Letter from Finbar Ryan, O.P., former bishop of Port of Spain, to +McQuaid saying his recent letters and Lentan Regulations are models of precision and authoritative Teaching. Shocking to hear the attacks on + McQuaid. Mentions Fr. Hurley, Schikllibex, and Sean O’Riordan,

Six items relating to the advertising for Irish nursery-governoresses in Spain and offers of Spanish nursery-governesses and maids to work in Ireland. It was the policy of the Irish Independent to decline advertisements offering employment on the Continent to women.

-2 April 1957 Snoddy, Oliver, 9 Dunluce Road, Clontarf. He protests against the attack on Spain, Franco and the Spanish position on Church/State relationships.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Brian Gallagher, Irish Ambassador to Spain, forwarding copies of Appendix III of a booklet by Fr. Enrique Vera Iniguez which contain a number of old baptismal records of Irish people.

Letter to Mr. Cowley from Dr. Spain.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Sir John Maffey thanking him for a copy of [Madinaja’s] Spain. He visited Spain twice and is no nearer to understanding of the passion which tore the country.

Newsletter of the Industrial Research and Information Services, Ltd. The following items are mentioned: the London bus strike for parity in wages between bus crews in the city and the country the repressive measures against workers in Spain Sean Furlong’s fine of 20/ in London for the disturbance at Hyde Park Corner.

Letter from +Ryan, Bon Secour’s Hospital, Cork to +McQuaid stating he has been inundated with greetings from Trinidad. The Holy See has finally ended the association between the Port of Spain Diocese and the Dominicans. He mentions the birth prevention programme announced by the Trinidad government. The new Archbishop will be busy answering questions relating to this. 1 item

Note to Dr. Spain from the Archbishop.

Copy of typed letter to The Editor, Irish Catholic, from Juan Jose Pradera, Spanish Ambassador, on the report in that paper of the Decication of Spain to the Sacred Heart. Places the destruction and rebuilding of the Monument to the Sacred Heart in context.