McInerney to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a temperance medal dated 10 April 1838. The letter is dated 19 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from Mrs Richard Burke to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re some temperance medals and certificates in her possession. She affirms that Fr. Mathew visited Loughrea, County Galway, in March 1840. [Oct. 1915]. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from P. McKenna to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re James McKenna, Fr. Theobald Mathew’s principal private secretary. 18 Apr. 1923. Manuscript, 4 pp.
• Notes by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Father Mathew’s birth. The notes outline the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Mathew. Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 4 pp.
• Letter to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Sister Mary de Sales O’Leary, Presentation Convent, Gerald Griffin Street, Cork, affirming that she was the last child Fr. Mathew gave a blessing to before his death. She wrote ‘I was sent down to him with my brother, then an ecclesiastical student. Fr. Mathew was lodging in a house on the Beach, and died very soon after’. 15 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 4 pp.
• Letter from Christine O’Dowd, Drumcondra Park, Dublin, to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap., referring to some letters in the handwriting of Fr. Mathew in her possession. 23 May [1915?]. Manuscript, 1 p.
• An article by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. titled ‘Father Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance / His Work in Wexford’. Typescript, 6 pp.
• Note by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. transcribing an article from 'The Nation', 23 Aug 1845, describing a monument to the memory of Francis and Thomas Mathew, brothers of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• An article by Fr. Angelus Healy titled ‘The Life and Work of Father Mathew’. Typescript, 20 pp

Receipt and expenditure book for the Church Street Friary. The accounts give details of monies received by the friars and expenditure on provisions (coals, newspapers, and sundries), payments made to organists, to the ‘burial society’ and other outlays. Among the friars referred to are Fr. Bonaventure (John) Buckley OSFC (b. 1809), guardian of the Church Street Friary, Fr. Thomas David Ashe OSFC (d. 8 Nov. 1877). A note on the first page refers to the visitation of Fr. Victor of Chamonix OSFC, Commissary General of the Irish Capuchins, who found these accounts to be correct and that the balance had been placed in the hands of the bursar ‘to pay for the chalices’. The accounts are signed by Br. Augustine Dunne OSFC (d. 1860) and are dated 28 June 1856.

Account book giving details of donations and collections for the Church Street Friars. Reference is made to the collections for vestments and to the sale of Adoration Cards (Oct. 1852). Information is given in respect of the name of the donator and the amount received. Reference is made to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC (d. 1894) and to Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC (1826-1893). A short note re expenditure from January-February 1850 is made on the final the page including the payment of £8 8s for ‘rent for school’.

• Letter to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Madeline Hanly enclosing a photographic print of a portrait of Fr. Mathew belonging to her father John P. Hanly. She explains that it was ‘presented to his grandmother, Mrs Mary Cahill … by Fr. Mathew himself in January 1842’. 28 Oct. 1915. Manuscript and print, 3 pp.
• Letter from Michael Carew to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. referring to a temperance medal belonging to his grandfather. 21 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Letter from William R. Wigham, Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance, to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. enclosing information re temperance pledge cards, medals, pictures and other artefacts associated with Fr. Mathew’s campaign. 29 Nov. 1915. Typescript, 3 pp.
• Letter from Julia M. Brennan to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. referring to her great-grandfather’s temperance medal (not extant). She affirms that he took the pledge in Mountrath Parish and never broke it during his life. 3 Feb. 1916. Manuscript, 3 pp.
• Letter from Eugene [McPhelan?], St. Mary’s, Derrytrasna, Lurgan, County Armagh, to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. enclosing a cutting from the 'Scottish Temperance Review' (1848) and a note re Fr. Mathew’s visit to Banbridge in June 1841. The letter is dated 9 Nov. 1915. Manuscript, 5 pp.
• Letter from James Duffy to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a picture, plate and medal associated with Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign. 11 Jan. 1916. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from P.J. Sheehan to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. sending a Father Mathew temperance medal (not extant). 25 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Letters from Mabel M. Maguire to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. affirming that ‘the bust of Father Mathew is still here’. 13 Nov. 1929. With letters from O’Keeffe and Lynch, solicitors, stating that the Maguire family would like to gift the bust to the Capuchin friars of Church Street. 21 Oct. 1943-22 Oct. 1943. The letters also make reference to the gift by Mabel Maguire of some original correspondence of Fr. Mathew. These letters are now listed at CA FM COR/2771-2776. Manuscript and typescript, 5 pp.
• Letter from Margaret Dent, Castledermot, County Kildare, to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a temperance medal which belonged to her grandfather. 29 Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letters from Bridget O’Sullivan to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a copy of Rev. W.H. Cologan’s book on the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 6 Nov. 1915-4 Jan. 1916. Encloses a copybook containing a transcription from 'Father Mathew / The Apostle of Temperance / 1790-1856' by Rev. W.H. Cologan. Manuscript, 56 pp.
• Letters from Katherine Kiernan to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. re a temperance medal belonging to her paternal grandfather. Oct. 1915. Manuscript, 7 pp.
• Letters from Charles Murphy, 3 Prospect Row, Limerick, regarding a temperance certificate and medal belonging to his deceased father dated 4 Nov. 1839. He writes ‘My poor father walked from Limerick to Cork to take the pledge. It was considered a pilgrimage and the proper thing to do …’. He also refers to his father’s role in founding St. Michael’s Temperance Society. 30 Oct. 1915-6 Dec. 1915. Manuscript, 7 pp.

