Letter to +McQuaid from W.C. Hankinson, British Embassy, Dublin, [Swindon], Commonwealth Relations Office, Downing Street, and the Lord Mayor of London, thanking him for the cheque for £100 for the victims of the flood disaster in England.

Crotty, Patrick, Mayor, Kilkenny. The Kilkenny Emergency Flood Committee thank the Archbishop for his contribution to the Fund.

Letter from Mgr. Benelli to +McQuaid acknowledging a further offering of £2000 for the relief of the Italian flood victims.

Handwritten letter from + Vincent Hanley, St. Mary’s, Sligo, to + McQuaid thanking him for this further cheque for the relief of the (Shannon) flood victims. In Athlone a portion of the funds are kept for seeds and manure in Spring.

File relating to lay organisations and events. Includes mention of the Salvation Army Hostel, York Street, Catholic Boy Scouts, Catholic Temperance Club, Catholic Commercial Club, flood relief, Rotunda Girls’ Aid Society, Catholic Girl Guides, Our Lady’s Choral Society trip to Berlin, concert by the Madison Madrigal Singers, the Matt Talbot Sodality, a donation from an 80 year-old man and the pilgrimage to Lourdes.

File relating to Richard O’Brien and Canon Flood, the executor of his will.

Letter from Fr. Patrick Dargan to Dr. O’Connell regarding a bequest of the late Richard O’Brien to the late Canon Flood, P.P. 1 item

• Correspondence relating to various matters with Benedictine Monasteries: Monte Cassino (Italy) - Request help to rebuild after WW2 Ligugé (France) - A monk writes to Archbishop on theological matter. St. Leo (Florida, USA) - Seeking vocations Oxford (Michigan, USA) - A monk seeks information (CF. Chancellery) Plusearden (Scotland) - A monk Promotes Blue Liturgical colour. For B.V.M. Downside (England) - Mainly regarding Dr. Edmund Flood, formerly of Dublin where in medical practice. Buckfast - Mission appeal. Belmont - Monk seeks post in Dublin. Another deplores man’s behaviour. Claretians (CMF)