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Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 24a Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her Easter gifts. She exchanges family news and thanks Anne for her many kindnesses and apologises for the impotence of her expression of gratitude, but inwardly she will never forget it. The last page is handwritten.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate discusses the Walpole debt (for which see P40/3/10/1/29/14). She tells Anne of her plans to return to Ireland at the end of the month as Lorna Reynolds has offered her a rent-free loan of a flat in the Mespil Houses. This will give her an opportunity to live cheaply while finishing her novel [Constancy]. She is happy to say that after her protest Batsford has agreed to a new contract for a second impression of My Ireland on a normal royalty basis.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate is pleased that the Mercier Press in Cork are interested in doing a cheap edition of My Ireland and are also asking about her other works for paperbacks. She has been asked to give a talk on the subject of ‘Me and My Work’ to the upper forms of the William Gibbs Grammar School for Young Ladies in Faversham. It is unpaid work, but Kate feels duty bound to participate in community life.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent to Anne O’Mara. Kate is struggling with an overdraft of £600 and is seeking Anne’s consent to sign a charge to the bank of the title deeds of the property at Faversham against the overdraft.

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, 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, 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.