Letter from +Heenan to +McQuaid stating he was at Maynooth but did not visit as he knew the Archbishop takes his holidays during this month.
Letter to +McQuaid from J.P. O'Connell asking him to make a change in the constitution.
Typed letter to ‘A Chara’ from J. Cashin, Financial Secretary, National Association, Old Fianna, conveying sincere thanks for the generous response for funds for the Children’s Christmas party.
Wording o telegram from +McQuaid to +Liston thanking him for his message.
Handwritten letter from R.M. Smyllie to + McQuaid. He appreciates the invitation but for medical reasons cannot accept. Congratulates the Archbishop on his appointment.
- Mt Mellery: Abbot regrets inability to take up Archbishop’s confidential offer of a foundation at Glencree due to insufficient lands. Later, Woodstock in Wicklow not deemed suitable by Archbishop. CF file “O.M.I - Glencree”. Roscrea: Archbishop regrets Dom Eugene Boylan’s extra-cloistral activities. He proposes a foundation at Moone, Co. Kildare. Dom E Boylan is elected Abbot! Bishop Dunne’s shrewd observations. Foundations is made at Moone. CF file “Carthusian Monks”
File relating to a bequest of Gerard Lawler, labourer from Jamestown Road. Suggested uses include new bell for the St. Margaret’s church and to pay off the debt on St. Canice’s.
Letter from M. Brennan to +McQuaid informing him that he has succeeded in obtaining from the Department of Education a copy of the Encyclical Mystice Corporis Christi. Must be made available to other interests in pamphlet form.
-4 January 1961. Bodlin, 259 Hagley Road, Birmingham. Correspondence relating to + Williams of Westminster, the appointment of a Director of the Arts Council (he suggests Sean O’Faolain) and Lemass receiving the Lane Pictures.
Letter from Fr. Laurent, S.M., to +McQuaid enclosing a cheque for £50 for the firm of M.H. Gill. It is conscious money.