Copy conveyance of George Kiernan, apothecary, Robert Kiernan, coach maker, Surdeville Kiernan, jeweller, and Ann Kiernan, spinster, to Henry Hunt, of ‘a messuage, tenement and dwelling house, yard, and garden situate on the west side of Church Street in the City of Dublin formerly in the possession of John Cane and his undertenants but now in the possession of Robert Joseph Sutter .... containing in the breadth from north to south 55 feet, in the rear 22 feet, and in depth from east to west 185 feet’. In consideration of £400. The recital of previous deeds notes that James Kiernan, great-grandfather of above-noted lessors, obtained this property from the Trustees of Forfeited Estates on 21 May 1703. The properties were previously owned by Richard Fagan who was attained for treason. The copy was compiled by T.J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street. With a renewal of the said lease by James Hunt to John Smith, Finstown, Dublin in consideration of £2. 28 Dec. 1815, and a further renewal by Rev. Henry Hunt, Lurgan Rectory near Virginia, County Cavan, to John Smith, Lucan, County Dublin, in consideration of £2 15s 4½d. 13 June 1856.

• Photocopy of Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap., 'The Eager Heart / A short life of Father Theobald Mathew OFM Cap. / The Apostle of Temperance' (Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1961), 24 pp.
• Photocopy of an article by Professor W.F.P. Stockley, ‘Theobald Mathew’s Work (1838-1938)’, 'Bonaventura' (Winter 1938), pp 33-49.
• Photocopy of an article by Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap., ‘Father Theobald Mathew (1790-1856)’, 'Bonaventura' (Winter 1940-41), pp 121-9.
• An article on Fr. Theobald Mathew transcribed from 'The Father Mathew Record'. Typescript, 4 pp.

• Flier referring to a public request of Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. for medals, pictures, letters, certificates and other memorabilia associated with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. c.1938. Printed. 1 p.
• An article titled ‘Footsteps of Fr. Mathew’ by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. published in 'The Father Mathew Record'. c.1930. Printed, pp 234-6.
• Letter to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Edward Vincent O’Connor re the visit of Fr. Mathew to Coleraine to administer the pledge in about 1842. 19 Nov. 1915. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Richard Burke, re a temperance medal in his possession. [c.1915]. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from M. Bradley, 32 Lawrence Street, Drogheda, County Louth, re engravings and mementos of Fr. Mathew in his possession. He refers to ‘a small steel engraving of the bust of Fr. Mathew’ and encloses a rough sketch of the same. 20 Oct. 1915-30 Nov. 1915. Manuscript, 4 pp.
• Timeline of significant events associated with Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign. The notes were compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. The events cover the period from 1840-3. Manuscript, 4 pp.
• Copybook containing extracts of Irish Capuchin interest (and in particular re Fr. Mathew and his temperance campaign) from the 'Kilkenny Journal', 19 Mar. 1845-3 Jan. 1846. The extracts were compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. Manuscript, 55 pp.
• Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from James Power, Workingmen’s Temperance Society, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, enclosing photographs of stone in a field upon which Fr. Mathew reputedly gave the pledge to 20,000-50,000 people. He also refers to a collection of temperance medals which he has in his possession and encloses some notes on the activities of the local temperance society in 1842. 19 Oct. 1915-23 June 1916. Manuscript, 5 pp, 3 photographic postcard prints.
• Letter to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Kate O’Sullivan, a grand-niece of Fr. Mathew, enclosing a photographic print (carte de visite) of her grand-uncle, Charles Mathew. [c.1915]. Manuscript, 4 pp, photographic print.
• Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from [Miss M.A. Parry], 29 Gunter Grove, Chelsea, London, recalling her visit to see Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in London in 1854/5. 24 Oct. 1915-30 Jan. 1916. Manuscript, 20 pp.