Correspondence between J. Elliott, Deputy Secretary, Dublin Board of Assistance, and Fr. C. Mangan relating to the re-opening of St. Clare’s Infant Hospital as accommodation for the aged and infirm. It is hoped that religious services shall take place in a Day Room. The Archbishop would prefer that there should be an Oratory with reservation of the Blessed Sacrament.

Letter from +Alibrandi to +McQuaid enclosing a volume from the Cardinal Secretary of State entitled ‘Day of Peace 1971’.

Letter from +Alibrandi to +McQuaid regarding the celebrations for World Missionary Day on 24th October. The Holy Father’s appeal and the declaration of the Synod is enclosed.

O’Driscoll, E., 76 Merrion Square, Dublin. She asks the Archbishop to dispense with abstinence on St. Stephen’s Day.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, Apostolic Delegate, London, accepting the Archbishop’s decision not to grant a foundation in Dublin for the Assumption Sisters. He has been invited to lunch by the Irish Ambassador on St. Patrick’s Day. The Ambassador failed to attend Mass at the Oratory to commemorate the Pope’s coronation.

Card giving the Order of the Day for the One Day Retreat organised by the Catholic Stage Guild.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from [ill], Dept. of Finance, requesting permission to attend Midnight Mass on Christmas Day in the Convent of [ill], Lower Mount [ill].

[12]-19 April 1969 Letter from Mgr. Rovida to +McQuaid stating that he has received the comments from +Cardinale on the English translation of the Pope’s message for World Vocations Day. These state ‘The text was corrected and the omissions made by His Eminence Cardinal Heenan who finds it too long and even unsuitable. He intends to publish in the short and corrected from and not the original.’ Includes note from Fr. James Ardle MacMahon to the Archbishop explaining all of the above. 3 items

Letter from Fr. Rovida to +McQuaid enclosing copies of the publication, ‘Day of Peace’, in English.

Telegram from +Spellman to +McQuaid inviting him to pontificate and preach at the New York Cathedral on St. Patrick’s Day.