Extracts from a series of letters of Morrissey to Fiat in 1891 & 1892. The originals in the CM Curia, Rome. Also extracts of other documents regarding All Hallows, such as minutes 1891-1895.
Morrissey CM, Thomas, 1834-1915, Provincial of Irish Vincentian Province
Letters to Patrick Pearse from M. Lally, Irish Industrial Development Company, 514 Parkway Building, Philadelphia, re arrangements for a meeting in Wilmington in aid of St. Enda’s School.
letter to Patrick Pearse from Martin Jerome Keogh, Supreme Court of the State of New York, New Rochelle, New York, re donations to Pearse’s St. Enda’s School fund. The file includes a letter from John Sheehan, 253 Broadway, New York City, to Keogh enclosing $25 for the fund.
Letters to Patrick Pearse from John Merritt, Naval Office, Custom House, New York. The letters refer to Pearse’s efforts to raise funds for St. Enda’s School and to Merrit’s thoughts on the nature of the education system in Ireland. The letter of 20 April 1914 refers to Pearse’s attendance at a meeting in Celtic Park in New York. It reads ‘The unprovoked, senseless, brutal, and cowardly physical assault to which you were subjected at Celtic Park yesterday, within a radius of twenty five feet of me, and in which, I believe, two of your teeth were knocked out, has filled me with disgust at the strange, incomprehensible and fiendish actions of some of my misguided countrymen’. One of the letters is incomplete (the upper portion has been torn away).
This section contains a small of collection of letters to Patrick Pearse. Many of the letters relate to Pearse’s fundraising trip to the United States from March to June 1914. The purpose of the visit was to raise funds for St. Enda’s School in Dublin and many of the letters are from potential donors and Irish Americans sympathetic to Pearse’s cultural nationalism and his efforts to promote the revival of the Irish language. Other letters relate to the routine management of St. Enda’s and to Pearse’s involvement with the Irish Volunteers.
Letters to James Pearse from W.J. Ramsey, Manager, the Progressive Publishing Company, 28 Stonecutter Street, London. The letter of 25 November 1884 encloses a clipping of an advertisement for ‘Socialism a curse / a reply to a Lecture delivered by Edward B. Aveling’ and ‘Is God the First Cause?’ (1883) by ‘Humanitas’ (James Pearse).
Letters to James Pearse, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin, from the Treasurer’s Department, City of Birmingham Council, re the repayment of a loan of £100. The file includes a statement of loan repayment and a receipt for the same.
Letters to James Pearse from a Mr. Humphreys, ‘The National Reformer’, 20 Circus Road, St. John’s Wood, London. The letters to a manuscript sent by Pearse for possible publication. Humphreys affirms that Charles Bradlaugh ‘has been so much occupied with the litigation that he has not yet had time to examine’ the manuscript (29 December 1889).