Letter from Abbot Finbarr Cashman, Mount Melleray Abbey, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford to +McQuaid stating he will be at the Liturgical Reception for the new Nuncio. Letter torn in half.

Correspondence relating to the official blessing and opening of Sheldon Abbey, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, on 11th February .

Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: Fr. O’Connell spoke to the Lord Mayor regarding her presiding at the Anti-Nuclear Armaments meeting. She was grateful as she had not known the position. A full report was received on Farrington and Morrison. Mrs. Mary O’Connell is the editor of The Plough. More information sought on her. Sam Mooney is a Communist and a member of the Irish Workers’ League. Mrs McAuley she is causing some trouble in the Irish Housewives Association. Fr. Clarke is to check if she is on the Adoption Board. Fr. Maguire reports a Scientology centre in Monkstown at which there seems to be three Maynooth Professors attending.

Married to Marie Timmons, Mount Merrion parish. All seems well.

Letter from Professor Dr. Doyle, Retired General Royal Engineers & Royal Flying Corps, Mount Merrion, to + McQuaid asking him to put a stop to the play Design for a Headstone at the Abbey. It is an attack on the clergy and foreign Missions.

Includes; a picture of The Abbey of the Irish Nuns at Ypres; letters in French to Sr. Carmel Kennefick, in Presentation Convent, Crosshaven, County Cork, Ireland; and documents in French relating to the History of the Order of St. Ursula.

"Conditions of the Pension for young ladies educated in the Royal Abbey of Benedictine Dames … in Flanders"; letter from Sister Christine Loughran of Matlock, England, to Sister Pius O'Farrell stating that many papers of the archives had been burnt due to a cholera outbreak; "A history of the Presentation Sisters in Western Australia".

Includes; Lease Isaac Moylan, Isaac Murphy and William Murphy (18 March 1829); Declaration of Trust David O'Meara to Cogan, Bray and Harnett (11 May 1849); Deed of Appointment, O'Callaghan (30 September 1853); draft Requisition for Negative Search (February 1873); Memorandum of Agreement, Denis Riordan, Reverend William Delaney (19 April 1852); Negative Search, Reverend John Prendergast, Reverend William Delaney (7 May 1873); copy mortgage Reverend William Delaney to Alicia Whyte (24 January 1877); Abstract of Title of Alicia Whyte (c1894); draft Requisition on Title, 7 Abbey Street, Cork (3 November 1901); copy Conveyance, Prendergast (19 April 1882); replies to Counsel's opinions (1 May 1894); Instructions of Counsel, Nesbitt McDonough to Whyte; Commissioners of Encumbered Estates (27 June 1855).

Correspondence relating to routine community life and apostolate. They have permission to remove their theology scholastics to Shelton Abbey, Arklow. Director of French Sisters of Charity (Daughters of Charity) firmly declines to leave Sisters in difficult conditions at Glencree. (see Oblates of Mary files). A beginning of secondary school at Sybil Hill, Raheny. Proposal from laity to have Vincentian secondary school at Arklow. Sisters will undertake new school at Ballyfermot. (see French Sisters of Charity file, also known as Daughters of Charity).

Letter from +Wall to +McQuaid mentioning an order illegible who is seeking another house in the Diocese. He mentions the ‘Abbey’, Loreto, Glencree and Shelton Abbey.