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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.

Notice of decree to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, President, Catholic Boys’ Brigade, Church Street. The notice refers to enquires to be held by the High Court, Chancery Division, into the disposal of the estate of John Green, late of 20 St. Alphonsus Road, Dublin, merchant.

Photostat copy of a report by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, on the Livingstone (Northern Rhodesia) and Cape Town (South Africa) missions ‘as was revealed to me in the course of the Canonical Visitation’. The report was published in 'Analecta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum', 73, no. 12 (Dec. 1957), pp 274-84.

Letters of Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. (1911-1968) referring to his early experiences as a missionary in Northern Rhodesia and later to developments in South Africa (particularly in the Capuchin Vicariate established in Cape Town in 1949). Correspondents include Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary.

Letter from Bishop Francis Costantin Mazzieri OFM Conv., Ndola, Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Northern Rhodesia, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking an assistant for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., education secretary for the Vicariates of Northern Rhodesia.

'Kuomboka / a living traditional culture among the Malozi people of Zambia by Likando Kalaluka' (Ndola: National Educational Company of Zambia, 1979).

A collection of mostly un-captioned photographs of mission churches, schools, hospitals, and other buildings in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). The file includes prints collected for publication in 'The Father Mathew Record' and 'The Capuchin Annual'.
The captioned photographs include images of:
• New church at Mankoya mission station.
• Blessing of the church at the leper compound in Mangango.
• St. Mary’s Girl Boarding School, Maramba (run by the Franciscan Sisters for Africa).
• Front view of the administrative block of the college attached to St. Francis Mission, Malengwa, Mongu. Aug. 1967.
• Holy Cross Convent, Sichili.
• A temporary oratory in the bush.
• A scene near the Sancta Maria mission station.
• First Church at St. Francis Mission, Malengwa, Mongu, built in 1948.
• Primary school at St. Michael’s, Kalabo (built by Br. Joseph Murphy OFM Cap., 1929-2009).
• The old friary building at Maramba.
• Exterior of St. Theresa’s Cathedral, Livingstone.
• A barge landing on a steep bank with steps leading to the land.
• Interior and exterior of St. Lawrence’s Church, Limulunga, Apr. 1970.
• Exterior of Malengwa Church, Mar. 1968.
• Opening day of the Holy Family Church probably at Katima Mulilo.
• Interior and exterior of Lourdes Church, Mongu.
• New church at Shimano, Mangango Mission.
• Mangango Leprosarium Church.
• Church at Kalabo (built by Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap., 1901-1998).
• Church at Mangango.
• Parish Church of St. Joseph, Mangango.
• Church at Sihole.
• Exterior view of the Church of Christ the King, Maramba, Livingstone.
• Maria Assumpta Primary School, Livingstone / ‘One of our first schools’.