Letter from Mgr. Benelli to McQuaid thanking him for his personal offering of £1000 for the relief of the unfortunate victims of the Italian floods.
Letter from Roger Greene, Leixlip Development Association, to Fr. Liam Martin outlining their attempt to have the process of building new schools in Leixlip.
Letter from Mgr. Benelli to +McQuaid thanking him for the cheque for £5000 being the total of the Peter’s Pence collection for that year.
Letter from + O’Hara to + McQuaid saying the venue will be the Gresham Hotel and he is enclosing a copy of the Decree of the S. Ap. Penitentary granting certain spiritual favours for the Marian Year.
Letter from Fr. Paul J. Rafter to Fr. Mangan regarding a right of way through bungalows.
File relating to the new church at Newtown Park Avenue, Church of the Guardian Angels. Some information on boundaries.
Four advertisements taken from newspapers and sellotaped. One advertised jobs in St. Anthony’s Hospital, Ohio, for nurses. A requirement was the attendance at a free Personnel Efficiency Course at the American College of Personnel Efficiency, 69 Merrion Square. Technical and unskilled personnel were offered a course “to solve problems of handling employment and promotion.”
Letter from +Rodgers to +McQuaid. He asks +McQuaid advice about taking up a collection for the people of Hungary. +McQuaid annotated a reply that he always distributed such money through the Pope by giving it to the Nuncio.
Henry, Geoffrey, 20 Ashfield Park, Stillorgan Road, appealing to the Archbishop to use his influence with the rulers of the Republic to show mercy to Nurse Cadden, who is under sentence of death.
Correspondence relating mainly to non-parish issues but involved the parish priest. Includes letter form Fr. R. Glennon to +McQuaid thanking him for the donation of £1000 for the poor of the parish. Also mention of the ‘The Miracle’, a film reviewed by Fr. Glennon; the body of a baby found on the church porch wrapped in a copy of the ‘Clonmel Nationalist’; bingo in St. Anthony’s Hall and husbands complaining about its effects on their wives; paid salespeople visiting the parish on behalf of various charities; and trees donated by the Archbishop to be planted around the church and school.