File 29 - Letter Book

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D2’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Tomás Ó Riain, Adolf Morath (photographer), John English & Co. (printers), Fr. J. McShane (Parochial House, St. Oran’s Road, Buncrana, County Donegal), H. Martin Hamilton, Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Seumas MacManus, Fr. Celsus O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Clare Sheridan (sculptor), D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Otto Richter, Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Nuala Ní Riain, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Eilish M. Sharkey, F. O’Reilly (Secretary, Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950), Hugh P. Allen (Catholic Truth Society of Ireland), Joceyln Harcourt, Fr. Tom Ryan (Vatican Secretariat of State), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap, Fr. W.B. Ryan OP, Elizabeth Corr, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Maud Gonne MacBride (enclosing letters from Vincent Crompton, an Irish republican), Patrick John Little, Michael McLaverty, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, and Canon Patrick Rogers. Enclosures include minutes a meeting of the governors and guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland (6 Dec. 1950) and printed lists and other documentation re the Chester Beatty collection in the Gallery; Manuscript notes re the cartoonist (probably Charles E. Kelly) of the ‘Dublin Opinion’ and his denial that his work constitutes an ‘active participation in politics’.