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Letters, telegrams, memoranda and notes relating to Belgian refugees in Ireland. Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ was a member of the Distribution Committee ‘appointed by the Local Government Board to look after the welfare and distribution of the Belgian Refugees arriving in Dublin’. Most of the letters comprise offers to house refugees or concern schemes to aid them, both physically and spiritually. Includes:
– letter from Dr Bernard Coyne, Bishop of Elphin (1913-1926) to Lady Moloney seeking her assistance in the securement of a disused barracks in order to provide shelter for Belgian refugee families (21 Oct. 1914, 1p.);
– bills from drapers and household stores for items purchased for the refugees;
– letters relating to troubles between Protestants and the Catholic refugees in Portadown;
– letters to Fr Nolan from refugees and members of the Belgian Refugees Committee;
– lists of names and locations of refugees in Ireland and names and addresses of people who housed refugees.

On 17 October 1914, the Father Provincial of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, Thomas V. Nolan, received a letter from the Local Government Board to go down to the North Wall at 7.30am on the 18th and meet the 100 Belgian refugees ‘and one hundred each of the following days’. This was due to ‘a few of your Order, who speak Flemish’. Subsequently, the Irish Provincial became a member of the Distribution Committee which looked after the welfare and distribution of refugees arriving in Ireland. The Irish Jesuits received offers to house the refugees and organised schemes to aid them, both physically and spiritually.

A file of bills for structural improvements to Killiney Castle and for food. Includes quotations for work to be carried out (6 March 1878, 1p).

Copy of guarantee re: Miss Margaret Ellen Murphy deceased and Fr John St Leger SJ deceased from Frs Conmee, Fottrell and Farley, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street to Michael Cartan O'Meara, Solicitor, 44 Kildare street; receipt for Legacy Duty paid.

Daybook of receipts and expenditure of St Francis Xavier's Residence, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Handwritten entries detail receipts: church collections and expenditure: bacon; newspapers etc…

File of material related to insurance policies in St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes correspondence from Sun Fire & Life Assurance Office, old rent receipts, cancelled insurance documents and dividend counterfoils.

File of material relating to the bequest of Mrs Mary O'Callaghan, 15 Leinster Road, Rathmines, County Dublin such as: miscellaneous costs of probate, receipt from Mr Gill, costs in connection with the conveyance of the Upper Sherrard Street property of the Jesuit community; cheques to be drawn; correspondence from Maxwell, Weldon & Co. Solicitors; receipts from Glasnevin Marble Works and B. Farrell, Job Carriage Proprietor & Undertaker; will and codicil of Mrs Mary O’ Callaghan; list of Mrs Mary O' Callaghan’s papers; letters to be opened after Mrs Mary O'Callaghan’s death’

Handwritten record of monthly expenditure and income of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Expenses include wages, food, wine, travel, hogs, postage, books, clothing, food, etc. In-coming monies include mass collections, rent of hall and shrine and funeral monies. Front cover detached.

Receipt ‘to support 3 Messenger Father June + July’ for £31 2s 8 d.

Receipt for the sum of £98 2s by Rev Charles Farley SJ from the National Bank Limited.

Receipt issued by Fr Edward Kelly SJ for £50 stg, received from Fr John Curtis SJ ‘on account of the debt due by [ ] to this Province’.

Receipt of cheque for work carried out at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin by William Conolly & Son Contractors, 38 & 39 Upper Dominick Street.

Receipt of shares payments by the Jesuit fathers St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin towards £25 annuity to Mrs Brosnahan.

Receipts for funeral expenses from B Farrell, Job Carriage Proprietor and Undertaker, 66 Marlborough Street, Dublin for the following Jesuits: Thomas Mahon; John Verdon; James Fottrell; Patrick Curran; Fr Browne.

Receipts for income and expenditure at the Jesuit community, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

File of receipts of dividends from investments by the Jesuit fathers in companies such as: The Dublin United Tramways Company, Limited; Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Limited; The Western Telegraph Company, Limerick; Ballinrobe and Claremorris Light Railway Co., Limited; Loughrea and Attymon Light Railway Co., Ltd.; Great Southern and Western Railway Co.; South Clare Railways Company; Limited.

Receipts from Taylor Brothers, Stone & Marble Work, 25 Talbot Street and 6 Fairview Strand Works and Todd Burns & Co. Limited for payment of work on St Patrick's Chapel, candlesticks and marble altars at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes specification for marble altar.

Bound volumes with account of receipts from Promoters for Rosary Circles for the Apostleship of Prayer - 'The Holy League of the Sacred Heart of Jesus'. Handwritten entries which includes names and amount.

File of receipts, requests for masses, and bequests sent to Fr Charles Farley SJ, St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, (Province
Procurator). Includes receipts, postcards and letters from Frs Edward Boyd Barrett, James O'Connor, Joseph Flinn, A. Magne, Daniel J. Finn (from R.M.S Orsova on the way to Australia), James Creagh, James Farrell, John Ryan (Valkenberg), William Byrne, Bernard Page, John Nerney, C. Wishoff, Leopold Skarek, and Dr. Conway Dwyer, 86 Merrion Square, Dublin.