Letters, mainly addressed to the president of All Hallows College, from bishops, priests and former students in Australia and New Zealand, 1843-1877

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The principal correspondents are Bishop J.B. Pompallier (Auckland), Bishop W. Willson (Hobart), Rev. T.F. Lucas (Launceston), Rev. C. Woods (Hobart), Bishop D. Murphy (Hobart), Bishop J. Brady (Perth), Bishop R. Salvado (Perth), Bishop J.B. Serra (Perth), Bishop M. Griver (Perth), Archbishop J.A. Goold (Melbourne), Bishop M. O'Connor (Ballarat), Bishop M. Crane (Sandhurst) and Bishop F. Redwood (Wellington).

The Australian letters deal with similar subjects to those on the previous reel. In addition, there are references to the visits of Bishop Willson to the mainland and Norfolk Island, the financial difficulties of dioceses, and relations between the Spanish and Irish clergy in Western Australia.

The New Zealand letters, mostly written by Bishop Pompallier, discuss the qualities required by priests for work in New Zealand, the progress of Catholicism among the Maoris, the endowment of convents, conflict with Protestant missionaries, Pompallier's visit to Ireland (1860), schools, the effects of the New Zealand wars (1867), the printing of prayerbooks and catechisms in Maori, and relations with the New Zealand Government.

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