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Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Croyle, Cullompton, Devon to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her birthday wishes and food parcels. Lacking last page(s).

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Croyle, Cullompton, Devon to Anne O’Mara. Kate asks Anne’s help in trying to find two female servants to look after the Dashwood household as owing to the war there are no able-bodied women available in England.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 10 Buckingham Street, Adelphi, London WC2, to Anne O’Mara. Kate discusses at length the rehearsals of The Last of Summer, describing each actor in the play in detail. She considers John Gielgud a good and hard-working producer. Lacking last page(s).

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 34 Beaufort Gardens, Brompton Road, [London] SW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate has been receiving massage and exercise treatment and is feeling better. She has managed to find a flat through a friend in Mecklenburgh Square, in the location she wants, the size she wants and at rent she can afford, but she won’t be able to move in until July as it has to be repaired from war damage. She hopes to have begun another book before returning to Ireland. She relates that the American publishers have rejected the title That Lady and will publish the book under the title For One Sweet Grape instead. The end of the letter has been cut out.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 11 Great James Street, Bloomsbury WC1 to Anne O’Mara on notepaper bearing the Sunlight League logo. Kate gives Anne an account of the success of Distinguished Villa and St John Ervine’s scathing review of the play. She mentions her old acquaintances Captain Holden and Eddie Newman, compliments received from Sean O’Casey, and a get-together with Stephen Rynne, Betty Sheehan and Vera Turleigh in Kate’s flat.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, End Farm, North Leigh, Witney, Oxon to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her good wishes, cards and presents. She gives an account of her Christmas, which she spent with Clare fooling around Oxford and toasting each other in rather peculiar cocktails.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 39 Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate seeks financial assistance from Anne towards the rental of a flat in London at £400 per year. Heinemann may send her to Russia in April and she is working hard at her novel [Constancy], which she wants to finish before she leaves.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate discusses her work prospects in some detail and in a positive vein. She is sorry to see the obituary notices of five friends in The Times in the last ten days. She is working on two books, but finds them hard to write and acknowledges that they are very old-fashioned.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 34 Beaufort Gardens, [Brompton Road, London] SW1 [sic] to Anne O’Mara. Kate is pleased to relate that That Lady is the Book Society’s choice for May, which means an extra printing of some 16,000 copies, some extra money for Kate and a very good advertisement for the book. She is having a busy time with movie people circling in and has been invited to supper with Carol Brandt, the chief story buyer of Metro-Goldwyn.

First sheet of a typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Silver Vale Hotel, Enniskerry, [county Wicklow] to Anne O’Mara. Kate describes the hotel and her living quarters and conveys mainly domestic and family news. Also the lower half of a typed sheet, which may be the concluding part of this letter.