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This series contains Michael Curtin’s correspondence with publishers, literary agents, film and television production companies, artists' associations and others.

Letters from Andre Deutsch Ltd., 105-106 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LJ, to Michael Curtin at various addresses but mainly at 93 O’Connell Street, Limerick. The letters deal with the preparation for publication of The Replay and The League Against Christmas, the Spanish language rights for The Self-Made Men and general financial matters. Correspondents include editor Esther Whitby, rights managers Anne-Louise Fisher, Hilary Delamere and Caroline Knox, contracts manager Marie Malone, managing director T. G. Rosenthal, director Laura Morris, Michèle Young and Shirley Purkiss.

Letters from Aosdána, 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, to Michael Curtin, Lyndon, South Circular Road, Limerick, relating to Curtin’s nomination for membership. Correspondents include registrar Adrian Munnelly and his assistant Bernadette O’Leary. Also see P19/2/5/1-2.

This sub-series contains letters to Michael Curtin from artists' associations.

Letters from assorted friends and acquaintances, including Danny Blanchflower, Hubert Butler, Dick Amaral and ‘Una [?], Jessica and Michael’.

This sub-series contains letters to Michael Curtin from authors.

Letters from Ben[edict] Kiely, 119 Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, mainly relating to Curtin’s nomination for membership for Aosdána. Also see P19/2/4/2.

Letters from Caradoc King, A. P. Watt Ltd., 26/28 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4 HL, and 20 John Street, London WC1N 2DR to Michael Curtin, c/o Andre Deutsch Limited, 105 Great Russell Street, London WC1, and 93 O’Connell Street, Limerick, offering his firm’s services as literary agents and refusing to take on the unsold rights in The League Against Christmas.

Letters from Charles Frewin at various addresses, expressing his enthusiasm for The Self-Made Men, The Replay, and The League Against Christmas. Later letters relate to Frewin’s subsequent bookselling career in Australia and his release of a paperback version of The League Against Christmas under Two Heads Publishing.

Letters from Donald Hyams, Magic Lantern Productions SA, 8 Place Grenus, 1201 Geneva Switzerland, to Michael Curtin, O’Connell Street, Limerick, relating to film rights in The Self-Made Men. Also see P19/2/2/3.