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Copy administration of the goods and estate of James Butler, late of Beresford Place, to Frances McDonnell, widow and the natural and lawful sister of the said James Butler. Copy made by John Thunder, solicitor, Rutland Square on 5 July 1862.

Date: 1826
Author: Sigmund von Storchenau (1731-1798)
Publisher: Neapoli, apud Lucam Marotta, Via S. Blasii, No. 119
Full title: 'Sigismundi Storchenau in academia vindobonensi … Institutiones logicae'

• Notes by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re letters written by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to the Rev. Dr. Paul Cullen and the Rev. Dr. Tobias Kirby, Pontifical Irish College, Rome, from 1840-7. See the Correspondence of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (Irish Capuchin Archives, CA FM-COR). Manuscript, 2 pp.
• A physical description of Fr. Mathew by the Very Rev. M.B. O’Shea, Archdeacon and Pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, Cork, in 1826 taken from John Francis Maguire’s biography of the Apostle of Temperance. Typescript, 1p.
• Copy cutting of an article from the 'Cork Examiner', 11 Oct. 1850, relating to the opening of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church, Charlotte Quay, Cork. Copy cutting, 3 pp.
• Extracts from Asenath Nicholson, 'Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger: Or An Excursion Through Ireland, in 1844 & 1845, for the Purpose of Personally Investigating the Condition of the Poor' (1847). The extracts were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. and refer to Fr. Mathew’s role in famine relief. Manuscript and typescript, 5 pp.
• Extracts from Rev. Wallace Clare, 'A Young Irishman’s Diary, 1836-1847, Being Extracts from the Early Journal of John Keegan of Moate. Edited with Preface and Notes' (1928). Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. notes that Rev. Wallace Clare was a grandson of the diarist (John Keegan). The extracts refer to the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Mathew. Typescript, 4 pp.
• Extracts from D. Owen-Madden, 'Revelations of Ireland in the Past Generation' (Dublin: James McGlashan, 21 D’Olier Street, 1848). The extracts were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. and refer to Fr. Mathew. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Extract from John J. O’Shea, 'The Two Kendrick’s' (Philadelphia, 1904). The extract (p. 255) refers to the arrival of Fr. Mathew in Philadelphia on 28 Nov. 1849. Typescript, 1 p.
• Photocopy of an extract titled ‘Apostle of Temperance / The Story of a Crusade’ from 'The Valley Near Slievenamon: A Kickham Anthology: the Poems, Memoirs, Diary, Letters, Essays, Addresses of Charles J. Kickham' (1942), pp 130-3. Copy print, 1 p.
• Copy letter of Fr. Theobald Mathew to J. McHugh re the ‘Washington Branch of the great Temperance Tree that now overshadows nearly the whole earth …’. 28 Mar. 1845. With an annotation by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. indicating that the letter was given to him by Fr. Vivan O’Connell OFM Cap. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Copy extract from a newspaper referring the generosity of Fr. Mathew during the famine. The extract reads ‘The money which was intended to finish the church [Holy Trinity, Cork] was doled out by him to the famine stricken’. An annotation reads ‘No name of paper, nor date given. Letter to the Editor, headed “The Father Mathew Memorial Church” in a News Gleanings book in the Archives’. [c.1889]. Typescript, 1 p.

Assignment by Fr. Bonaventure Delaney OSFC to Fr. Daniel Murray, Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC and Richard Spring of moieties of the aforementioned plot of ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built, for the remainder of the 99 years specified in the above-noted lease of 4 Aug. 1826. (See CA CS/2/2/1/2). In consideration of 5s.

Lease of Anne Boyd, city of London, to Richard Lynch, North King Street, of a ‘house, yard and shed late in the possession of John Byrne or his undertenants and formerly in the possession of Andrew Langan … and known formerly by No. 45 but now known as No. 46, North King Street, city of Dublin …’, for 99 years at the yearly rent of £16. With counterpart.

The sub-series contains a collection of original Total Abstinence Society pledge cards. Most of the cards are signed by the pledge-taker and by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The cards were decorated with various temperance symbols and vignettes. An illustration on one side of the cards depicted a scene warning of the dangers of intemperance – a man driven by alcohol to beat his wife. Another illustration showed a scene of temperance – a happy family reading together by the hearth. The cards are listed in chronological order.

Framed National Total Abstinence Society pledge card of Mathew Gorman dated 3 Oct. 1830. The pledge reads ‘I voluntarily agree to abstain from all intoxicating drinks (except by medical direction) and will not give or offer, and to discountenance the cause and practice of intemperance’. A small seal is attached to the card.