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Letters from T.W. Magahy & Son, organ builders, 10-11 Merchant Street, Cork, regarding the costs of overhauling the organ at Holy Trinity Church.

Letters from Montgomery and Chaytor, solicitors, 28-30 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, regarding claims for the payment of £100 per annum in rent on behalf of the Merchant Tailors’ Charity arising out of a lease (dated 13 Aug. 1889 for 150 years) of some of the Father Mathew Hall properties.

Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. from Ronan Daly Hayes & Co., solicitors, 12 South Mall, Cork, and from Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap. to Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. re possession of 16 Father Mathew Street.

Letters concerning repairs to the heating system and the installation of storm glazing at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. Includes letters from John Doherty & Sons, 20 Parliament Street, Kilkenny, and Myles Kearney & Sons Ltd, 23 Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6.

Letters to the committee of Father Mathew Temperance Hall, Church Street, regarding the application of Thomas McArdle for the position of caretaker. The file includes letters from Thomas McArdle and Timothy Fitzsimon, 6 Little Britain Street, Dublin.

Letters of William Read & Son, 4 Dawson Street, Dublin, solicitors for John Jameson & Son, distillers, to Terence O’Reilly, solicitors for the Capuchin friars, concerning a dispute over rights of passage from Church Street to Bow Street. On 9 May 1883, William Read wrote ‘your clients are enjoying the use of those passages and have not for a considerable time paid any rent for same … and our applications and draft of leases have hitherto been treated with silence on your part …’. On 31 Oct. 1882, John Jameson instructed his solicitors to let it be known ‘that he will not press for the present payment of the arrears of rent due £103 10s 0d nor will he ask for interest thereon provided the principal be paid within a reasonable period (say twelve months) and the future rent paid punctually’. With a rental account of John Jameson & Sons with the Capuchin community, Church Street. 2 Oct. 1882.

Letters expressing satisfaction with the excellent discipline and work of the Boys’ Brigade of Church Street. Many of the letters are from employers seeking boys to perform paid work. Correspondents include John. J. White, Cork Factory & Warehouse, Dublin, 'The Irish Rosary', St. Saviour’s Priory, Dominick Street, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Church Street, and P.D. Hartnett, grocer, 71 Great Strand Street, Dublin.

Correspondence regarding the sale of properties in Kilkenny city formerly held in trust by the late Fr. Thomas (Hilary) McDonagh OFM Cap. and subsequently held by the FMC Trust. The file specifically relates to the sale to Thomas J. Barrett of a three-storey building over a ground floor shop located at No. 19 Rose Inn Street, The Parade, Kilkenny, and to a house situated at No. 1 Castlecomer Road. The correspondents include Fr. Daniel (Nicholas) O’Brien OFM Cap., secretary of the FMC Trust, John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, Donal O’Buachalla, valuers and estate agents, and John Stanton & Sons, solicitors. With manuscript notes regarding title to the said properties which John Lanigan affirms is ‘rather “messy” as most of the deeds appear to have been lost’ (5 Jan. 1972).