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Account statement from M.K. Kendall (Travel) Limited, Travel Agents, 15 Fetter Lane, London, E.C. 4, in the name of Kate O’Brien care of The Sunday Telegraph, Fleet Street, E.C. 4, noting overdue sum of £42.10.7.

Four copies of birth certificate of Kathleen Louie Mary O’Brien, daughter of horse-dealer, Tom O’Brien, and Catherine O’Brien (née Thornhill), born on 3 December 1918 at Boru House, Mulgrave Street, Limerick. Outsize.

Two certified copies of Kate O'Brien's death certificate, recording the date and place of her death as 13 August 1974 at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury, occupation as novelist and playwright, and cause of death as being bronchopneumonia, peripheral vascular disease and above knee amputation of left leg. The first copy contains the stamp of Williams & Glyn’s Bank Limited, Whitehall Branch, 15 Whitehall, London, S.W.1.

Collection of mostly blank postcards with reproductions of art works, depicting religious scenes, portraits, and landscapes, and also images of locations in Ireland, France, Spain, Italy and Russia. Includes portrait of O’Brien as a young girl, images of the Madonna and Child, an image of Santa Teresa De Jesus, reproductions of works by Velasquez and Goya, the Casa de los Deanes at Avila, and views of Rome, Assisi and Santiago. In addition, contains images of locations in Ireland such counties Galway, Clare and Offaly, and of Boughton, Kent. Also includes a 1916 Commemoration Souvenir postcard with an image of the first Dáil.

Two volumes with daily entries recording appointments and social engagements, lectures, health matters and travel arrangements. First volume refers to opening of Valladolid week in Spain on Monday 29 November with lecture on Thursday 2 December. Includes notes at rear and an enclosure of a newspaper cutting. Second volume contains one entry dated 23 February regarding a social engagement.

Volume with daily entries recording appointments and social engagements, weather, travel arrangements, health matters, correspondence received and other events of the day. Notes the following on Friday 31 March, ‘Clare’s birthday. Took her to dine at “Bella Napoli’’’, her move to the Minerva club on Tuesday 18 April, and her response to Maeve McGarry’s death stating on Monday 15 May, ‘Read of M. McGarry’s death in Irish Times. Greatly distressed.’ In relation to ‘My Aunts’ she notes on Wednesday 6 September, ‘Settled with David. To accept Dwyer’s mean offer on “My Aunts”’. Also records her travels in Spain. Volume is indexed by month and contains notes at the rear. Also includes the following enclosures, a 2-pias Spanish stamp, and a newspaper clipping from a Spanish paper advertising Hotel Suizo. Includes O’Brien’s personal details at the front.

Volume with daily entries recording appointments and social engagements, articles, and trip to Montreal, Canada. Notes on 19 January, ‘Part of “Without My Cloak” on Radio Éireann. (Repeat)’. Includes notes at rear of volume and an enclosed newspaper clipping with handwritten notes.

Black and white half-length portrait (205 x 160 mm) of Kate O’Brien in profile in a seated position wearing a suit and gloves. The back of the image contains some handwritten notes including one by Mary O’Neill in ink which identifies O’Brien as the subject and includes O’Neill’s contact details. In addition, further information is supplied in pencil, recording O’Brien as ‘novelist’, providing another address for O’Neill in Illington, Norfolk, and is signed ‘Love from Elizabeth’. Copyright of Howard Coster. With a duplicate measuring 240 x 150 mm and lacking notes on back.

Black and white half-length portrait (145 x 150) of Kate O’Brien in [Roundstone, county Galway] with her hands in her pockets as she looks away from the camera. Contains a handwritten note on the back which says ‘Kate’. Copyright of the Irish News Agency, Dublin. With a duplicate measuring 258 x 203 mm. Similar to P12/5/2/3/2-4.

Black and white half-length portrait (258 x 203 mm) of Kate O’Brien with her glasses in her hands as she leans against a stone wall in [Roundstone, county Galway] and looks away from the camera. Copyright of the Irish News Agency, Dublin. With a duplicate. Similar to P12/5/2/3/1-3.