Includes; letters from Aberdeen, South Dakota dated 10 January 1925 mentioning that a brief sketch of South Dakota is included; two cards from 281 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco dated 22 December 1925 and 3 April 1926 including a list of Presentation Convents in the States; Mount Loretto, Dubuque, Iowa dated 14 January 1926; 419 West 33rd Street, New York, dated 9 February 1926; Langdon, North Dakota, dated 3 October 1926. These letters express an interest in purchasing the book on Nano Nagle and in furthering her cause.
Three letters from Newfoundland dated 23 December 1925, 3 January 1926 and 30 January 1926, all are expressing interest in purchasing the book and giving details of the foundations and schools.
Letters from New Windsor, Australia including a photograph of the convent and detailed handwritten sketch of the foundation, giving the history of the convent, letter from Yeppoon, Australia dated 1 April 1936, three letters from Elsternwick dated 25 December 1925, 13 January 1926 and 31 January 1926, giving details of the amalgamation of the Order and the General Chapters, the number of Sisters and the number of pupils, and requesting for vocations, detailed account of the foundation in Mount Erin, Wagga Wagga, and the spread of the mission to many other places, details of the schools, the examinations and extra- curricular activities.
Letters from England, including Manchester dated 19 November 1925 giving the history of the foundation and looking for postulants, letter from Liverpool dated 5 March 1926 and from Pickering, York's, dated 18 December 1925 in which it states that the Catholic population is very small and very poor.
Letters from India, including the convent in Quetta, Baluchistan, dated 13 January 1926, which includes photographs of the convent and a typed article entitled ‘The Irish Presentation Nuns n Baluchistan’, the letter gives details of the building of the convent and that they have the bones of Nano Nagle, letter from Pudapet, Madras, South India dated 29 July 1926, mentioning how poor the students are, the school of commerce including a typewritten account of St. Anthony’s Presentation Convent, Pudapet; letter from Murree, Punjab, dated 10 March 1926, giving details of their convents and asking for postulants for the mission.

Includes; letters from Dr Cornelius Lucey -Bishop, concerning where Mass is celebrated in the convent; the chaplain’s salary; resignation of M. Agnes as Bursar; permission from Rome for over-draft towards new convent and school; letter re plans for Ballyphehane convent; note from Bishop returning money; permission to replace Sisters in Queen of the Angels, Montenotte, Cork; rescript from Rome for the Sisters in Sacramento, California, U.S.A.; card mentioning the foundation in Sacramento and air fares and travel agents; note mentioning the First profession of Sister Assumpta; instruction re gifts and pocket money and revision of some rules because of visitation in 1955; list of Masses of Obligation; appreciation of subscription to the Churches Fund; bishop’s suggestion as regards investments; the granting of faculties to priests for retreats; letter concerning the rule and the religious habit and the amalgamation of various Presentation convents; and two letters dated 1 November 1966 and 23 September 1971 concerning the amalgamation of the Sisters; leaflet for the Office and Funeral Mass for Most Reverend Cornelius Lucey, Bishop Emeritus of Cork and Ross; Pastoral Letter of Most Rev. Dr Michael Murphy, Bishop of Cork and Ross, dated Lent 1983; a public letter from Bishop Murphy – Bishop of Cork and Ross, The cause for the canonisation of Nano Nagle, 16 November 1984; and a letter from Bishop Michael Murphy, Bishop of Cork and Ross to Sr. Lelia Kaar proposing that they would consider having a resident retired priest.

