Letter from +Farrelly to +McQuaid hoping he had a pleasant trip home. He is glad that places have been kept for Ronald Baker and Brian Murphy. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Note from Fr. Brian Byrne re censorship.

Copy of typed letter to Brian Lenihan from +McQuaid congratulating him on becoming Minister for Education.

Correspondence between + Dwyer and + McQuaid - - 26 January 1967 Regarding the ordination of Brian Clarke.

Copy of typed letter to Brian Lenihan from +McQuaid. Points out that he only heard of the project at the end of July; the school Manager was not a member of the ad hoc committee; a priest alien to Dublin in his parish investigated his people; surprised at the Department’s mode of action seeing that Rev. Dr. O’Doherty, Dr. Saltzman and a trained team had carried out a survey covering most of the factors in the Van Leer Project. No mention of religious or moral formation.

• 5 February 1969 Letter from Fr. Brian Byrne to Fr. Williams regarding a film ‘Mundo Bizarre’. Newspaper advertisement attached. 4 items

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Brian Gallagher, Irish Ambassador to Spain, forwarding copies of Appendix III of a booklet by Fr. Enrique Vera Iniguez which contain a number of old baptismal records of Irish people.

Typed letter to Fr. Mangan, Archbishop’s Palace, from Brian Durnin, informing him that 67 volumes of manuscripts in Trinity College Library which once belonged to the Vatican Library have been microfilmed and these will be presented to the Cardinal Librarian on behalf of the Irish Government. (The volumes were taken by Napoleon I from the Vatican Library).

Fitzpatrick, Brian, Rathdown Park, Terenure, Dublin. He has been asked to give lectures on the History of Education with particular reference to Ireland by the Registrar in Trinity College. Asks if + McQuaid had any objections.

Letter from Brian MacMahon, Blackrock to +McQuaid regarding the ‘Weekend’. He voices his concern over censorship and the Censorship Board and makes particular reference to Mr. Coyne, Chair.