Letter from +Thomas McCabe to +McQuaid thanking him for his Christmas message. He fondly remembers their conversations during the Sydney Congress. He was sorry that floods prevented him visiting the newest Diocese in Australia, Lismore. He hopes the Archbishop will remember him in his prayers. He also mentions that his mother died.

Letter from +McCabe to +McQuaid thanking him for the chaplaincy for his nephew. 1 item

‘The Need for a Law of Adoption’ by E.W. McCabe, Vice- Chairman, Adoption Society (Ireland).

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Michael Hilliard, Minister for Defence, thanking him for nominating Frs. Phelim McCabe and Colm Matthews to serve with the Irish contingent in Cyprus.

Letter from Frank McCabe to Fr. Mangan regarding the control of the proposed structure in Sallynoggin.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: Patrick Carmody gave an illustrated lecture on Sean O’Casey. ‘Buster’ McCabe arrived from Belfast. Peadar O’Donnell spoke on ‘The Irish in Britain’, saying that English Catholics were antagonistic towards Irish émigrés. Tommy O’Reilly (a retired ITGWU official) said that “150 unemployed from each side of the city should purchase food and having no money to pay would be jailed. This would bring matters to a head.”

Letter from +Quinn to +McQuaid. The letter concerns Mgr McCabe who is to stay on in Dublin upon medical advice. Annotation by +McQuaid. Limerick

Letter from the Secretary to Fr. McCabe regarding statistics for Howth Parish.

Letter form +Mc Quaid to Fr. Cecil Barrett re Fr. McCabe's scheme.

McCabe, Mrs. Mary, 11 Belvedere Place, Dublin. She is partially blind and asks the Archbishop to get the pension for blind persons raised to £1 a week and retain the coupons.