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Books owned by Blessed John Sullivan SJ, with list of books.

Booklets 'A report on a priest's work in a remote Chinese village' (Holy Family Chapel, Chek Keng, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong). Signed by Fr Joseph McAsey SJ.

Commentary on Old Testament (probably early 16th century) No title page

Copy of 'Birds of Ireland' by P.G. Kennedy SJ, Robert F. Ruttledge and C.F. Scroope. Includes insert pasted letter from John S. Barrington, Cregane Manor, Rosscarbery, Cork to Fr Kennedy (22 October 1954), and letter from 'Oliver and Boyd', publisher deciding not to reprint 'Birds of Ireland' (22 April 1970).

Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial and Jesuits on various matters such as

• the censure of those in various stages of formation;
• the proposal to purchase books dealing with the missions in order to establish ‘the nucleus of a useful missionary library’ in Milltown Park (See also ADMN/3/11);
• Catholics and Trinity College Dublin (See also ADMN/3/43; 76);
• villas;
• the introduction of legislation granting a rebate of income tax to parents having children at school;
• the ‘desirability’ of a ‘recognised uniform’ way of expressing ‘Society of Jesus’ in initials in English and Irish;
• the introduction of dancing classes ‘under the guidance of a certain number of lady instructresses’ without the permission of Irish Fr Provincial at Belvedere College;
• Irish scholastics in Jersey and
• examinations in ‘air raid precautions and anti-gas measures’ for male members of religious orders at the Air Raid Precautions School, Griffith Barracks, Dublin.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof. Nancy Pollard Brown, (Professor of English, Trinity College, Washington) and Dr Peter Beal, concerning a seventeenth-century transcript of Robert Southwell’s 'Rule of Good Life' in Milltown Park, Dublin.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dom Daniel Rees, novicemaster [and librarian] Downside Abbey, Bath, relating to various research queries from Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and the exchange of books between Milltown Park Library and Downside, including a ‘complete bound set of the Downside Review’ (24 June 1975, 2pp).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from H. George Fletcher, Director of Fordham University Press, concerning Fr Gwynn’s efforts in providing the publishers with ‘a photograph of the Burke portrait…for Professor Hoffman’s The Marquis’ and their gift of certain books to the library in Milltown Park.

Thesis by Mr James J Corboy SJ, 'The Jesuit Mission to Ireland 1596-1626', for the degree of M.A. in the faculty of Modern History and for Archbishop Walsh Memorial Prize, University College Dublin.

On Old and New Testaments - title pages missing. 2 vols.: Secunda pars huius operis…Sexta pars huius operis…(no date from format probably early 16th century)

The text of the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius: translated from the original Spanish
Burns, Oates, London, 1880 and 1923.