Letter to Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC from Walter Glynn Doolin, architect and civil engineer, 20 Ely Place, Dublin, regarding the design of the proposed Father Mathew Temperance Hall, Church Street. Doolin referred to Fr. Maher’s ‘instructions to provide a Hall capable of seating 1,000 persons exclusive of a permanent stage’ and submits detailed plans for the dimensions and layout of the Hall. Doolin affirmed that ‘there are upwards of 150,000 cubic feet in the building and I do not see how this amount of work can be done for much under £2,000’.
Letter to Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from Fr. Patrick Sexton, Parish Priest, St. Patrick’s, Cork, conveying his concern that the authorities at Father Mathew Hall ‘held this huge gamble’ for money during the Lent season. Fr. Sexton encloses a newspaper cutting referring to the fund drive for the Hall. With cover.
Letter to Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., guardian, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, Cork, enclosing a memorandum from the Labour Exchange regarding the claims of Christopher Cotter for unemployment insurance following his period of work as a domestic at Holy Trinity Church.
Letter from Rev. John Doody, President, St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny, to Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC (d. 25 Mar. 1918) regarding the employment of a Mr. McNamara to give lessons to a Capuchin novice.
Letter to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, enclosing a synopsis of title deeds for properties in the possession of the Capuchin friars.
A letter to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to Leon Ó Brion’s request for copies of photographs of the Pearse family for a publication in Belgium. The letter notes that Senator Margaret Mary Pearse claimed that Moynihan had ‘the best collection there was’.
Letter to Frank Fahy (Proinsias Ó Fathaigh), Ceann Comhairle, Dáil Éireann, from an individual at ‘c/o Mr. Patrick Burtage, Main Street’ and Kilmalogue, Portarlington, County Laois.
Letter from Alex C. Wiseheart, marble merchant, 139 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, to James Pearse & Edward Sharpe, sculptors, Great Brunswick Street, Dublin, forwarding a list of stone materials for sculpting work.