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Letters from Stiophan O’Madigan, Officer Commanding Republican Prisoners, Limerick Jail, to the Mayor of Limerick; and from Michael Brennan, Field General Headquarters, South Western Command, Limerick to Miss E. Murphy, St Margaret’s, Limerick concerning the conditions under which the Republican prisoners are being housed in Limerick Jail and the pilfering of items from their parcels by the Free State Garrison.

Letter to Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, from Gerard O’Flaherty, Irish University Press, 81 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, referring to enclosed letter from Bruce Hunter, director of David Higham Associates Limited, which notes that The Land of Spices is not available for Irish University Press to include in their paperback series.

Letters to Walsh from Ronald H. Lyon, Talbot Press Limited, 89 Talbot Street, Dublin mainly concerning the publication of an edition of Sons of the Swordmaker and negotiations with Chambers for the purchase of copyright. Letter dated 8 February 1939 includes a comment that sales of 1510 copies in Ireland compares favourably with sales of 5586 in Britain. Letter dated 29 March 1940 contains a proposal that Sons of the Swordmaker be included in a ‘Library of Irish Fiction’ which Talbot is discussing with Phoenix Publishing Company. Letter dated 22 July 1941 mentions that Talbot Press have an excess of copies of the novel in stock and had recently offered some to Chambers to compensate for material lost ‘by enemy action’ but they refused. If Chambers decide to reprint it, Talbot could not agree to its sale in Ireland as they have about 700 copies of their own remaining.

Letters of appreciation from private individuals, congratulating Condell on Senator Kennedy’s visit and praising her dignity and eloquence. Also Condell’s copy replies.

Mainly short letters to Walsh from Brandt and Brandt, signed either by Frieda Lubelle or Mary Shevlin, detailing the payment of royalties by Frederick A. Stokes Company and others. Some contain information on expenses (such as typing) and taxes deducted and some have statements of expenses attached.

Letters from Albert Power, Geraldine Street, [Dublin] to Madge Daly relating to the sculpture which he is designing for the Limerick 1916 Memorial Committee. Also a related letter from Josephine Mary Plunkett, 40 Elgin Road, Dublin.

Letters from Alice Comisky, West 16th Street, New York City to Madge Daly relating to the distribution of funds collected by Cumann na mBan’s Irish Relief Committee. Comisky also expresses her opposition to the new Irish Free State and its acceptance of the Treaty, and her disagreement with de Valera’s Document No. 2 and its external association idea. In Comisky’s view, ‘unless De Valera is dropped entirely there is very little hope for a Republican Party.’

Letters from Alliance Française, 1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, relating to a poetry reading event. Also two flyleaves advertising the event. Correspondents include Rémy Durand and Michel Labertrande.

Mostly letters from Anna Wickham, Parliament Hill, Hamstead, London, to O’Brien, at 33 Great James Street, Bloomsbury, Hampstead, and Crown Inn, Groombridge, Kent, concerning her own literary work, and includes handwritten poetry with the following titles, ‘Curve on the Category’, (23 May 1938), ‘Lusus Naturac’, (27 May 1938), ‘Fairy Wife’, (1 June 1938), Solution in Sensation’, (6 June 1938), ‘The Brothers’, and ‘Inquest’ (21 June 1938). Also includes letter from Wickham about a dose of pneumonia, stating ‘I feel very bitter & my soul in the corner like a sick bat because you are in the country with a routine of breakfast – fresh air & friendly conversation with a pneumonia case who was only on the danger list for 2 day: I am a pneumonia case for a fortnight & no one supplies me with any routine whatsoever – but my life is one anguish of effort after another’ (17 June 1938).

Letters from assorted correspondents, mostly in Irish.