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Letters to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, re the appointment of a Vicar Apostolic of Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia. The correspondents include Fr. Agatangelo de Langasco OFM Cap., Commissionary General, and Fr. Cuthbert of Chicago OFM Cap., Vice-Secretary General of the Capuchin Missions. The file includes questionnaires, biographies and other documentation (in Latin) re the three candidates: Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Regular Superior, and Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap. Definitor.

An English-Lozi phrase book by Godwin A.M. Lewanika (London: MacMillan and Co., 1949). A manuscript annotation on title page reads: ‘Used by Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap.’.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘IV’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Canon Patrick Rogers, David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Rita McGoldrick, D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Archbishop Anselm Edward John Kenealy OFM Cap., Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Francis McCullagh, Fr. Francis Moynihan (‘The Advocate’, Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Australia), Frank Ryan (‘An Reult’, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath), Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr, Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., William Frederick Paul Stockley, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Peter F. Anson, Alison King, Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Thomas MacGreevy, Seán O’Sullivan (Headford Cottage, Avoca Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin), Fr Dermot MacIvor (Ardee, County Louth), Mary Wren, Sister M. Agnes (Poor Clare Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Dorothy Day, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Brian Walsh (optician, Mount Southwell, Letterkenny, County Donegal), Germaine Stockley, William Magennis, Maud Gonne MacBride, Jack B. Yeats, John Desmond Sheridan, Fr. Henry S. Glendon OP, Seán Moylan, Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., Pearse Hutchinson, Germaine Stockley, Bishop John Dignan, Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), and Una O’Connor (Santa Monica, California).

Letters of Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. (1876-1958). The correspondents include: Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap.; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Vicar. Most of the correspondence relates to the establishment of missions in South Africa and later in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. The subjects include: Fr. Casimir’s first impressions of Cape Province (23 Oct. 1929); the journey to Barotseland (30 May 1930); requesting permission to retain Parow parish (26 Feb. 1931); discussions with Monsignor Bruno Wolnik SJ (1882-1960) to establish a local mission a few miles from Livingstone (16 June 1931); the necessity of wearing a white habit. Fr. Casimir wrote: ‘It is almost impossible to wear brown during the hot weather. The Conventual Fathers at Ndola wear white. The Jesuits wear any old things. I suggest a light cream-coloured habit’ (27 Nov. 1931); the need to speak the language in Barotseland ‘before we can hope to gain the hearts of the natives’. (30 Nov. 1931); on the study of the Lozi language (26 Jan. 1932); suggesting that a foundation be established in Barotseland ‘to which Catholics can look to with pride – a large church and school, sufficient for a fifty-mile area’. (3 May 1932); affirming that ‘mission work in Barotseland is going to be a slow business, the obstacles look insurmountable’. Fr. Casimir added: ‘it is a great consolation to know that it can never become a white man’s country’ (23 May 1932); confirming that the new church at Livingstone will cost £3,500 (6 Sept. 1932); referring to the work of Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. and his father (30 Oct. 1932); arrangements for the impending visitation by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. (3 Dec. 1934); the activities of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society. (18 Dec. 1934); Fr. Casimir’s arrangements to travel to Ireland via Marseilles on-board the Italian ship, SS 'Giulio Cesare' (5 May 1938). References are also made to the following Capuchin friars: Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.; Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap.; Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.; Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. The file includes a letter from Fr. C. C. Martindale SJ to Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap. offering to collect £100 for Fr. Casimir’s missionary work in Barotseland (16 June 1931).