File 7 - Loose Letters File

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IE CA CP/3/1/2/7

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Loose Letters File

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  • 1951 (Creation)
  • 1901-1951 (Accumulation)

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641 items; Manuscript, typescript, photographic print, postcard print, and printed

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(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)

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A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Some of the letters refer to orders for ‘The Angelic Shepherd / The Life of Pope Pius XII’ (1950) authored by Fr. Senan. The file also includes correspondence from Margaret Mary Pearse, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Dr. T.J. Walsh (Chairman, the Wexford Festival of the Music and the Arts), Seán Ganly, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. Sydney MacEwan, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Johanna Coakley (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Fr. T. Maguire (St. Mary’s Church, Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh), Eric Rayner (338 Fulham Road, London), John English & Co. (printers), Thomas MacGreevy, Fr. Otto Richter (Jablonec, Czechoslovakia), Margaret Bowles (Priory Drive, Stillorgan, County Dublin), D.L. Kelleher (enclosing a biographical statement), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell (Upper Ely Place, Dublin), Robert Brennan (42 Lower Dodder Road, Dublin), Diarmuid Breathnach, Peter F. Anson, Yvonne Jammet, Vivion de Valera, Frederick Evans (Bexleyheath, Kent), Bishop Thomas Pothacamury, Frank MacGeough, Fr. Joseph Ranson (Kilmuckridge, Gorey, County Wexford), Sister M. Magdalena (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), M. Devlin (Cawnpore Street, Belfast), Katherine Guilfoyle Edelman, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Adolf Morath (photographer), Fr. H. Russell SMA (Society of African Missions, 23 Bliss Avenue, Tenafly, New Jersey), Seán Collins, Aodh de Blacam, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Rosamond Jacob, Muiris Mac Murchadha, Vincent O’Connor (South Taylor Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois), Fr. Robert Mageean CSSr (Somerton Road, Belfast), Michael A. Bowles, Joseph J. Carroll (Whitestone School, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia), Sister Mary Joseph (Webster Groves, Missouri), Sister M. Dolorine (Webster College, Missouri, United States), Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Ernest Newman, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), H.L. Moiselle, Tomás S. Cuffe, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), J. Monahan (Seafield Road, Clontarf, County Dublin), John J. Kelly (attorney, West Washington Street, Chicago, United States), Patrick Duffy (Hazeldene, Clonfert Avenue, Portumna, County Galway), Seumas MacManus, Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Fr. George Macarius Korb (Nagoya, Japan), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Joseph Connolly (Melford, Westfield Road, Dublin), Fr. Seán Gordon (Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Rome), Fr. Patrick Boland TOR (Catholic Mission, Chowki, India), Michael J. O’Mullane, Fr. Daniel A. Horan (Church of the Annunciation, Ilion, New York), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Fr. W.F. Conlon (President, St. Patrick’s Classical School, Navan, County Meath), Katherine Blake (c/o Irish Embassy, Madrid, Spain), Fr. Albin Fiedler (Benešova, Czechoslovakia), Sister Mary Joseph (Director, The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, Missouri, United States), Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap., John Hennig, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Tom Evans (Glenbeigh, County Kerry), Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Demetrius Manousos OFM Cap., Fr. Gerard Fassler OFM Cap. (Catholic Mission, Kondoa, Tanzania), Alice Ginnell, Colin Johnston Robb, Sister M. Patrick (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Winfred M. Letts (Verschoyle), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Sister