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Handwritten note by +McQuaid thanking the Nuncio for the invitation to the reception on the occasion of the anniversary of the Holy Father’s coronation which he will be delighted to attend.

Letter from Fr. Joseph Derry to +McQuaid regarding advertisements for birth prevention in the ‘News of the World’.

File relating to a new presbytery which involved the Proby estate, the Stillorgan estate and Michael Freeney.

Letter from +Rodgers to +McQuaid. He thanks him for the copy of the pastoral +McQuaid sent to him, and mentions a numbers of mutual priestly acquaintances.

Typed draft of an article/speech titled ‘The Writer’ by Peadar O’Donnell. Would come near defining a writer when they reveal people “behaving and misbehaving towards one another.” The writer needs freedom and in Ireland he enjoys less than any other country. Irish writers are shut in and silenced by their job and “conditioned to bark if they want to prosper as emigrants to America.” Perhaps Ireland’s greatest cultural crime has been her waste of the poet Patrick Kavanagh.

Letter from Mgr. Rupp to +McQuaid asking him to be Patron of the Association of the Friends of Joan of Arc.

Letter from +Walsh to +McQuaid. He thanks +McQuaid for a copy of his new pastoral letter which he compliments him on. 1 item

Letter from Dermot O’Flynn to +McQuaid regarding the new Censorship Board and the views of Mr. White who was very against the modus operandi to the previous one.

Handwritten letter from Vivian de Valera to +McQuaid apologizing for a story in the Evening Press. Customary procedures will be adhered to.

Type note from James Ardle MacMahon to + McQuaid regarding new regulations for the celebration of Mass. Mr. Coogan, Deputy Editor, Evening Press, phoned to say it was being published as an exclusive story. Fr. MacMahon pointed out that it had inaccuracies.