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Series of articles bound into book format concerning the history of the Jesuit mission to Australia:

• 'The Woodstock Letters'. Vol. XXXVII. No. 3 'The Society of Jesus in Australia' pp303-318; Vol. XXXVIII. No. 1 pp1-9; Vol. XXXVIII. No. 2 pp161-176; Vol. XXXVIII. ? pp341-349; Vol. XXXIX. No. 2 pp145-160; Vol. XXXIX. No. 3 pp304-318; Vol. XL. No. 1 pp1-16; Vol. XL. No. 2 pp145-160; Vol. XL. No. 3 pp274-288; Vol. XLI. No. 1 pp1-6;

• catalogue of the Adelaide residence of the Australian Mission (1862; 1869-1870; 1874; 1877; 1880; 1886; 1889) and the Australian Mission (1887; 1893; 1902; 1912);

• contemporary newspaper clippings of Jesuit houses in Australia;

• copy of 'Edmund Campion’s History of Ireland' by the Rev. John Hungerford Pollen SJ with an inscription to Fr John Conmee SJ by J. H. Pollen SJ reprinted from ‘The Month’, December, 1905, and February, 1906.

• articles by Fr Matthew Devitt SJ on 'Summerhill, County Meath and its neighbourhood', published in Kildare Archaeological Society;

• 'Irish University Education: A plea for Fair Play' by Fr William Delany SJ (1904);

• 'Brief memoir of Fr Patrick Duffy SJ' (1904);

• 'The Annual Report of the Apostolic School of Ireland' (Society of Jesus) 1884-1885, 1886, 1895;

• extracts from the diary of Mungret College (1884-1885);

• copy letters from Rev. F. Ronan to the Fathers and Students of Mungret College during the journey through the United States (September 1884- Christmas 1885).

Letter from Fr H Walmesley SJ, Via S. Nicola da Tolentino, Roma to Irish Fr Provincial William Delaney SJ concerning a representative from the Australian Mission to the Provincial Congregation. Includes a copy of a reply on the same issue from the XXV General Congregation (1906).

Letter from Fr Jeremiah Kelly SJ, RMS 'Omrah', Cape Town to Irish Fr Provincial William Delany SJ concerning the voyage.

Letter from Fr Thomas Fay SJ, St. Aloysius College, Milson's Point, Sydney to Irish Fr Provincial William Delany SJ concerning the college - the purchase of, finances of and numbers of pupils.

Letters from Fr John Corcoran SJ, St Ignatius College, Riverview, Sydney to Irish Fr Provincial concerning his work (in 1915 he was Fr Minister in Riverview).

A file of letters from Fr Richard Murphy SJ to Irish Fr Provincial. Includes a letter referring to the opening of the Novitiate at Loyola, Greenwich Road, Greenwich, North Sydney. Refers to retreat work also carried out from Loyola, North Sydney (4 August 1913, 1p). Includes a letter concerning the establishment of a new foundation in Toowong, Queensland. Remarks 'Queensland is a land of quite extraordinary wealth and must eventually harbour a very large population. In those days our Foundation here will be gratefully remembered.' (20 November 1916, 2pp).

A file of letters from Fr Michael J. Watson SJ, Australian Messenger of the Sacred Heart, St. Patrick's College, Melbourne to Irish Fr Provincial. Includes a letter referring to the Irish Monthly and encouraging its continuance and advising how it should be run (15 October 1912, 2pp). Includes a letter referring to property in Athlone bequeathed him by his sister and the selling of this property (25 November 1913, 3pp).