Documents relating to the wording of forms of charitable bequests to the Society. Includes examples of different bequest forms, memorandum for Irish Fr Provincial on charitable bequests and letters to Irish Fr Provincial on the matter.

Note bequeathing £100 from Charles J. Blake, Heath House, Maryboro[ugh], County Laois to the Superior, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Burse book and benefactors for Mungret College and Mungret Apostolic School. Includes name of benefactors, date, amounts donated and remarks. Individual statements regarding each donation are made, as are promises of donations. Includes individual notes and letters from benefactors; William Ronan, Marianne Scully.

Account book entitled Provincial Account F. Lentaigne XXVII. The book contains details of property owned by the Irish Province, investments, annual income, general cash account, bequests (pp. 385 - 400). Includes an alphabetical index. Also, copy of letter of Fr General Peter Beckx SJ (In Latin).

File relating to a bequest for £883-11 left to the Irish Fr Provincial by Mary Mooney, Portslade-by-Sea, Sussex, England for the cost and maintenance of Manresa and the erection of a plaque to the memory of Fr Charles Doyle SJ. Includes copy of Mary Mooney’s will, accounts of the executor and correspondence between representatives of Barclay’s Bank and William Dargan, Bursar of the Irish Province.

A file relating to a deed approving the application of funds between Francis Edward Joseph MacDonnell, Esquire, Dunfearth and the Lodge, Rathangan, County Kildare and Rev. Philip Dominick Kehoe, Church of St. Francis, Merchant Quay, Dublin and Rev. John Curtis, S.J., Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin following bequests made in the will of Eliza MacDonnell.

Typewritten copy of will. Amongst other bequests to nephews, niece and brothers, Hanly leaves £1000 to 'the Rector of the Jesuits Order in Limerick...for masses to be said in public' for the repose of the souls of his parents, wife and himself.

Statement by Sr Mary Teresa Magdalen (Mary A. Hamilton), Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary concerning a gift of £1,000 to be paid to the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus upon her death.

Statement by Rev. Nicholas Walsh SJ and Rev. Edmund J. O'Reilly SJ, Milltown Park, County Dublin and Rev. Robert Carbery SJ, Clongowes, Wood College, County Kildare acknowledging receipt of £1,000 from Richard Devereux, Wexford for the education of students for the missions.

A file relating to a sum of money, £3,000, from Rose Coleman to Rev. Joseph Lentaigne SJ and Rev. John Callan SJ.

Statement by Mary Anne Hamilton (Sr Mary Teresa Magdalen of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary) concerning a bequest of £1,000 to the Society of Jesus.

A file relating to gifts of money made by Margaret Passelaigne to the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus. Includes two memoranda of deed of gift in which she states that after her death the money is to become the absolute property of the Irish Province.

A file relating to a sum of money (£4,000) given to the Jesuit Order, Mungret, County Limerick by Fr David O'Carroll PP. The contents of the file concern the issue of whether estate duty or succession duty is due to the Revenue Commissioners on the sum. Includes a statement by Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ. Recounts a conversation with Fr O'Carroll shortly before his death in which he remarked '"I have a large sum of money in the Bank of Ireland...I want to place a sum of £4,000 on deposit receipt in my own name and that of either Fr Dillon or Fr Shuley of Mungret so as to lessen the sum which will be to my credit if I die...if I die the money is to be drawn and given to the Apostolic School Mungret".'

Correspondence between Fr Brian Sharkey SJ, Kasiya Mission, Pemba, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and Irish Fr Provincial Michael O’Grady relating to a bequest made by his mother to the Society of Jesus in Ireland and the request by one of his parishioners to get a hair shirt.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ from Mr Matthew Barrett SJ, Rathfarnham Castle, relating to money he inherited on his 21st birthday.

Correspondence between Fr Gregory Ffrench SJ, St Mary's College, Emo, County Laois and Irish Fr Provincial Michael O’Grady SJ, relating to the legacy left to Fr Ffrench from his mother so that Masses could be said for her soul.

