Dossier 12 - Copy Letter Book

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Letters – private and confidential / 1953’. Many of the letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health (which required a lengthy period of hospitalization in 1953) and to the need to acquire additional members of the Association of Patrons of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Liam Brophy (Roebuck Road, Dundrum, County Dublin), Kevin MacManus, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Br. Colman O’Neill OP (Saint Mary’s, Tallaght, County Dublin), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork, refers to the souvenirs of Canon Patrick Sheehan which he obtained from the Presentation Convent in Doneraile which he promises to return, 22 June 1953), Ethel Mannin, John Henning (Sutton, County Dublin), Sister Mary Joseph SL (Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, Webster Groves, Missouri), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Ellen Murnane (41 East Main Street, Portland, Connecticut), Diarmuid Breathnach, Doran Hurley, Denis Gywnn, Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Fr. Dominic Meyer OFM Cap., Michael A. Bowles, Fr. Patrick Kennedy (St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada), Sister Gabriel (Maryknoll Sisters, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Fr. William F. Labadie OSA, Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland), Alfred White (162 Crumlin Road, Dublin), Joan Hammond, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Fr. Henry McHenry (45 Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin), Kathleen O’Toole (Kiltegan, County Wicklow), Fr. William J. Fletcher (Sacred Heart Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut), Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin, refers to the ‘new statues’ on the façade of St. Mary of the Angels, 5 Sept. 1953, p. 126. Fr. Senan writes ‘Leo Broe has exaggerated some aspects of the figures but that is necessary, I’m afraid, when you consider how high up they will be sited’), Thomas MacGreevy, Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Richard King (refers to permissions sought to reproduce the Irish Saints’ postcard series published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’, 10 Sept. 1953, pp 131-2; another letter to King refers to his resignation as chief illustrator for the ‘Annual’, 14 Sept. 1953) and Fr. John Challis (Saint Joachim’s Presbytery, 122. Shepperton Road, Victoria Park, Western Australia).
The volume includes the text of a talk titled ‘Seventh Centenary of the death of Saint Clare’ (Aug. 1953, pp 53-5); a letter to the editor questioning the appointment of Milan Horvat as chief conductor of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra in 1953 (pp 68-70).