Includes; correspondence from "Office of National Education", "Office of Public Works" and "Department of Education", architects proposals for works on school, receipts from "O'Connell: Decorator", itemised bills from "Murphy Brothers, Builders and Contractors", "Frank Murphy, Architect" and "J.M. Derham & [and] Partner, Consulting Engineers".

Handwritten letter to Dr. O’Connell from Andy, Wellfield Road, Ballsbridge, to inform him of the state of affairs at North Wall.

Letter from +Robinson to +McQuaid enclosing a dispensation for Richard Connell which is a duplicate of one sent in February.

[February 1952] Note from Fr. M. O’Connell regarding a Low Mass for Mgr. Felici on May 9th at 11am.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid thanking him for enclosures relating to the Lenten Regulations and the Apostolic Constitution ‘Christus Dominus’. He much admired the statement in relation to attendance at Trinity College and the declaration on Catholic education. He also thanks him for allowing Dr. O’Connell to accompany him on a recent trip to Northern Ireland and the ‘West Coast’.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid, marked Confidential. He encloses a copy of a letter he is sending to Cardinal D’Alton and the Archbishops of Tuam and Cashel in relation to Fr. Edward Lodge Curran, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn who is due to visit Ireland where he wishes to give a number of open-air public addresses. The priest is persona non grata in many American Dioceses. He had visited Ireland previously and addressed several public meetings. Fr. Lodge Curran claims there was never any objection to these by the Irish Hierarchy. He wishes the Cardinal and Archbishops to inform their Bishops. Annotated by +McQuaid stating ‘The address was given in O’Connell Street without my knowledge. I should never have allowed it’. See item 483.

Letter from +Collier to Dr O’Connell. He writes and encloses a copy of his criticisms and suggestions regarding the draft catechism and mentions the recent trip to Rome for the declaration of the Dogma of the Assumption.

Letter from +MacNeely to Rev. O’Connell. He encloses a cheque for Italian election fund to fight communism.

Handwritten letter from Msgr. John O’Regan, Collin’s Barracks, to Dr. O’Connell informing him that Mrs Fitzgerald, Limerick City Sanatorium, has been selected as an invalid for this year’s Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. 46.1 Typed address of +AB on occasion of invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Patroness of the Defence Forces.

Handwritten letter from + Wall to Dr. O’Connell saying he the PPs have received a letter from the Archbishop regarding the Assumption Bull.