Note to +McQuaid saying he will find the Proof sheets from Browne & Nolan’s of the Foreword to Msgr Deery’s book on Lourdes.

• Correspondence between Gertie Searson, +McQuaid, +Michael Browne, Galway, Fr. Laurence Redmond and Patrick Byrne, Crumlin regarding articles on contraception and marriage. Many of the articles were written by Nurse McEnroy. Also mention of Angela McNamara. Statement by +McQuaid marriage and family planning. Copies of Journals & Newspapers 26 November 1971

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Browne & Nolan informing him that Dr. Hamill has been asked to undertake the duties of Editor on the Irish Ecclesiastical Record.

• Correspondence between Allen Nolan, Browne & Nolan, +McQuaid, and Fr. John McMackin, Maynooth, regarding the publication of the I.E.R. The Record has been incurring losses over the years, and in the year 23 June 1971 lost £1,408. Browne & Nolan could not afford to sustain such losses and reluctantly decided, on financial grounds, to cease publishing the Record. The final issue was the December 1968 one. 25 items The Marian Year 1968

Posters entitled ‘Celebration Dance & Cabaret’ to welcome Dr. Noel Browne into Fianna Fail on the opening day of the Marian Year and on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is an affront to every Catholic.

• Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate (first items referring to Fr [later Cardinal] M. Browne O.P.) a Dublin priest joins order. A low-key Rosary Crusade begins to move. CF file “Rosary Crusade (Fr. Peyton)”. Project of a Retreat House at Tallaght is initiated. Desire of O.P for a Theologate on new site countered by Archbishop’s concern over religious acquiring properties in Dublin area. Archbishop declines to appoint chaplain to Old IRA.

Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid regarding the use of St. Patrick’s, Drumcondra by Colaiste Einde. He wants confessors appointed to hear the confessions of the students. Annotated by +McQuaid. 1 item

Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid thanking him for the work being done in relation to the copying of the documents. Galway will bear all the costs. He is also prepared to answer any questions in relation to problems which may arise during the transcription process. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid thanking him for copies of the galley proofs of the new catechism. He also discusses the Mother & Child scheme and mentions the Bishop of Limerick is very pessimistic.

Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid stating he is having an exchange of letters with the Minister for Health regarding the chapel in the new Regional Hospital. There is a particular issue over a baptism font. Annotated by +McQuaid. 1 item