Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from [ill], 186, Clontarf Road. At the meeting of the Red Cross Gift and Sale Committee the Rector of Rathgar wanted to know whether the new Gift-Sale was to be devoted to purposes of the Red Cross.

Short typed biography on the family of Dr. Conor Cruise O’Brien. Has two children, two of whom are at school in Newtown, Waterford, and two in Rathgar. Neither school is Catholic. Children are not being taught formal religion as they are allowed to make up their own minds when they come to age. Wife is living in Howth.

Crosbie, May. She asks the Archbishop to reprimand a priest she saw in the Church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. The Archbishop wonders why.

Hyland, Clare, 70 Orwell Road, Rathgar. Encloses offering for the Italian Catholic Fund.

. Blythe, Ernest, 50, Kenilworth Sq., Rathgar, Dublin. Encloses a copy of a memorandum which is being sent to 150 Nationalists in the Six Counties with a view to stimulating discussion which might help to bring about a new policy in relation to Partition and the abandonment of the idea of violence.

Rathgar from Rathmines

• [16 January] Items regarding the Perpetual Novena in honour of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and youth sodalities in the parish of Rathgar.