Typed letter to Fr. Martin from [Una Byrne?]. name and address redacted / torn out. Informed that 47 to be closed down. Debts incurred by Kavanagh were of his own making. He should have been less ambitious. Writes that she asked IHA what they were going to do about Hilda’s membership and the fact that there were Communists in the IHA?
Suggested programme for Youth Leaders' Conference, Men's Section and final draft of Programme.
File relating to special collections taken up in the parish.
Copy of letter from +McQuaid to Mgr. Boylan regarding ‘peace in the presbytery’.
Correspondence with Pere Andre and M. Charles Emmenecker: the Institute holds on precariously to life. Fears of suppression unfounded but changes in structure introduced by the Bishop of Beauvais. Problems of Pere Denis (Shiels - subsequently of St. John of God, Dublin). Pere Andre becomes Prior. Cause of Pere Lamy encounters skepticism in powerful circles of Langres. An Irish novice disappears without notice causing great commotion. M. Charles Emmenecker dies. Archbishop McQuaid continues to support the Institute. Reference to Marie Reine. Servites (O.S.M)
Newspaper cutting on banned books.
Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: Johnson accompanied Jeffares to Paris last August. Fr. Nolan, S.J., has written a full report on the ‘Ginger Man’ for + McQuaid. The theatre is mainly based in Dun Laoghaire and its directors are Godfrey Quigley and Genevieve Lyons. Both are Catholics. All to seek information on Andrew Barr and Irwin, both from Belfast and on the council of ICTU.
Letter from Canon Purfield to +McQuaid thanking him for his appointment to the Diocesan Chapter.
Letter from Secretary to John O'Donoghue.
Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Liam Cosgrave thanking him for his letter of sympathy on the death of his father.