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Letter from +O’Neill to +McQuaid. The letter concerns releasing Fr Cagney from his work in Crumlin as a vacancy has arisen in the diocese. Includes an annotation by +McQuaid.

Letter from +James Staunton, Summerhill, Wexford, to +McQuaid regarding the microfilming of the parish registers by the National Library of Ireland. He outlines the history of the project and mentions that the request to do this came from the Genealogical Office and not the Government.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from P.P. [O’Dunfhus], 14 Merton Rd. Rathmines, enclosing his observations on the Bill.

Letter from Mgr. Benelli, on behalf of the Secretariat of State, to McQuaid thanking him for the present of an ‘Underwood typewriter’ for the Nunciature.

Letter from +McKeffry to +McQuaid thanking him for trying to find a chaplaincy for Fr. Williams. He mentions the Vatican Council and the act he has been appointed to the ‘Co-ordinating committee’. He mention R.H. Packwood who wishes to speak with the Irish Government about the issue of emigration.

Letter from +Sensi to +McQuaid regarding the Apostolate of the Sky. The Sacred Consistorial Congregation is seeking information on facilities at airports to celebrate mass and the religious formation of flight personnel and the spiritual assistance of those employed at airports.

Letter from Mgr. Sean Gordon, Apostolic Nunciature, to +McQuaid wishing him a Happy Christmas. He states Mgr. Raimondi’s health has improved. He has recently been to Goa for the 4th Centenary celebrations of the death of St. Francis Xavier. He encloses a Newspaper cutting on ‘moral re-armament’.

Letter from +Peter Shirayanagi to +McQuaid wishing him a Happy Christmas. He asks if the Archbishop can send Mass stipends as there is a lack of Mass intentions available to the priests there.

Correspondence regarding the blessing of the Crucifix for the Council-Room.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + James Staunton, Ferns, making the following points: encloses two suggested clauses for the Adoption Bill; the Minister realizes that Irish children are being raised by money partly contributed by foreign bigots, in the Protestant religion, to continue the British policy of increasing the number or Protestants in the country, and to provide recruits for the British Army; the Children’s Act helps to proseltyse; Irish law allows anybody of any ‘ism’ to adopt a child if he states that he is doing it for ‘love and affection’; children in the Bird’s Nest are all Catholic.