transcripts of letters of Nano Nagle, "Authentication as in Submission 1986 and after".

Includes; list of the seven Presentation Congregations and the dates of their foundations: Tasmania 1866; Windsor (Victoria) 1873, Wagga 1874, Lismore 1886, Geraldton 1891, Longreach 1900, and Mosman Park 1907; list of foundations and dates within each congregation in Australia; letters from Sr. M. Sebastian and Sr. Peter, Presentation Novitiate, O’ Neill College, Nagle Avenue, Elsternwich, Victoria, to Sr. Catherine and Father Walsh [Canon T.J. Walsh], during 1957 and 1958 giving detailed information on the spread of the congregation, the vast distances covered; two copies of a map of Australia showing the location of the convents; report on The Seven Congregations of the Presentation Institute in Australia including the development of its constitutions and the and the union of the seven congregations; letters to Rev. Mother Benignus, Sr. M. Catherine and Fr. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], during 1956 and 1957 from Sr. M. Bernard and Sr. M. Therese from Presentation Convent, Geraldton, Western Australia, detailing the spread of the congregation and the foundations; report from Presentation Convent, St. Mary’s, Lismore, which includes a list of the Branch Convents, foundation dates and dioceses in which they are located, an account of the schools and other works; letter from Presentation Convent, Longreach, Queensland from Sr. M. Ursula; letters from Sr. M. Sebastian, Presentation Convent, Star of the Sea, Gardenvale, S. 4 Victoria, in 1958, to Sr. M. Catherine including details of General Chapters and Professions; letters from Sr. M. Bernard, Presentation Convent, “Iona” Mosman Park , Western Australia, 29 May 1956 to Rev. Mother and to Father Walsh [ Canon T.J. Walsh], on 10 June 1957 including details of their foundations; letters from Sr. M. Xavier Lyman, Mother General of Wagga Foundation, Presentation Convent, “Mount Erin”, Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, to Father Walsh [Canon T.J. Walsh], including details of the foundations and a diagram of the foundations made from Longreach; and a picture of ‘Mount Erin’.

Includes; typed copy of file above.

Includes; rules by which the residents of the Almshouse had to abide, daily routine.

article from "The Hibernian Chronicle" containing references to the death of Nano Nagle, magazine entitled "Mission Outlook" with articles on Nano Nagle (November/December 1975), exhibition programme from the Cork Archives Institute entitled "Inside Their World".

Includes; drawing of Presentation Brothers Douglas Street National School; drawings of Nano Nagle Hostel.

Includes; transcript of "… verbal information procured from the Mothers Mary Angela Collins, Mary Francis Tobin, Mary Monica Collins, Mary Clare Callaghan … " giving early history of the Presentation Sisters written by Mother Magdalen de Pazzi Leahy, up till 1853, and other Presentation Sisters. The Ursuline Sisters annals and Coppinger's Life of Nano Nagle were used as sources.

Includes; letters relating to foundations in the United States of America made in San Antonio, Texas, in 1952; Globe, Arizona in 1956; the booklet for the centenary of the arrival of the Sisters in California in May 1955; letters from Sr. M. Patrick Rupert Looney, Presentation Convent, 281 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco, California, to Rev. T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh] St. Finbarr’s South, Cork 23 November 1954 and in 1957 to Father Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], Rev. Mother M. Ignatius [Hartnett], and Sr. M. Catherine[Condon]; notes on Outline of Studies – Presentation Convent Schools Saint Joseph High School, Berkeley, California; list dated 12 January 1912, Mother House, Presentation Convent, San Francisco, California giving details of the foundations in the Archdioceses; list of Presentation Convents and Institutions throughout the world, 25 March 1955; reports on schools; application form to enter novitiate from 281 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco, California; and newspaper cuttings with the headings: ’Presentation Sisters celebrate 100 Years in United States’, ’Presentation Nuns Mark Centennial’,’ In the Limelight’,’ Mule Train, ‘Shanty’ Living, Marked Early Presentation Days in America’ from The Monitor 5 November 1954 and ‘Nano Nagle Foundress of the Presentation Order’, from The Leader, San Francisco, 13 November 1954; extracts from letter from Presentation Convent, Fargo, North Dakota, 22 April 1957, typed noted on ‘The Presentation Order in North Dakota’; letters from Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1956 and 1957 and notes on ‘The Aberdeen Foundation of the Congregation of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary’; ‘ Sermon delivered by the Most Reverend William O’ Brady, Archbishop of St. Paul, on 19 September 1961, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the coming of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Aberdeen, South Dakota, on 4 October 1886; and letters to Sr. Catherine in 1956; letters from Mother M. Estelle, Dubuque, Iowa in 1936 and 1957 giving details of the Sisters, convents and schools.

A photocopy of a history of Nano Nagle House written by Rev. T. J. Walsh with additional notes added by Sister Rosario Allen. History of Nano Nagle House

correspondence, histories, newspaper articles, writings on Nano Nagle.