Letter from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to arrangements for the serial publication of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”’ by Tadhg Ó Murchadha in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. Fr. Laurence added ‘Since I finished above, I have had a chat with a keen Irish student – Frank Ryan who is studying in Dublin for his degree in “Celtic Studies”. He is delighted you are commencing your work in Record for March. He also has promised to do something next month (February). He thinks a vocabulary would not be necessary – however just do as you think best’. Fr. Laurence also refers to Ryan’s contention that ‘all lovers of Irish will be looking forward to Seandún’s recollections’.
Letter from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the proofs of the Irish language manuscript ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”’ for the March edition of ‘The Father Mathew Record’. He also suggests that Frank Ryan will correct the proofs.
Letter from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. consenting to the publication of Fr. Augustine Hayden’s appreciation of Seandún (Tadhg Ó Murchadha) so long as ‘he keeps clear of politics’. Fr. Laurence also confirms that he has sent copies of ‘The Father Mathew Record’ to Douglas Hyde.
Letter from Fr. Laurence O’Dea OSFC to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC regarding a story told to him by the Most Rev. Thomas Francis Hendricken (1827-1886), Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, during a visit to Kilkenny in c.1873. The story concerns a false accusation made against a priest by a young woman in the early 1830s. Fr. O’Dea also referred to his temperance ministry in India where the 2nd Battalion of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment were quartered. With a typescript note by Fr. Angelus.
A letter from Fr. Louis A. Gales Catechetical Guild, St. Paul, Minnesota, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enquiring about securing American reproduction rights for Richard King’s Rosary series in ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
Letter from Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Bend, Oregon, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., describing the last hours of his nephew Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.. He wrote: ‘Poor Dominic died rather unexpectedly. He had being ailing for a good many months, complained of a headache and more recently of dizzy spells and loss of memory’. The letter is incomplete.
Letter from Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, to Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, regarding the conditions of a lease of property adjoining the Friary offered at an annual rent of £20.
Letter from Fr. Mel Farrell OFM Cap., guardian, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a schedule of religious exercises to be held in Holy Trinity Church to mark Marian Year.
A letter from Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Father Mathew Hall, Queen Street, Cork, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the content of the 1934 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
Letter from Fr. Mícheál Ó Flannagáin, The Gaelic League, 149 Broadway, New York, to Fr. Richard Henebry. Flannagáin refers to Hudson Maxim (1853-1927), an American military inventor and author.