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Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 34 Beaufort Gardens, Brompton Road, [London] SW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate has applied for a sailing ticket to Ireland as no seats on planes are available until the end of August. Her film negotiations are ongoing.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 34 Beaufort Gardens, Brompton Road, [London] SW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate has secured a plane ticket and is looking forward to seeing her sister in a week’s time. The rest of the letter deals in the main with That Lady, which Guthrie McClintic has asked her to dramatize. She emphasises that this time, if she does it, she does it alone with no collaborators, except for the informal assistance of family members. She finds the various film manoeuvres quite amusing, but thinks that this time they will actually come to something.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, [177] The Street, Boughton, [Faversham], Kent to Anne O’Mara. Kate gives a detailed account of her financial situation, her failed attempts to sell her manuscripts to Texas and Toronto Universities for ready cash, and her failure to find regular work in either England or Ireland. She is concerned about her prospects in old age as she qualifies neither for old age pension nor national relief and has been turned down from the Civil List as her case is not yet hard enough. She encloses a list of her most urgent debts and asks Anne for a loan to save her immediate situation.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her welcome cheque, which is now the last of such from Anne’s generosity to her. She gives a brief account of a party at the Irish embassy in London. She was alarmed by the number of ageing matrons who rushed up to her to tell her that their mothers had been at school with her at Laurel Hill. What depressed her were not the matrons but the thought of their mothers, which made her feel very old.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, End Farm, North Leigh, Witney, Oxon to Anne O’Mara. Kate has just returned to End Farm after a short trip to London and apologises for her lack of communication owing to the telephone wires in the village being down. She tells Anne that since Stephen’s telegram she and her bank manager have established a cautious truce. She is sorry for having troubled Stephen with her financial matters, but she was in urgent need of guidance and advice.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Harcourt Cottage [to Anne O’Mara]. Kate thanks Anne for biscuits and bacon. She is glad to report that her book [The Land of Spices] seems to have been a real success, although she does not yet know what that means in sales. With everyone needing to economise, Kate doesn’t believe that vast sales are possible anyway. She has had a preliminary inquiry from New York about film rights. She has given Anne’s message to Heinemann that Limerick city was hungry for more copies of the book.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 88 Park Mansions, Knightsbridge, [London] SW1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne, Stephen and Peter for their birthday present. She outlines her movements and plans for Christmas. She comments on the weather, which has turned cold and caused her to do some ‘involuntary skating’ along Knightsbridge.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Harcourt Cottage to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne and Stephen for their birthday remembrances. She is planning to spend her Christmas at Illington. She mentions a broadcast record she has made. Her typewriter breaks down mid-sentence and the end of the letter has been written by hand.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Harcourt Cottage, North Leigh, Witney, Oxon to Anne O’Mara. Kate is indignant about the Censor having returned her thank you letter and that Anne’s parcel never reached Kate. She expects to have some work to do in late March, which will take her to Ireland. She has received an invitation to stay in Cornwall, where her friend E. M. Delafield is recuperating from her operation and intends to accept it.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Croyle, Cullompton, Devon to Anne O’Mara. Kate and Elizabeth [Dashwood] are awaiting the arrival of the Irish maid, Florence McGowan, as Elizabeth’s cook has left them owing to ill health and they have no other help. Kate’s new book [The Last of Summer] is just out. Heinemanns are pleased with the advance sales and expect it to do very well. The Book Society and the Observer have already given it good reviews.