Letter from +Donal Herhily, Bishop of Ferns, to +McQuaid accepting the invitation to the Liturgical Reception.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Staunton, Ferns, regarding the material benefits for the higher income group in the Scheme.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Seamus O’Neill enclosing a copy of the letter sent to + Staunton, Ferns, regarding the question of the retirement of members of Religious communities teaching in Capitation National Schools on reaching the age of sixty-five.

Copy of typed letter to + Staunton, Bishop of Ferns, from P.J. Delaney, Medical Secretary, I. M. A. The Irish Medical Association is opposed to the Proposals for improved and extended Health Services contained in the White Paper. The Proposals visualise State control of the medical profession and medical services; the Association is opposed to the provision of medical services free of direct charge to those who are able to pay or contribute towards the cost of these services.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + James Staunton, Ferns. Suggests the Minister’s letter and memorandum needs no statement from the Bishops.

Correspondence between +Levame to +McQuaid regarding the Bishops meeting for the Province of Leinster, which is held on the Wednesday of Low Week. There is also discussion on the subject of Emigrants. An Episcopal Committee has already been established and includes the Archbishop of Tuam and the Bishops of Raphoe, Ferns and Kerry. As for the Apostolatus Maris in Dublin, the Catholic Seamen’s Hostel is administered through City Quay parish and a Vincentian father also attends regularly as Chaplain to the special work of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul which has care of the hostel.

Letter from +Dunne to +McQuaid regarding an invitation to the Archbishop from Mgr. Browne of Ferns to sing the Mass or give the Panegyric at the Month’s Mind of +James Staunton. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Staunton, Ferns, criticizing points made at the meeting with the Minister for Health.

Two copies of a typed letter to Dr. Browne from John A. Costello. It is clear from +McQuaid’s letter to you, 8th March, 1951, that the objections put forward on the occasion of your interview with him, and the bishops of Ferns and Galway on 11th October last were ‘unresolved either then or later.’ His action since he received the letter from the bishop of Ferns on the 10th October last has been entirely actuated by what he conceived to be a friendly desire to help a colleague.

• Correspondence relating to the presence in Dublin of one priest and two lay-brothers of the German Missionary Congregation of St. Ottilien. Letters and Memoranda. Already pre- war fund-collecting in several parts of Ireland by one of the lay-brothers (Ferns, Ardagh, Limerick). Immediately before outbreak of war the trio were in Ireland, escaping interment in Britain as Enemy Allies; their house in Hendon (Westminster) having as Superior a priest (English?) who was the only member of the community not interned. Archbishop gravely displeased at the trio’s residence in Dublin. Plan for temp. Hospitality at Glenstal fails. Superior at Hendon takes issue with Archbishop. Report of Dept. of External Affairs Benedictines Monasteries-General