File 8 - Letter Book

45 pp; Bound volume; Manuscript; 21 cm x 17 cm

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mostly to contributors, authors, advertisers, patrons and printers associated with 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume includes copy letters to: Fr. Jerome Kiely, Liam Brophy, Fr. T.J. Walsh, Alison King, the Most Rev. Peter Thomas McKeefry, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Marie Noelle Kelly, Tadhg Gavin, and Seán Crawford.
• A copy letter to Doran Hurley refers to the prospects of increasing sales of the 'Annual' in the United States (3 Oct. 1957).
• A copy letter to Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. refers to the appointment of Br. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Fr. Henry’s nephew, as editor of 'The Father Mathew Record', and to Fr. Senan who ‘keeps in the best of form and is enjoying the quiet life – relieved of the onus of this place’. (21 Feb. 1958).