Letter from +Craven to +McQuaid thanking him for sending Mgr. Charles Hurley at the requiem for +Godfrey. He also offers sympathy on the death of Cardinal D’Alton. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from +Rohracher to +McQuaid where he mentions Cardinal D’Alton who has recently died. In German.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid confirming the date for the lunch in honour of Cardinal D’Alton. He is looking forward to attending.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid inviting him to dinner at the Nunciature in honour of Cardinal D’Alton. The President has agreed to attend and he hopes the Archbishops of Tuam and Cashel will do likewise. He enjoyed his time at Clonliffe the previous day and was glad to have met the Parish Priests of the Diocese.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid, marked Confidential. He encloses a copy of a letter he is sending to Cardinal D’Alton and the Archbishops of Tuam and Cashel in relation to Fr. Edward Lodge Curran, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn who is due to visit Ireland where he wishes to give a number of open-air public addresses. The priest is persona non grata in many American Dioceses. He had visited Ireland previously and addressed several public meetings. Fr. Lodge Curran claims there was never any objection to these by the Irish Hierarchy. He wishes the Cardinal and Archbishops to inform their Bishops. Annotated by +McQuaid stating ‘The address was given in O’Connell Street without my knowledge. I should never have allowed it’. See item 483.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid thanking him for the ‘gracious letter that I received from the Hierarchy of Ireland through His Eminence, the Most Reverend Cardinal D’Alton and their Lordships the Most Reverend Secretaries of the Hierarchy on the occasion of my departure from Ireland to take up new duties that have been assigned me in Great Britain’. He especially thanks the Archbishop for all his help and that he will treasure the memories he has of Ireland, whose people have a deep practical catholic faith. He asks for continued prayers in relation to his new position on ‘…the other side of the Irish Sea…’

Letter from +Riberi to +McQuaid forwarding a copy of the correspondence sent to Cardinal D’Alton in relation to the preparations for the forthcoming Jubilee Year of Holy Father.

Notes from the Secretary to + McQuaid informing him that Professor C. O’Reilly was enquiring about the presentation of the oil painting to Cardinal D’Alton.

Typed letter from + John D’Alton to + McQuaid regarding ‘Rowan’s letter.’

Note to + McQuaid informing him that The Irish Independent reported that Cardinal D’Alton will attend Cardinal Godfrey’s funeral. Should he inform the evening papers that Mgr. Hurley is to represent the Archbishop?