Two pages of stamps from the Saar (5F, 10F, 15F), Italy (25 Lira, 60 Lira), the Vatican (L35, L4, L12, L3, L6, L20; Mater Misericordiae – L20, L35,L60), Liechtenstein (1Fr, 20Fr, 40Fr), Eire (3p, 5p), Spain (3Ptas, 10Cts, 25Cts, 30Cts, 50Cts, 80Cts), Brazil (Cr$ 0.60, Cr$ 1.20), Spain (1Pta, 2 Ptas, 15Cts, 60Cts).
Typed letter to +McQuaid from Juan Jose Pradera, Spanish Ambassador, regarding the re-Consecration of Spain to the Sacred Heart.
Letter from +Ryan, Bon Secour’s Hospital, Cork to +McQuaid stating he has been inundated with greetings from Trinidad. The Holy See has finally ended the association between the Port of Spain Diocese and the Dominicans. He mentions the birth prevention programme announced by the Trinidad government. The new Archbishop will be busy answering questions relating to this. 1 item
Letter from +Ryan to +McQuaid thanking him for the letter and stating Fr. Doolan’s death has been a great shock to him. Fr. Graf, C.S.Sp. has also died in Port of Spain. He congratulates him on his letter on ecumenism.
Letter from Finbar Ryan, O.P., former bishop of Port of Spain, to +McQuaid saying his recent letters and Lentan Regulations are models of precision and authoritative Teaching. Shocking to hear the attacks on + McQuaid. Mentions Fr. Hurley, Schikllibex, and Sean O’Riordan,
Copies of statements made by the Superior Council of Missions to the Archbishops and Bishops of Spain and to the Prelates of the whole World regarding the danger which threatens Holy Places in Palestine. 2 items
Typed letter to +McQuaid from Brian Gallagher, Irish Ambassador to Spain, forwarding copies of Appendix III of a booklet by Fr. Enrique Vera Iniguez which contain a number of old baptismal records of Irish people.
Six items relating to the advertising for Irish nursery-governoresses in Spain and offers of Spanish nursery-governesses and maids to work in Ireland. It was the policy of the Irish Independent to decline advertisements offering employment on the Continent to women.
Copy of typed letter to The Editor, Irish Catholic, from Juan Jose Pradera, Spanish Ambassador, on the report in that paper of the Decication of Spain to the Sacred Heart. Places the destruction and rebuilding of the Monument to the Sacred Heart in context.
Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Sir John Maffey thanking him for a copy of [Madinaja’s] Spain. He visited Spain twice and is no nearer to understanding of the passion which tore the country.