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Handwritten draft of a lecture with some typescript inserts, entitled ‘Ireland & Avantgardisme’ which begins: ‘Etc. etc. I am honoured & glad to be here, & to know that your Association saw fit to invite me…’. Paginated and contains some amendments in ink.

Typescript draft of a lecture for Ramsgate Arts Society entitled ‘Ivan Turgenev’ which begins: ‘The subject of this talk tonight, Ivan Turgenev, was one of the greatest of all novelists…’.

Typescript draft of a lecture with some handwritten pages, entitled ‘James Joyce: the Spoilt Priest’ and begins: ‘In 1933, when he was only eight years from his death, and deep lost in the flowing and overwhelming inspiration of Finnegans Wake…’. Paginated and contains amendments in ink.

Handwritten draft of a lecture in French on headed paper of Comunità Europea degli Scrittori which begins: ‘M. le President, MM. les Vice-Présidents, chers collégues – Il n’est jamais facile de parler avec precision à la fois…’.

Typescript draft of a lecture for Association of Professional and Business Women, Canterbury, which begins: ‘Ladies, I have thought that you might like to hear some talk of Spain.’ Paginated with ink amendments.

Typescript draft of a lecture for the Visual Arts Society, University College, Galway entitled ‘Some memories of Student Life Long Ago’, which begins: ‘It is very good of you to want me to talk to you this evening…’. Paginated.

Galley proof (early proof of printed text) of the biography Teresa of Avila. Introduction begins: ‘Let no reader suppose that in the few pages here set before him he will find either the life or, miraculously trapped, the spirit of Teresa of Avila.’ Paginated with some pages missing.

Typescript draft of Presentation Parlour, entitled ‘My Aunts’, and the introduction begins: ‘I had five aunts. So had my brothers and sisters, the same five in name and place’. Paginated and contains number of amendments in ink and pencil. In addition, a cardboard folder with note in ink which reads ‘Topcopy’, and Kate O’Brien’s address in Dublin at 87 Mespil Flats, Sussex Road.

This sub-series contains material relating to novels written by Kate O'Brien.

Typescript draft of novel including prologue and chapters one, two and three of book one, and prologue begins: ‘Catherine laid the five written postcards on the seat beside her’. Paginated and contains amendments in ink.