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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 Reverend Father John Flood on behalf of the Ballinagore Parish Guild of Muintir na Tíre, County Westmeath. Father Flood states that the treasurer of the guild believes that non-members were invited to the previous meeting to outvote him and thus declared the election to be not in order and refuses to hand over the position.

Letter to Father Hayes from Marie MacEgan, Ballsbridge, Dublin, regarding a proposal for an art gallery and museum in Tipperary, and providing personal health updates.

Letter to Father Hayes from John Curran, a native of Cahersiveen, County Kerry, writing from Fairview, Dublin. Curran writes that he was organiser and chairman of the local branch of the Labour Party there for the last 30 years until he was compelled to find work in Dublin to support his family, and lodges complaints against the ignoring of South Kerry's development by the government. He wishes to start a branch of Muintir na Tíre in South Kerry and to compel the government to begin mineral extraction there. He closes by warning 'that there is the most deadly and poisonous type of Communism rampant in this City in the line of imorality[sic] and prostitution, and God help any young Country Girl who come into this dirty rotten filthy City who have not got any friends to go to or help them they are doomed'.

Letter to Father Hayes from Ann McQuinn, O'Brien's Bridge, County Clare. She writes that her village has no church or hall, and that she attempted to have the unused Protestant church there converted to Catholicism, but Canon Mulloy did not agree. She also wrote the County Council to ask if they would take over the old flour mill and either use it for industry or convert it into a hall. She asks Father Hayes to visit and help.

Letter from Father Hayes to his secretary, Tom Fitzgerald, sent from Our Lady Star of the Sea, Hastings, Sussex. Father Hayes asks Fitzgerald to pick up his car in Cork and he will meet him at the 'junction' on his way home from Dublin.

Correspondence involving Reverend Seán Dehindberg, Waterford. Includes:
-Letter to Father Hayes from Father Dehindberg, writing from the Anchor Hotel, County Wicklow. He asks if Father Hayes would like him to send a short article on Muintir na Tíre to the French Catholic newspaper La Croix, and suggesting a guild-level prize scheme for the best gardens in order to generate interest in vegetable growing (1 October 1952, 2pp);
-Letter to Father Dehindberg from Frank Lyddy, Honorary National Secretary of Muintir na Tíre, writing the Father Hayes would be delighted to have him prepare an article for La Croix, and stating that many guilds have taken up similar ideas regarding better vegetable growing, particularly the Thurles Guild (2 October 1952, 1p).