File relating to bequests to the Society from the father of Fr Denis P. Kennedy SJ, Susan Kelly, ‘Mrs O’Farrell’, David O'Brien, and Frederick Charles King.

Letter to Fr William Dargan SJ, 85 Eglinton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, from J.G. O’Connor and Company, solicitors, 9 Clare Street, Dublin, relating to the estate of Fr Bernard Corcoran.

Letter to Rev. Thomas V. Nolan SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, from John H. Callan, solicitor, Suffolk Street, Dublin, relating to a certificate for £5238 original stock of Great South Western Railway standing in the names of the Trustees of the Jesuit Fathers and Ellen Howley; Receipts from Howley acknowledging the payment to her by the Society of Jesus of interest on a charge of £10,000.

Letter relating to the transfer of faculties to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ to deal with a legacy of £4500.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ from Thomas Bodkin, Secretary, Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland, relating to a bequest made to the Society by Margaret M. Strickland. Copy reply included.

Correspondence between Irish Fr Provincials Laurence Kieran and John MacMahon and Anthony J. Lalor, The Barn, Dalkey, County Dublin, relating to Lalor's endowment of £10,000 to the Jesuit noviceship at Emo Park in memory of his friend Fr Henry Fegan SJ.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ from H.A. Pelly, The Hibernian Bank Limited, Cork, requesting advice on behalf of a lady customer who wishes to endow a bursary for the Jesuit foreign missions in memory of her brother.

Letters to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ from William Fry, solicitor, 14 Lower Mount Street, Dublin, relating to a bequest to the Society from James Mullany, late of Tullynure, Geevagh, County Sligo.

List of benefactors to the Society of Jesus in Ireland.

Letter to John Burden SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin, from l’Estrange and Brett solicitors, Belfast, relating to his inheritance of £250 from the estate of T.A. Garrett deceased.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ from William Shannon, solicitor, Ormond Quay, Dublin, informing him of a legacy by the late W.F. Judd of the sum of £500 for the education and preparation of poor students who desire to become members of the Society of Jesus.

Account of the status of investments made from the Cahill Bequest in December 1936.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ from Fr Joseph Meskell SJ, 31, Farm Street, London, relating to an annuity to be distributed among ‘widows and orphans in and in the neighbourhood of the city of Dublin in Ireland’ which became known as the McGrath Jamaica Fund. Copy response included.

File of correspondence relating to the bequest to the Society of the sum of £1000 for masses by Fr Edward Fitzmaurice, The Presbytery, Beaufort, Killarney, County Kerry.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial John R. MacMahon SJ from Walter Beatty, solicitor, Dame Street, Dublin, relating to interest on a portion of the estate of Thomas J. Gleeson bequeathed to the Society of Jesus.

File of letters relating to the gift by Fr William Murphy, Parish Priest, Borris, County Carlow, of his copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle to the Society of Jesus. He writes to Irish Fr Provincial John MacMahon SJ of having a book which may ‘deserve a place on the shelf’ of the Incunabula Department of the library at Milltown Park, Dublin. Also includes letters relating to the payment of the legacy of £150 which Fr Murphy bequeathed to the Society in his will.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ from L. Potter, 113 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, enclosing a bequest from his sister, Jane.

Notice of the objects of a deed of charitable trust for the Society of Jesus in Ireland including the provision maintenance and upkeep of Churches and Public Chapels and the maintenance and support of and provision of medical and surgical aid for infirm invalid and aged poor Priests and Clerics.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ from M.L .O'Connell, solicitor, The Square, Listowel, County Kerry, of a legacy of £400 left to the Jesuit Fathers by Ellie MacMahon.

Correspondence relating to a bequest of £500 made to the Society of Jesus from William Roche, 20 Stephen's Green North, Dublin (trustee of will of Peter Joyce). Includes letter to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ from Fr Charles O'Conor SJ.