M. Frances Teresa (Convent of Saint Louis, Louisville, County Monaghan), Richard Mulcahy (Minister of Education), Sister Joseph Patrick (Sisters of Charity, St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, County Dublin), Sister M. Vincenzo (Dominican Convent, Muckross Park, Donnybrook, Dublin), Mona de Cruz (3 Westlands Road, Penang, Malaysia), John Lloyd (Connaught Rangers Mutineer), Sister Mary Frances Hughes (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Archbishop Thomas Pothacamury (Bangalore, India), Francis MacManus, Bernard T. Hart (Montclair, New Jersey, United States), Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB (St. Mary’s Abbey, High Street, Newark, New Jersey), Ana O’Reilly (Botanic Road, Dublin), Fr. Stephen J. Moloney O.Cist. (Mounty Melleray Abbey, County Waterford), Br. Charles A. Lynam (Saint Patrick’s, Montgomery Place, New Rochelle, New York), Denis Gywnn, Fr. Luigi Fesce (Church of Our Lady of Pompei, 25 Carmine Street, New York), Richard King, Michael J. Kennedy (‘Manresa’, Trimlestown Park, Booterstown, Dublin), Fr. Thomas McLaughlin OSB (Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland), Sir Martin John Melvin (Director, ‘The Universe’, London), Seámus Ó Mathúna (Youghal, County Cork), Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Edward Kavanagh (Manor Mills, Maynooth, County Kildare), Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Áine Ceannt, John Moynihan (St. Patrick’s, Donabate, County Dublin), Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Mannix Joyce, Fr. T.F. Duggan (President, St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, Cork), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Séamus Campbell, David Marcus, Merrill Proctor Ball (Williamsburg, Virginia, United States), F.L. Vickerman (Glenageary Road, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin), Fr. Philip O’Boyle (Parochial House, Termon, County Donegal), Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (Catholic Mission, Langa, Cape Province, South Africa), Dr. George A. Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Doran Hurley, Charles G. O’Connell, Fr. Florian Ruskamp OFM Cap. (Bluefields, Nicaragua), H. Martin Hamilton, Alison King (Vico Terrace, Dalkey, County Dublin), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh, Máire de Blacam, Rev. John O. Buchmann (St. Leo’s Rectory, Irvington, New Jersey), Eoin O’Mahony, Joseph A. McCarthy (Circuit Court of Justice, Dublin), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Paul Martin-Dillon, Sister M. Emmanuel (Mater Misericordiae Nursing Home, Eccles Street, Dublin), Frieda Le Pla, Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Seamus Murphy (Wellington Road, Cork), Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Mary Hardebeck, Cecil Hurwitz (Old Blackrock Road, Cork), Diarmuid Brennan (88 Loveridge Road, West Hampsted, London), Seán P. O’Reilly (Instituto Mangold, Madrid, Spain), Robert Monteith, Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (Apostolic Delegate to the United States), Lieutenant Colonel John Joseph Winters, John MacCourt (Winnipeg, Mantioba, Canada), Tadhg Gahan, Victor Waddington, D.S. Magee (Secretary, Irish Publishers Association), Séamus Ó Braonáin, Rev. H. Stoneley (Ince Vicarage, Westwood Lane, Wigan), Professor Leonard Abrahamson, Helena Concannon, Séamus Ó Céilleachair, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Gearóid Mac Spealáin, Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Fr. Senan Crowe OP, Bishop William MacNeely, Ana O’Reilly (Botanic Road, Dublin), Fr. Gilbert OFM Cap. (Capuchin Franciscan Friary, Peckham, London), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Kathleen Bowles, Cormac Breathnach, Nora Ni Chathain, Sister M. Pius (Bon Secours Hospital, Glasnevin, Dublin), Sir Shane Leslie, and Arthur de Tivoli.
The letter of Vincent O’Connor (231 South Taylor Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois) encloses an original letter from Charlotte Gavin (Easky, County Sligo) dated 15 November 1880. The letter seemingly refers to local informers. O’Connor’s letter to Fr. Senan provides information on the letter’s contents and how it come into his possession. (10 Oct. 1951).