Includes; letters from convents in Ireland responding to a circular requesting information about their foundations from Rev. Mother, South Presentation Convent, Douglas Street, Cork. Letters giving details of the beginnings of the foundations; who helped fund the foundations, the kindness of benefactors, social conditions and circumstances of the local people; the poverty which they encountered, how the material needs of the children were provided for, how the convent and school buildings began, sometimes the Sisters and classrooms were in temporary buildings until suitable buildings were built; at times Sisters moved from existing convents to establish new foundations, sometimes the Sisters remained in the new foundations and at other times these Sisters returned to the convents from which they originally came when a sufficient number of new Sisters were trained as many women from the local areas saw the needs and joined the Congregation; reports of how the Sisters travelled; the connection with the local bishops and clergy is mentioned; Sisters are aware of the need for a publication on the ‘Life of Nano Nagle’; they express interest in the Cause of Nano Nagle and their wishes for her beatification, they are enquiring about the cost of the book and considering how many copies they will be able to afford to purchase; Sisters send best wishes to the Sisters in South Presentation Convent, Cork, Sisters who have visited South Presentation Convent, Cork, express their gratitude for the hospitality which they experienced there, the number of Sisters in the Communities, mention of the lay Sisters and the number of students in schools are given.
Letters came from the following Presentation convents in Ireland; Bagenalstown, County Carlow, 23 February 1926, Ballingarry, County Tipperary, 19 November 1925, Baltinglass, County Wicklow, Cashel, County Tipperary, 14 December 1925, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, 19 November 1925, Castleisland, County Kerry, 20 November 1925, two letters from Carlow dated 20 November 1925 and 20 June 1926, Clonmel, County Tipperary, 23 October 1925, Clondalkin, County Dublin, 25 November 1925, Crosshaven, County Cork, two letters dated 16 November 1925 and December 1925, letter from Dingle, County Kerry, 21 December 1925, a photograph of the convent and the church, typed pages from the Annals from 1829 to 1866, Doneraile, County Cork, 16 November 1925, Drogheda, County Louth, 16 and 21 December 1925, photograph and note from the convent in Dundrum, County Tipperary, 23 November 1924, letter from Dungarvan, County Waterford, 28 November 1925, letter and notes from Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Fermoy, County Cork, 10 November 1925, also gives information on the foundations made in Tasmania and New Troy, New York, George’s Hill, Dublin, 16 November 1925, Galway, 28 January 1926, Kildare, 19 November 1925, notes on Kilcock, County Kildare and the missions which were founded from there, Killarney, County Kerry, 17 November 1925, Kilkenny, 12 January 1926 mentions Durrow and Kilmacow also, Limerick, 7 December 1925, Lismore, County Waterford on 16 November 1925 , mentions Sodalities, Evening Classes and opening of the Secondary School, lunches for pupils, Lixnaw, County Kerry, 19 November 1925, Maynooth, County Kildare, 25 November 1925, Maryboro’ Queen’s County, Midleton, County Cork, 19 November 1925 mentions Archdeacon Hutch and the secondary school, Millstreet, County Cork, , 5 December 1925 includes notes which mention music classes and the welfare of the poor children, Milltown, County Kerry, Mitchelstown, County Cork, 8 December 1925, includes notes on its foundation, music rooms and music lessons are mentioned, Mullingar, County Westmeath, 14 December 1925, Portadown, includes three letters dated 27 September 1925, November 1925 and November 1925 mentions that this convent was a transfer of the Sisters from Granard, mentions evening classes for the girls working in the factories and makes a request for suitable postulants. Rahan Tullamore, County Offaly, Rathmore, County Kerry, 29 November 1925, 22 November 1925, Gerald Griffin Street, North Presentation Convent, 19 November 1925, Tuam, County Galway, December 1925 includes an account of the foundation, Terenure, Dublin, 19 January 1926, Thurles, County Tipperary, 8 January 1926, Tralee, County Kerry, 1 December 1925, Waterford, 18 November 1925 , 8 July 1929 and 2 November 1929 mentions the photograph of the convent but no photograph is included, letter from Wexford including photographs of the convent, and letter from Youghal, County Cork dated 17 November 1925.

Includes; letters from convents in Ireland and abroad in response to a circular requesting information and data to help Alfred O’ Rahilly and T. J. Walsh to write the book on Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters; very old letters from the first Presentation Sisters; letters from Bishops and the Ursuline Sisters and letters concerning the building of the convent and school in Ballyphehane, Cork.

Includes; letters and cards from Sr. Carmel Kennefick, Presentation Sister from both Crosshaven, County Cork and Globe, Arizona, U.S.A. to Sr. Rosario Allen, South Presentation Convent, Douglas Street, Cork. Some letters were written while Sr. Carmel was on holidays in Ireland. Some letters and cards were written while Sr. Carmel was on mission in Globe. The letters and cards describe their great interest in Nano Nagle and their desire to have her canonised; the design of the new tomb; express concern of one another’s families; newspaper cutting entitled ‘Presentation Sister dies unexpectedly’ and death notice of Sr. Carmel on 10 September 1988. File has been arranged in chronological order.

Includes; letters from Sr Raphael Considine, in Australia to Sr. Rosario Allen, South Presentation Convent, Cork, dated 1980 to 1999. In her letters Sr. Raphael thanks Sr. Rosario for her hospitality each time she visits South Presentation Convent. Sr. Raphael gives updates on her progress of the books which she is writing on Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters. She gives details of her visits to the Presentation Sisters missions in India, Pakistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Philippines. Sr. Raphael makes arrangements for other Sisters and lay people to visit South Presentation Covent. File also includes a letter to Sr. Anthony Moloney, Sr. Lelia Kaar and Sr. Ambrose; Letter from Sr. Raphael to the Sisters requesting their help to enable her to write a short book on explaining the changes in apostolic religious life after Vatican11; Presentation Mission Link November 1994; and letter from Sr. Bernadette Keating,” Cove Lane”, St. James Parade, Elsternwick 3184, to Presentation Sisters, 21 Ashdene, South Douglas Road, Cork, Ireland, 12 May 2000, giving details of Sr. Raphael’s last illness and death and including the eulogy given at her funeral.

Includes; letters and cards to Sr. Rosario thanking her for her kindness and hospitality during their visit; letters from school children thanking her for the guided tour which she conducted for them as part of their school outing; requests from people tracing their family roots; letters from researchers asking to use the archives for their research; thank you letters from the Secondary school pupils in Cashel, County Tipperary for helping with their projects on Nano Nagle; letters from primary school children in Mitchelstown thanking Sr. Rosario for hospitality during their school outing; Some letters are to Sr. Anthony [Moloney], Sr. Lelia Kaar, Sr. de Sales [Gleeson] and Sr. Superior. Letters and cards are from Ireland and abroad.