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office from Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Maud Gonne MacBride (re Vincent Crompton, an Irish republican), Mary Sykes (‘Illilliwa’, 12 Belmore Street, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Michael A. Bowles (Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand), Simon Pederek, Margaret Irvine (Sandown Road, Belfast), D.L. Kelleher, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), John Hennig, Stephen A. McCarthy (Director, Cornell University Library, New York), James Roberts (Boulevard of Allies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Cormac Breathnach, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Bishop John Evangelist McBride OFM, C.J. Woollen, Phyllis Hogan (Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin), Jocelyn Harcourt, Derek Neville, Ana O’Reilly (Botanic Road, Dublin), W.A. Rathkey (Balaclava Road, Cardiff), Roderick Wilkinson, Patrick F. Flood, Fr. A Doyle SM (St. Joseph’s Retreat House, St. Doolagh’s Park, County Dublin), Cadogan Travel Bureau (Sloane Street, London), Críostóir Ó Floinn, Alice Mansfield (Barrettstown House, Newbridge, County Kildare), Mother Mary Martin (Our Lady of Lourdes Convent, Drogheda, County Louth), Sister M. Catherine (Holy Rosary Convent, Bridgewater, Somerset), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland, United States), Archbishop Bernard Mary Williams, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Monsignor Martin Brenan (President, St. Patrick’s College, Carlow), Peter F. Anson, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Aodh de Blacam, Doran Hurley, Ellen McCann (15 Tower Hill, Armagh), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Colin Summerford (Bellair, Ballycumber, County Offaly), Tomás Ó Riain, Fr. Christopher OFM Cap. (Amalashram, Srirangam, India), Sister M. Bernard (Lisieux, France), Gary Mac Eoin, Order of Saint John of God hospital (Stillorgan, County Dublin), Adolf Morath (photographer), John English & Co. (printers), Rita McGoldrick, Fr. Demetrius Manousos OFM Cap. (Mary Immaculate Friary, Garrison, New York), Charles E. Kelly, John Desmond Sheridan, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Jarlath A. O’Connell (solicitor, Dame Street, Dublin), William F. Shaughnessy (The Courthouse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Fr. John Baptist Weldon OFM Cap., Fr. Seán Gordon (Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Rome), Padraic Bernard Gregory (25 Gresham Street, Belfast), J.C. McKew (Director, The International News Company, Varick Street, New York), Sister Ann Patrice (St. Patrick’s Convent, 100 Parker Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts), Pádraig De Brún, Helen Mannion, Séamus Campbell, Mary Hardebeck, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl’), D.L. Kelleher, Seán Mac Eoin, Fr. Stanislaus (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India), Gerald Boland, Maurice Moyal (Marseilles, France), Dr. T.J. Walsh (Chairman, the Wexford Festival of the Music and the Arts), Seán Ó Súilleabháin (Irish Folklore Commission), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. Fr. J.G. McGarry (editor, ‘The Furrow’), Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Fr. Joseph Leonard CM (All Hallows College, Dublin), Archbishop John D’Alton, Margaret Mary Pearse, Tom Evans (Evans’ Towers Hotel, Glenbeigh, County Kerry), William Monk Gibbon, Fr. Thomas McLaughlin OSB (Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland), Monsignor John S. Randall (Secretary, Catholic Press Association, Rochester, New York), George Campbell (Seafield Road, Clontarf, Dublin), Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Ian Stuart (Laragh, Glendalough, County Wicklow), Maura O’Donoughue, Seumas MacManus, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Frank Duff (De Montfort House, North Brunswick Street, Dublin), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Basil Clancy, Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh, James Roberts (Boulevard of Allies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Ernie O’Malley (Burrishoole Lodge, Newport, County Mayo), Fr. Otto Richter (Jablonec, Czechoslovakia), Fr. Cyril Barrett SJ, Fr. Wilhelm Kleinsorge SJ (Hiroshima, Japan), Noelmhuire McGowan (Capuchin College, Washington), Sister Harriet Nolan RSCJ (Tokyo, Japan), Sister Eveleen Coyle RSCJ (Convent of the Sacred Heart, Armagh), Alan C. Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Dorothy MacCarthy (4 Albany Road, Ranelagh, Dublin), Fr. Peter Keane OMI (Immaculate Conception Church, Brownsville, Texas), Fr. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. (Wilmington, Delaware), Sister Mary Joseph SL (Webster Groves, Missouri), and Paul H.S. Hutton (Rochestown, County Cork).