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• 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.

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.

Lease from John Lecky, merchant, Cork, to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, ‘Provincial of the Order or Society of Capuchin friars, Cork’, of a plot of ground, stores, linnies, tenements and premises situated on Morrison’s Island (otherwise Island Nagay), parish of Holy Trinity, Cork, for 840 years at the yearly rent of £80. With attached sketch map of the said plot which measured 105 feet at the frontage onto Charlotte Quay; 190 feet fronting onto Queen Street; and bordered to the west (140 feet) and north (93 feet) by His Majesty’s Ordnance Stores. With counterpart.

• Letter from Patrick Forrestal to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. giving his father’s recollections of Fr. Mathew. He writes ‘My father was born in 1832 in the Parish of Ramsgrange, Wexford. … . He took the pledge from Father Mathew and kept it about 16 years. … It was very remarkable the multitude that gathered around him, the platform was enormous, something like ten thousand. He [Fr. Mathew] walked off the platform to where my father stood and told him you are very young may God bless you and placed his two hands around his head …’. [c.1902]. Manuscript, 6 pp.
• Copy article from the 'Cork Examiner' on Fr. Mathew’s birthplace. 27 Oct. 1931. Typescript, 1 p.
• Note by Fr. Francis Hayes OFM Cap. re two contemporary engravings of Fr. Mathew in the possession of Charlie McCarthy. Fr. Francis notes that they were engraved and designed by John Brown, Patrick Street, Cork, heraldic artist for Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, 1845. Typescript, 1 p.
• Note on the inscription on the Daniel O’Connell memorial window in Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church in Cork. It reads: ‘Sacred in gratitude and affection to the memory of Daniel O’Connell, liberator of his fellow Catholics from the inflictions of the Penal Code and assertion of equal rights of all communities to civil and religious freedom, RIP’. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Cuttings referring to the visit of Fr. Mathew to Kilkenny where he had ‘17,000 adherents to the total abstinence principles’ and a similar visit to Limerick. 'Morning Register', 23 Jan. 1840; 'Saunder’s News-Letter', 23 Mar. 1840. Pasted onto card, 2 pp.
• Copy excerpts from the 'Quarterly Review', December 1840-Mar. 1841, referring (negatively) to the relationship between the Fr. Mathew’s temperance movement and ‘Romanism in Ireland’. Typescript, 1 p.
• Notes by Fr. Paul Neary OSFC re Fr. Mathew taken from 'The Nation'. Manuscript, 10 pp.
• Letter from Deborah Webb to Fr. Silvester Mulligan OSFC enclosing her recollections of a meeting with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in Rathfarnham, Dublin. 25 Oct. 1913. Manuscript, 5 pp.
• Extracts relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in the Life of Catherine MacAuley. Typescript, 1 p.
• Extracts from 'Tuckey’s Cork Remembrances' (Cork, 1838), John D’Alton, 'History of the County of Dublin' (Dublin, 1838), 'The Irish Magazine', and 'Dublin University Magazine' re the Capuchins in Cork and Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. One of the extract reads ‘10 Oct. 1810: The corporation determined to improve this city, by pulling down the houses on the right of Blackamoor Lane, and continuing Sullivan’s Quay to the South Bridge’. Manuscript, 8 pp.
• Extract from An Irishman’s diary by Quidnunc in the 'Irish Times', 9 Aug. 1943, referring to visit to London by Fr. Mathew in Aug. 1843. ‘Led off by prayer and a speech, the temperance pioneer received pledges from 3,000 abstainers during one day, of which number about one-half were Irish’. Typescript, 1 p.

• Photostat copy a Memorial to Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, re ‘a loan, not to exceed £4,000, towards finishing a Catholic place of worship’ in Cork. The memorial is dated 19 Aug. 1834. The copy was obtained from the original in the Chief Secretaries’ Office. The reference number is CSORP/1834/3428. Copy print, 3 pp.
• Photostat copy a ‘Memorial of Revd. Theobald Mathew respecting payment of a loan made by the Commission of Public Works for a Chapel at Cork’. The document reads ‘That memorialist expended of his own private resources, in the erection of such building over £4,500, and obtained from benevolent individuals of all persuasions (including the loan of £1,000 hereinafter mentioned about £9,000, all of which was expended on the building which, is in a very advanced state, having been roofed in. The memorial seeks a loan of £4,000 to enable him to complete the building. The memorial is dated 21 Jan. 1840. The copy was obtained from the original in the Chief Secretaries’ Office papers now held in the National Archives of Ireland. The reference number is CSORP/1840/W1044. Copy print, 10 pp.
• Copy documents relating to the ‘Father Mathew Annuity Fund’. The documents refer to the work of a committee established to secure a sum of £7,000 ‘to procure a Life-Annuity of £800 for the Rev. Theobald Mathew, in order to enable him to continue, during his mortal life the great Temperance Movement …’. The file includes lists of subscribers to the fund. 1843-8. Copy print, 12 pp.

