– 2 May 1964 Correspondence between Fr. James Ardle MacMahon, Bishop Zuccarino & +McQuaid regarding a copy of ‘Columba’. It contains a list of the Committee of Honour and +McQuaid’s name has been inserted without his permission. Annotated by +McQuaid. Diocese of Florence 3 33a/2c. 28 June 1952 Programme for the International Conference on peace and ‘civilta cristiana’ sent by Giorgio La Pira, Mayor of Florence. He has invited + McQuaid to attend, but the archbishop is unable to do so. Diocese of Gaeta

Letter from Florence Ryan, Munster and Leinster Bank, Crumlin to +McQuaid asking if +Crawford can attend their annual sale of work in the Mansion House. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Kennedy, Florence, Post Office, Stillorgan. Asks + McQuaid to use his influence to help her son get a job in the Hibernian Bank.

copies of sermons preached at the funeral and anniversaries of Nano Nagle and Reverend Florence MacCarthy.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from J.P. Walshe, Ambasciata D’Irlanda, Roma. Refers to the ignorant article in the Sunday Independent by Liam Skinner on the Columban Chapel; the health of the Holy Father; the political situation in which the Christian Democrats are showing up very badly; La Lira, Mayor of Florence, who is the modern day St. Francis regarding his concern for the poor.

Includes; prayer card for the ‘Beatification of Nano Nagle’; negative of the map of the Ballygriffin area; ‘A Bookkeeper's Prayer’; Review of Nano Nagle’s life by Fr. O’ Carroll, CSSP; article from ‘The Fold’ magazine, ‘The Sisters of Mercy in Cork’; booklet ‘In the tradition of St. Finbarr’ by Rev. T. J. Walsh, [Canon T. .J. Walsh]; letter from A.M.O’ Sullivan, Subiaco, Roma, 1 March 1912 to Sister Mary Joseph; letter to Mr. Lynam, British Museum, London, W.C.1.on 18 January 1933 concerning C. Turner’s painting of Nano Nagle; Nano Nagle Ode for Presentation day written in 1911; A Funeral Sermon Preached at a Solemn High Mass Celebration in Cork 12 November for Marie Antoinette, Her Late Most Christian Majesty by the Rev. F. McCarthy, 1793; a Sermon preached on 8 August 1810 of the late Rt. Rev. Florence Mac Carthy by the Rev. John Ryan; and notes on the South Monastery and the use of the buildings over the years.

Letter from Peggy Dillon, 10 Florence Terrace, Bray, to +McQuaid. She and her sister are in charge of the C.T.S. boxes in Bray. They feel the Clergy have little interest in their work, but would like a ‘word from the pulpit’ once a year. Annotated by +McQuaid.

-19 December 1948 Halesburg Lotheringen. Correspondence relating to the education of Prince Maximilian and Princess Claudia of Florence.

Handwritten letter to Eamon de Valera from +McQuaid. He begs to inform him that as a result of the verdict of the Florence Court against the Bishop of Prato he has cancelled the celebration of the Anniversary of the Coronation of the Pope as a mark of sympathy with the Pope in his grief at the injustice done to the free exercising of the spiritual jurisdiction of the Church.

File relating to ‘Laharna’, Florence Road, Bray, a bungalow donated to the parish for the use of priests by Margaret Murphy.