Invitation card from + McQuaid to lunch to meet + Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston.

Letter from +Cushing to +McQuaid wishing him a Happy Christmas. He encloses a page from the official news service which is sponsored by ‘Confraternity of Christian and Jew’. Canon Duggan from Cork has been in Boston collecting money on behalf of Bishop Lucey to help expand his Diocese. 1 item

Letter from William McCarthy, Executive Secretary, Catholic Travel League to +McQuaid regarding the Boston Pilgrimage to Ireland. 1 item

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Wright regarding the Boston Pilgrimage. He has heard nothing from +Cushing who he invited to stay at his house. He has learned that the travel plans have been altered and that the pilgrims will spend only two days in Dublin. He mentions a lunch at Clonliffe and a garden party, to be hosted by the Government, at Iveagh House. He hopes these arrangements will prove suitable.

“Writer Warns Communist Power Aided by ‘Conspiracy’ Delusions in The Boston Pilot.

Letter from Richard MacNevin to +McQuaid informing that Mr. Elliman has secured the services of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to give a concert in Dublin in aid of the Clonliffe College Building Fund.

Letter from +Cushing to +McQuaid stating Cardinal Dalton has invited him to give the sermon at the 1500 anniversary commemoration of the death of St. Patrick. He cannot accept as he has been given an assignment in the West Indies. He asks for prayers for the National Seminary which is to be built in Boston and also for the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle.

Press release by the Religious News Service, Boston stating Dublin Archbishop denounces sale of obscene literature’.

December 1970 Christmas card from +Dwyer to +McQuaid. Boston (see 89/) Brentwood