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This series contains letters of general administrative nature.

Letters and cards to Nora Dore née Daly from Babs Mullane, Madge Daly, her husband Eamon Dore, ‘Maire’ and Kathleen [O’Mahony].

Letter from Father James Canon Ryan, Ferrybank, county Waterford relating to parish records; and letters from various correspondents relating to the size of professors’ salaries in the 1850s. With related notes.

Mainly letters and postcards to O’Brien from friends and admirers from Ireland, England, Poland, Russia, Spain, Canada and the United States, including literary friends, Brendan and Beatrice Behan, Willie and Nora Moloney and Antonio White. Also contains material from Rupert Hart-Davis, Pat Speakman of Montreal, Canada, Irma Hitschfield, Joseph O’Donnell of Limerick, Eleanor Kapp, Katherine Cornell, and Paul Potts of London. Includes Christmas cards from novelist, Antonio White (1967), Willie and Nora Moloney (1967) and actress Catherine Cornell or ‘Kit’. In addition, a postcard from Beatrice and Brendan Behan from New York addressed to O’Brien carer of Salkeld, 43 Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin, and signed by Brendan ‘Love to Kate, Father Fox’ (9 May 1963). Also contains a postcard addressed to 177 The Street, Boughton, Kent, from ‘Bimbo’ [Eleanor Kapp, actress] and Margaret in Siena, Italy, with brief account of their travel plans, and a letter from Sandra L. Velvick, 35 Fawe Park Road, Putney, S.W. 15, London, addressed to O’Brien in Kent, describing herself as ‘your fan!’ and accompanied by a musical composition inspired by novel As Music and Splendour (9 November 1967).

Letters and postcards from Patrick Pearse, St Enda’s College, Rathfarnham, county Dublin to Madge Daly, relating to lectures he is to give in Limerick.

Compliment slip from Gerard O’Flaherty of Irish University Press, 81 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, to Kate O’Brien enclosing a letter from Bruce Hunter, director of David Higham Associates Limited, to Gerard Flaherty, which refers to paperback rights and royalties, noting that there may be ‘special circumstances’ in the case of Irish University Press.

Letters from John Ryan, Registered Plumber and Sanitary Engineer, O’Connell Street, Clonmel and James Reilly, Solicitor, 81 O’Connell Street, Clonmel, relating to the administration of the estate of Robert Rollo and the assignation of a yard formerly in Rollo’s position to John Ryan.

Eight letters from Joseph Ronsley, Chairman of McGill University, Department of English, McGill University, P.O. Box 6070, Montreal, Canada, to Kate O’Brien, care of Lorna Reynolds, Parke Cottage, Eyre Court, Galway, and also at 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, referring to Canadian Association for Irish Studies seminar, and details about lecture and travel arrangements. The first letter encloses a letter from Lorna Reynolds, Parke Cottage, Eyrecourt, Galway.