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Letter from Andrew Hewson, John Johnson Limited, 12/13 Henrietta Street, London, acknowledging receipt of the first chapter of an untitled historical novel and suggesting that Nestor take the book to a complete first draft before offering it for reading.

Letter from Maximilian George Rooper, Rooper & Whately, 17 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London to the 4th Earl of Limerick, advising the Earl to sell some of his agricultural land and outlining his reasons for it.

Letter to Walsh from Alex(ander) McLaren, 5160 Linwood Drive, Laughlin Park, Hollywood, California. He compliments him on his ‘yarn’ [The Quiet Man] which appeared in the ‘Sat. Post’. States that he had recently visited Harry Knibbs, who writes for the Saturday Evening Post, who reported that Eugene Manlove Rhodes has had ‘several severe heart attacks’. Hopes to visit Ireland next summer and anticipates the return of ‘this land of the free… to a state of civilisation on the fifth of December 1933’ with the repeal of the eighteenth amendment (‘prohibition’). Attached to the top is a newspaper cutting from the Los Angeles Times announcing the creation of ‘a local society of Walshians’.

Letter from John Daly, Mayor’s Office, Limerick to Thomas Clarke, enclosing an agenda paper relating to the Freedom of Limerick.

Letter from P. Fitzgibbon B.A. (Pearse Street, Listowel, county Kerry), honorary secretary of Listowel Blackcock’s Feather Gaelic Football Club, enclosing copy of a resolution, adopted at the meeting of 6 November 1935, which acknowledges Walsh’s generosity in donating a set of jerseys to the club. Fitzgibbon states that the club is experiencing ‘very lean times owing to the encroachment of the foreign game on our preserves and more so by the ban, which I personally consider, to be a stupid institution and of the greatest detriment to our national game’.

Letter to Walsh from J. M. O’Dwyer (tax inspector), Dublin General District, 14 Upper O’Connell Street, in relation to tax on residence. Attached is a page entitled ‘E. A. Russell and Norman Russell to Catherine I. J. Walsh – Apportionment Account’ (26 February) containing details of purchase money, deposit, rates, income tax and ground rent.

Letter to Walsh from Seán O’Faoláin (honorary secretary), The Irish Academy of Letters, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, enclosing copy of a letter inviting him to become a founder member of the Council of the Friends of the Irish Academy of Letters. The council is to consist of twenty-one members. The enclosed letter states that the academy was established in 1932 and seeks to promote high literary standards. It has bestowed £1040 in literary awards, and now depends upon money which was raised in the U.S. by W. B. Yeats. But ‘owing to world conditions, it has lost the greater part of its financial patronage, and most of its awards must, temporarily, lapse’. The new body will assist by creating public interest. Walsh is invited to attend a meeting at the Abbey Theatre on 24 January to discuss the initiative. Also enclosed is a copy of the proposed constitution.

Letter to Walsh from Patricia Walsh Goss, 1379 Farrell Street, San Francisco, California, complimenting him on his article ‘Ireland in a Warring Europe’. She encloses a cutting from the San Francisco Examiner with her poem ‘Ode to Ireland’, beginning: ‘Oh! The glory and the glamour’. Also enclosed is the text of a poem entitled ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ beginning: ‘Stars fell on Scotland’s lonely shore and heaven’s gates flew wide’.

Letter to Walsh from M. E. Barber (assistant secretary), The Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers, 11 Gower Street, London, referring to a copy of a contract with Chambers which Walsh had sent for comment. Barber considers some clauses ‘are capable of improvement’ and outlines changes to seven of them. Enclosed is the wording of both a ‘subsidiary rights clause’ and a ‘termination clause’ which are recommended for inclusion.