The volume contains approximately 489 copy letters written by members of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee mostly relating to the raising of subscriptions for the Father Mathew Statue on Sackville (later O’Connell) Street, Dublin. The volume is partially indexed by recipient. Correspondents include the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the editors of the 'Freeman’s Journal', the 'Irish Times' and other national newspapers, various local temperance societies and associations, the Irish National Foresters’ Benefit Society, George Noble Plunkett, Mary Redmond (sculptor), John Redmond MP, various trades councils and societies, the Most Rev. William Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, Alfred Webb MP, and Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne. Most of the letters are carbon copies and some are partially illegible.
The sub-series comprises volumes and notebooks containing drafts of letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. mostly to contributors, authors, advertisers, patrons and printers connected with 'The Capuchin Annual'.
Letter, in Latin, written by the Students at Blackrock, most of whom signed in Irish, in response to greetings.
Letter from to Terence O’Reilly, 5 North Great George’s Street, Dublin, solicitor, returning a draft conveyance and stating that they have no objection to having a covenant reinstated in the matter of a lease by the Right Hon. William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford and Viscount de Vesci to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and others of a plot of ground situated on the west side of Church Street.
Letter from Fr. William OSFC, Franciscan Monastery, Crawley, Sussex, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing a copy of a blessing from Pope Pius X. It reads: ‘… the Friars Minor Capuchin of the Irish Province, charged by the Bishops of Ireland, to spread the apostolate of Temperance, have had the happy idea of aggregating to such a society even the children, and at the present moment there about two hundred thousand young members who promise to abstain throughout their lives from alcoholic beverages …’.
Letter from J. Taylor, National Bank Limited, Dublin, to ‘Reverend Prior, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin’ enclosing ‘a short list of deeds … connected with Church St. solely’. With a typescript copy of said list.
A letter from Edward Thomas (‘E.T.’) Keane, editor of the ‘Kilkenny People’, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the ‘Orange Terror’ reprint. Keane states that ‘certain features of what you call Orange Terror are duplicated in the twenty-six counties’. He notes that ‘we probably have more internees, men and women, in the twenty-six counties … Our “Republican” government can do what they like and sit on criticism’.
A letter from Fr. Henry Gaffney OP, St. Mary’s, The Claddagh, Galway, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., congratulating him on the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and its 'valiant onslaught on the northern tyranny'. Gaffney adds ‘You have done greater work than all the loud politicians’.
A letter from ‘Francis P. Bassonwell’, republican internee, Crumlin Road Jail, Belfast, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding his efforts to distribute thirty copies of the ‘Orange Terror’ supplement. He also refers to the banning of the ‘Orange Terror’ offprint in Northern Ireland.
Letter from ‘Jimmy B’, prisoner no. “Q 161”, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. expressing his gratitude to Fr. Aloysius for his ‘two cards [and] also the Xmas card which were as rays of sunshine from Church St. to me in my exile’. He also adds ‘Eoin McNeill desired me to thank you for his Christmas message which he received alright and Gerard Crofts sends his best respects to you’.