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Draft short story by Tadhg Gavin, 42 Howth Road, Clontarf, Dublin 3, titled ‘God Disposes’. With a cover letter from Gavin to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (12 Mar. 1976).

Copy letters of Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mainly to contributing authors in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Some of the correspondence also relates to requests for advertising and subscriptions and permissions to reproduce articles and photographs. Some of the correspondents relate their disappointment on hearing that the 1977 edition of the 'Annual' will be the final publication. The file also includes several original letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The correspondents include Donal Brennan, Edward G. Allen, Sister M. Bernard Boran, Professor Richard Ellman, Christopher J. Finn, Matthew Culligan, John McColgan, Walter McGrath (Cork Examiner), Conleth Ellis, Moira Lysaght, Arthur Mitchell, Kevin Faller, Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. R. Burke Savage SJ, Clongowes College, Patrick Callan, Seán Cronin, John P. Cosgrave, Padraic Fiacc, Monsignor Tomás Ó Fiaich, T. O’Keefe ('Irish News'), Tadgh O’Sullivan (Irish Embassy, Vienna), Bernadette Quinn, Burke Wilkinson, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Dr. Margaret Sheridan, Maura Scannell, Mary Stack, Charles J. Haughey, Jack Lynch, Tadhg Gavin, and Geoffrey Coulter.
• A copy letter to Bernadette Quinn notes that Fr. Henry ‘kept periodicals and papers for a long time until we came down from the Father Mathew Hall to this office and it was then they were all destroyed’ (28 Apr. 1976).
• A copy letter to Fr. R. Burke Savage SJ refers to the involvement of the Capuchins in the labour movement from 1891-1931 and to the role of Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. in the temperance movement. Reference is also made to the contemporary work of Br. Kevin Crowley OFM Cap. in social outreach. Fr. Henry wrote ‘… beginning in Church Street the Capuchins set up a Clothing Guild for the poor and a Co-operative Work Guild. These have since spread to Cork and Kilkenny. More recently still Brother Kevin [Crowley] has set up a Day Centre in which a number of men who spend the night in the Morning Star and others can spend the day especially in Winter and can have served to them free at least two simple meals’. Fr. Henry also suggests that ‘since Vatican II sodalities seem to have lost their impact’ (9 July 1976).
• A copy letter to Professor Ellmann affirms that Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. ‘has had nothing to do with this place [the Capuchin Periodicals Office] for over twenty years’ (21 July 1976).
• A letter from Fr. Edward, a Passionist priest, St. Joseph’s Retreat, Cloonamahon, Collooney, County Sligo, refers to the decision to cease publication of The Capuchin Annual. He wrote ‘we of the Passionists in County Sligo voice our surprise and disappointment to learn of the conclusion of the “Capuchin Annual” with the 1977 issue and for the future of those how have a genuine love for all that’s nationalist, cultural and the spiritual well-being of the Irish people and we pledge our wholehearted support to any effort to be made for its survival’. (22 Nov. 1976).
• A copy letter to Dr. Margaret Sheridan suggests that Fr. Henry believed ceasing publication was ‘a mistake’ but it had not caused him ‘any personal grief’ (22 Dec. 1976).

A very large collection of metal stereotypes and photoengraving plates (most of which are mounted on wooden blocks) used for printing purposes for 'The Capuchin Annual'. Photoengraving was a process used in preparing illustrations for printing by transferring images to metal plates by a combination of photography and acid etching. Photoengraving was widely used in making plates for various printing processes, reproducing a wide variety of graphics such as lettering, line drawings and photographs. A stereotype consisted of engravings from a drawing or from an illustration. If required, duplicate stereotypes could be set beside text composed on a linotype machine and headings in hand-set type. Photoengraving plates and stereotype blocks were frequently mass-produced for advertisements and were sent to various printers, newspapers and publishers. These photoengraving plates and stereotype blocks were transferred (many still extant in filing cabinets) to archival storage following the closure of the Capuchin Publications Office in 1977. Many of the plates and blocks are numbered but only a few have identifying captions or annotations.

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 1938-41.

Copy mortgage relating to properties on Bristol Street in Birmingham held by James Pearse, 27 Brunswick Street, Dublin, sculptor.

