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Expenses of Hong Kong mission visitors. A note reads 'It was agreed that the Provincial would support and clothe the above visitors (extraordinary medical expenses excluded) and should receive anything earned by them while in Ireland, including masses.'

Copy of ‘An account of a voyage from Falmouth to Buenos Ayres in 1828 - 9 written by Father Patrick Moran SJ of the Irish Mission.’ Incomplete.

Note from Fr James Cleary SJ to Irish Fr Provincial John Conmee SJ.

Note on Fr Jean Claude Jautard SJ (Spiritual Father of the newly Restored Society; buried at Clongowes in 1821), as Chaplain to George’s Hill Convent, 1814, made by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (Irish Province Archivist until 1986).

Miscellaneous notes and lists made by Fr John MacErlean SJ on the early history of the Restored Society from 1814 onwards, with special reference to Clongowes Wood College SJ.

Statement by Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Brown SJ indicating that he has received and accepted ‘the sum of £900 on 3 per cent stock’ from Sister E.M. Sutton of the Ursuline Convent of Ardanche, France, on certain conditions.

Copies of Irish ‘Informationes’ transcribed from the ‘Codex Novitiorum’ and ‘Informationes Novitiorum’ kept at Galloro, Roman Province. Sent with covering letter (12 February 1933, 1p) by Fr Denis Nerney SJ to Fr John MacErlean SJ. Includes ‘Informationes Novitiorum Hib. S.J. in Tirocino Romano, 1826 - 1841’ (in Italian, 6pp) and extracts from the Codex Novitiorum, 1565 – 1586 (in Latin, 7pp).

‘Instructions received from Fr General regarding the members of the V. Prov. who receive pensions or possess a right to property'. Issued by Fr John Curtis SJ.

Notes complied from retreats given by Fr Michael Browne SJ at the Convent of the Sisters of Charity, Mount St Anne's, Milltown, Dublin.

Preparatory notes by John O'Holohan SJ for the summer Pedagogical Course in Clongowes.

Notes on Retreat given to the Ursuline Nuns, Waterford by Rev. Daniel Considine SJ entitled ‘The Cure of the Blind Man’.

Notes written by Fr William Delany SJ detailing the correspondence between him and the Archbishop of Dublin, William J. Walsh.

Details of the mortgage for Killiney (either Killiney Castle or Druid Lodge).

Notes on the role of the Prefect of Studies.

Copy notes by Fr Aloysius Sturzo SJ concerning the finances of the Irish Province. Lists various legacies left to the Society by different individuals e.g. relatives of priests in the Society and how they were spent.

Lady Margaret Domvile to the Irish Fr Provincial Joseph Lentaigne SJ. States that she and Sir Charles ‘are particularly anxious to have an English chaplain, and therefore would not wish to apply for F. Costa’.

Notes concerning Studies in the Novitiate and Juniorate and Philosophy and Theology.

Notes on the Theology course in Milltown Park, Dublin.

Copy of an ‘important & precious document’ entitled ‘Memoirs of the Suppression & Restoration of the Society of Jesus in Ireland’ by Fr Patrick Bracken SJ. Copy made by Fr John Grene SJ (Librarian and custodian of the Irish Province archives [mid nineteenth century to c1880s]) (92pp). Includes ‘Notes to Memoirs’ (18pp). Loosely bound.

Notebook containing the results of Examina Annua for the Irish Province. The results are listed under name in alphabetical order.

Notes concerning the three vows of religion - poverty, chastity and obedience taken from the lectures of Fr George Byrne SJ, Master of Novices. The notes appear to be in the handwriting of Robert Nash SJ.

Lists of writers (arranged alphabetically) of the Restored Society and their publications (1832-1925, 38pp, ). Compiled by Fr James Rabbitte SJ of Gardiner Street, (Custodian of the Irish Province Archives, 1924-1930). Typed list of Irish Jesuit authors and title, 20th century (1900-1939, 6pp).

'A Diary or Jottings, from day to day of events, especially 1 Nov. 1892 regarding the Society and, in particular, this (Irish) Province, which may prove interesting &, perhaps, even useful when The Writer shall be many years dead and gone.’ Found enclosed is a typed note (n.d., 2pp) by an unknown Jesuit (possibly Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, Irish Province Archivist 1975-1986) giving brief biographical details of Fr Murphy. Also comments on the contents of the diary, ‘Some interesting things recorded are: the initial history of all the houses of the province: the story of the setting up of Milltown as a Coll. Max.: the dispute with the Bishop of Meath (Dr Nulty) over faculties for fathers at Tullabeg: the biographies of various S.J.s (and, e.g., reference to W. Coyne, later father of Fr Eddie Coyne and to Charles Kennedy a benefactor of the province): the account of the great storm of 1890/1 and of the influenza epidemic which swept over Europe from Russia. Minutiae of the day-to-day life, customs, studies and so on, and the final account of the Provincial Congregation (June 1892) after Fr General’s (Anderledy) death are also of interest and some historical value.’ Enclosures includes extracts from diary kept in Tullabeg, 1856 (9pp).

Notes compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ in effort to establish a chronology of the Society in Ireland from 1814 to 1819.