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Articles and pieces on various matters including: the text of a poem entitled A Braw Scots Nicht (undated); Genealogy of the MacPhersons of Cluny and Nuid (undated); article from the Mayo News entitled 'The Republicanism of Robert Burns’ (9 February 1935) and an edition of Irish Licensing World (May 1949).

Articles by Walsh in the Irish Press on the production and history of whiskey.

Copy of letter to Jackson from Walsh in relation to P7/2/1/4/2/1. He compliments her on the version she has produced and proceeds to outline the changes to the draft which he considers appropriate, act by act. Attached is a note on act one.

Letter to Walsh from Sean Mac Lellan, publications officer, Department of Education, Dublin. Encloses copies of correspondence between the department and Chambers discussing the terms for the publication of an Irish translation of The Key Above the Door. The department paid £10 for publishing 1000 copies to be sold at 2 shillings each (21 May 1931).

Large sheets from an account book folded over. Contain handwritten draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Absent-Minded Professor (untitled) beginning: ‘T. J. possessed himself of waders, creel and gaff’ (pages 1-13); part of draft of the story (untitled) at the back beginning: ‘“You are going to miss that bus”’ (page 1). Also contains a piece in pencil entitled Romance of Scotland (1937) beginning: ‘You are coming to Europe next year’, pages 1-21; three statements of royalties due to Walsh from W. and R. Chambers inserted at a page with some handwritten accounts of the same type covering the period 1 July-31 December 1936. Alterations. Each text paginated separately. Also see P7/1/3/1/1.

Mainly invoices to Jerome O’Connor (sculptor), James’s Street, Dublin, from The Hammond Lane Foundry, 111 Pearse Street, Dublin, relating to the making and transportation of the statue.

Letter to Walsh from Alex(ander) McLaren, 5160 Linwood Drive, Laughlin Park, Hollywood, California. He compliments him on his ‘yarn’ [The Quiet Man] which appeared in the ‘Sat. Post’. States that he had recently visited Harry Knibbs, who writes for the Saturday Evening Post, who reported that Eugene Manlove Rhodes has had ‘several severe heart attacks’. Hopes to visit Ireland next summer and anticipates the return of ‘this land of the free… to a state of civilisation on the fifth of December 1933’ with the repeal of the eighteenth amendment (‘prohibition’). Attached to the top is a newspaper cutting from the Los Angeles Times announcing the creation of ‘a local society of Walshians’.

Letter from P. Fitzgibbon B.A. (Pearse Street, Listowel, county Kerry), honorary secretary of Listowel Blackcock’s Feather Gaelic Football Club, enclosing copy of a resolution, adopted at the meeting of 6 November 1935, which acknowledges Walsh’s generosity in donating a set of jerseys to the club. Fitzgibbon states that the club is experiencing ‘very lean times owing to the encroachment of the foreign game on our preserves and more so by the ban, which I personally consider, to be a stupid institution and of the greatest detriment to our national game’.

Letter to Walsh from J. M. O’Dwyer (tax inspector), Dublin General District, 14 Upper O’Connell Street, in relation to tax on residence. Attached is a page entitled ‘E. A. Russell and Norman Russell to Catherine I. J. Walsh – Apportionment Account’ (26 February) containing details of purchase money, deposit, rates, income tax and ground rent.

Letter to Walsh from Seán O’Faoláin (honorary secretary), The Irish Academy of Letters, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, enclosing copy of a letter inviting him to become a founder member of the Council of the Friends of the Irish Academy of Letters. The council is to consist of twenty-one members. The enclosed letter states that the academy was established in 1932 and seeks to promote high literary standards. It has bestowed £1040 in literary awards, and now depends upon money which was raised in the U.S. by W. B. Yeats. But ‘owing to world conditions, it has lost the greater part of its financial patronage, and most of its awards must, temporarily, lapse’. The new body will assist by creating public interest. Walsh is invited to attend a meeting at the Abbey Theatre on 24 January to discuss the initiative. Also enclosed is a copy of the proposed constitution.