• Copy flier for Portraits of Father Mathew painted by Dr. Lees. It is noted that the ‘drawing will take place on the 1st of September 1845, at Lister’s Temperance Hotel, West End, Leeds’. Copy print, 1 p.
• Copy invitation to a festival organised by the Shamrock Temperance Hall, Blarney Lane, Cork. It is noted that Fr. Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance, will attend. Copy print, 1 p.
• Photostat copy of entries in the House Account Book of the Presentation Brothers’ South Monastery, Douglas Street, Cork. The entries refer to payments made to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC from 1843-4. Copy print, 2 pp.
• Extracts from Samuel Carter Hall, 'Retrospect of a Long Life / From 1815 to 1883' (London: R. Bentley, 1883), referring to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Printed, pp 497-512.
• Photocopy from 'County and City of Cork Post Office General Directory' (1844-5). The entry refers to the Capuchin friars in Blackamoor Lane, Cork. They are: Very Rev. Theobald Mathew (Provincial Minister), Cove Street; Rev. Denis McLeod, Rev. G. Brennan, Rev. James Reardon, and Rev. J. O’Connell (Guardians). Copy print, 1 p.
• Photocopy of a letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Fr. William Keane, Parish Priest, Midelton, County Cork, referring to the history of St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Cork city. The letter reads ‘The insults offered to Catholic priests who were grossly outraged in Protestant Church Yards, the large fees demanded from the very poorest for the internment of their Relatives, induced me to open my present large and beautiful burial grounds. … The Cemetery was blessed by the late Archbishop, the Most Rev. Dr. Laffan, assisted by the late Vicar General, Archdeacon Keeffe at the period of the Month’s Mind of the late admirable Bishop Coppinger …’. The letter is dated 22 May 1847. A compliments’ slip indicates that the original was held by Fr. Bertie Troy (1930-2007), Parish Priest of Holy Rosary Church, Midleton, County Cork. Copy manuscript, 5 pp.
• A timeline relating to Fr. Mathew’s ministry as Provincial Superior of the Irish Capuchins from 1822-1852. Typescript, 1 p.
• Photocopies of letters from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Mother De Pazzi Leahy, Superior, South Presentation Convent, Douglas Street, Cork, to a Mrs Bernard and to a Mrs Cronin. A covering note on the copies by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. states that two of the letters were written by Fr. Mathew whilst he was in New Orleans, Louisiana, and that the originals are held in the Archives of the South Presentation Convent in Cork. The letters date from 24 July 1846-18 Mar. 1851. Copy manuscript, 8 pp.
• Copy extract from a letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to the editor of the 'Cork Constitution' dated 27 Apr. 1843. The letter reads: ‘I do not arrogate to myself the merit of having originated the Temperance Society, on the contrary I have ever given my predecessors in this Sacred Cause the highest degree of approbation …’. Typescript, 4 pp.
• Copy photographic print of a letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Richard Foley dated 31 May 1854. The prints measure 7 cm x 4.2 cm. Prints, 3 pp.
• Photocopies of documents from the State Paper Collection relating to female emigration to Australia. The documents are notices issued by a committee (among whose 16 members was Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC) offering free passage on a ship to New South Wales, Australia, in May 1836. Copy print, 4 pp.
• Photocopy of a letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew dated 23 July 1845. Fr. Nessan Shaw notes that the original is the possession or Rev. Con O’Donovan CC, Convent Hill, Mitchelstown, County Cork. The letter refers to an ‘inspired sermon’ which was sent to Fr. Mathew and which he intends to circulate to teetotallers. Copy manuscript, 2 pp.
• Extracts by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. taken from 'The Nation' newspaper relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 6 Mar. 1847-4 Sept. 1847. Manuscript, 8 pp.

Abstract of title of Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson and Rev. Willoughby Richard Knox Robinson to premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny. The abstract commences with a recital of a fee farm grant of 9 Sept. 1705 from James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde to Mary Pape of ‘a stone house slatted with a thatcht house and garden in hightown quarter also a wast piece of ground in Walkinstreete twenty one foote in front and forty two foot backwards …’ in consideration of £24 13s 4d at the yearly rent of £6 3s 4d with four turkeys and eight capons or £1 6s in lieu thereof. (See CA KK/2/1/1/3/16). The abstract concludes with reference to the granting of the administration (19 Aug. 1912) of the personal estate of Rev. Richard Samuel Owen Robinson to his widow Henrietta Robinson.