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Postcard from Thomas Mac Donagh to Joseph Plunkett, arranging a meeting with Sean Houston.

Postcard from Seán T. O’Kelly, Paris, France to Madge Daly, wishing her and her family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Postcard from Seán Mac Diarmada, Edinburgh, to John Daly, promising to write soon.

Postcard from Seán Mac Diarmada, Kerry to John Daly, making a brief reference to a patriotic German he has met and ending with the slogan ‘Up the Kaiser!’

Postcard to Walsh from J. [?] B., The Homesteads, Stirling, Scotland, stating that he should not plan a visit to Scotland especially to see him. He is very weak and not able to write much, concluding that ‘the brain is the man and the brain is evidently done!’

Postcard from Marvin Magalaner, writer and Joyce biographer, Flushing, New York, in which he discusses possible reasons why George Roberts of Maunsel & Co. Ltd, publishers, ‘got cold feet’ when it came to publishing Joyce’s Dubliners. States that some people suspect Roberts’ wife ‘engineered the dumping’. Also notes that previously Grant Richards had refused to publish as he was ‘afraid to stick his neck out’ after the [Oscar] Wilde ‘fiasco’. Suggests to McGrath to try Richard Ellman, a biographer of Joyce.

Postcard with a handwritten note from Marie E. Chilver, Antiques, Oak Lodge, Boughton, North Faversham, Kent, which states ‘Contents of 177 The Street Boughton. Less £20 valuation fee £380.00. Signed by Chilver and by V.H. Ruddock West. Contains a note in pencil on front which reads ‘Books estimated £35-£40’ in the handwriting of Mary O’Neill.

Postcard from Hella in Lietzow with a picture of the Stubbenkammer promontory on the island of Rügen. She sends greetings from her holiday.

Postcard from Hella in Oberschlema, Erzgebirgskreis. ‘1000 greetings from our travels is sent to you by your Hella’.

Envelope containing a blank postcard from Hella with a pen drawing of a Christmas tree branch. Envelope reads: ‘Please do not open until Christmas!’ Her thoughts are with Günther and she hopes that he will not be too sad on Christmas Eve. She hopes her Christmas parcel will cheer him up.