Phillips and MacBean. Jaffrennou's request for money. The problem of the penniless young Frenchmen now in Donegal. Sympathies with E. T. John over the coal crisis in England. (4488: 4498).
Hyde's measles. Re the Cornish Congress programme: Nance, Coffey, Mrs Costello, Miss Dobbs, Prof. MacAllister, Lloyd-Jones, George O'Brien. Glad that E. T. John managed a short Continental tour. (4604: 4623).
Irish enthusiasm for the Dublin Congress: Hyde. Lady Ashbourne ill with typhoid in Paris. O'Farrelly's sister going to Rome, and might see Megan there. (4332: 4360).
Some hope for the Celtic Congress to be held in Ireland the following summer. General election needed in Ireland to resolve Dáil divisions. June better than July for Irish to attend Congress. (3055: 3059).
Irish tragedy: 'you can have no conception from the English Press of how matters are.' Manx Congress. Prof. MacNeill and Liam O'Briain in prison. Despises Erskine and Henderson: legal action in the offing. Suggests that E. T. John should establish a National Thrift Party to overthrow government. Death of Mary Butler the novelist. (2729: 2775).
Misses Dobbs and McGavock, and the Manx programme. Lennox Robinson's promised paper. Asking whether an Irish-speaking Catholic priest is required to preach on Man. (2776: 2949).
Motoring holiday. Distressed by the Gaelic League's decision. Fears the Lord Mayor (of Dublin) will follow suit (and ignore Edinburgh Congress). Guarantees Irish University representation there. Trying to persuade Douglas Hyde to go. (2304: 2333).
Hyde recuperating. Discussing the subject she would choose to speak on at Glasgow. Graves anxious to participate again, and O'Farrelly believes it would be best to let him do so. 'The Congress has enemies enough.' O'Farrelly had already offended Graves over his composition 'The Heather Song.' (5016: 5036).
