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Letter from Bertie Ahern, TD, Minister for Finance, to Br. Kevin Crowley OFM Cap., enclosing a response from the Arts Council regarding a request for financial assistance with the costs of running the Feis Maitiú. With manuscript notes regarding the aforementioned request.

Parts of draft letters regarding Burrowes property. Writer and recipient are not named, and the drafts are undated. Thanks is made for a letter of the twenty fourth instant, and reference is made elsewhere to 20 March 1855.
Reference is made to a John O'Hagan who is deceased, and the writer also says 'The solicitor who acted for our fathers in purchasing of this the Burrowes property here is also dead'. The writer also says 'This property was acquired by Reverend John Burns about 1770' and that after his death it was held in trust for his five daughters.
Some pages of the draft letters are missing.

Letter to Fr Edmund Comerford CM from the auctioneer and valuer, regarding the granting of new leases.

Letter to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., guardian, from John D. Fitzgerald, solicitor, 35 Parliament Street, Kilkenny, regarding legal proceedings for the removal of an iron shed on premises (Drea’s Yard) leased by the Capuchins on Pennyfeather Lane.

Letter to Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a copy of the proposed renovation work on the sacristy of Holy Trinity Church. The work is to be completed by J. Cahill, engineer, at a cost of £7,489.

Letter from Belton & Co., Tullow Street, Carlow, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC regarding an estimate for the installation of acetylene gas lighting in the library of the Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, Kilkenny.

Letter to Fr. Dermot Reilly OFM Cap., guardian, from Edward J. Twomey, Cork Corporation Accountant, affirming that there will be no change in the valuation of 8-10 Father Mathew Quay.

Letters to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minster, requesting parish missions and retreats. The letters are mostly from local clerics. Some of the letters provide information on religious practices and temperance activities in the locality. The file includes letters requesting missions in Louisburgh (Mayo), Clare Island (Mayo), Westport (Mayo), Carrick-on-Suir (Tipperary), Newport (Mayo), Clonmel (Tipperary), Waterford and Cahir (Tipperary). The file also includes some copy replies from Fr. Paul.

Letter from John W. Moran, photographer, 14 Lower Gloucester Street, Dublin, to C. Hepworth, Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, asking for the ‘balance due for photo groups on or before the 5th Feb. as I am much pressed for cash at the present time’.