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Illustrated image of St Stanislaus De Kostka in frame.

House history for St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street.

History of St Joseph's Penny Dinners at Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin from 1892-1963.

Handwritten history of the bequest (of Miss Anne Kellet, who died in 1811) which subsequently established the Kellet school on Dorset Street. After 'arson' in 1855, the school was repaired and was acquired by Fr Gaffney, where the St. Francis Xavier School was built.

Historical and biographical sketch of Reverend Thomas Kelly SJ, late of St Francis Xavier’s Church, Gardiner Street in ‘The Lamp’, Vol. LIV, Number 336 entitled ‘A Loss to Catholicity and the Late Rev. Thomas Kelly SJ’. With photograph on front cover.

Handwritten information sheet in relation to the Association of Prayer. States that letters, applications etc must be addressed to Fr Kelly SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Adds that no money is demanded, but offerings are accepted.

Mounted group photograph of the visit of his Eminence Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney to St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Group photograph of the St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street community on a picnic (found in the papers of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ).

Gardiner Street ‘excursion’ to Lough Tay. L-r: Fr Frank Browne SJ, P McGlade, N J Tomkin, Charles Farley, John Fahy, Matthew Devitt, J Keane and M Phelan taken at Mrs McGurk’s cottage, Lough Bray, Wicklow.

Fragment of formula of declaration by scholastic. Also includes a note (in a different hand) regarding the transfer of £600 from the St Francis Xavier community to Tullabeg. (In Latin).

Fr William Doyle SJ, Chaplain - by Keogh Brothers Ltd., 124 St Stephens Green West and 75 Lower Dorset St, Dublin. On reverse is written Rev. C. Doyle, Presbytery, Upper Gardiner Street.

Flower seller at , St Francis Xavier Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, with little girl.

File relating to the financing of the Chikuni mission. Contains a letter to Dr Adam Kozlowiecki SJ, Archbishop of Lusaka, from Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ and resume of payments made to the Chikuni mission from 1964-1969.

Photographic negatives of the exterior of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Handwritten record of weekly, fortnightly and monthly expenditure on food at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Expenses include butcher, fishmonger, vegetables, potatoes, milk, trotters, tinning coppers, grocer, fruiter, bread and eggs. Includes reference at the rear of volume of food needed for lunch for the Archbishop on the feast of St Francis Xavier 1898; Christmas morning and boxes to messengers 1898 and Good Friday and St. Francis Xavier 1899.

Estimate for bricks and tiles from Walter Wardrop, Proprietor Courtown Harbour Brick and Tile Works, Gorey, County Wexford.

Granting of establishment for the B.V.M Immaculate Conception at St Francis Xavier's by the Congregationi Primae Primariae.

Copy of article from the Sunday Independent by Tomas S. Cuffe, on the centenary of St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Drawing depicting a design for the string course in St Francis Xavier's Church.

Draft will of [ ] bequeathing a sum of £50 sterling to Rev. [ ], of the church of St Francis Xavier's, Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Draft letter from [Irish Fr Provincial] to Fr Michael Quinlan SJ (Superior), St Ignatius, Galway concerning documents relating to the lease of property belonging to the Society of Jesus in Galway to a Mr O'Dea. Demands an immediate explanation. Remarks 'It seems to me that under no circumstances should this transaction go through…'.

Document laying down rules for the community in SFX, Upper Gardiner Street in relation to diet and the daily timetable for prayer etc.

Diary of the community at St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street. Includes lists of departures and arrivals, guests. Also records weather conditions and dinner menus.

Description of the new grand organ in the church of St Francis Xavier's by John White.

Parties:
Thomas Waters, Esquire, Carrigdoone, Blackrock, County Cork and John Waters of Montenotte, County Cork of the one part and Rev. Timothy Kenny, S.J., Rev. Thomas Kelly, S.J. and Rev. John Verdon, S.J., Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Terms & Conditions:
Payment of £1,888 on 31 December by Thomas Waters and John Waters to the parties of the other part and £1,000 plus interest to be paid at a later date provided 6 months notice is given.

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…

Day book for Upper Gardiner Street (St Francis Xavier's) community, which details income and expenditure.

Daily prayer for souls in purgatory, with list of names (Bagot, Dease, Nangle and O'Ferrall) and dates (1810-1860).

Photocopy from 'The Irish Press' reporting on the annual meeting of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association.

