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Correspondence, Mostly with John J Connolly, P.C., Rent Collection Agent, Blackrock, regarding collections for CM properties. The Provincial from 1932 until 1942 was Father Henry O’Connor CM.

Bound volumes with visitation ordinances, minutes of house meetings, student societies. student offices and book lists.

Notes regarding clarification of points of seminaire discipline; some also apply to students. One is dated 1871; the other two (on the reverse) are undated.

Five copies of prospectus for seminarists coming to St Joseph’s. Undated, but after the opening of Glenart, Wicklow, in 1949. Includes clothing and books that need to be brought. Some copies have handwritten or typewritten suggested changes.

Memoir by a Vincentian, Father Tom Davitt CM, on his time as a seminarian at Saint Joseph's, Blackrock, from 1946 to 1947.
The memoir was published as an article in Colloque 50, Winter 2004, pp. 107-134, and is available on this page: http://www.diskon.ie/colloque.html

An account by Father Stanislaus Brindley CM, of UCD Studies for Blackrock seminarians in the 1940s. Also published online in Colloque 50, Winter 2004, pp. 135-140, available online at the same link as above.

Also an account by Father Davitt, who as part of his studies in Saint Joseph's, went to visit the Maison-Mere (Vincentian Mother House) in Paris in 1949.

(a) the rules of various minor offices in the seminaire, (b) letters sent to and received from seminarists in other provinces of the cm, and (c) a few prayer leaflets, plus miscellaneous documents.

[Explanatory note: soin=care in French. So ‘the soin of…’ means the confrere (student) ‘in charge of...’.]