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A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. referring to a publication of his on Irish grammar. Ó Laoghaire wrote 'The fact is, the thing had to remain so long in Mss. because our friends the Gaelic League would not print it as I would not allow them to re-edit-it! I had to wait until the Irish Book Co[mpany] were in a position to take up the work of printing it. Is it not a comical thing that the Dublin Gaelic League would not allow me to be the best judge of my work!'

A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. referring to his articles on the life of Saint Patrick in the 'Weekly Examiner'. Reference is also made to Norma Borthwick and the Irish Book Company.

A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. enclosing a prayer. Ó Laoghaire adds 'How I as detest the note of presumption which often pervades English prayers!' He later affirms that 'The English mind does not seem to know how to conduct itself even in the presence of the Divinity. I have often read English players which actually patronise God'.

A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. referring to the Munster Feis. Ó Laoghaire wrote ‘I used to be mad when I used to see the citizens of Cork profiting by the Feis and contributing next to nothing to the cost of the Feis’. He adds 'The people of Cork would actually let a few earnest men work themselves to death and then pay the cost of their own funerals'.

A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.

A letter from Anna Maria Hall to Mrs Smith referring to her intention to publish a book titled ‘A month in the Highlands’ which will contain 500 illustrations. She writes ‘The publisher gives us £500 for the volume and of course pays for the illustrations – but as we have the expense of two journeys to pay out of it, we shall not make much’.

A letter from Anna Maria Hall to Mrs Smith mostly referring to friends and acquaintances and personal news. Hall also writes ‘You cannot my dear Mrs Smith fancy that we are Repealers – Repeal I look upon as a sheer and most dangerous insanity – impossible and destructive – but in every way would I place the Roman Catholic in an equality with the Protestant – if we expect him to obey the same laws, we have no reason to deny him the same rights as ourselves’.

A letter from Anna Maria Hall to Mrs Smith regarding the pleasantness of their new residence. She also refers to her love of opera and music and relays other personal news.

Letter from Annette Cambreth Kane (1864-1952), a sister of Douglas Hyde, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. She thanks the Capuchin friar for his kind remembrances for her deceased brother and affirms that the late President 'valued your friendship'.

Letter from Aodh de Blacam to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.