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Letter to Walsh from his sister Mary O’Connor, 1602 Drake Avenue, Ottawa, Canada, expressing concern that he is ill. She had been informed by their cousin Mother Benignus, Presentation Convent, Listowel.

Letter to Maurice Walsh (son) from ‘Nellie M.’, Office of the Revenue Commissioners, Dublin Castle, enclosing photostatic copies of articles from Irisleabhar, the journal of Comhaltas Cána the customs and excise officers’ association. Contents include reviews of Walsh’s work; articles by him on aspects of the association’s activities; a review of Morning Tide, a novel by Neil Gunn (Walsh’s Scottish friend), April 1931; and a tribute to Walsh on his retirement (January 1934).

Letter to Walsh from Brett Stokes (secretary), Frederick A. Stokes Company (publishers), 443-449 Fourth Avenue, New York, requesting a photograph of him and a copy of any feature article or interview which may have been done in Ireland. Encloses a leaflet with his likeness which they have printed to publicise The Road to Nowhere.

Letter to Walsh from A. S. Watt C.B.E., A. P. Watt and Son (literary agents), Hastings House, 10 Norfolk Street, Strand, London, thanking him for ‘so kindly mentioning my name to your friend Dr. H. de L. Crawford’ who has proposed sending a manuscript. Watt hopes that Walsh might become a client of his soon also. Encloses a printed letter of endorsement of Watt’s services from H. G. Wells (author), 4 Whitehall Court, London (5 October 1926).

Letter to Walsh from the agency manager (name indecipherable), the Hibernian Insurance Company attaching an endorsement slip noting his amended address – ‘Greenrushes’, 16 Avoca Road, Stillorgan.

Letter from P. A. Brennan, Honorary Secretary. The President Kennedy Memorial Committee, Houghton Place, New Ross, county Wexford, expressing his pleasure that Condell will be helping with the fundraising efforts to inaugurate the Kennedy Recreation Centre in New Ross and the Kennedy Library at Harvard University, Boston. Also a booklet relating to the proposed John F. Kennedy Library at Harvard University, Boston.

Letter from Seán O’Casey, Irish writer, Flat 3, 40 Trumlands Road, St. Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, in which he encloses a large signed black and white photograph of himself instead of a signed program, which McGrath requested. Asks McGrath that when remembering Irish literature, not to forget American writers such as Emerson whose work O’Casey admires. Also states that he is not ‘bothered’ about being an exile and that he is ‘lost in the crowd, for 50,000 [Irish people], or so, leave Éireann every year’.

Letter from Martin Secker, director of The Richards Press Ltd., 5 Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London. Informs McGrath that he cannot be of any help as Mr. Grant Richards (founder of Richards Press) and others associated with the business at the time of the publication of Joyce’s Dubliners were now dead. Also notes that the reason why publication was delayed was because ‘publishers were too blind to recognize genius when they saw it’ and that any suggestion of outside influences was ‘purely moonshine’. Included with this letter by McGrath is a brief history of Richards Press Ltd. and a newspaper cutting advertising a Sotheby’s auction at which inter alia the page proofs of Joyce’s Dubliners were to be sold.

Letter to Walsh from Janet Cohn enclosing a press cutting from the New York Times (9 August 1960) stating that ‘key personnel are being lined-up by Fred Hebert for his “Donnybrook”’ – the musical version of The Quiet Man – with Jack Cole in the leading role. Accompanying the article is a sheet on which Walsh has written a note about the change in setting from his ‘native Kerry’ (in the short story) to Connemara (in the film) and now to 'Donnybrook' (in the planned musical).

Thomas Noonan's letters to his mother and father written during his military service in the First World War.