Facsimile prints and drawings compiled for an article by Arthur H. Mitchell titled ‘Some of the Irish with Washington’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977), pp 70-88.The documents were sourced from a facsimile pack published by the Academy Press on Irish connections with the American Revolutionary War. The file includes a copy drawing of a group portrait by Lawrence O’Toole illustrating Irish connections with George Washington and the American Declaration of Independence.
Draft articles by Patrick Cunningham, 24 Clare Street, Dublin, titled ‘Some inscriptions on stone’ and ‘Portmarnock’. The former article refers to gravestone inscriptions in Dublin. Cunningham notes that this article ‘is the result of research made by an unemployed worker’.
A clipping of an article by Stephen Gwynn titled ‘Some artists I have known’ referring to his reminiscences of various painters including Walter Osborne, Sarah Purser, Paul Henry, and Grace Henry. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Workers’ Weekly’ (April 1945). (Volume page 236).
Costs of Darley, Orpen & Synnott, solicitors, 30-31 Kildare Street, Dublin, to the Capuchin friars, Church Street, in securing a lease (18 Feb. 1927) from John Jameson & Son, Ltd. of certain premises on Bow Street. The costs amounted to £23 4s 9d. With cover letter.
Letter from John Gore to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. referring to a plan to purchase The Hermitage in Rathfarnham, Dublin, for the National University of Ireland. He encloses a copy letter from James H. North affirming that William Woodbyrne will accept £6,000 as a purchase price for the house.
Costs of Thomas J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, solicitor, to Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC and Fr. Bartholomew Brophy OSFC for services rendered in respect of the purchase of premises on Bow Street and Brown Street. Totals: £21 0s 3d; £26 1s 0d.
Costs of Thomas J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, solicitor, to Fr. Peter (Edward) Bowe OSFC and others for preparing a deed of conveyance to vest Church property in nine members of the community as joint tenants and for a power of attorney from Fr. Anthony (John) Travers OSFC (resident in Tasmania) to Fr. Aloysius (William) Travers OSFC. Total cost: £33 5s 4d. 2 copies. With letters from Thomas J. Furlong to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC and Fr. Paul Neary OSFC referring to a deed executed by Miss Maher on 19 Aug. 1897 conveying the property bequeathed to her following the death of her brother (Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC, died 10 Sept. 1894) to the Capuchin community on Church Street.
Costs of Little, Ó hUadhaigh & Proud, solicitors, 12 Dawson Street, Dublin, to the trustees of Father Mathew Hall, for legal costs incurred in obtaining a valuation of the Hall property and in applying for a renewal of the dance hall licence for the St. Brigid’s Hall extension. Totals costs: £9 15s 6d.
