Letter from +Collier to +McQuaid. He invites +McQuaid to dinner in his house with the bishops of Kildare and Ferns as well as a few priests from the city. Annotation by +McQuaid.

Handwritten letter from + James Staunton to + McQuaid acknowledging his enclosures which he will place on the Agenda. Thanks him for the cheque for £54-4-1 for the poor of Ferns. 1 item 1000.24 June 1954 Handwritten letter from + James Staunton to + McQuaid accepting an invitation to the Solemn Votive Mass.

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.

Letter from +Conway to +McQuaid thanking him For the copy of his timely and welcome letter. He thanks the Archbishop for having spoken out and states the whole Catholic population welcomes the statement. 1 item Ferns

Letter from Canon John Codd, Parochial House, Ferns, informing the Archbishop that Mgr. Browne has been anointed and his health is deteriorating rapidly. Annotated by +McQuaid.

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.

‘Memorandum of observation of the Minister for Health on various matters relating to the Mother and Child Scheme referred to in a letter, dated 10th October, 1950, addressed to the Taoiseach by the Most Rev. J. Staunton, D.D., Bishop of Ferns, Secretary to the Hierarchy’. Each of the points raised by the Hierarchy are considered. Original and copy.

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.

Typed memo by the Bishop of Ferns on his meeting with the Minister for Health. Dr. Browne wished to state that in so far as he was to blame he regretted the situation which had arisen. He was prepared to accept the decision of the Bishops as to whether the scheme was opposed to Faith and morals, and if they decided that the scheme opposed Faith and morals he would, as a Catholic, not proceed and would resign his position as Minister for Health.

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