Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + James Staunton, Ferns. It would seem that the Minister has accepted the suggestions regarding the White Paper. Shows a real desire to cooperate with the Hierarchy.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from W. Norton enclosing an advance copy of the White Paper on Social Security.

Typed letter to Dr. O’Connell from R. White, Private Secretary, Minister for Health, regarding the inauguration ceremony at the new Dublin Sanatorium at Abbotstown.

Handwritten report. A resolution of opposition to Hutt, NUJ, for Easter Congress passed by Independent Chapel. Dublin Branch unanimously decided that Irish delegates would oppose him if there was any opposition to him. Otherwise no. Talk of paper being bought out by Workers’ League. Told that Jack White of Times and Jim Downey of Mail appointed research team to publish items, presumably to injure the Church, e.g. Fethard-on-Sea. Wonders who the building worker in The Evening Mail letter controversy is. Getting the Nolan’s a great deal of publicity.

Letter from Dermot O’Flynn to +McQuaid regarding the new Censorship Board and the views of Mr. White who was very against the modus operandi to the previous one.

• Correspondence between Terence de Vere White, December 1972 ‘The Irish Times’, Fr. Liam Martin, Derek Hill, artist and +McQuaid. Derek Hill wishes to paint the Archbishop. Some annotations by +McQuaid.

• Correspondence concerning the foundation of a house in Dublin from Bodmin Abbey (Cornwall). Some begging letters. Abbot White granted permission for a hostel for his scholastics to attend Clonliffe College. They settle in Clontarf: but first batch of 3 seek dispensation from vows before commencing. A refocusing of the houses’ purpose ensures Canons Regular - Kilnacrott Abbey