Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John MacErlean SJ on various matters including:
– Fr MacErlean’s censure on a Society Appeal for Funds;
– the progress of his historical research, news from Rome and news about the Society in Australia;
– the establishment of the Society in Ireland including a ‘list of whatever documents exist to my knowledge regarding the establishment of the Society in Ireland…What exactly the establishment of the Society in Ireland means I do not know. It may be a question for a canonist to solve. The canonical succession of the New Society to the Old is disputed, and Rome has never decided the point’;
– the proposed purchase of a volume consisting of ‘the indexes of the first eleven volumes of the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum down to the 3rd volume of April’ and the binding which is ‘much older than the contents…the binding of a Missal that was presented to Father (Nicholas) Leynach in 1613 - 14 by Francis Bray, at a time when Fr Leynach was trying to establish a chapel or oratory of the Society in Clonmel’;
– the Irish College in Rome;
– lists of books the Province could present to ‘the library to be established for the use of the Coll(egium) Scriptorum and a ‘list of those members of our Province who might now or hereafter be fit to cooperate with the Collegium Scriptorum in the production of works’ and a
– ‘Brief Sketch of the Work of the Irish Jesuits from the foundation to the Suppression of the Society 1540 – 1773’ (11pp).

Vol. 1, No.1 June 1898 – Centenary year, Part II 1814 – 1914
(For circulation among Ours Only)
Contains Obituaries
Index
Handwritten index biographical notices in the Memorials of the Irish Province and general index. Compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

1. Vol. 1, No.1 June 1898
   ‘A Short History of the Irish Province Part I, From its foundation under St. Ignatius down to the year 1626’;
   ‘Memoir of Father Peter Kenney, S.J.’;
   ‘Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died in Clongowes up to 1826’;
   University College Results;
   Catalogus Hib A.. 1752 in Missione Hibernica’.

2. Vol. 1, No.II June 1899
   ‘Biographical Sketch of the Rev. T. Betagh’;
   Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died in: Clongowes, from 1826 to 1869 Tullabeg, previous to the year 1874;
   Notes on the lives of early Irish Jesuits written in 1877 by Fr John Curtis SJ;
   ‘Voyage to Palermo and Back’ by Fr Charles Aylmer SJ;
   ‘Fr Edmund J O’Reilly’ by Fr Matthew Russell SJ;
   ‘An Old MSS Catalogue of Clongowes, 1820-1821’;
   Chronological list of Jesuits connected with the Irish Mission from 1550-1779;

3. Vol. 1, No.III June 1900
   ‘Memoirs of the Suppression and Restoration of the the Society of Jesus in Ireland’ by Fr Bracken SJ’;
   ‘Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
   Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died at: the Residence, Gardiner Street from 1845 to 1895. Belvedere College from 1855 to 1892;
   ‘Some manuscript catalogues of Clongowes, 1823, 1824, 1825 - 1834, 1837 and 1839’;

4. Vol. 1, No.IV June 1901
   ‘Memoirs of the Suppression and Restoration of the the Society of Jesus in Ireland, Part II’ by Fr Bracken SJ’;
   ‘Vale Novitiorum’;
   ‘Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
   Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died at: University College, Dublin, from 1889-1893.

5. Vol. 1, No. V June 1902
   ‘Short History of the Australian Mission’;
   ‘Some Irish Worthies S.J.’ by Edmund Hogan SJ;
   Memoirs of Fathers who Died at Milltown Park, from 1865 to 1887;
   ‘Further Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
   ‘Two letters, 1813, 1814’ written by Fr Charles Aylmer.

6. Vol. 1, No. VI January 1903
   ‘Memoirs of Fr Alfred Murphy SJ’;
   ‘Some Early Irish Jesuits’;
   ‘Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
   ‘A Short History of Irish Province Pt.1’(Fr Grene).

7. Vol. 1, No. VII June 1903
   ‘A Short History of Some Early Irish Jesuits (continued)’ by Rev. J. McDonnell SJ;
   ‘A contribution towards a History of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, from its Revival soon after the year 1800. Part II’ by Fr John Grene SJ.
   ‘Some Letters in Jesuit Archives in Ireland’;
   Memoir of Father P.E. Duffy, S.J. Part I.

8. Short Memoirs of the Early Irish Jesuits down to the year 1840
   by Fr Joseph McDonnell SJ, 1903

9. Centenary Year, 1814-1914, Part I
   ‘The Irish Province 1814-1914’;
   ‘Rathfarnham Castle and some of its Former Owners’;
   ‘First Dublin residence, George's Hill, 1812’;
   ‘Brief Chronological Notes, 1829-1914’;
   Necrologia: 1900 to December 1913.

10. Centenary Year, 1814-1914, Part II
    ‘The Irish Province 1814-1914’;
    ‘Milltown Park and and some of its Owners’;
    ‘Brief Chronological Notes, Milltown Park, 1858-1914’;
    ‘Irish Province, 1860-1914, Brief Chronological Notes’;
    ‘Gardiner Street, 1860-1914, Brief Chronological Notes’.