Custom book regarding church devotions and masses etc... at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin entitled ‘Aids to New-comers’.

Copy of will of Miss Catherine Cleary, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin in which a sum of £10 is bequeathed to a number of Jesuit priests and ‘to the residue of all property of every kind…I give devise and bequeath the same as follows viz To the Very Reverend Timothy Kenny’.

Copy of ‘Meditations and devotions, part three, Meditations of Christian Doctrine’ by John Henry Cardinal Newman belonging to Fr John Naughton SJ. The copy is annotated by Fr Naughton with his prayers and notes with inserts. Includes reference to retreats he gave, Kilkee 30th August 1910.

Copy of letter from Fr Patrick Hughes SJ, writing from St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Fr William McCartan. Thanks the latter for purchasing the two milch cows, but explains that his (Hughes’) superior, the Provincial Fr Brown, did not want the two store heifers that were purchased at the same time, and that he had already made this fact clear to Fr McCartan. Sends the latter a cheque for the cows.

Copy of correspondence from T.H. Meynell, 37 Furnival Street, Holborn, London to Daniel Purcell, Solicitor, 58 Dame Street, Dublin regarding the Cleary will, Biale v Kenny.

Copy of a letter from Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Fr John MacSheahan SJ (Superior) concerning a proposal for the Jesuits in Galway to take over the running of a hostel and the possibility of opening a preparatory school.

Copy of a letter from Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Fr Assistant concerning the financial relations of the two schools, Lay and Apostolic, at Mungret.

Parties:
Rev. John Power, Roman Catholic Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, David Keogh, Adelphi Hotel, Waterford, John Slattery, Merchant, William Street, Waterford of the one part and Rev. William Delaney, S.J. St. Stanislaus College, Tullamore, county Offaly, Rev. Edward Kelly, S.J., Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Rev. John O'Carroll, S.J., county Kildare, Rev. Sylvester O'Callaghan, S.J., Milltown Park, county Dublin of the other part.

Property:
Lands of Scalp William or Mount Mapas containing 5 acres, 1 rood and 131/2 perches and other lands known as Killiney Castle containing 14 acres 3 roods and 20 perches, part of Dalkey containing 11 perches and part of Dalkey Commons containing 3 roods and 12 perches, Barony of Rathdown and county Dublin.

Terms & Conditions:
Principal sum of £4,500

Other:
Signed and sealed

Commemorative prayer card for the silver jubilee of the sodality of Our Lady of Christians, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Commemorative magazine published on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of St Francis Xavier, which was celebrated in St Francis Xavier’s Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes a history of the church and its activities, as well as photographs of the interior and exterior, and of church-related activities.

Circular letter sent to an individual accepting him into the novitiate in St Mary's Emo.

Copy of a circular letter from Irish Fr Provincial Laurence J. Kieran SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to members of the Irish Province concerning the booklet compiled to aid scholastics about to begin their Magisterium. Asks for comments on the booklet under different headings.

Circular letter from Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ (Gardiner Street) to Fr Rector concerning Fr General's wish that scholastic philosophy be introduced into Jesuit secondary schools. Remarks that a committee was formed to discuss the matter. Concludes 'Hence I wish all our college Rectors when opportunity offers to suggest and if possible urge the introduction of scholastic philosophy as an alternative subject for the L.C. examination…'

Lined notebook entitled ‘Church decoration Organ Improved’. Details work on organ choir services, stations, novenas, old and new organ, advent calendar, retreats and souvenir of retreats and the new organist. With index at the front and hand-drawn plan of reconstruction of organ (30 September 1926) and schedule of works to be completed by Telford & Telford, Organ Builders, 33 Charlemont Street, Dublin for the ‘cleaning and overhauling of organ in Ignatian Chapel, St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street, Dublin (11 July 1944).

Catholic yearbook and calendar of St Francis Xavier’s Church, Upper Gardiner Street.

Church of St Francis Xavier Catholic Year Book and Calendar which details church services at St.Francis Xavier's.

Calendar of the Young Men's Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Leaflet of the 'Calendar for Lent 1932' which gives details on morning and evening sermons, church notices and Lenten lectures taking place at the church of St Francis Xavier, Dublin during Lent. Includes reference to the centenary.

Leaflet of the 'Calendar for Lent 1928' which gives details on morning and evening sermons, church notices and Lenten lectures taking place at the church of St. Francis Xavier, Dublin during Lent.

