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Sheets of notes written by Canon Hayes for a speech or article on St. Benedict and Benedictine communities.

Lists of various foodstuffs written by Canon Hayes on small envelopes.

Letter to Father Hayes from Rushworth Fogg, Feature Editor for the Irish News Agency, thanking Father Hayes for his letter an answer to his questions, apologising for misreporting him on a point due to faulty shorthand, and letting Father Hayes know he is now working on 'the Countryman piece'. Upon the back of the letter is an ink imprint of a letter from 5 March 1952 sent to Father Hayes by Michael Hogan, Cork, asking for publications for his local Muintir na Tíre guild.

Letter to Father Hayes from Patrick Cogan, Independent Teachta Dála for Wicklow. Cogan hopes to organise a guild of Muintir na Tíre in his district and help grow the movement.

Letter to Father Hayes from Joseph Hynes of Jackson Brothers Ltd., engineers and merchants, Athy, wishing to collaborate with Muintir na Tíre on building his design for a home exerciser targeted at helping the recovery of polio victims, particularly children. Hynes states that proceeds from this could helps build a fund to assists the children of rural workers afflicted with the disease. Hynes also wishes not to have his name mentioned with the proposal as it is a charitable effort and not for commercial publicity.

Letter from Father Hayes to his secretary, Tom Fitzgerald, sent from Our Lady Star of the Sea, Hastings, Sussex. Father Hayes notes that: he arrived in Hastings the night before; J.J. Bergin has gone to Canada for the World Ploughing Championship and he wishes to find out where in Canada so that he may write Bergin; and to tell Mrs. Daly (his housekeeper) that 'we arrived'.

Letter to Father Hayes from Father Raymond J. de Jaegher, Louvain (Leuven), Belgium, enclosing a copy of his book on communism, 'The Enemy Within' (not attached), noting how glad he was to have met Father Hayes during his visit to Ireland, and wishing him well with his work.

Copy of a letter Father Hayes sent to the Saturday Evening Post magazine in the United States following up on the article 'The Irish Go It Alone' by Ernest O. Hauser, published in vol. 226, no. 17, 24 October 1953. Father Hayes was one of the people interviewed and pictured for the article. Hayes thanks the Post for an 'excellent article' and writes that: Hauser made an excellent impression and 'we hope he will return'; there is a mistake in calling our playing fields here 'soccer fields' as they are Gaelic fields meant for National Games; the article evoked some strong letters to him from Irish expatriates; Muintir na Tíre now exists on both sides of the Irish border; 'Would the Irish of all shades in U.S.A. help us in this work.'

Letter to Father Hayes from the Very Reverend Conor Heaney, President, St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, who writes that there is no hope in getting the college to host that year's Rural Week due to floor renovation.

Letter to Canon Hayes from Mary Gourley, London, asking for his assistance in stopping the export of Irish horses, ponies, and donkeys for slaughter. She desires the construction of a abattoir in Ireland where they could be slaughtered as humanely as possible if they must be slaughtered and compares horse exporters to slave traders, noting 'the vanishing horse has its link to "The Vanishing Irish"'.