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Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Flynn stating he will be unable to send seminaries to the Diocese of Nevers. Diocese of Paris

Correspondence relating to routine details of community life and apostolate. Draft memorandum on civil legislation regarding marriage contracts of Catholics in Ireland. General House in Paris seeks copies of Archbishop’s Bulls of Appointment for their archives. Reference to Fr. Le Hoch C.S.Sp.

Telegram from Mr. Dudley Lawrence, Ambassador of Liberia, Paris to +McQuaid stating ambassadors, Lawrence, Doe and Brewer will attend the consecration ceremony.

Correspondence, mostly in French, relating to Archbishop McQuaid’s interest in Pere Lamy, who died in 1931. He was a mystic and priest of the Archdiocese of Paris and he inspired the foundation of this Institute. The Archbishop’s interest goes back to the 1930s but this correspondence begins . His interest in the House of the Institute at Oise in the diocese of Beauvais; he expedites cows from Ireland to there; he pays pension of two members at the French seminary, Rome. (see also file of St. Joseph of Cluny Sisters). The Institute is languishing due to internal and external problems, the latter involving Monsieur Charles Emmenecker, resident in Switzerland. Dr. Lea-Wilson of Dublin, is friendly. A canonical visitation takes place. Archbishop asks Msgr. Fidecicchi, Roman Rota and ‘agent of Dublin’ for advice re introducing a Cause for Canonisation for Pere Lamy. (see also section on Fr. John Charles McQuaid, pre his appointment to the See of Dublin. Dr. Lea-Wilson was the donor of the Caravaggio to the Jesuits which is now in the National Gallery of Ireland).

Letter from +Joyce, Paris to +McQuaid thanking him for all his help and the kindness of John M. McCloskey.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from J.P. Walshe, Ambasciata D’Irlanda, Roma. Says that their present difficulty is that they have no single all embracing Catholic body from which to draw the lay elite for such international contacts. Encloses five Paris press cuttings concerning Our Lady’s Choir.

Letter from +Joyce to +McQuaid thanking him for his goodness to him while in Paris. 1 item

Typed letter (in French) to +McQuaid from Count S. Ostrorog. Reference to Luxeuil; Irish College in Paris; encloses a letter from Pierre Michon, President of Fondations Catholiques Irelandaises.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from T. O Raifeartaigh enclosing a copy of his lecture in Paris on St. Patrick.

Portion of letter form the Holy Ghost Fathers, Paris to +McQuaid giving personal details of Peter Lennon.