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Assignment from Alicia Louisa Seward, 27 Merton Road, Bootle, Lancaster, to Fr. Justin William Hyland OFM Cap., Fr. Michael John O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Mel Peter Farrell OFM Cap., Fr. Matthew Donal Flynn OFM Cap., and Fr. Seraphin Thomas Nesdale OFM Cap., Father Mathew Quay, Cork, of the residue of leases dated 4 Dec. 1844 (see CA HT/2/1/1/4) and 1 Mar. 1845 (see CA HT/2/1/1/6) in consideration of £1,000. 20 Mar. 1951. With declarations, searches, solicitors’ correspondence and related records re the claims of the Capuchin friars to title on Seward properties on Charlotte Quay (later Father Mathew Quay) and on Queen Street (later Father Mathew Street). The file includes the correspondence of M.J. Hogan & Sons, solicitors, 50 South Mall, Cork, regarding efforts to trace Alicia Louisa Seward’s title to the aforementioned properties. Enclosures include schedules, marriage and death certificates and other original documents. See also CA HT/2/3/10.

• Souvenir programme for the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association Father Mathew Centenary Celebrations in Cork on Sunday, 24 June 1956. Printed, 25 pp.
• Souvenir programme for centenary celebrations for the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The events took place in City Hall in Cork on 9 Dec. 1956 and included an address by the Most Rev. David Mathew, Titular Bishop of Apamea. Printed, 3 pp. 2 copies.
• Newspaper clippings relating to the centenary of Fr. Mathew’s death. The file includes:
Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., ‘The mighty moral miracle wrought by Father Theobald Mathew’, 6 Dec. 1956.
‘Cork Centenary Celebrations’.
Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., ‘The secret of Father Theobald Mathew – Capuchin / What his Franciscianism meant to him’, 'Evening Echo', 7 Dec. 1956.
‘Fr. Mathew: One of the great men of history’, 'Cork Examiner', 10 Dec. 1956.
‘Ireland’s Great Tribute to the Apostle of Temperance’, 'Cork Examiner', 25 June 1956. A pictorial supplement.
’60,000 Pioneers pay tribute to Fr. Mathew’, Cork Examiner, 25 June 1956. Clippings, 12 pp.
• Letter from Rev. Patrick J. Hamell, Honorary Secretary of the Father Mathew Union, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., re preparations for the celebration of the Father Mathew Centenary. 15 Sept. 1956. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Offprint of an article by Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap., ‘Theobald Mathew OFM Cap. / A Centenary Tribute’, published in the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' (1956). Printed, 13 pp.

• Copy inventory of the works of John Hogan (1800-1858), sculptor. The photocopy is from John Turpin, 'John Hogan, Irish neoclassical sculptor in Rome, 1800-1858 / a biography and catalogue raisonné' (Dublin, 1982). The extract refers to the busts of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Reference is made to No. 41, a marble bust of Fr. Mathew in the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin [now in the National Museum of Ireland]. The bust is inscribed ‘Hogan’ in monogram. No. 43 is described as a plaster bust of Fr. Mathew in the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. It is inscribed ‘Fr. Theobald Mathew, Ord. Capuchin. He is wearing the Capuchin habit with folded hood. The face is slightly more uneven and less glassy than the marble, for which it is principally a study. W. Strickland, "Dictionary of Irish Artists", in his list of Hogan’s works, mentions a bust of Fr. Mathew in the collection of H.J. Maguire, Anglesea Road, Dublin, which may have been identical to this one …’. With photographic print of Hogan’s marble bust of Fr. Mathew (21.5 cm x 16.5 cm).
• Copy prints of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.
• A photographic print of the grave of Fr. Theobald Mathew in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork. Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap. is seen standing beside the grave. c.1960. 11 cm x 6.5 cm.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘VI’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Seumas MacManus, Páraig Ó Caoimh (Patrick O’Keeffe), Jarlath A. O’Connell (solicitor, Dame Street, Dublin), Fr. J.S. Sheehy CM (St. Joseph’s, Blackrock, County Dublin), Mairin Healy (Ballsbridge, Dublin), Germaine Stockley, Seán Ó Baoighill, Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Desmond Ryan, Canon Patrick Rogers, C.P. Curran, James P. Comyn (15 Waterloo Road, Dublin), Joseph A. McCarthy (6 Trafalgar Terrace, Monkstown, County Dublin), Fr. Edward Dodsworth Kirby (Saint John’s Road, Knutsford), Fr. John Moloney (Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, Dublin), An t-Athair Pádraig Ó Duinnín, Arthur de Tivoli, D.L. Kelleher, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Sister Mary (Good Shepherd Convent, Sunday’s Well, Cork), Emily Hughes, León Ó Broin, Sir John Loader Maffey, Daivd Gray, Gabriel Fallon, Máirín Allen, Mary O’Connell (‘The Advocate’, Beckett Street, Melbourne), Cormac Ó Cuillenáin (University College Cork), Seán O’Sullivan, Tomás S. Cuffe, Eugene F. Collins (Temple Chambers, Eustace Street, Dublin), Seamus Murphy (Dillon’s Cross, Cork), Fr. E. Versmissen SJ (Résidence Jésuite Saint Claude La Colombière, Paray-le-Monial, France), Sr. Mary Bernadette (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Seán Nesson, J.J. Kiely (‘Independent’ Newspapers Ltd., Belfast), Sister Francesca MacDonagh (St. Mary’s Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, County Dublin), Mervyn Wall, Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Pearse Hutchinson (‘Findrum’, Rathgar Road, Dublin), Peter F. Anson, Helena Concannon, E.E. Barton, Patrick John Little, Gabriel Murphy (147 Sunday’s Well, Cork), Michael McLaverty, Anne Hansen (West Ocean View, Norfolk, Virginia), Aodh de Blacam, Fr. William O'Neill CSSp., Edith M. Scott Mason, Diarmuid Seosamh Ó Conchubhair (Diarmuid Joseph O’Connor), Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Aloys Georg Fleischmann, Colin Johnston Robb, Sister M. Philomena (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Mary Hardebeck, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Paddy Donohoe (24th Infantry Battalion, Ceannt Barracks, Curragh Camp, County Kildare), Frank E. Benner, Thomas MacGreevy, Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Sister M. Patrick (Presentation Convent, George’s Hill, Dublin), Benedict Kiely, Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand), Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap. (Father Mathew Hall, Queen Street, Cork), John O’Gorman, Sir Shane Leslie, Fr. Stephen Brown SJ (Central Catholic Library Association, Dublin), Pádraig De Brún, Bishop William MacNeely, Patrick C. O’Grady, Joan Campbell (Shore Road, Stevenson, Ayrshire), Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Francis McCullagh, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Séamus Campbell (St. Malachy’s College, Belfast), Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Cormac Mac Cárthaigh, and T.J. Kiernan (Hotel Canberra, Canberra, Australia).

• Photocopy of Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap., 'The Eager Heart / A short life of Father Theobald Mathew OFM Cap. / The Apostle of Temperance' (Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1961), 24 pp.
• Photocopy of an article by Professor W.F.P. Stockley, ‘Theobald Mathew’s Work (1838-1938)’, 'Bonaventura' (Winter 1938), pp 33-49.
• Photocopy of an article by Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap., ‘Father Theobald Mathew (1790-1856)’, 'Bonaventura' (Winter 1940-41), pp 121-9.
• An article on Fr. Theobald Mathew transcribed from 'The Father Mathew Record'. Typescript, 4 pp.