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Booklet entitled ‘Souvenir of St. Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg, King’s County. A College (1818 to 1886); Noviceship and House of Studies (since 1888) of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus.’ Lists: Rectors of the College, 1818 to 1886;
– Rectors and Masters of Novices since 1888;
– Staff of St. Stanislaus’ College, 1840-1885;
– Summary of Results.
Interspersed with photos of relevant persons, grounds and interiors.

Letters and notes concerning the Bishop of Meath, Dr Matthew Gaffney’s donation of £1,000 to the novitiate in Tullabeg.

Letters of the Prefect of Studies (Fr Michael Connolly SJ) to Fr Provincial.

Covering letter from Fr Thomas Byrne SJ to Fr Brendan Lawler SJ of Tullabeg (9 October 1948, 1p.), enclosing the official copy of the document of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities, by which Tullabeg is recognised as a Philosophical Faculty of the Society.

Letters to the Fr James Murphy SJ, Rector of Tullabeg from Matthew Gaffney, Bishop of Meath, concerning issues such as the granting of ordinary faculties and visits to Tullabeg. In one letter Bishop Gaffney writes, ‘I hope you are not extinguished after all the light you shed on us. You strongly established your own fame, but you literally elevated your order, high as had been its station’ (4 August 1899).

File relating to the establishment and maintenance of a guaranteed telegraph office at Rahan. Includes letters to Fr James Murphy SJ from the secretary of the General Post Office, Dublin and from D.E. Williams, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Barrack Street, Tullamore, county Offaly.

Letter by Fr Hugh Kelly SJ, Rector of Rathfarnham Castle, to Fr Daniel O’Sullivan SJ, Rector at Tullabeg, asking for the loan of an astronomical clock.

File of letters to Fr Kieran Hanley SJ, Superior, Tullabeg, mainly from Provincials Brendan Barry and Cecil McGarry covering topics such as the sesquincentenary of the house, alterations to the altar space and possible renovation plans.

Annual financial statements and estimates for the house and farm at Tullabeg.

Letters addressed to Fr. Kieran Hanley SJ, Rector of Tullabeg from the superiors and novices of various Jesuit houses on the Continent, such as the Séminaire Missionaire at Chantilly and the College Saint Albert at Louvain, in relation to the sending of students to Tullabeg during the summer of 1960.