Letter from James Campbell, Hon. Sec., Cappagh Visitors’ Committee, to +McQuaid informing him that the Old Belvedere Musical and Dramatic Society is performing The Gypsy Princess in aid of the Cappagh Visitors’ Committee. He now asks for permission for clergy to attend.

Davy, James, Grafton St., Dublin. Asks Fr. Dunne to request permission from + McQuaid to have an appeal broadcast on radio on behalf of Belvedere Newsboy’s Club. Permission granted.

Typed minutes from the ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: The credentials of Mr. O’Neill, a teacher of philosophy at the Peoples’ College, queried. He was a Scholastic in Belvedere and a brilliant student, somewhat cynical, but a good Catholic. Mrs O’Connell, agitator against the cruelty of children in schools, is to speak to the Irish Housewives’ Association. The estimated number of Teddy-boys, Teddy-girls and Vicky-boys is 500. Their haunts are the Ballerina, the Orchard Rooms and the Four Provinces. Objectionable literature is being sold by Bamba Books 3-4 shops in city. Permission needed to read Communist journals.

Note from Canon G. Turley to Fr. Mangan saying he has no objection to the fete for the Belvedere Newsboys Club. 1 item

Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: Letchford has another article published in The Irish Democrat. The meaning of Murphy’s (ex T.D.) resignation discussed. D. Fennel, ex Belvedere and ex Opus Dei. Has written articles on China and Northern Irish Catholics. Another copy of The Plough appeared. The Socialist Review is due out soon. Fr. Tuohy to speak to Mr. Owen Dudley Edwards on the matter of the 1913 Club. Irish Workers’ League holds weekly meetings in Pembroke Lane addressed by Sam Nolan. 58A. 22 May 1958 Note for Dr. MacMahon regarding information for V. Deals with Technical Teachers Union affiliated to the Workers Union of Ireland.

Handwritten letter to Fr. Glennon from J. Martin, Hailsham, Surrey, saying he met an English fellow called Rogers who has been connected with a play at Belvedere College. Rogers was a Communist and wants Fr. Glennon to know in case he tries to influence schoolboys.

Letters from Fr. James Robinson seeking permission to have a carnival in aid of the Belvedere Newsboys Club and the parish fund, and for a circus.

O’Rourke, Stephanie C., 38 Belvedere Place. She seeks a meeting with the Archbishop to deliver a message from German Catholics.

Redden, Mrs. Anastasia, 14 Cottage Place, Belvedere Avenue, Dublin. She, her three children and her husband, who is ill, have returned to Dublin. They desperately need a council house.

McCabe, Mrs. Mary, 11 Belvedere Place, Dublin. She is partially blind and asks the Archbishop to get the pension for blind persons raised to £1 a week and retain the coupons.