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23 June 1952 - 3 December 1958
Correspondence relation to setting up hostel for students. Archbishop will allow if sisters can fund and staff it, and submit two proposals re sites. Further correspondence re suitable sites. Bushy Park secured. Correspondence re Bloomfield, Merrion Rd. Archbishop advises to establish school as well as hostel. Boarding school at Clermont, Rathnew; novitiate is transferred there but later to St. Maur Our Lady's, Terenure

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9 January 1959 - 22 December 1971
Routine matters of community life and apostolate, including sodalities Correspondence re property extensions and acquisitions Archbishop's view foundation in New Zealand Question re permission to drive

Hilton, Kevin, 59 Callary Road, Mount Merrion, thanking + McQuaid for his encouragement to the Holy Hour Group.

Horne, Delia, 94 Merrion Square W, Dublin. The scheme she has in mind is a Centre for Mental Welfare for Children.

Kelly, Vincent, 87 Merrion Square, relating to architectural plans.

Monks, Mrs. Helena, Donnycarney. Asks the Archbishop to take steps to stop Catholics receiving unwanted literature from Merrion Hall.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Conor Maguire, Mount Merrion Ave., Blackrock. He is not happy with the decisions.

Married to Marie Timmons, Mount Merrion parish. All seems well.

File relating to the ‘unethical tactics’ used by Lever Brothers in advertising. On the ‘Surf’ washing powder packets they state that 1p from each packet sold will be given to the Baldoyle (Dublin) Hospital for Crippled Children. Letters from various people including Mgr. Joseph Deery, Mount Merrion, T.D. Spillane, secretary, Hardware and Allied Traders’ Association of Ireland, J.J. Sherlock, Sales Manager, Lever Brothers & P.J. McElligott, Castleisland, County Kerry.

Note to +McQuaid saying John O’Sullivan, Mount Merrion, has been intercepting anti-Catholic literature in Arnotts. Copy of Pertinent Questions. Answers enclosed.

Letter from Professor Dr. Doyle, Retired General Royal Engineers & Royal Flying Corps, Mount Merrion, to + McQuaid asking him to put a stop to the play Design for a Headstone at the Abbey. It is an attack on the clergy and foreign Missions.