Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid thanking him for his repeated generosity in relation to the new Galway cathedral.

Letter from +Rodgers to +McQuaid. He writes that it has been decided to send Fr Maloney to act as dean in a Galway Diocesan College, and pursue his H. Dip. in UCG. Annotation that +McQuaid is happy that Galway is being helped.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: attendance at the World Youth Festival in Warsaw, the Peoples’ College Annual Summer School, Constance O’Carroll’s (Secretary, School Children’s Protection Society) visit to Galway, and Michael O’Riordan’s letter regarding a visit to the USSR by a party of well-known educationalists. The third page is stamped ‘Confidential’.

Typed letter from Paddy Crean to Chris informing him that a J. Duffy had been recommended for the post of Resident Architect to the new Galway central hospital. He is an associate of Hilda Verlin, Tun Sen and Toolin, all members of the IWL. He is the ‘genuine article’.

Handwritten letter from Patrick Glynn, St. Joseph’s, Galway. Dr. Browne accepts +McQuaid’s view in the Adoption Act.

Typed copy of a letter to be sent to the Archbishop of Cashel, and the Bishops of Galway, Ferns and Cork regarding a meeting.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Michael, Galway, outlining his ideas on the Health Bill.

Three handwritten letters to +McQuaid from + James Staunton, + Michael, Galway, and +J. Kinane, thanking him for his report on his meeting with the Minister on 17 February.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Michael Tierney. The Minister’s proposed new section of the Health Bill seems to be entirely satisfactory from the Cork and Galway point of view.

Dr. G. Bovlan to L. Asks that a Limerick student in the College be allowed to accept a burse from Cashel: the Bulls for the consecration of Dr. Nicholas Foran as bp of Galway, have now been dispatched; it seems certain that Dr. Foran will now accept his appointment; 4 Dr. Coppinger has had a case in Rome against a priest ef his diocese, which is now nearly settled; gives details of the political situation in Rome; Sir Brook Jaylor, the English diplomat is in Rome at present.