Amended typescript manuscript entitled ‘Irish Missionary Priests in the West Indies’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.

Copy typescript transcripts, mostly relating to documents (1640-1661), supplied by Fr John MacErlean SJ, in Jesuit archives, on Fr John Stritch SJ and Irish mission.

Copy letter from Countess Sarah Selina Masterson, Blakes, Antiqua, West Indies to Mr Flanagan, Castlefin, County Donegal telling him of the death of his son of yellow fever. Expresses her deep sympathy.

Letter from Fr Charles Flanagan, Senior College, Maynooth to his father concerning his travelling plans from Maynooth to home (County Donegal) before he leaves Ireland for the missions in the West Indies.

Letter to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Joyce Lorimer (Ontario, Canada) on their mutual research interests in the West Indies.

Letter to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Tomás Ó Cléirigh (National Museum of Ireland) enclosing a copy of a reference to Irishman in the West Indies found in a 1663 publication by Rev. John Dowley.

Letters from Fr Nicholas J. Tomkin SJ (Library Censor) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to Fr Gwynn’s articles ‘An Irish Settlement on the Amazon, 1612 – 1629’ in 'Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy', (xli, p.1 – 54) and ‘Documents relating to the Irish in the West Indies’ [1612 – 1752] in 'Analecta Hibernica', (iv, p.139 – 286), with censor’s suggestions.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn S from various academics who have been tracing documents for him in relation to his work on the Irish in the West Indies. Includes some transcripts of relevant documents.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Frank N. Stagg, Commander R.N. retired, concerning Fr Gwynn’s ‘research on the history of the Irish in the West Indies and the island of Monserrat.’

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).

Note written by [ ] on the death of Fr Charles Gavan Flanagan in the West Indies. Pays tribute to his religious work and to his poetry and prose.

Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the different islands of the West Indies (7pp) and by A. Olivar OSB ‘Spiritual and Liturgical life on Montserrat’ (7pp).

Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to various archival documents (many from the State Papers (Dominions) ), includes citations and extracts from documents relating to the West Indies (1622-1731). In pencil.

Typescript transcripts from various documents (majority secondary sources) relating to the West Indies. Includes extracts with handwritten marginals by Fr Aubrey Gwynn, SJ from: ‘State Papers, Colonial’ on Sir Charles Wheeler, 1670 - 1673 (9pp); on Sir William Stapleton (2pp); ‘Blake Family Records’ (5pp);
– from ‘Council Book of the Corporation of Kinsale’ (1652 – 1800) (3pp);
– ‘Voyage et Travaux des Missionaires de la Compagnia de Jesus, publies par des Peres de la meme Compagnie pour servir de complement aux Lettres Edifiantes’ (11pp);
– documents from a series beginning with ‘C.O.1/XIX – XXXVII’ ‘Narrative of Colonel Theodore Cary (Nov. 17, 1665’ (35pp);
– documents from the ‘State Papers, Adventurers’ beginning with ‘Adventurers in Ireland and Barbados’ ‘Nicholas Blake’ (15pp);
– from the ‘State Papers, Colonial’ (20pp); and transcripts on English, Scottish and Irish Prisoners in Barbados (5pp, 13pp, 29pp).