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Letter from Kate O’Brien, Boughton, to Anne O’Mara. Kate hopes Anne has had a comfortable journey home after her trip to England to visit Kate.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate refers to Enid Starkie’s forthcoming visit to Kent to give a public lecture at Canterbury University on Flaubert and Madame Bovary. Enid be staying with her, and Kate has been invited to dine at High Table with Enid and the academics in their robes after the lecture.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 13 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin to Anne O’Mara. Kate gives an account of her social activities, which include lunch with Micheál MacLiammóir and with Dan Binchy. She mentions Brendan Behan and his daughter Blanaid.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate has just returned from Ireland and thanks Anne for her hospitality during her stay.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 334 Russell Court, Woburn Place, [London] WC1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate agrees to ask her bank manager to send Anne the codicil of Kate’s will bequeathing her property to Anne.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate has just returned to Boughton from Ireland and thanks Anne for all her hospitality. The rest of the letter deals with domestic matters.

Letter from Kate O’Brien to Anne O’Mara. Kate encloses the official letter from 10 Downing Street (now not present) offering her the Civil List pension. She asks Anne’s advice whether she should write a letter of thanks to the Queen in person. Kate repeats her request for Anne to act as a host to her friends, Professor Guy Chilver of Oxford and his wife Sylvia who are passing through Limerick in April. She is always anxious for first-time visitors to Ireland to meet the country’s civilized middle class and not only the hanging-on Anglo-Irish or the bigoted and dark hooligans. It is the driving force behind all her novels to present the real well-bred Irish Catholic society. Lacking first sheet.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her hospitality in June and the comfort of being able to talk about Gerry [their brother Gerard O’Mara, who had died earlier in the year.] She gives an account of her recent social activities. She asks Anne to send on Kate’s Irish Times article about strawberries as some newspaper people here in Broughton want to see it.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her cheque towards house repairs. She makes mention of the serialisation of The Flower of May, which is due to begin on Radio Éireann. She tells Anne that the BBC want to make a 90-minute play of Without my Cloak. She has accepted, but cannot imagine how it can be done. She reflects that had Stephen lived, he and Anne would now be celebrating their golden wedding anniversary. She finds it strange how time shortens and stretches. Sometimes it drags, while the distant past can seem like yesterday.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her gift of money towards clothes and gives an account of her purchases.