Correspondence relating to the bequest of M. Bedford, late of Linden Convalescent Home, Dublin, of the sum of £50 to the Society of Jesus so that Masses could be said for the repose of her soul at a stipend of 10-/ for each Mass. Included bequest of James Kelly, Limavady, County Derry (5 April 1946).

Letters relating to a bequest of £25 made to the Society of Jesus by Mary Carolan, 7 Clareville Road, Terenure, Dublin.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ from Monks and Gaynor Solicitors, Molesworth Street, Dublin, enclosing cheque to the sum of £250 bequeathed to the Society by the late Mary Teresa Law, 27 Hollybank Road, Dublin.

Letters and notes relating to the donation of the sum of £2000 for Jesuit education by Josephine Hanly, 6 Charleville Road, North Circular Road, Dublin.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ from Thomas Montgomery and Son, solicitors, Suffolk Street, Dublin, enclosing a cheque for £40 from the estate of Joseph Dunn, late of Roslyn Park, Beach Road, Sandymount, Dublin.

Correspondence relating to the bequest of John Patrick Higgins late of Ballymoney, Dunmore, County Galway, of the sum of £7-15-6 to be used for Masses dedicated to repose of his soul and that of his family. Includes copy of probate of Higgins' will.

Letters between Fr Patrick C. O'Donoghue SJ and Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ relating to the anonymous donation to the Society of the sum of £3000.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ from Patrick J. Brady, solicitors, Molesworth Street, Dublin, enclosing the sum of £1500 on behalf of Mary O'Leary.

Note by Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ to the effect that Rose C. Fagan, 218 Clonliffe Road, Dublin, bequeathed the sum of £1000 to found a burse in perpetuity for the education of a Jesuit student for the priesthood.

Document detailing railway shares donated by individuals to Milltown Park, Dublin detailing amount, date, donor and conditions.

List of funds given to Milltown Park, Dublin detailing amount, date and donor.

Letters regarding the donation by Eleanor Haly to Milltown Park, Dublin.

Documents relating to the Miss Mary Ellen Warren's donation to Milltown Park, Dublin. Includes correspondence between Rectors, Frs Cyril Power, Patrick Kenny and John R MacMahon, and Miss Warren, 7 Maxwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin, her sister, Mrs Julia Fleming and solicitors.

Letter from Fr Thomas J Martin SJ to Margaret E. Lysaught, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England, relating to her desire to bequeath money to the Jesuit Mission to Hong Kong.

List of some of the legacies to the Society of Jesus in the period 1955-1956.

Anonymous note concerning Masses offered for the repose of the souls of Mr and Mrs Kinsella, benefactors of the Society.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ from Fr Cyril Power SJ, Clongowes Wood College, Naas, proffering his opinion on the question of goods coming to the Society from a person who has left no will.

Correspondence relating to the bequest of £2000 for the building of a church in a leprosarium by Lily H. Robinson, Hillfield, Underhill Road, Cleadon, Sunderland.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ from John Stanton and Sons solicitors, 20 South Mall, Cork, relating payment from the estate of Elinor A. Kilbride.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ from Fr Robert Tyndall SJ, The Crescent, Limerick, relating to an anonymous donation of £1000 for the education of a Jesuit for the foreign missions.

File of letters relating to the bequest of £109-12 by Mary E. Marron, 352 East 143 Street, Bronx, New York, for the training of Jesuit scholastics in Ireland.

File of letters relating to the bequest of £1000 to the Superior of the ‘Maryknoll Jesuit Mission to India’ by John O'Leary, late of Oaklodge, Douglas Road, Cork.

Correspondence relating to the bequest of £500 to the benefit of the Irish Mission to China by James McBride, late of Carrick, Carrigart, County Donegal.

Letter to Fr Coyne from Fr John T. Kelly, St Ignatius' College, Galway, relating to ‘Mrs. Fogarty’s Burse’ at Mungret Apostolic School.

