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Copy of a typed letter to + Tuam from +McQuaid. External Affairs were in touch with him about passports of the two 14 year old girls. He has asked the Department to be very severe in this matter.

Correspondence between + Anthony MacFeely and + McQuaid regarding the appointment of Fr. Daniel Carr as Chaplain to the Religious of Nazareth, Leeson Park, while studying at Maynooth. 2 items Tuam

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + J. Walsh, Tuam. Everything is now clear, and in spite of mischief-makers he thinks all will turn out well for the Church and the people.

Letter from +Joseph Cunnane, Archbishop of Tuam, to +McQuaid stating he will not be able to attend the Liturgical Reception as he has Confirmation on that day.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid stating that the Quinquennial report on Catechetical Instruction has been sent to Rome. He thanks the Archbishop for his comments on Mr. Blanchard who was described by one US Senator as ‘disgraceful and silly regarding his actions on the McCartan Act. He thanks the Archbishop for having attended the dinner for the new cardinal and only learned later that the Archbishops of Cashel, Tuam and Armagh had driven back to their respective diocese following the event. He never realised he had put such great an inconvenience upon them.

Letter from +Joseph Walsh, Archbishop of Tuam, to +McQuaid, stating he will be unable to attend the Liturgical Reception as he has to be in Westport on that day.

Letters and booklet relating to the alleged apparitions in Kerrytown, Donegal. Includes letters between +McQuaid and +MacNeely and also correspondence with the laity and Dublin booksellers. 7 items Tuam

Correspondence between +Levame to +McQuaid regarding the Bishops meeting for the Province of Leinster, which is held on the Wednesday of Low Week. There is also discussion on the subject of Emigrants. An Episcopal Committee has already been established and includes the Archbishop of Tuam and the Bishops of Raphoe, Ferns and Kerry. As for the Apostolatus Maris in Dublin, the Catholic Seamen’s Hostel is administered through City Quay parish and a Vincentian father also attends regularly as Chaplain to the special work of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul which has care of the hostel.

Letter from +Philbin to +McQuaid regarding the meeting between the Bishops and the University Presidents. He mentions the date not being suitable for the Archbishop of Tuam. Annotated by +McQuaid. 1 item

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid, marked Confidential. He encloses a copy of a letter he is sending to Cardinal D’Alton and the Archbishops of Tuam and Cashel in relation to Fr. Edward Lodge Curran, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn who is due to visit Ireland where he wishes to give a number of open-air public addresses. The priest is persona non grata in many American Dioceses. He had visited Ireland previously and addressed several public meetings. Fr. Lodge Curran claims there was never any objection to these by the Irish Hierarchy. He wishes the Cardinal and Archbishops to inform their Bishops. Annotated by +McQuaid stating ‘The address was given in O’Connell Street without my knowledge. I should never have allowed it’. See item 483.