Copy of letter from Fr. J.A. MacMahon, secretary, to Mrs. Sheila Osbourne informing her that His Grace regrets that he cannot regard it as advisable to intervene in the manner she suggests in respect of the Ballynocken quarries.

Correspondence from the Secretary to Fr. Murphy relating to a letter His Grace received from Annie Burns, Bay View Hotel. Neither she nor hotel exist.

Company of Mary Our Lady (not to be confused with The Little Company of Mary) above
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17 November 1968 - 30 September 1971
Granted permission to make a foundation to be used as a house of formation ad experimentum for five years. Grace Park, Drumcondra chosen for house. Letter of thanks from individual sister.

Horne, Margaret, 8 Cowper Drive, Rathmines, thanking His Grace for his letter.

Hurley, Jeremiah Francis, St. Elmo, Auburn Ave., Donnybrook. He failed to get promotion in his place of work. His fiancé heard on very reliable evidence that His Grace intervened in favour of the successful candidate. Wants the matter resolved.

• 11 July 1942 Letters from Hugh Allen, Grace Park Road, Dublin to + McQuaid informing him of various events, including: reviving the Catholic Mind with the new name Irish Mind; relations with his employer at C.T.S.I.; states he will act out of harmony with the Archbishop; Hugh O’Neill, Coras na Poblachta (an Irish Popular Front) scorning the Bishops’ action regarding the Labour Party and the Workers’ Republic; he would have no objection to O’Neill being appointed as Secretary of The St. Joseph’s Young Priests’ Society if he would withdraw from politics; the Trade Union Bill and Professor O’Rahilly, friend of Dr. Browne; a row in the Labour Party where it looks as though the Communist element will be elbowed out; Russia entering the war and censorship; quarrel between the Bishop of Galway and Professor O’Rahilly; article in The Standard by Gearoid Mac Eoin. One copy reply from +McQuaid included.

-24 May 1944 Allen, Hugh, Grace Park Road, informing + McQuaid on his position with The Standard regarding the Labour Party inquiry on infiltration by Communists.

Bodlin, Thomas, The University, Birmingham 15. Refers to a testimonial, an invitation to the enthronement of His Grace of Westminster and His Grace of Birmingham.

19 September - Regarding Grace Walsh's position as Deputy Chairman.

Handwritten letter from Patrick Kavanagh, 19 Raglan Road, to + McQuaid. He refers to the money given by the Archbishop which must have a special grace attached to it: hate; job rejection; asks that the Archbishop write a note to the Sisters who run the Holy Child Hostel regarding accepting his friend, Hilda Moriarty, there; he had a letter from T.S. Eliot, Faber pubishers, regarding the publication of a new book of poems.