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

Letter from +Doody to +McQuaid thanking him for his kindness regarding the chaplaincy for Fr. McCabe. Ballarat

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.

Letter from +Quinn to +McQuaid. He is afraid that there is a hitch Mgr McCabe is ill and so won’t be leaving Dublin for the moment As far as +Quinn is concerned his appointment can wait until the Summer. Annotation by +McQuaid.

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

Typed letter, and a copy, to +McQuaid from Michael Hilliard thanking him for nominating Fr. McCabe.

to Cardinal D’Alton, and Pope Pius XII in relation to an article published in The Standard newspaper which is inaccurate. The article appeared on 4 March 1949 and was entitled ‘British Troops Guarded Maynooth Against Tans’. According to McCabe, who was a member of the R.I.C. at the time, there were never any Black and Tans stationed at Maynooth and the College was never under threat. The article quotes Mgr. McCaffrey, the then President of the College, who is long since dead. He wants the story to be refuted.