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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, The Homestall, South Moreton, near Didcot, Berkshire to Anne O’Mara. Kate apologises for not having written since before Christmas, but she has been ill with gastric flu. Her doctor has urged her to go to Ireland for respite, but the novel she is currently writing [That Lady] requires a lot of documentation, and it is difficult to get permission to take or post books and papers into neutral territory. She has a lot of concentrated work to do first before she can go over in peace of mind.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Silver Vale Hotel, Enniskerry, [county Wicklow] to [Anne O’Mara]. Kate encloses two limericks and thanks her sister for medication received. She notes that the play [That Lady] is progressing nicely.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Silver Vale Hotel, Enniskerry, [county Wicklow] to Anne O’Mara. Kate has finished dramatizing the novel [That Lady] and has handed the manuscript to the typists. She feels she has done her best and hopes that Guthrie McClintic will be pleased with it.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 23 Beekman Place, New York 22 to Anne O’Mara. Kate regrets that the preparations for her play [That Lady] have been postponed owing to Katharine Cornell’s illness. She discusses her brother Michael, who is living in New York, and her impressions of the city. She is amazed by the number and variety of shops in the city and doubts that with such an embarrassment of choice she would be able to buy as much as a pair of gloves.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 11 Great James Street, Bloomsbury WC1 to Anne and Stephen O’Mara, thanking the couple for their loan of money and for their good wishes in the midst of an unpleasant affair. She regrets that she has no news of her play Distinguished Villa.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 11 Great James Street, Bloomsbury WC1 to Anne and Stephen O’Mara. Kate encloses reviews of her play (now not present) and gives an account of the first night of Distinguished Villa in London. She mentions a new play she is working on, which is set in County Limerick and centred around the Limerick Horse Show and members of the family. She describes the play as entirely different from Distinguished Villa and without its sordidness.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 11 Great James Street, Bloomsbury WC1 to Anne and Stephen O’Mara. Kate is seeking a loan of £25 to cover the solicitor’s expenses in arranging the decree nisi against her husband. She intends to pay it back before Easter at the latest.

Typed letter from Dr George Riddoch, 16 Devonshire Place, [London] W1 to Kate O’Brien, Foxborough Hill, N. Halstead, Essex. Riddoch informs Kate that her sister [Clare] is badly in need of a holiday, having suffered an attack of unconsciousness and frequent vague feelings in her head. He supports Clare’s plan to get a job in the Irish Free State civil service as her present job is clearly too much for her.