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Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars with Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap. probably taken during his visitation in Africa in 1963. The photograph is annotated on the reverse giving the names of those present:
‘front row, left to right, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Alexander Halligan OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (Regular Superior), Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. Back, from left to right: Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Murphy OFM Cap.; Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap., Fr. Eltin Daly OFM Cap., Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap.’.

File of photographic prints relating to visits by Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005) to Zambia. Most of the prints are not captioned but include prints of the grave of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at Lukulu Mission taken in January 1985. Other prints show Fr. Albert greeting Zambian clerics and religious sisters and attending meetings.

A local football team at Sichili in Northern Rhodesia. The football in the print is inscribed with the date ‘1960’. Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. are with the group.

Clippings from the mission pages of 'The Father Mathew Record' pasted into an accounts’ journal. The articles publicise the work of the Irish Capuchin missionaries in South Africa and in Northern Rhodesia. Some of the early articles also refer to missionary work undertaken by foreign Capuchin friars in India and in other parts of Asia. The clippings include articles referring to the work of Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea, Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. The articles are illustrated with numerous photographs.

Directory of the Diocese of Livingstone (the Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Bishop) noting the number of parishes, priests, missionaries and communicants.

Letters to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, re the appointment of a Vicar Apostolic of Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia. The correspondents include Fr. Agatangelo de Langasco OFM Cap., Commissionary General, and Fr. Cuthbert of Chicago OFM Cap., Vice-Secretary General of the Capuchin Missions. The file includes questionnaires, biographies and other documentation (in Latin) re the three candidates: Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Regular Superior, and Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap. Definitor.

Copy letters of Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mainly to authors regarding articles they intend to publish in 'The Capuchin Annual' in 1975. Other letters refer to orders and requests for the 'Annual', expressions of gratitude for complimentary copies, and reviews of the text. The file also includes several original letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The file includes letters from Erskine Childers, President of Ireland, Jack Lynch, T. Ryle Dwyer, Rev. J.R. Windsor-Garnett, Bryan MacMahon, Alan Denson, Michael O’Beirne, Maura Scannell, Fr. Diarmuid Ó Laoghaire SJ, Michael W. Murphy, Mannix Joyce, Padraic Fiacc, Charles J. Haughey, Elizabeth May, Fr. Bartholomew Egan OFM, William Grattan Flood, James Lyons, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Sr. Bernard Boran, Conleth Ellis, Professor Valentine Rice, Oliver Snoddy, Sean Cronin, Arthur Mitchell, E.M. Lysaght, Richard Deutsch, Donal Brennan, Magrit Wagner, Patrick W. Smyth, Fr. Theodore Crowley OFM, Gertrud Lendorff, Fr Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Laura Cahill, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Gráinne O’Flynn, Fr. Vincent Ryan OSB, and Dermot Keogh.

Copy letter from Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap. to the Assistant Manager, Barclay’s Bank, Goodenough House, London, re overdraft facilities (up to £11,900) to be granted to the Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Bishop of Livingstone, for the administration of Capuchin missions in his diocese