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      Biographical Entries and Notes for Correspondents

      Joseph O'Connor: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=188
      Thomas MacGreevy: https://www.dib.ie/biography/macgreevy-thomas-a5218
      Fr. Sydney MacEwan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_MacEwan
      Margaret Mary Pearse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mary_Pearse
      Robert Brennan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/brennan-robert-a0934
      Yvonne Jammet: https://www.dib.ie/biography/jammet-yvonne-a4259
      Vivion de Valera: https://www.dib.ie/biography/de-valera-vivion-laurence-a2476
      Fr. Joseph Ranson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ranson
      Katherine Guilfoyle Edelman: https://collections.shsmo.org/index.php/manuscripts/kansas-city/k0281
      Seán Collins: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Collins-1970
      Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien: https://www.dib.ie/biography/obrien-sophie-raffalovich-a6495
      Rosamond Jacob: https://www.dib.ie/biography/jacob-rosamond-a4248
      Aodh de Blacam: https://www.dib.ie/biography/de-blacam-aodh-hugh-saunders-blackham-aodh-sandrach-de-blacam-a2455
      Michael A. Bowles: https://www.dib.ie/biography/bowles-michael-andrew-a0820
      Ernest Newman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Newman
      Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF: https://citydesert.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/jerome-hawes-priest-hermit-architect/
      Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow): https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19530316&id=STA1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=HKYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=5225,1577481
      Seumas MacManus: https://www.dib.ie/biography/macmanus-seumas-a5736
      Joseph Connolly: https://www.dib.ie/biography/connolly-joseph-a1955
      Adolf Morath: http://www.odonohoearchive.com/a-camera-for-a-brush-portrait-of-adolf-morath-20th-century-celebrity-photographer/
      John Hennig: https://www.goethe.de/ins/ie/en/kul/sup/dsi/20733408.html
      Alice Ginnell: https://www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/ourservices/planning/conservationheritage/decadeofcentenariesblog/thelifeandcareerofaliceginnell.html
      D.L. Kelleher: http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/k/Kelleher_DL/life.htm
      Colin Johnston Robb: https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/4555/ROBB-COLINJOHNSTON
      Winfred M. Letts (Verschoyle): https://www.dib.ie/biography/letts-winifred-mabel-a4813
      Richard Mulcahy: https://www.dib.ie/biography/mulcahy-richard-a6029
      Francis MacManus: https://www.dib.ie/biography/macmanus-patrick-francis-frank-a5735
      Gerald Boland: https://www.dib.ie/biography/boland-gerald-a0762
      Denis Gwynn: https://www.dib.ie/biography/gywnn-denis-rolleston-a3691
      Richard King: https://www.dib.ie/biography/king-richard-a4567
      Sir Martin John Melvin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Melvin
      Seán Ó Ciarghusa: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=184
      Máirín Cregan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/cregan-mairin-a9572
      Áine Ceannt: https://www.dib.ie/biography/ceannt-aine-a1580
      Mannix Joyce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannix_Joyce
      Fr. Henry Edward George Rope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Edward_George_Rope
      David Marcus: https://www.dib.ie/biography/marcus-david-a9856
      Doran Hurley: https://bethlehembooks.com/person/doran-hurley/
      Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh: https://libguides.ucc.ie/TomasOMuircheartaighCollection
      Eoin O'Mahony: https://www.dib.ie/biography/omahony-eoin-seosamh-a6877
      Joseph Walshe: https://www.dib.ie/biography/walshe-joseph-patrick-a8908
      Frieda Le Pla: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-rnid/2017/05/05/i-took-to-going-off-for-long-tramps-by-myself-over-the-fields-and-the-beech-clad-hills-frieda-le-pla-deaf-blind-author/
      Tadhg Gahan: https://www.flickr.com/photos/1916relatives/25851282351
      Gearóid Mac Spealáin: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=655
      Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin: https://www.dib.ie/biography/o-muimhneachain-aindrias-a6411
      Cormac Breathnach: https://www.dib.ie/biography/breathnach-cormac-charlie-walsh-a0911
      Sir Shane Leslie: https://www.dib.ie/biography/leslie-john-randolph-shane-a4805
      Arthur de Tivoli: https://www.artuk.org/artdetective/discussions/discussions/further-information-is-sought-regarding-the-artist-arthur-de-tivoli
      Victor Waddington: https://www.dib.ie/biography/waddington-victor-a10128
      Séamus Ó Braonáin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9amus_%C3%93_Braon%C3%A1in
      Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amleto_Giovanni_Cicognani
      Seamus Murphy: https://www.dib.ie/biography/murphy-seamus-a6096
      Robert Monteith: https://www.dib.ie/biography/monteith-robert-a5892
      Helena Concannon: https://www.dib.ie/biography/concannon-helena-a1918

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