Includes letter from Ó [Dubhaigh] asking Ó Ceallaigh to bring to the attention of the government the difficult financial position of Art Ó Bríain; letter from Seán Moylan appealing to Ó Ceallaigh to try and stop the execution of Tomás McCurtain (son of Thomas MacCurtain who killed a Garda); open letter from Mary MacSwiney, which had not been allowed into the daily press by the Censor, criticizing the government’s role in assisting England; letter from [Lyn ceal?] calling on Ó Ceallaigh to release the hunger-strikers or resign as he has ‘shared in a crime which I and Ireland will not forget’; letter from Ó Ceallaigh to Cardinal Maglione asking him to wish Pius XII a happy birthday and telegram from the Cardinal conveying the Pope’s thanks; and letters from [Ó Dubhaigh] and Gavan Duffy concerning a dinner party to be given by [Ó Dubhaigh] the following Jan. Letters, such as those from Michael Browne and ‘Brígid’, who writes that she hopes he does not want England to win, refer to the ongoing war.