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An address to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC and Fr. Benignus Brennan OSFC from the members of the Kilcormac Temperance Hall in King’s County (Offaly). The address commends the friars’ temperance mission in the parish.

Newspaper clippings assembled by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC relating primarily to temperance missions given by the Irish Capuchin friars. A manuscript index compiled by Fr. Angelus is inserted into the front of the volume giving the title of the newspaper, the event referred to in the article, and the date. Other clippings refer to anniversary commemorations of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, lectures, sermons and retreats given by Fr. Angelus and other friars (some refer to the death of Michael Davitt and commemorations of the Manchester Martyrs), ordinations, the Croagh Patrick pilgrimage, the mission to Ireland of the Most Rev. Ignatius Perisco OSFC (1823-1896), the jubilee of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, and items of topographical and local history interest.

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.

This series contains unpublished research notes compiled mainly by Capuchin friars, particularly Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953), relating to the history of the Capuchin Order in Kilkenny or to noteworthy local members of the Order.

Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from James Coleman FRSAI, 2 Rosehill Terrace, Queenstown, County Cork, concerning information on the predecessor to the Old Capuchin chapel on Blackamoor Lane, Cork. Coleman also expresses his satisfaction to find ‘a member of the Capuchin Order really interested in its history … [as] a large number of the Order now in Cork and Rochestown show nothing in the way of literary production any more than the secular priests who to my mind were never more illiterate than they are now’. With manuscript and typescript copies of the Coleman’s letters compiled by Fr. Angelus and a newspaper clipping of Coleman’s letter to the 'Cork Examiner' (19 Apr. 1924), referring to the chapel on Blackamoor Lane which was in use from 1771-1850.

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.