Letter to Patrick Pearse from Anna Frances Levins, New York, regarding arranging a meeting of Pearse with the American Daughters of Ireland at the Waldorf-Astoria.
List of subscriptions (and amounts) from American benefactors to the St. Enda’s School building fund. The subscriptions were taken while Patrick Pearse was touring the United States.
A flier advertising the programme and order of the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City in 1914. The flier includes the programme and order of the parade.
List of names of addresses of prominent Irish Americans residing in New York. The list was probably compiled by Patrick Pearse for his fundraising trip to the United States in 1914.
A file of letters from Douglas Hyde to Fr. Richard Henebry. Many of the letters are signed ‘An Craoibhín’. A letter (17 Mar. 1910) refers to the need for external examiners in Irish for a university board of education. Other letters refer to various texts in Irish for a matriculation examination for University College Dublin and matters pertaining to travelling studentships. An undated letter from Hyde (written at Ratra, Frenchpark County Roscommon) reads ‘As to your scholarships and the valuable work you have done in Celtic phonology and language there can be only one opinion. Your long course of study in Germany under the most distinguished dialectologists of Europe has given you advantages such as none of our native Irish scholars at home possess …’.
Copy letter to [Patrick Pearse] from Seumas MacManus, Plainfield, New Jersey, re a meeting. MacManus also affirms that he has sent a letter to the ‘Gaelic American’ about Pearse’s ‘mission’.
Letter to Patrick Pearse from John D. Crimmins, Emmet Arcade, 624 Madison Avenue, New York, re Pearse’s efforts to obtain funds for St. Enda’s School. Crimmins wrote ‘You have no idea of the number of appeals that come to me. I know something of our country and the poverty of our Catholic people in the South where for one hundred dollars a shack can be erected in which to hold church services. … For generations they have been living in that condition. I am unable to meet the demands that are made upon me here’.