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‘Chapter VI’ holograph draft (pp136 - 156) (21pp) and typescript pp27 - 41 (15pp) with footnotes (3pp) by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.

Article entitled ‘A Chaplain’s Story: Fr. Willie Doyle; A pastor across all divides’. Recounts Fr Doyle’s time as an army chaplain in the First World War. Also includes a print-out of pages from a web-site dedicated to Fr Doyle. Accompanied by a note to Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ, Province Archivist, explaining their provenance.

A file containing articles photocopied from the Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society, vol. I, no. 5 and vol. III, no. 3 on "The Aylmer Family", "The Principal Gentry of the County Kildare in the Year 1600" and "Donadea and the Aylmer Family".

Biographical information on Fr Henry Gill SJ. Includes:
– extract on Fr Gill from the Catalogus personarum primus (1930, 2pp);
– potted biography of Fr Gill by Fr John A Leonard SJ (n.d., 1p.);
– photocopies of newspaper obituaries of Fr Gill (27 Nov. 1945, 1p.);
– photocopies of obituaries from 'The Belvederian' and 'The Clongownian' (1946, 1p. each) and
– photocopy of an obituary printed in the 'Irish Province News', (Jan 1946, 3pp).

Biographical information on Fr Leonard Sheil SJ. Includes:
– potted biography by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ (Irish Province Archivist, 1986-2019), (1984, 1p.);
– biography of Fr Sheil entitled 'Who Travels Alone' by Fr Robert L. Stevenson SJ (Dublin: C. Goodliffe Neale (Irel.) Ltd.) (1975, 56pp);
– photocopies from the 'Jesuit Year Book' of an illustrated article by Fr Robert L. Stevenson SJ entitled ‘Emigrants’ Priest: Fr. Leonard Sheil, S.J.’ (1969, 9pp) and an illustrated appreciation of Fr Sheil by Very Rev. Joseph Flynn, M.S.S (1969, 5pp).
Also includes appreciation of Fr Sheil by Very Rev. Joseph Flynn, M.S.S., printed in 'Irish Province News' (April 1968, 2pp).

Biographical information on Fr Peter Kenney SJ, and material related to the early years of the Irish Vice-Province.

Photocopy of cutting from the 'Irish Times' of an article entitled 'Red Threat To The Faith' reporting on a Lenten lecture delivered by Fr Arthur Little SJ in Gardiner Street. Attached is a typed page entitled 'Europe and Faith' by Hilaire Belloc.

Typescript drafts of a paper entitled ‘Chapter II. Brian (Boruma) and the Corpus Missal’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.

Biographical information on Fr Henry M Browne SJ, including catalogue entry, obituaries and 'UCD Classics The Making of the Classical Museum', University College Dublin (2003).

Copy of article of Fr Michael Maher SJ by William Ellis published in 'Carloviana' (1988/89), entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography by David Murphy (2011), and photocopy of obituary of Fr Michael Maher SJ from 'Letters and Notices' (January 1919).

Catalogue entry, obituaries and Service (1917-1921) Medal for Fr William McElligott SJ. Includes article by Damien Burke entitled 'Irish Jesuits and the London IRA, 1921' which outlines William McElligott involvement in the War of Independence.

Holograph article ‘The Introduction of Roman Canon Law into Ireland.’

Letters and notes to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Jean Leclercq, O.S.B., Most. Rev. Sighard Kleiner, Abbot General of the Cistercian order and Fr Augustin Altisent, concerning Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s work on the publication of the critical edition of St. Bernard’s 'Vita Malachie'.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various academics (including Valéria Flint) mostly relating to aspects of the life of Honorius Augustodunensis. Includes offprint ‘The Career of Honorius Augustodunensis’ by V.I.J. Flint, University of Auckland, New Zealand from Revue Bénédictine (Vol. 82, Nos. 1 – 2, 1972, p.63 – 86).

Letters from various academics and clergy to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ mainly informing him of additional sources of information concerning his research on the Irish in the West Indies in the seventeenth century. Includes:

• letter from Fr Gwynn’s father, Stephen Lucius Gwynn ([c1929], 2pp);
• letters from Fr John MacErlean SJ (12 October 1929 – 28 May 1931, 6 items);
• correspondence between Fr John MacErlean SJ, Mr Ambrose A. Kelly and Fr Gwynn concerning a manuscript originally thought to be in the possession of ‘the late Mr. Reddin, who…had been employed by the Foreign Office for a number of years making searches and reports amongst the archives in Spain’ (9 - 25 June 1931, 4 items);
• letters from James Alexander Williamson, author of 'English in Guiana' (3,14 March 1932, 2 items);
• letter from Fr Michael McGrath SJ (5 December 1936, 1p.) and
• ‘Montserrat: “The Most Distinctively Irish Settlement in the New World”, by John C. Messenger, 'Ethnicity 2', 281-303. (1975).

Material relating to Fr Seán Ó Catháin SJ, including catalogue entries and memorial cards, letters from Fr Michael Browne SJ, and off print of articles by Fr Ó Catháin SJ.

File of mission material relating to Fr John Foley SJ. Includes announcement of death; personal record; obituary; sermons, articles and correspondence between Fr Foley and Frs. Thomas O'Brien, Vincent Murphy and Thomas J. Martin, Mission Office, Dublin.

Obituary, mortuary card and article on Fr William Hackett SJ by Fr Francis J. Dennett SJ ' 'Tis Sixty Years Since' in 'Jesuit Life (1984).

Carbon copy of an article by [Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ] entitled ‘Kings and Monks in the Tenth Century Reformation.’ Incomplete.

Photocopies of articles from the Irish Times, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on William Smith O'Brien (17, 18 July 1974, 2pp). Includes letter published in the paper by W. Smith O'Brien (father of Blanche Touhill) on Fr Gwynn’s articles (27 August 1974, 1p.) and letter from W. Smith O'Brien to Fr Gwynn (8 September 1974, 1p.).

Photocopy of a draft typescript [by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ] entitled ‘Notes on the History of Ardmore.’

A file containing typed manuscripts entitled 'Tract on Metrical Faults in Bardic Poetry (National Library of Ireland Philipps Mss., No. 3) with Explanatory Notes' by Fr Lambert McKenna SJ.