Correspondence pertaining to the pension claim of John O'Toole of Rathmines, Dublin for serving with the Shanghai Municipal Council (see P134/12/1/1/1/138 and P134/12/1/1/1/143). Canon Hayes lobbied the British government on his behalf via David Logan, Member of Parliament, Liverpool Scotland. Includes:
-Letter to Logan from C. O. Regan, Private Secretary to John Boyd-Carpenter, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (United Kingdom), regarding his lobbying for a pension for J. O'Toole of Rathmines, Dublin (see P134/12/1/1/1/138). Regan notes that the matter has been sent to the Foreign Office.
-Letter sent to Logan by John Graham, Private Secretary, Foreign Office, London. Graham writes the claim of O'Toole regarding his claim of service with the Shanghai Municipal Officer has been forwarded to the Commonwealth Relations Office (13 February 1956, 1p);
-Card sent to Canon Hayes from Logan enclosing the above letters (18 February 1956, 1p).
-Letter sent to David Logan, Member of Parliament for Liverpool Scotland, by Allan Noble, Commonwealth Relations Office, London. Noble writes that the pension claim of John O'Toole (see P134/12/1/1/1/138 and P134/12/1/1/1/142) regarding his service with the Shanghai Municipal Officer has been denied as he did not preserve his status as a British subject prior to 20 September 1950, despite O'Toole pressing the matter since 1950 (20 February 1956, 1p);
-Card from Logan to Canon Hayes enclosing the above (21 February 1956, 1p);
-First 2 pages of a statement detailing O'Toole's 32-year history of employment as an officer with the Shanghai Municipal Police between 1900 and 1932, his various physical ailments as he approaches his 80th year, and notes that he was denied pension on a technicality as he was three weeks late in complying with formalities back in 1950 (undated, 2pp).
Letter from Canon Hayes to Dom Bernard O'Dea stating that 'I can be down for debate on Sunday 11th.'
Letter to Canon Hayes from 'Lawrence', Sandringham, Auckland, New Zealand. Lawrence writes about his son, Seán, who has gone to work on a youth farm, talks glowingly of Saint Pius X, and talks about Hayes' article on the Vanishing Irish. Attached is a copy of the Auckland Youths' Farm Settlement Board general outline of conditions (July 1953, 1p).
Letters sent to Canon Hayes from Reverend John A. O'Brien, Notre Dame University. Includes:
-Letter to Reverend O'Brien from John J. Cogavin, Irish Parcels, Dublin. Cogavin writes that he was a bachelor serving in the United States Marines in Korea in 1953 when he read O'Brien's article on 'The Vanishing Irish' published in Life magazine. The article prompted Cogavin to abandon his plan to start a trading company to Japan and instead establish a trans-Atlantic mail order business of Irish products. Since then, he has married an Irishwoman, and since then others in their families have gotten married or engaged (16 March 1956, 1p);
-Letter to Canon Hayes from Reverend O'Brien enclosing the above letter and noting that he has suggested to Mr. Cogavin that he start a dating and marriage bureau with Canon Hayes' counsel. The top right corner of the letter is missing (2? March 1956; 1p).
Airmail letter to Canon Hayes from his cousin, Sister Mary Aquinas, Mount St. Clare Academy, Clinton, Iowa, thanking him for his condolences on the passing of her brother John, and asking about relatives back in Ireland.
Airmail letter to Canon Hayes from his cousin, Sister Mary Aquinas, Mount St. Clare Academy, Clinton, Iowa, confiding news about family members.
Letter to Canon Hayes from Kitty D'Arcy, Holy Cross Hospital, Haslemere, Surrey. D'Arcy notes that she has begun her training at the hospital, which is mostly for tuberculosis patients, and notes the small attendance at church in Haslemere compared to Kilmoyler.
Airmail letter to Canon Hayes from Larry Gaffney, passenger aboard the SS Orontes in the Red Sea en route to his new home in Adelaide, South Australia. Gaffney writes that he was the former secretary of the Wexford County Federation of Muintir na Tíre, and hopes to spread word of the movement in his new home.
Letter to Canon Hayes from Seán Mór Rice, Help Ireland Committee, Los Angeles, following up on his inquiry (see P134/12/1/1/10/36) about finding two men to assemble a haymaker ('I will supply all the information & you get a couple of mechanics & the chassis of an old Model T Ford & will have the beginning of one of the greatest industries in the world. Not only Ireland needs hay-savers but every country in the world.')