Letter from +D’Alton to +McQuaid seeking permission to consecrated Mgr. Moynagh in Dublin. Agreement annotated by +McQuaid.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to Cardinal D’Alton regarding the 80th birthday celebrations of the Pope.

Letter from +O’Hara to Cardinal D’Alton regarding the International Congress of Catholic Doctors which is to be held in Dublin in June. The Holy See is anxious that this be an opportunity for proclaiming Catholic teaching in the field of medicine.

Letter from +O’Hara to Cardinal D’Alton regarding Catholic principles and policies in relation to UNESCO. He states the Holy See is concerned with the activities of the programme and policies of OMEP as they deal with the education of children of pre-school age. This is a delicate matter ‘…since there is considerable Masonic influence at work in OMEP, which is tinged with communism’. The Holy Father wants Ireland to bring its influence to bear at the Congress in Rome in August. He also asks that a competent ‘layman’ to establish contact with the International Catholic Co-ordinating Centre for UNESCO in Paris. He also suggests that the Irish Hierarchy establish a National OMEP Committee in Ireland.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + D’Alton. Before he went out of office Dr. Browne seemed very determined to do as much harm as he could to all who opposed his Scheme. Hopes the storm has now blown over.

Handwritten letter from +John Cardinal D’Alton to ill. Phillips thanking her/him for the souvenir of Mgr. Harmil’s 90th birthday.

Note from Fr. Leo Quinlan to +McQuaid stating Bishop elect D’Alton wishes to meet with him before returning to Yola.

Copy letter from +Riberi to Cardinal D’Alton regarding the forthcoming celebrations for the Jubilee Year of the Holy Father, when the Pope will be 80. Two monuments are to be erected; a church built entirely from offerings and the foundation of a Boarding School for lay people.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid indicating where he wishes to sit on the night of the Academic session, at the Gresham Hotel, in connection with the Tercentenary of the Death of the Nuncio Rinuccini. He wishes the Archbishop to join him afterwards in greeting President Sean T. O Ceallaigh and the other members of the Diplomatic Corps. He also mentions that Cardinal D’Alton is sending a telegram to the Holy Father, in the name of the Irish Hierarchy, in relation to Rinuccini.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +D’Alton, stating that he will receive the new Nuncio at the Pro Cathedral on