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Photostat copies from an unidentified publication referring to the history of Dunfanaghy and its hinterland with reference to the Stewart family of Ards.

Statement read at all Masses at Ard Mhuire Friary Church re the future of the Capuchins in Donegal. The statement reads:
'Our higher superiors now face the possibility of having to minimize or withdraw us from our retreat house ministry. They are also pursuing the possibility of inviting the involvement of other religious in this ministry. However, the bottom line is that we have no plans nor intention of leaving Ards'.
The file includes a circular letter from Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Retreat Director, re changes in the management of the Ard Mhuire Retreat Centre which will see a greater input from the clergy of the diocese of Raphoe. With a copy clipping of an article titled ‘Donegal friary to end spiritual retreats’. 'Irish Times', 17 Mar. 2006.

• Photocopy of an article by Colm Kerrigan, ‘Temperance and the Irish in West Ham’, 'Essex Journal', Spring 1982, pp 20-3.
• Photocopy of an article by Colm Kerrigan, ‘Father Mathew and teetotalism in London, 1843’, 'London Journal', 11, No. 2 (1985), pp 107-114. With a copy of the article transcribed by Fr. Nessan. Typescript, 13 pp.
• Cutting of an article by James A. Whelan titled ‘When Fr. Mathew toured America’, 'Evening Echo', 2 Jan. 1980.

Draft short story by Michael O’Beirne titled ‘The School Inspector’. The story was published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975).

Copy letters of Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mainly to authors regarding articles they intend to publish in 'The Capuchin Annual' in 1975. Other letters refer to orders and requests for the 'Annual', expressions of gratitude for complimentary copies, and reviews of the text. The file also includes several original letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The file includes letters from Erskine Childers, President of Ireland, Jack Lynch, T. Ryle Dwyer, Rev. J.R. Windsor-Garnett, Bryan MacMahon, Alan Denson, Michael O’Beirne, Maura Scannell, Fr. Diarmuid Ó Laoghaire SJ, Michael W. Murphy, Mannix Joyce, Padraic Fiacc, Charles J. Haughey, Elizabeth May, Fr. Bartholomew Egan OFM, William Grattan Flood, James Lyons, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Sr. Bernard Boran, Conleth Ellis, Professor Valentine Rice, Oliver Snoddy, Sean Cronin, Arthur Mitchell, E.M. Lysaght, Richard Deutsch, Donal Brennan, Magrit Wagner, Patrick W. Smyth, Fr. Theodore Crowley OFM, Gertrud Lendorff, Fr Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Laura Cahill, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Gráinne O’Flynn, Fr. Vincent Ryan OSB, and Dermot Keogh.

Photocopy of ‘Forgotten passages in the life of Florence Nightingale’, 'Dublin Review', no. 323 (1917), pp 179-98.

Letter from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Church Street, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a copy of the mission list and querying an item in the accounts furnished from Capuchin General Curia in Rome.

Lists of retreats and missions given by the Capuchin friars. The lists provide information in respect of the names of the friars giving the mission or retreat, the location (with occasional reference to the parish priest), and the date. Several lists are extant in the file. The file includes general mission lists from 1930-3.