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Photocopy of a military dispatch from Juan Yagüe, Chief-General of Spanish Legion, reporting on application of a member of the dissolved Irish Brigade to remain in Spain where he was assigned to the Fifth Brigade of the Legion, and his public declaration of being a mason. Permission is requested for him to be forcefully repatriated.

Photocopy of memorandum from nationalist headquarters in Salamanca reporting on the activities of the Irish Independent journalist, Gertrude Gaffney, in Spain, her concerns about the failure of post from Ireland to reach Irish Brigadiers, and the economic state of their families in Ireland without government support.

Photocopy of a memorandum from General Juan Yagüe, Chief-General of Spanish Legion, Chief of La Division Reforzada de Madrid, Navalcarnero, reporting on General Eoin O’Duffy’s Irish Brigade and notes their poor discipline, tendency for excessive drinking and their military inefficiency, recommending the Brigade’s dissolution and the incorporation of its integrants in other sections of the Legion or their repatriation.

Photocopy of a list of volunteers from the Kerry section of the Irish Brigade, under the command of General Eamon A. Horan, noting names and places of origin, which in the majority of cases is Tralee, with some from Ballyheigue. Also lists status, recording in the case of Tom Hayes, ‘machine gun co’, and those killed in action.

Photocopy of a letter from the Secretary of General Eoin O’Duffy, 12 Pearse Street, Dublin to [Mrs. McCloskey], stating that in response to ‘your letter of February 3rd. to General O’Duffy re – Leo McCloskey. Dublin Road. Drogheda, the General now asks me to let you know that McCloskey is doing well, a splendid fellow, and he is very proud of him’.

Photocopy of a letter from T. P. Kilfeather, Sunday Independent, Independent House, 90 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, to Joseph A. Cunningham, Solicitor, Enniscorthy, county Wexford, regarding the Irish Brigade series and its content.

Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o Caixa Postal 71 or 74, Lisbon, Portugal, reassuring his parents of his wellbeing and describing life in the trenches: ‘did you not get my other letters I wrote 6 of them so did Teddy [Ryan] and Frank [Hempenstall] they were in a bad way when I told them about not getting there letters at home… you saw in the papers about some of our fellows being killed it was pretty tough as they were very nice chaps, our Company was leading the attack that day and not one of us was hurt, we are up beside Madrid now we can see it in the distance it look very big from where we are’.