Letter from Florence Ryan, Munster and Leinster Bank, Crumlin to +McQuaid asking if +Crawford can attend their annual sale of work in the Mansion House. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Copies of two letters from Garret Fitzgerald, TD, offering to arrange visits to Leinster House for school pupils, and help from political societies in schools.

Lennon, Michael, Leinster Street, North Strand. He writes to inform + McQuaid that he fears the dockers are to be involved in trouble.

Letter from Fr. Willian O’Riordan to +McQuaid informing him of the sale of ‘Leinster Hall’ and asks that he direct him as to the maximum he should make.

3 -24 April 1941 Concannon, Helena, Seanad Eireann, Leinster House, Dublin. The Sisters at Marymount, Los Angeles, USA, want to recruit postulants in Ireland and they feel they can best do this by having their own foundation in Dublin. + Byrne refused them permission and they now want to approach + McQuaid. They have asked Mrs. Concannon to act as their intermediary.

Dowling, 3 Orwell Park. Asking permission for her son to atten the Dalton Tutorial Institution, Leinster Road, a co-educational school which is run by a member of the Jewish faith. Fr. V. Steen, Rathgar parish, writes to Dr. O’Connell, secretary to +McQuaid. Request refused.

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.

• Letters and petition from Mary Dowling, 63 Leinster Road,

Handwritten letter to Fr. O’Donnell, Archbishop’s Secretary, from Frank Fahey, Leinster House. Encloses a pamphlet.

Handwritten letter to Father Finnegan from Seo. O Ceannaigh, Leinster Council, Irish Republican Army, Woodpark, The Rise, Glasnevin regarding collections for the needy widows of I.R.A. personnel. The Parish Priest instructed that no collections were to be made in the parish without his permission. This is wrong, smacks of Communism, and the people resent the P.P. wanting everything for him and nothing for the missions and charity.