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Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, to Anne O’Mara. The letter deals with Kate’s share of Clare’s bequest, which she needs for the Inland Revenue, and gives a brief outline of her financial status and prospects.

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, 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, [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, 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.