Letter from Mgr. Cassidy to +McQuaid stating that the Holy Father has accepted the resignation of Most Reverend Dr. Thomas Keogh from the See of Kildare and Leighlin. He has appointed Dr. Patrick Lennon as the new Bishop. Both resignation and appointment will be announced on Monday, 25th September.

Copy of typed letter to The Governor, No. 1 Internment Camp, The Curragh, Co. Kildare, informing him that the undersigned interned Irish Republicans intend to go on hunger strike from the 24th instance for their unconditional release. They sent communications to Mr. de Valera, Mr. Gerard Boland, His Eminence Cardinal MacRory, His Excellence Most Rev. Pascal Robinson, Nuncio Apostolic, requesting that these be forwarded. Signed by Sean MacCumhaill, Sean Maxwell, Peadar Houston, J.G. O’Doherty, Seamus Gerard Bohan, John Curran, Christopher O’Callaghan, Terence McLoughlin. This is an eleven-page document.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Thomas Keogh, Kildare and Leighlin. He wishes it to be understood that the delegation he granted is a wartime measure and is to cease when normal peace returns. The special needs of a large civilian population have been catered for by the Curragh Chaplains.

• 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”

O’Byrne, Vera de R., Honeywood, Leixlip, Co. Kildare. A Hungarian boy, Peter Kulloi, was offered a scholarship to Trinity College. He was a student in Mount Melleray and his parents were in Hungary. Dr. McQuaid rejected his application to attend Trinity. She asks if the Archbishop will now take on the responsibility of the boy’s future.

File relating to Skerries school, Kildare.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Jorge Escalante Posse, Legacion de la Republica Argentina, regarding the erection of a memorial to General John Thomond O’Brien, Aide-de-Camp to General Jose de San Martin. The most appropriate place to erect the memorial would be the house where O’Brien was born in Baltinglass, but as this no longer exists he enquired if it could be placed on the exterior wall of the church. + Keogh, Kildare and Leighin, pointed out that a memorial can only be erected when the corpse is interned there. A solution might be found if +McQuaid thinks the case is worthy.

Correspondence relating to the recruiting of an Order of Sisters to establish, care and maintain a Home for Unmarried Mothers to cater for counties Wexford, Carlow, Kildare and Wicklow. 57/

Letter from +Patrick Lennon, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, to +McQuaid accepting the invitation to the Liturgical Reception.

Letter from +Casey to +McQuaid regarding a request from Fr. Fitzpatrick of the Carmelite Priory to preach. He hopes the Archbishop will give permission. Copy of letter from Fr. Arthur Fitzpatrick, Prior, also enclosed. Annotated by +McQuaid. Kildare and Leighlin