Magazine entitled 'The Far East' published by the Maynooth Mission to China.

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Matthias Bodkin SJ written during his time as chaplain in the Royal Navy based at R.N. Base, Derry, Northern Ireland (refers to trips to the Arctic Circle and Western Australia) and serving on the battleship H.M.S. Anson in the East. Includes;

• Letter concerning his finances (February 1945, 10pp) and draft of Fr Provincial’s reply (25 February 1945, 2pp);
• Letter from Sergeant Major D.J. Fitzgerald (R.M. Detachment) of H.M.S. Anson describing Fr Bodkin’s activities in Malta (4 June 1945, 3pp);
• Letters describing his trip to Hong Kong, his visit with the Mission there (12 August – 25 October 1945, 12 items);
• News of the various Jesuits in Hong Kong and how they have fared during the occupation;
• Description of Tokyo (December 1945, 2 items); a ‘rough memory draft’ of his expenditure (1p.)
• Draft copy of letter from the Provincial to Fr Bodkin concerning his finances (5 January 1946, 2pp) (letter was never sent).

Letters from Masao Kobayashi (Lecturer in Western History, Waseda University, Tokyo) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, concerning Dr. Kobayashi’s publication of a Japanese translation of Fr Gwynn’s 'Roman Education'.

• History of General Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny collection;
• Lithographs & Posters;
• Military;
• Scottish Widows’ Fund and Life Assurance Society, Finance and Ireland;
• Correspondence;
• Boer War;
• 1906 Travels.

Typescript article entitled ‘Atomic bomb on Hiroshima: eyewitness account of P. I. Siemes SJ’. With pencil annotation ‘Not to be published - Rights are being sold in aid of our Hiroshima Fathers’.