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Photocopy of a letter from Finbar Hazel, Branch Manager and Peter Tierney, Assistant Manager, AIB Bank, PO Box 96A, 7/12 Dame Street, Dublin 2 congratulating Rubato Ballet on winning a 1992 AIB Better Ireland Award.

Letter from Frances Nevile, Westholme, Heavitree [?] Road, Exeter to [Claude] Leatham, looking for the will of her father, Samuel Moore.

Letter from Frederick Langbridge, St John’s Rectory, Limerick to Agnes Mary Gaffney, inviting her to sing at a musical soiree on 16 February.

Letter from Frieda Lurie, Moscow, to O’Brien thanking her for her letters and books, and referring to a trip to Russia by John Steinback noting ‘About those who remember you, and who are your friends… Sergei Zalygin, Helen Romanova, Ann Elistratova, Rita Rait and others were delighted to know that you are well… John Steinbeck is coming to our country in a few days… Most likely I shall be touring the country with him…’. In addition, Lurie transcribes a letter to O’Brien from writer, Sergei Zalygin, which refers to his work, stating ‘Right now I am going through a difficult period: I am beginning a new novel, one of the most complex in my experience’.

Letter from Frieda Lurie, Moscow, to O’Brien referring to O’Brien’s article on her trip to Russia, her health and her friends in Russia, stating ‘Today I received the magazine with your article about your trip to our country. I was deeply touched by the warm words you said about “your interpreter”. Thank you ever so much. As for your impressions of Moscow I am afraid they don’t coincide with mine. To one who is born and brought up in this city everything is so dear and so much part of yourself that, perhaps, one can’t be objective but the fact remains – to me the Red Square and St. Basil’s are beautiful. May be it is so because our history, traditions and lives are so closely tied-up with it.’

Letter from [Friede] Harris, 3634 Upton Street NW, Washington DC, United States of America, to Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway, with address amended to read 24A Steele’s Road, London, NW 3, enquiring about the rental of The Fort.

Letter from G. H. Leatherman, International Dental Federation, 22 Devonshire Place, London W.1 enquiring why Charles’s son, who is getting practical experience in dentistry in America, has not applied for a course in that country leading to a master’s degree. The letter includes a pencilled draft of Charles’s reply.

Letter from George Harris Healy, curator, Department of Rare Books, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York. Informs McGrath that the Joyce Collection is catalogued, and though not available to the public, can be consulted by persons outside the university who are scholars or Joyce specialists.