Letter from +Collier to +McQuaid. He invites +McQuaid to dinner in his house with the bishops of Kildare and Ferns as well as a few priests from the city. Annotation by +McQuaid.

File relating to the proposed sale of land in Leixlip for road widening by Kildare County Council. Mention the Coogan Trust.

Correspondence regarding Ballymount N.S., Cookstown Boys and Girls National Schools and Skerries N.S., in the parish of Ballitore, county Kildare. Reports seem to indicate that the schools have not been kept in suitable repair in accordance with Rule

• File of correspondence between +McQuaid and Professor F. Herkner, National College of Art, Kildare Street, mainly relating to a bust that the artist is creating of the Archbishop. Some annotations by +McQuaid. 9 February 1967

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

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

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/

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.

File relating to Skerries school, Kildare.

• 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”