File 23 - ‘Bonaventura’ / Review and Correspondence Volume

55 pp; 36 cm x 28 cm; Bound volume, newspaper clipping, printed, and manuscript

A bound volume with a printed title on front cover which reads ‘newspaper cuttings’ containing original letters and clippings offering favourable testimonials on the short-lived quarterly review periodical ‘Bonaventura’ published by the Capuchin Publications Office. The volume contains content from politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers. Correspondents include Peter F. Anson, William Frederick Paul Stockley (1859-1943), Lancelot Lawton, Frank Duff, D.L. Kelleher, Canon Patrick Rogers, León Ó Broin, Máiréad Ní Ghráda, Aodh de Blácam (1891-1951), Kathleen O’Connell, Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Archbishop Paschal Robinson OFM, and Eamonn O’Neill (1882-1954). Reference is made in an article from ‘The Advocate’ (22 July 1937) to the deaths of seventy-two Capuchin friars in Spain during the Civil War.

The binding has cracked and some of the pages are loose. Careful handling is required.