Mainly letters to Kate O’Brien from a range of bodies including The Alpha Club, Belfast; Artists and Writers’ Cookbook, Los Angeles; Cività Delle Macchine, Rome; Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; Salvat Editores, S.A., Barcelona; La Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid; Society of Authors, London; Edwards-Mac Liammóir, Dublin Gate Theatre Productions Limited; and Irish Academy of Letters. Includes letter from Dorothy Evans, Honorary Secretary of The Alpha Club, 14 Donegal Square West, Belfast, to Kate O’Brien, Strand House, Limerick, with details on talk to be delivered by her, stating ‘You ask what type of audience. The majority are married women with varied interests and some quite intellectual, very rarely any men’ (1 June 1960). Also a letter to Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, from Dalmiro de la Válgoma Díaz-Valera, La Real Academia de la Historia, Léon 21, Madrid 14, Spain, noting a forthcoming publication based on opinions of foreigners about Santiago de Compostela, and requesting permission to include a number of passages from Farewell Spain, and also to reproduce Mary O’Neill’s drawing of the Hospital de Santiago (9 December 1970). Also a letter from Micheál Mac Liammóir, director of Edwards-Mac Liammóir, Dublin Gate Theatre Productions Limited, 4 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin 2, referring to his own health: ‘…I am always thinking of you. Even when weighed down by the most depressing bug ever known to man or woman since Pandora opened that box – a sorting of creeping compromise between a plain foul cold in the head and what I strongly suspect of being leprosy’ (22 December 1973).
