Letter from Rev. John McCormack, Bishop-Elect of Meath, to +McQuaid. He thanks +McQuaid for his message of congratulation and for showing him great kindness. He invites him to attend his Episcopal consecration and concelebrate if it should be convenient. Annotation by +McQuaid.

Letter from Mgr. Benelli to +McQuaid regarding a ‘rather strange letter he has received from a person who resides in the Archdiocese of Dublin’. Annotations, in the hand of McQuaid, suggest the lady is Mrs. Lily Cox, of the Diocese of Meath and she has written many such letters. She is well known to the clergy.

McGowen, Ml., Chairman, Dublin Unemployed, Northbrook Ave., North Strand. He is appalled at men eating their meal, at the Bon Succour premises, out of their hands; at men being turned away from the Centre at Meath Street as they were a few minutes late; the food at Usher’s Island substandard.

Letters from Fr. Morgan Costello, Meath Street to Fr. James Ardle MacMahon seeking permission to write a series of article for the ‘Evening Herald’. Copy replies attached. Irish Press

File relating to the proposed purchase of 83 Meath Street from a Mr. Doyle.

• 14 March 1946 Letters from Fr. Boylan to +McQuaid regarding the proofs of a Parish Magazine in Meath Street. 2 items

Donore Avenue from Meath Street

Handwritten letter to Fr. Mangan from M. Colgan. Refers to: the missal to be presented to the Holy Father Mass in the Meath Hospital.

’51 Draft handwritten copy and two typed copies of a letter to His Excellency, the Most Rev. Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio, marked ‘Secret’. The following items are referred to: the Government has accepted the Hierarchy’s judgement; the Leftist elements in the Labour groups and Women’s Associations have repeated the calumnies of the Irish Times; the Irish Times has surpassed itself in injustice, noticed by representative Protestants; his position on the case of the Meath Hospital Committee and lawsuit ensures that the attitude of the Protestants and Freemasons will not tolerate any injustice done to the Church; Partition; the Government’s decision has thrown Socialism and Communism back a long time.

Anonymous typed letter to + McQuaid wondering if he is aware that Miss Clancy, retired teacher of Meath Street School, is an active Communist? The Standard described Patricia Lynch as one of the leading Catholic writers. She is not a Catholic. Her husband is in Communist Secret Service. So too is Charles Acton.