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Typed note containing information received from Donough O’Brien concerning Kate O’Brien, mainly relating to her character traits.

Letter and postcard from Rosemary O’Brien to Michael O’Toole, containing general pleasantries and expressing amusement at Kate O’Brien’s hair having been used to make a trout fly (see P76/2/4/11).

Greeting card from Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Merrion, Dublin 4 to Michael O’Tool, looking forward to reading his article.

Postcard from Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Merrion, Dublin 4 to Michael O’Toole, thanking him for drawing her attention to errors in her recent publication.

This sub-series contains Michael O'Toole's correspondence with Eibhear Walshe relating to their respective research projects focusing on Kate O'Brien.

Letter from Ann P. Overton, The Old Post Office, High Street, Fordwich, Canterbury, Kent CT2 ODH to Michael O’Toole, thanking him for the copy of Presentation Parlour, which has rekindled her interest in Kate O’Brien’s works. Also see P76/2/4/4.

Copy letter from Michael O’Toole to Brian Moore, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 2 Soho Square, London W1V 5DE seeking clarification on Moore’s view of Kate O’Brien as a ‘safe’ writer as expressed in an interview in Banned in Ireland: Censorship and the Irish Writer (1990).

Letter from W. F. Richardson, St Kevins, Blessington, county Wicklow to Michael O’Toole, responding to O’Toole’s newspaper notice (for which see P76/3/2/2/2/12). Richardson provides an anecdote of his fishing holiday in Corofin in 1945, during which he met and befriended Kate O’Brien and made a trout fly from some of her hair, naming it ‘O’Brien’s Glory’. Attached to the letter is a copy of a comic poem given to him by Kate O’Brien in return. Also O’Toole’s reply of thanks. Also see P76/2/1/5, P76/2/1/8 and P74/1/3/6/3/11.

Letter from Tim O’Sullivan, Marian Place, Cahersiveen, county Kerry to Michael O’Toole, responding to O’Toole’s newspaper notice (for which see P76/3/2/2/2/12), recommending articles on Kate O’Brien in the Irish Catholic and the Irish Times.

Correspondence between Michael O’Toole and Paul Thomelin, a new Kate O’Brien enthusiast seeking advice and information from O’Toole.