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Letter from Antoinette Reilly, Bord Fáilte, to Fr. Christopher Twomey OFM Cap. enclosing £200 in payment for permission to reproduce photographs of the plaster-work in Father Mathew Hall. With a copy of 'Ireland of the Welcomes', 49 (Mar.-Apr. 2000), which includes a feature on ‘Father Mathew Hall: A Celtic Revival Treasure’ by Nicola Gordon Bow (pp 14-21).

A letter from Hugh A. McCartan, 4 Gifford Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin, to Fr. Henry Rope. MacCartan refers to the contemporary political situation in Ireland and to the Sinn Féin movement.

Letter from Henry O’Hanrahan, prisoner no. q. 150, Lewes Prison, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap., thanking the Capuchin fathers for their services during the Rising. He also refers to increasing clerical support for the republican cause. O’Hanrahan fought at Jacob’s Biscuit factory during the Rising. The letter reads:
‘Just a short note from an Irish felon to thank you both very much indeed for your many enquiries, for your words, and also for your many kindnesses to my dear mother and sisters. It will indeed be a while till we here, our friends, or Ireland forget what we owe to “Church St[reet]” – of course it did not and does not surprise some of us, even though we had not met some you till a very memorable Sunday. That indeed was a Sunday which we will all remember till we “surrender” to the God of Nations and I wonder what has He in store for our little country. Would we had some of your over here. … on that particular Sunday – the difference – but then in all her struggles religious and otherwise – Ireland’s friends were the [Religious] Orders. Thank God, from all we hear the young men of Maynooth etc. are “making good” and God knows its time.
Now I know you are pretty conversant with our life etc. here and perhaps before you read this you will have seen or heard of [Gerard] Crofts who is next for invaliding and as I know you are both such friends and also that you are aware space (even in paper) with us is limited, you will excuse my coupling you in this short note’.

A letter from Helena Concannon (1878-1952), Salthill, County Galway, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Concannon thanks Fr. Senan for the payment for her article on Lady Georgiana Fullerton.

Letter from Heinrich Bewerunge, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, to Fr. Richard Henebry. Bewerunge refers to the 'acoustic and emotional' intonations in Irish music.

Letter from Hanna Sheehy Skeffington to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., expressing her concern on hearing of his serious illness. She affirms that Fr. Albert’s name ‘is treasured by all who know you and who love Ireland and all dear dead who died for her. The widows and sisters of the men of 1916 whom you attended and consoled and of the later martyrs also will always remember you with affection’.

Letter from Gertrude Parry, Shelbourne Hotel, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., affirming that she has heard of his offer ‘from my friends the Gavan Duffys and Miss Eva Gore Booth’. She adds ‘You will not know my name but I am a cousin of Roger Casement and there are several matters I should like to talk to you about’.

A letter from Germaine Stockley to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. giving particulars of the life of the late sculptor Joseph Higgins. She wrote ‘the great Irish sculptor died in Youghal in [the] beginning of 1925. I saw him a few days before his death. He died of consumption’. She also refers to Higgins’s son-in-law Seamus Murphy.

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.