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Letter to Father Hayes from [illegible], Athy, writing from Dún Laoghaire, asking for a recommendation for 'a young fellow named O'Meara - a porter here, who is applying for a job in Newport as Home Assistance Clerk Rent Collector'.

Letter to Father Hayes from Father Cornelius Lucey, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, noting that he cannot attend Rural Week this year for family reasons and wishing success for the Week.

Letter to Father Hayes from Father Joseph Murphy, St. Patrick's, Athenry, commending Father Hayes for his works incorporating religion into his movement with Muintir na Tíre, and that any censorship of reading materials carried out in Ireland should be done by parents and at the local level, not by the state. Father Murphy believes that Muintir na Tíre could 'supply the machinery for working it out'.

Letter to Father Hayes from W.P. & R. Odlum Ltd., millers, Portarlington, County Laois, writing that 8 10-stone bags of flour have been sent for Rural Week as consigned to Rev. J. Kelly (Séamus Ó Ceallaigh), Mungret College, Limerick. The back of the letter has been used by Father Hayes for note paper.

Letter to Father Hayes from James McKee, woollen merchant, Balbriggan, County Dublin, accompanying a shipment of garments.

Letter to Father Hayes from Reverend M. Comerford, Rockwell College, Cashel, sending a list of all priests in Cashel practicing total abstinence. The two priests marked without asterisks are not members of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart.

Letter to Father Hayes from Veritas Company Ltd., Dublin, quoting a price for an Altar Missal and noting that 'the missing Masses are not now available with us or elsewhere in Dublin and owing to the war we have been unable to replenish supplies.'

Letter to Father Hayes from Father J. McCarthy, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, thanking Muintir na Tíre for their invitation to the upcoming Rural Week at Mungret College and hoping he will be able to attend functions during the second part of the week.

Letter to Father Hayes from the 6th Baron ffrench, Swords, County Dublin, regretting he cannot attending the upcoming Rural Week due to poor health.

Letter to Father Hayes from Tomás Ó Deirg (Thomas Derrig), Minister for Lands, acknowledging receipt of Father Hayes' letter of 28 June asking for investigation into a number of disputes with the Land Commission. Ó Deirg notes that 'the list supplied adds nothing whatsoever to the lists already submitted. I am fully satisfied that all the cases mentioned were given every possible consideration by the Land Commission.' He notes that the case of Michael Broderick of Moanmore in which he was given an adjacent plot of land is an exceptional one due to the insufficient amount of arable land in his existing small holding.