Letter from +Staunton to +McQuaid enclosing a modified version of the report on the work carried out with emigrants. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from +Staunton to +McQuaid stating he has been invited to preach at the opening of the Academic Year.

Copy of typed letter to + Staunton from +McQuaid, enclosing a draft reply on the Mother and Child Scheme. He has confined his answer to principles. He has kept an eye on the Trade Unions, especially the T.U.C. and the Clann politicians.

Copy of typed letter to + Staunton from Richard Mulcahy on the system of rating National School Teachers.

Typed letter to + James Staunton, Ferns, from Richard Mulcahy. The present system of rating teachers ‘Efficient’ and ‘Highly Efficient’ is to be discontinued. Teachers reported to be doing satisfactory work would be entitled to proceed to the appropriate maximum salaries.

Letter from Mgr. James Browne acknowledging the great loss felt by +McQuaid on the death of his friend, Bishop Staunton. He also states he has been elected Vicar Capitular by the Chapter in Enniscorthy. Annotated by +McQuaid.

‘Memorandum of observation of the Minister for Health on various matters relating to the Mother and Child Scheme referred to in a letter, dated 10th October, 1950, addressed to the Taoiseach by the Most Rev. J. Staunton, D.D., Bishop of Ferns, Secretary to the Hierarchy’. Each of the points raised by the Hierarchy are considered. Original and copy.

Typed telephone message. The General Manager of The Irish News Agency phoned requesting an authoritative statement from + Staunton on the Mother and Child Scheme. He replied that is such a statement were to come it would be issued by +McQuaid. Let the published letters speak for themselves.

Handwritten account of the meeting of 10th December 1952 between the Tanaiste and his Minister for Health on the Government side and the Committee of +McQuaid, + Kinnane, + Browne, + Staunton, and + Lucey, and two typed copies.