Lease from Mary Murray, Moville, County Donegal, spinster, to Patrick Joseph Nolan, Mary’s Lane, Dublin, woollen draper, of a ‘dwelling house, messuage or tenement situate and lying in Upper Church Street, City of Dublin, known by the name of the Swan Inn … formerly in the possession of Felix Leonard, late of the City of Dublin, Cooper …’ at the yearly rent of £12 for 99 years. With a manuscript copy compiled by Thomas F. Bergin, solicitor, 49 Henry Street.

• Notebook with extracts by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. from John Francis Maguire’s 'Father Mathew / A Biography'. The notebook also contains a transcript of letter from Fr. Mathew to Mary Shackleton dated at Cork, 4 Aug. 1841. With extracts from the 'Cork Examiner', 21 Apr. 1848, the 'Southern Reporter', 14 Oct. 1848 and the 'Cork Examiner', 10 Oct. 1864. The latter newspaper extract refers to the unveiling of the Father Mathew Statue in Cork and the speech of John Francis Maguire. [c.1910]. Manuscript, 30 pp.
• Clipping from 'The Standard', 12 October 1929, referring to a bust of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in Father Mathew Hall, Dublin. The bust has the following inscription:
‘Fra. Theobald Mathew, Ord. Cappuccin / J. Hogan fecit, 1834’.
The article explains that the bust was presented by Fr. Francis Mahony ‘to Cardinal Micara, Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscan Order, who was an admirer of the Apostle of Temperance. … It has been ever since preserved in the Convent of the Immaculate Conception, known as the Barberini Convent. … Some months ago, the Father Provincial of the Roman Province very gracefully and generously donated to his confreres this memorial of the illustrious Capuchin Friar’.
With a letter to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re the sending of this bust of Fr. Mathew from Rome as a gift of Fr. Ottavio d’Alatri OFM Cap., Provincial Minister of the Capuchin Roman Province. 7 Mar. 1929. Typescript, 1 p.
• Copy letters from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. to the Rev. Mother, Sisters of Mercy Convent, Cobh, County Cork, seeking information on cures associated with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, and a Mr. J.R. O’Flanagan who was acquainted with the Apostle of Temperance. 26 May 1930-2 June 1930. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Notes by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on the American tour of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The sources include John Francis Maguire, Fr. Mathew’s biographer, Thomas Crosbie, proprietor of the 'Cork Examiner' at the inaugural meeting of the Committee for the Centennial Celebrations in 1889, and Denny Lane, a Cork-born poet and contemporary of Fr. Mathew. [c.1930]. Manuscript and typescript, 10 pp.
• Copybook containing notes relating to the Irish Capuchins, Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and his temperance campaign taken from 'Battersby’s Catholic Directory', 1846-7. The notes were transcribed by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 51 pp.

Lease of Patrick Joseph Nolan, Little Mary Street, to William Joseph Hynes, Constitution Hill, Dublin, of a house and premises formerly known as ‘the Swan Inn’, and later known as no. 142 Upper Church Street, for 61 years at the yearly rent of £32. With counterpart.

Conveyance by John Vesey, 2nd Viscount de Vesci to his son Thomas Vesey of Abbeyleix, MP for Queens’ County (later 3rd Viscount de Vesci), of a moiety of the aforementioned plot of ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built, held by Fr. Bonaventure Delaney OSFC as specified in the above noted lease of 4 Aug. 1826. (See CA CS/2/2/1/2). In consideration of 10s. With a printed form certifying that the aforementioned Thomas Vesey was registered as a voter in the city of Dublin by right of freehold for the yearly value on properties situated at Church Street. 20 Nov. 1838.

Deed of trust from Patrick Joseph Nolan to Daniel Cooke Bergin of his interest in the residue of the lease (2 June 1834) of properties situated in Upper Church Street known as ‘the Swan Inn’; to provide for his wife, Catherine Nolan, and to provide portions for his children upon their marriage. The trust permits ‘Catherine Nolan to have, receive, take and enjoy the said rents, issues and profits as and for her own sole use … and to suffer her the said Catherine Nolan to dispose of the same … as she shall think proper to and amongst her issue by the said Patrick Joseph Nolan (if any) and also to and amongst all or any of the children by a former marriage provided that the said Catherine Nolan should have the power to limit and appoint any part of the property … to and amongst such issue with all necessary and proper limitations and restrictions’. With a later copy endorsed ‘Thomas White, 20 Usher’s Quay’.