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Letter to Canon Hayes from T. Walsh, Coologe House, Old Pallas, County Limerick, asking for assistance with selling 50 acres of the family's 100-acre farm in order to pay off creditors. The Walshes wish to get the consent of the Irish Land Commission to do.

Letter to Canon Hayes from William Godfrey, Archbishop of Liverpool, hoping to arrange a visit on 12 October 1956 during Canon Hayes' trip to Liverpool.

Slip of paper listing supply items to be purchased from a catalogue such as cooking pans, burners, and polish.

Letter to Canon Hayes from Sister Mary Catherine, Convent of Mercy, Templemore, County Limerick. She thanks Canon Hayes for his advice regarding treatment for her nerves and that she has resumed going to Confession.

Letter to Canon Hayes from Patrick J. Connolly, teacher at Mooncoin Vocational School, County Kilkenny (writing from Waterford), following up on his letter of 31 August 1956 (P134/12/1/1/1/196). Connolly thanks Canon Hayes for their meeting in Bansha and states 'If we go about this thing properly we have a made an approach to the whole question of Adult Education in the county... ... If M. na Tíre can lead the way it will be doing something which will change the face of rural Ireland.'

Letter to Canon Hayes from David Mathew, Bishop of the Forces, London, writing that he cannot get to Ireland for a visit but will visit if he is ever in the neighbourhood of Bansha.

Letter to Canon Hayes from Father John Purcell, College of the Sacred Heart, Limerick, hoping to arrange a meeting between the two to discuss rural depopulation.

Letter to Canon Hayes from Father Cuthbert, St. Bonaventure's Capuchin Hostel, Cork, informing Canon Hayes that Father James is due to return to St. Bonaventure's the following Monday.

Correspondence involving solicitor John J. Nash, Thurles, pertaining to the prospective sale of lands from the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Grisewood, Cappawhite, County Tipperary, for construction of a church and Garda barracks.
Includes:
-Letter from Father James Bacon to Nash stating that he has no intention of holding up any impending sale of the Grisewood lands to his prospective purchase (1 October 1956, 1p);
-Letter from Grisewood to Nash informing him that he and his wife do not wish to sell property for a Garda barracks, and while they will sell property for a new church and curate's house as asked the previous April, donating property for both the church and the barracks would deplete the farm too much as they only have 94 acres (undated, 1p);
-Letter from Nash to Canon Hayes enclosing the above letters (9 October 1956, 1p).

Letter to Canon Hayes from Denis J. Borland, Dromcollogher, County Limerick, offering to be one of Muintir na Tíre's representatives on a National Council of Agriculture. He notes that he gave evidence before the Pigs and Bacon Commission and the Vocational Commission, and currently farms 118 acres.