Includes; letters and cards from Ireland and abroad requesting information on families from past pupils; thanking Sr. Rosario for her kindness and hospitality when visiting; remarking on the hospitality of the community; researching family history; requesting information for projects on Nano Nagle; expressing thanks for the guided tours of the grounds and the Heritage Room and the relics; thanks from students on school visits; thanks from Sisters visiting from the missions in Zambia and Zimbabwe; letters concerning research for documentary films; and requests from researchers for old photos. Letters from Sr. Assumpta O’ Neill, Presentation Convent, Dungarvan, County Waterford. File is in original order.

Includes; thank you letters and cards from the Ursuline Sisters from Blackrock, Cork, thanking Sr. Anthony [Moloney] and the Presentation Sisters in South Presentation Convent, Cork for their kindness and hospitality when they visited in May 1986; letters and cards to Sr. Rosario thanking her for the help which she has given and asking to have a copy of the picture of Nano Nagle for their convent; three copies of the booklet for prayer which was used when the Ursuline Sisters visited in May 1986; notes from the annals of the Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, established by Nano Nagle, in Douglas Street, Cork, transferred to Blackrock in 1825; letter from Sr. M. Sacred Heart, Ursuline Convent, Thurles, to Father Walsh, dated 25 September 1956, giving details of their foundation; booklet of the Bicentenary Mass of Thanksgiving of the Ursuline Convent, Thurles, 27 September 1987; letter from Mother M.J. Bernard, Ursuline Convent, St. Mary’s, Waterford, to Reverend Father, dated 10 October 1956, including notes from the annals from 1816 to 1956; a photocopied account of the Ursuline Sisters visit to South Presentation Convent, in May 1986; letter from Sr. M. Berchmans, Ursuline Convent, St. Joseph’s, Sligo, to Father Walsh, giving details of their foundation; and photographs of the visit of May 1986.

Includes; letters from Fr. T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], 3 October 1954 to Miss O’ Rahilly concerning a nineteenth century poet – Diarmuid O Longaigh; letter to Mother Catherine on 20 February; letter of 17 February 1960 to the Holy Father in French and in English giving the history of the congregation; letter to Mother Benignus relating to the printing of the book; letter to Mother de Sales from Fr. T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], Parochial House, Durrus , County Cork, 29 October 1968, concerning the use of the buildings on Douglas Street; letter to Sr. Catherine, 16 September 1971, including a map of Ballygriffin; letters to Father Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], from Finbarr Ryan, Arch. P.S. Port of Spain, 31 December 1959, paying tribute to him for his work on the life of ‘Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sister’s; letter from James Canon Bastible, University College, Cork, 12 December 1959, to Rev. Mother congratulating her on Fr. T.J. Walsh’s [Canon T.J. Walsh], book, ‘ Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters’, letter from S. Perosazz, Department of Education, Dublin, 28 June 1956 to Fr. T.J. Walsh [Canon T.J. Walsh], concerning access to reports made by inspectors on the Presentation schools during the nineteenth century; letter from M. Gregory, O.S.B., Benedictine Abbey, Kylemore, Clifden, County Galway, 15 July 1955, stating that due to fire in their archives two years previously any information which they had on Nano Nagle was burnt; letter from D. Joseph Dowdall O.S. B., Glenstal Priory School, Murroe, County Limerick, 22 May 1955 to Father Walsh [Canon T.J. Walsh], relating to the microfilming of documents; letter from Fr. F.X. Marin, St. Patrick’s , Via Piemonte, 60 Rome (125) to Fr. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], concerning the examination of the Prop. Documents; letter to Father Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], from Patricia O’ Connell, Evening Press, 6 April 1955 in relation to the death notice of Joseph Nagle; letters from Browne and Nolan Limited, Publishers, 41 -42 Nassau Street, Dublin, to Rev. Mother on 10 September 1958 concerning the publishing of Fr. T.J. Walsh’s, [Canon T.J. Walsh], book; letters from M.H. Gill and Son, 50 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin to Fr. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], Mother Benignus, Mother Ignatius concerning the publication of the book and its cost; two copies of 1775 – 1975 Sermon on the occasion of the Bi- centenary Celebrations of the Presentation Sisters, St. Finbarr’s Church Cork 24 December 1975, T.J. Walsh [Canon T.J. Walsh], December 1975; Nano Nagle, Undaunted Daughter of Desires A Study in Sanctity, T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], October 1975; letter from T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J.Walsh], Parochial House, Blackrock, Cork, 18 September 1980 to Sister Lucy, Presentation Generalate, Monasterevan, County Kildare; letter from T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], Parochial House, Blackrock, Cork to Sister Rosario [Allen] concerning the plans for the Nano Nagle tomb; letter from Carol Nagle Fish, 54 Prairie Avenue, Buffalo, New York, 14207, 25 January 1985, requesting information on her ancestors and claiming that she is related to the Nagles; newspaper article, ‘ Canon Walsh: The Final Respects’; leaflet, ‘ Office for the Dead and Funeral Mass’, Very Rev. Canon T. J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], 27 June 1984; and notes on layout of chapters for the book, ‘ Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters’.