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Draft article by Tadhg Gavin titled ‘The Soldier Poet’. The article refers to the life of Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918). An article by Tadhg Gavin on Kilmer appeared in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977).

The sub-series comprises poetry anthologies submitted for potential publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'.

Draft untitled poem by Thomasina Mackey. The first line reads ‘A decade since we / I was afraid to find / friendship devoured by time …’.

Draft poems by T.W. Brennan, 228 Union Road, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia, titled ‘The Hastings’, ‘Matri Carissimae Ridenti’, and ‘Vision of Liberty’.

Poem by Henri Percikow, 509 West 155th Street, New York, titled ‘My Hands’. The attached cover suggests that this poem was ‘not used’.

Poems submitted by A.M. Sullivan, 99 Church Street, New York, for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The poems are titled ‘The Squall (Achill Island)’, ‘Storm at Dingle’, ‘The Return’, and ‘By the Cliffs of Moher’. The file also includes ‘Ballad of Tim Murphy-Morgan Rifleman’. With a covering letter from Sullivan to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. explaining that the ‘Tim Murphy saga is a story of a hero of the American Revolution, who was born in America but whose folks came from Carlow’. (25 Sept. 1957).

Poetry by James Lyon and Kathleen M. Murphy published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1956-7), at pp 170; 208; 268-269. The poems are titled: ‘Maria Assumpta’, ‘Christmas in Connacht’ and ‘Evening Rhapsody’. The file also contains a typescript and galley proof of ‘Newman’s Grave’ by Kathleen M. Murphy and a copy of her poem titled ‘Sonnet for 1954 / Marian Year’.