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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, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate is greatly cheered by praise she has received for her Paris articles from Douglas Gageby, editor of the Irish Times. It is particularly gratifying because editors rarely make such gestures and because she found the research for and composition of the articles very difficult. She gives a brief impression of her trip to Paris.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 33 Great James Street, [London] to Anne O’Mara. Kate informs Anne that she is going into the Florence Nightingale Hospital to have a small operation to repair a displacement of her right ovary and ovarian tube.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 33 Great James Street, London WC1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her kind invitation and outlines her plans to spend the summer in Ireland as long as she can get certain things off her mind before departure. She complains that times are very bad and that people in her profession are going through an awful period. She will try to let her flat for the summer although the scare of war makes people unwilling to occupy a top flat in a shaky old house like hers. She and Clare discuss European wars and rumours whenever they meet, and she worries what may happen to Europe in the end. She notes that all the treatments are over and she is very well now. She extends her love to Peter, who has been sent to board at Clongowes [Wood College].

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, End Farm to Anne O’Mara. Kate mentions the surrender of France to Germany [on 14 June] and the evacuees who have arrived in North Leigh. She is very busy with work, but all sorts of things are going wrong as they are bound to do during war. She claims that Italy’s entry into the war has cost her a dead loss of twenty guineas. She expects Clare to have been evacuated from London by now. Both of them are engrossed in the events of the war.

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.

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.