File 20 - Letter Book

50 pp; Bound volume; Manuscript; 25 cm x 18.5 cm

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The volume contains letters to: Seán Keating, J. Rooney, Dollard Printing House, Charles C. O’Connell, Dorothea Barclay, Basil Payne, Monsignor Patrick J. McLaughlin, Liam Brophy, Kevin Faller, Thomas MacGreevy, Michael Bowles, Professor J.J. Murphy, Desmond Fennell, James Lyons, Mannix Joyce, Margaret Holland, Lady Dunsany, Nora Niland, Nuala Moran, Grace Perry, Michael J. Lennon, John P. Barton, Augustine Martin, Fr. William Coughlan OFM Cap., Fr. Victor Power, Timothy O’Mahony, Senator Michael B. Yeats, and Padraig O’Kelly.
• A letter to Josephine Faul notes that ‘we try to present faithfully Irish culture in the "Annual" to our own people wherever they are’ (19 Jan. 1965).
• A letter to Timothy O’Mahony notes that ‘1916 sets me a very difficult problem of finding new writers and new information or I should say information presented in a new way. It is this approach that will give our coverage of it real value for our readers and for the period itself’ (2 Feb. 1965).
• A letter to J. Kotoun affirms that ‘a publication such as "The Capuchin Annual", though of high prestige value, is run by an Order and works on a shoe-string. We produce it as a Catholic and patriotic effort which has, I have no doubt, done much good for these objects for over thirty years’ (2 Feb. 1965).