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Letter from Lady Maude Dunboyne, Knoppogue Castle, Quin, County Clare, to Fr. Slattery thanking the Cork Capuchins for their recent mission work in the vicinity of Quin, County Clare.

Typescript letter from C. Ó hUigín (Kevin O’Higgins), Substitute Minister for Local Government, to Terence MacSwiney, acknowledging receipt of a memorandum on ‘Criminal and Malicious Injuries’.

Letter from Julia Breen, Upper Church Street, Tipperary, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., thanking him for all ‘the trouble you took with our prisoners while they were suffering in Mountjoy, it was prayer and the masses for our prisoners that saved them from death’. With an annotation in Fr. Albert’s hand on the first page: ‘Letter from Commandant Breen’s (I.R.A.) mother. He was on hunger strike at Mountjoy Jail and it was there I met his mother’

Letter from Joseph W. Cleary, National Education Office, to Fr. Mark McDonnell OSFC, Church Street, enclosing a printed draft of the rules (particularly in respect of funding) for Evening National Schools. With a letter from P.E. Lemass to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC informing him that St. Francis’ Male Evening School has been recognised by the Office of National Education. Also includes a memorandum noting that St. Francis’ School has received a capitation grant of £15 15s 0d from the Commissioners of Education.

Letter from Joseph I. Bowe, jnr., 32 Addison Road, Dublin to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking permission to rename Addison Road, ‘Fr. Dominic Road’ in memory ‘of that patriotic priest who died in 1935 at Oregon, USA, where he had been obliged to go into exile’. With a copy reply from Fr. Colman stating that he has no objection to the proposal.