Letter from +Lyons to +McQuaid. He thanks him for the invitation to attend the Votive Mass and writes that it will be a great pleasure for him to attend.

Handwritten report. Second edition of Irish Socialist Review very dangerous. Surely newsagents will not sell it here. If they do there will be trouble in time. The Plough finding it hard to keep going. British Communists have produced a programme: ‘The British Road to Socialism.’ Noel Lyons, Terenure, came home from Prague in the same plane as Nolan. Is a young writer and may have gone for writing experience. Is it now Communist policy to let Socialists go ahead? Does the new Unemployed Association have a link to Communism?

Letter from +Lyons to +McQuaid. The letter concerns a cheque destined for Dublin which was lost.

Lyons-Jones, J., Castlewood Park, Rathmines. Questions + McQuaid’s interpretation of the Scriptures. Two booklets.

-23 November 1959 Lyons, Julie, Somerville, Carrick Ave., Dun Laoghaire. Correspondence regarding her nephew, Patrick Begley (see XL/2/10). The family are asking + McQuaid to use his influence to get Patrick a job in broadcasting. She predicts he will have to account before God for his ungracious and unfeeling letters. Mac

Letter from +Lyons to +McQuaid. He waited to acknowledge the Pastoral until he had read it and now that he has he has nothing but praise for it. He apologises for his absence at meetings and writes that it would be a tragedy if he Standard paper failed.

Letter from +Lyons to secretary in Archbishop’s House. He writes that it would be a pleasure to attend the consecration of the archbishop elect and hopes to attend.

Letter from +Lyons to +McQuaid. He encloses a replacement for a missing cheque and wishes him the greetings of the season.

Lyons, M.G.M. Office, Abbey Street. Telephone message regarding the film King of Kings.

Copy of letter from +McQuaid to +Lyons. He thanks +Lyons of his compliments about the Pastoral but has little interest in the Standard or its success.