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Letter from Robert [Cooper], Drama Producer, BBC, Broadcasting House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast concerning Crossword Puzzle, The Left Hand of Love and Miracle at Barragone, and a related letter from Judith Elliott, Producer, Arts Programmes, BBC Radio, concerning Miracle at Barragone.

Letter from Charles Hankins, Astor House, Cavendish Avenue, Cambridge relating to trees sold near Shanbally Castle. With Sutcliffe’s copy reply.

Letters from Robert Cooper, Drama Producer, BBC, Broadcasting House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast, relating to the commissioned re-writing of Nestor’s radio play Bramford Junction.

Letters, mainly from M. Dillon & Son, Stock & Share Brokers, 3 Trinity Street, Dublin, relating to the purchase of stocks and shares for the Reilly Trust; also share certificates and circulars from investment companies. Also schedules of stocks and shares purchased; and a draft appointment of Daniel Murphy to be a trustee in the Reilly marriage settlement in the place of James Murphy, who has died.

File containing mostly letters in English, French and Italian relating to the family of William Monsell, Baron of Emly, including a letter from Monsell’s father-in-law, the Comte de Martigny [30 November 1857], and a letter from Monsell to his wife Berthe (28 June 1880) to be opened on his death. Also includes information from the Handbook of the Court, Peerage, and House of Commons on Monsell. In addition, a cover note to Kate O’Brien [from her friend, Mary Hanley] referring to the enclosure of some letters, noting ‘I found the famous letter carefully put away in my “Emly” letter wallet. Also one written by Berthe’s father…’ (11 May 1960). The document contains the family crest of the Monsell (Monesale) family of Tervoe on the reverse.

Letter to Walsh from D. O’Kelly, Browne and Nolan, enclosing copy letter he wrote to Chambers (same date) enclosing copies of correspondence between O’Kelly and Walsh which explained the arrangement reached regarding the Irish translation of Blackcock’s Feather, which O’Kelly understood, was approved by Chambers (20 December 1933-3 January 1934). O’Kelly proposed that the holders of the English copyright (Chambers) and the translator ‘share between them a 10% royalty’.

Letters from the Irish Times Limited, P.O. Box 74, 11-15 D’Olier Street, Dublin 2, mainly relating to Rüdiger Imhof, and to the nomination of Lysaght’s The Clare Island Survey for the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize in the poetry section. Correspondents include literary editor John Banville and administrator Gerard Cavanagh.

Mainly letters to Walsh from Brandt and Brandt signed by individuals including Bernice Baumgarten and Carl Brandt. Also includes letter to Brandt and Brandt from Brett Stokes (secretary), Frederick A. Stokes Company (publishers), 443-449 Fourth Avenue, New York, confirming acceptance of their terms for the purchase of the right to publish The Road to Nowhere (20 March 1934); copy of letter to Katherine Forbes-Leith Jackson from Janet Cohn of Brandt and Brandt’s Dramatic Department regarding her dramatization of The Road to Nowhere. She is given three months for the completion of the work, then six months to arrange a ‘first class theatrical production’ (1 April 1936); copy of letter to Brandt and Brandt from Francis McManus (1909-1965), writer, referring to the fact that Walsh had ‘passed on your pleasant letter about my book The Greatest of These. He outlines his literary career up to that point and states that he has never had an agent which is the main reason for his work not being published outside of Ireland (12 December 1943); letter to Walsh from Erd Brandt, the Saturday Evening Post, The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, suggesting that he write a story about ‘Thomasheen James’ meeting American soldiers (11 April 1944). The letters to Walsh from Brandt and Brandt mainly concern the publication of Walsh’s work in the U.S. and discussion of manuscripts sent by Walsh. Specific matters include the purchase by John Ford of film, sound and dialogue rights to The Quiet Man (13 April 1936); some criticism of And No Quarter – Carl Brandt quotes his brother Erd’s remark that the hero (David Gordon) is ‘a softie’ (15 March 1937); enclosure of the announcement in Publishers’ Weekly by Frederick Stokes and Company of their forthcoming publication of Sons of the Swordmaker (21 November 1938); the disagreement with Chambers regarding the serialisation of Blackcock’s Feather in Adventure magazine (23 November 1938-7 March 1939), with copies of correspondence between Chambers and Brandt and Brandt, and copy of letter to Carl Brandt from Howard Bloomfield, editor of Adventure, stating that his company has paid Chambers £75 in settlement of the copyright dispute (20 December 1938); the possibility that Walt Disney ‘may read’ Son of Apple (29 April 1942); suggestion that the first half of The Spanish Lady should be compressed (24 November 1942); controversy over the sale of film rights of Trouble in the Glen to Republic Pictures (17 July 1953-25 February 1954). The final document in the file is a letter to Maurice Walsh (son), c/o Chase and Bank of Ireland (International) Limited., Stephen Court, 18/21 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, from Carl E. Younger (rights and permissions editor), Brandt and Brandt, stating that the fee for renewal of copyright is $4 per story (13 December 1972). Also see P7/1/3/1/2.