Correspondence mainly between Fr Walter O'Connor SJ, St Ignatius' College, Galway, and Marion King, Sea View, Westport, relating to her donation of £1000 for the training of a missionary priest.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ from Dr. Edeltraut Albert Reinert, 6 Lower Hatch Street, Dublin in relation to his will; copy of Dr Reinert's will in which he leaves much of his estate to the Society.

Correspondence relating to the bequest to the Society of Jesus by Catherine Healy, late of Clondalee Beg, Hill of Down, County Meath. Includes copies of the executor's account and solicitor's costs.

Correspondence between Fr Walter O'Connor SJ, Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ and Dr H. Russell-Macnabb, Fox Lodge, Ratoath, County Meath, relating to bursaries the latter set up for the training of missionary priests in the Society.

Letters to Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ relating to various bequests from Anne Kelly, Jane Mary Larkin, Michael J. Hogan, E.M. Ahern, C.A .Sheridan and Canon Michael John Mitchell.

File relating to the bequest to the Society by Peter O'Connor, Solicitor, Waterford.

Copy of document drawn up by Fr Edward Nolan SJ in February 1865 announcing a donation of a total sum of £403.1.6 to be made to St Stanislaus College, and the uses to which the money should be put, e.g., the building of an altar, and the setting up of exhibition prizes.

Letter from Fr Michael Lawlor SJ, writing from Chicago, to Fr [ ]. Refers to the donation of $1,000 worth of government bonds from Mrs Keating, the mother of Fr Thomas Keating SJ.

Document with [Irish] Society seal, expressing gratitude to Catherine O'Ferrall for donating a sum of £3000 to the Irish Province of the Society.

Letter from English Assistant Fr Arthur Weld SJ, writing from the Collegio Romano, Rome, to [ ] SJ. Discusses the administration of a will, by which an amount of money was left to the Society, or a member thereof.

Letter from Fr Edmund O'Reilly SJ to Irish Provincial Fr Nicholas Walsh SJ. Sends counsel's opinion on the matter, and other relevant communications (not included).

Letter from A. O'Hagan and Son, Harcourt Street, to Fr James Redmond SJ. Refers to the items that they intend to claim from Mrs Bentley, and undertakes to send an estimate compiled by Mr Conway.

Letter from Irish Fr Provincial John Conmee SJ, to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ. Discusses the will of Catharine Cleary, and the question of whether an amount of money left to the Irish Province was ever actually paid. Refers to an enclosed item (not included).

Statements of accounts in relation to the estate of Ambrose O'Rorke, which was being administered by Messrs Daniel O'Rorke and Son, Solicitors, Belfast. Lists interest due on various investments, including shares, loans etc., and also lists beneficiaries of O'Rorke’s will, with amounts of money [due to them].

Letter from Fr Henry Lynch SJ, St Stanislaus’ College, Tullamore, to the Irish Fr Provincial. Sends him a cheque for £96 [bequest of a will] (not included) ‘and a short explanatory note from Tom’.

Conveyance deed between Fr Daniel Roche SJ and his sisters, Kate, Margaret and Hannah Roche, Castleisland, County Kerry.

A file relating to the Burses founded in the Apostolic School, Mungret College but given to All Hallows. Includes note explaining the provenance of the correspondence (25 September 1977) and documents such as:

• Lord Emly Burse (January 1883, 2 items);
• Boyce Burse (23 June 1905 - 10 October 1910, 5 items);
• Michael Leahy bequest (20 October 1909 - 31 May 1912, 4 items);
• Madeline Josephine M. Sampson Burse (St. Marie Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, 3 May - 6 June 1913, 2 items);
• Canon Doyle Burse (24 October - 28 November 1922, 5 items);
• letter from Fr O'Donnell SJ to Fr Edward Cahill SJ relating to ‘De Jure Burses’ (12 September [ ], 4pp).