Includes; explanation of what "Law" means within religious congregations.

Includes; reference to Vatican II and its call for congregations to re-examine their way of living and update and renew their religious life and the challenges this had set for the Presentation.

Includes; reference to a visit to the Presentation convents in St. John's Newfoundland Canada, reference to the Union of Presentation Convents in accordance with "… Art[icle] 22 of Perfectae Caritatis which has been accepted by all bishops except four.", reference to a need for congregations to modernise in order to attract new vocations.

Includes; document entitled "Constitutions - a challenge", reference to a "… desire and willingness to obey the voice of the Second Vatican Council …" and its calls for renewal of the Church, list of difficulties involved in renewing the Constitutions, list of "... essential elements of good Constitutions."; copy of document from the "Sacra Congregatio Pro Religiosis Et Institutis Saecularibus" entitled "Acts of Chapters of Religious Congregations".

Includes; list of the seven Presentation Congregations and the dates of their foundations: Tasmania 1866; Windsor (Victoria) 1873, Wagga 1874, Lismore 1886, Geraldton 1891, Longreach 1900, and Mosman Park 1907; list of foundations and dates within each congregation in Australia; letters from Sr. M. Sebastian and Sr. Peter, Presentation Novitiate, O’ Neill College, Nagle Avenue, Elsternwich, Victoria, to Sr. Catherine and Father Walsh [Canon T.J. Walsh], during 1957 and 1958 giving detailed information on the spread of the congregation, the vast distances covered; two copies of a map of Australia showing the location of the convents; report on The Seven Congregations of the Presentation Institute in Australia including the development of its constitutions and the and the union of the seven congregations; letters to Rev. Mother Benignus, Sr. M. Catherine and Fr. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], during 1956 and 1957 from Sr. M. Bernard and Sr. M. Therese from Presentation Convent, Geraldton, Western Australia, detailing the spread of the congregation and the foundations; report from Presentation Convent, St. Mary’s, Lismore, which includes a list of the Branch Convents, foundation dates and dioceses in which they are located, an account of the schools and other works; letter from Presentation Convent, Longreach, Queensland from Sr. M. Ursula; letters from Sr. M. Sebastian, Presentation Convent, Star of the Sea, Gardenvale, S. 4 Victoria, in 1958, to Sr. M. Catherine including details of General Chapters and Professions; letters from Sr. M. Bernard, Presentation Convent, “Iona” Mosman Park , Western Australia, 29 May 1956 to Rev. Mother and to Father Walsh [ Canon T.J. Walsh], on 10 June 1957 including details of their foundations; letters from Sr. M. Xavier Lyman, Mother General of Wagga Foundation, Presentation Convent, “Mount Erin”, Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, to Father Walsh [Canon T.J. Walsh], including details of the foundations and a diagram of the foundations made from Longreach; and a picture of ‘Mount Erin’.

Includes; chronology of the foundation of Presentation Congregations of Australia, copies of "decrees of Approval" for the Congregation, Rules and Constitutions which governed the Presentation in Australia.

Includes; letters and envelope in English and French from the Infant Jesus Sisters. Describes the similarities between the two congregations, refers to the founder and the early constitutions.

Includes; article written by unnamed person stating the importance of community living for religious congregations.

Includes; article written by Father Edward L. Heston C.S.C on the history of "Temporary Vows" for religious congregations and the importance of them in congregational affairs.

Includes; transcript of talk given by Archbishop of Milan John Baptist Montini who became Pope Paul VI on the importance of women in the Catholic Church and the realities of falling vocations to female religious congregations and how the Sisters needed to move beyond enclosed existences and become more integrated into the communities in which they lived.