Typescript notes entitled ‘Thoughts on my Sister and Friend’ written by Imelda, Sr. Aloysia O'Connor, Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, Cork for Mother M. St. John Kane, SHC.

Typescript transcripts from various documents (majority secondary sources) relating to the West Indies. Includes extracts with handwritten marginals by Fr Aubrey Gwynn, SJ from: ‘State Papers, Colonial’ on Sir Charles Wheeler, 1670 - 1673 (9pp); on Sir William Stapleton (2pp); ‘Blake Family Records’ (5pp);
– from ‘Council Book of the Corporation of Kinsale’ (1652 – 1800) (3pp);
– ‘Voyage et Travaux des Missionaires de la Compagnia de Jesus, publies par des Peres de la meme Compagnie pour servir de complement aux Lettres Edifiantes’ (11pp);
– documents from a series beginning with ‘C.O.1/XIX – XXXVII’ ‘Narrative of Colonel Theodore Cary (Nov. 17, 1665’ (35pp);
– documents from the ‘State Papers, Adventurers’ beginning with ‘Adventurers in Ireland and Barbados’ ‘Nicholas Blake’ (15pp);
– from the ‘State Papers, Colonial’ (20pp); and transcripts on English, Scottish and Irish Prisoners in Barbados (5pp, 13pp, 29pp).

File of handwritten sermon, retreat notes, considerations (Catholic University, 1862), Triduum and retreats. Includes long retreats at Cork (1860), Tullabeg (1861 - 1862; 1868 - 1871); Laval (1872 - 1875); Tronchiennes (1875 - 1877); Clongowes Wood College (1877) and meditations, attributed to the following Jesuits: Frs. Peter Kenney (Palmero), Aloysius Sturzo, Daniel Jones, Patrick Hughes, Charles Aylmer, John St. Leger, Robert St. Leger. Michael Kelly, Charles Plowden, John Cunningham, James Mullen, Alexander Kyan (with history of Kyan family), John Shine, Bartholomew Esmonde, Thomas Betagh, Patrick Bracken, P. O'Reilly, Stephen Farrell, Charles McKenna, Edmund O'Reilly, Pubrick.

Documents on Fr Joseph Ignatius O'Halloran SJ, includes note on his being at Cork in 1765, by Fr John MacErlean SJ (1p) and biographical sketch extracted from 'Worthies of Thomond' Third Series, collected and edited by Robert Herbert, Limerick, 1946 (2pp).

Note by Fr John MacErlean SJ regarding two novices in the Province of Belgium in 1611. Summarises that Stephan Goulding, Cork, second year novice, is a diligent student while Peter Halling, first year novice in which he was mediocre in every respect, has in the future, promise. (In Latin).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Liam Ó Buachalla, Cork, relating to the history of the diocese of Cork and Cloyne; - the Uí Toirdhealbhaigh ‘the subsept to which Brian Ború, the Ua hEnna’s and Ua hAailgenis belonged’;

• the O Sealbhaig family and numerous other points with regard to Fr Gwynn’s article ‘Bishop of Cork in the Twelfth Century’ in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record (July 1950);
  his work helping ‘to edit a voluminous…(manuscript)…History of Diocese of Cork left by the late Canon Cahalane’;
• the history of Cloyne from the ninth to the eleventh centuries;
• Nehemias, Bishop of Cloyne who died in 1149;
• the Arrouaisians in Cork (see also J10/153; 195; 227; 228).
  Encloses typescript notes by Ó Buachalla entitled ‘Diocese of Cloyne’ (n.d., 4pp).

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from possible candidates and various parish priests seeking information on and interviews to discuss, the possibility of entrance into the Society of Jesus. Also includes applications to join the Society; letters from those who have been accepted and letters concerning financial support from novices’ families.

A file of letters from Fr William Ronan SJ to Fr Jean-Baptist René SJ concerning his fund-raising trip to and around America. Includes typescript copies of the letters by Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ.

Biographical material on Dominic Collins SJ, martyred in Youghal, County Cork on 31 October 1602. Includes:
– copy of a typescript by Fr Bryan C. Fennelly SJ on Br Dominic Collins SJ (n.d., 5pp);
– copy of an Appeal by the Youghal Martyrs’ Memorial Committee to raise a memorial for Br Dominic Collins SJ (n.d., 2pp) ;
– photocopy of a cutting from the 'Southern Star' concerning Br Dominic Collins SJ (26 December 1959, 1p.) and
– article by Fr Francis Finegan SJ entitled 'The Beatifies Martyrs of Ireland (6) Dominic Collins' in Irish Theological Quarterly 65 (2000, 9pp).