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Copy letter from T.J. Kiernan (1897-1967), Irish Minister to the Holy See, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Kiernan refers to the deprivations and the scarcity of food stuffs in Rome. He adds 'Altogether for seventeen months there has been no real leadership. We lock ourselves in at 7pm because there is so much highway robbery under arms. The city administration collapsed'.

A letter from Val Mulkerns (1925-2018) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter thanks the Capuchin friar for payment for a poem and refers to her reasons for moving to England and to her work on her novel.

A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. She refers to a letter of introduction she wrote for a 'Rumanian' who is seeking work in Ireland teaching French.

A letter from ‘Rutherford Mayne’ (Samuel John Waddell, 1878-1967) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

A letter from Seamus Murphy, 6 Wellesley Terrace, Wellington Road, Cork, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The sculptor refers to photographs of his work published in the 'Liturgical Arts Journal'.

A letter from Domhnall Ua Buachalla (1866-1963), Donnybrook, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

A letter from Germaine Stockley to Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. offering a subscription for the F.J. McCormick (1890-1947) fund organised by the Capuchin friars.

A postcard from Sister Mary Stella Phelan (1925-2001), Medical Missionaries of Mary, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The postcard shows the Cunard White Star liner ‘Mauretania’ which took Sister Mary Stella and Mother Mary Martin to the United States.

Letter from Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., thanking them for their generous gift (seemingly a pen). Yeats writes 'I hope it will take the bit in its teeth and write handsome and beautiful thoughts for me – what a wonderful thing would be a pen which could only write the truth'.

A letter from James Mason (1909-1984), the English-born Hollywood actor, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter refers to Mason’s tribute to the late Abbey Theatre actor F.J. McCormick (d. 24 April 1947), which appeared in the 1948 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Mason got acquainted with McCormick when they both appeared in the 1947 film ‘Odd Man Out’ in which the former played a mortally wounded republican bank robber on the run in Belfast. Mason requests that his fee for his McCormick tribute be donated to an ‘animal charity’ in Dublin.