Calendar for the annual retreat for the officers and men of an Garda Síochána, Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Calendar for St Francis Xavier’s Church for June and July 1904.

Leaflet of the 'Calendar for Advent and Christmas 1927 and January 1928' which gives details on morning and evening sermons of Advent, month's mission and church notices taking place at the church of St Francis Xavier, Dublin.

Booklet entitled 'The Fourth Career of John b. Bannon; St Louis Pastor Southern Chaplain Confederate Agent Irish Jesuit Orator', by William Barnaby Faherty SJ, assisted by Kevin Laheen SJ.

Benediction Music Number 1 in E-Flat by Robert O'Dwyer, Organist, Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street.

Advertisement promoting the beatification of venerable fathers John de Britto and Andrew Bobola, martyrs of the Society of Jesus at the Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street. Details order of ceremonies and admission fees.

Attendance register for St Berchmans Sodality at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street. Entries are arranged under headings by day of the week and remarks, which include 'Sick', 'On vacation'.

Attendance register for sodality for St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street. Entries are arranged under headings by hours, day of the week and remarks, which include 'Sick', 'On vacation', 'Signed'.

Parties:
Rev Bartholomew Esmonde SJ, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Rev. John Ffrench SJ, Tullabeg, County Offaly and Rev. Stephen Farrell SJ, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Property:
Premises in Drogheda and lands of Ballyboggan

Terms and Conditions:
Payment of rent and performance of the convents to which the premises are subject and liable.

Other:
Signed and sealed by Rev Bartholomew Esmonde SJ

Parties:
Rev. John Ffrench, S.J., Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin and Rev. Stephen Farrell, S.J., Clongowes Wood, County Kildare of the first part, Charles Kernan Esquire, Lower Dominick Street, Dublin of the second part and Rev. Joseph Lentaigne, S.J. and Rev. Stephen Farrell, S.J., Clongowes Wood of the third part

Property:
Premises in Drogheda

Terms & Conditions:
To be held in trust to the use of Rev. Joseph Lentaigne, S.J. and Rev. Stephen Farrell, S.J. forever.

Other:
Signed and sealed by Rev. John Ffrench, S.J. and Charles Kernan.

Article from ‘The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin’ by Christine Casey, Yale University Press, pp 131 - 133, in which St Francis Xavier's, Gardiner Street is described relation to the architecture and art inherent there.

Mounted board with details of the 'Arrangement of the Library: Main Library' of St Francis Xavier's, for example: 0. Works of reference, 29. Books on Ireland.

Notice and prayer leaflet of the annual retreat for the members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police Force held in the Church of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Announcement Book for Refectory for the Province of Maryland and New York used at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Has some annotation i margin.

Book taken from the Cruise Library, St Francis Xavier Community, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin entitled 'Alphabetum divini amoris'. With note by Sir Francis R. Cruise 'This book was kindly given to me by my friend Mr Wm Watson - It is a slighlty modified version of an essay [wrongly] attributed to John Gerson - See Vol III. page 770. of his works. Dated. 1706.' (26 April 1897). Cruise Collect C. I.

Album and envelope of black and white photographs of the exterior and interior of St Francis Xavier's Church.

Agenda for a conference on Jesuit Colleges held in St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street.

Account which detail the number of confessions, communions etc...to have taken place at St Francis Xavier's Church.

Account notebook detailing money entries from bequests of Fr John Bannon SJ and Miss English’s assets. Includes expenditure such as ‘Mrs Gaffney’s funeral’ (14 August 1914).

Account notebook belonging to Fr John Bannon SJ which notes deposit, interest and dividends on the credit side and purchases on the debit side. Part of province finances at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Account book relating to the expenditure on the extension to the presbytery at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. With note from Willam Patrick Ryan, 1, Albemarle Street, London explaining that he found it in his father's effects (the late John Ryan, architect) (3 May 1919).

Account book containing various financial details including general account, receipts and expenditure, Noviceship account, education money. Includes details of legacies, requests for masses, loans by the Society and to the Society.

Account book for building supplies and craftsmen's fees for the building of St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street.

‘The Catholic Penny Magazine’, Vol. 1, No. 3 - Vol. 1, No. 10.

Br Albert Kelly’s copy of ‘Fifty Meditations on the Passion’ by Archbishop Goodier SJ.