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‘With compliments’ note to Walsh from Dalton enclosing copy of letter from Maiden, who is in contact with ‘Mr. Wolff’. Agrees with Walsh’s view of film writers – ‘they are a soulless breed!’

Letter to Walsh from Emmet Dalton (director), Medal Films, 1 Bank Chambers, 25 Jermyn Street, London, regarding to the adaptation of Blackcock’s Feather as a film. States that he has ‘great enthusiasm’ for the project, but it would be difficult and only viable if contemplated for ‘a world-wide market’. Since obtaining ‘a twelve months option’ on it, Dalton has enlisted the services of ‘a first-class screen writer’ named Cecil Maiden who is to deliver to him at the end of the month ‘a first treatment of a suggested adaptation’. Encloses copy of a letter from Maiden (12 December 1954) who had just finished reading the story which has impressed him very much. Walsh’s ability to write ‘inside a historical period’ is ‘enviable’. The adaptation would be difficult and would depend on capturing the atmosphere. There are similarities with Lorna Doone. Its natural division into three acts is convenient for scripting. Maiden offers himself as a scriptwriter for the task, but alternatively, he suggests Franklin Coen.

Letters to Walsh from Sidney Harry (accountant and auditor), 522 Fifth Avenue, New York, referring to his tax affairs in the U.S. arising from his income from royalties.

Letters of the Late Bishop O’Dwyer. Signed ‘M. Daly’ on the front cover.

Letters from the Office of the President thanking Madge Daly for her gift of the portrait of John Daly by Seán Keating; and from the Department of Education, National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin relating to 19 framed and glazed portraits of the 1916 leaders and other historic figures donated by her to the National Museum of Ireland.

Letters of regret to an invitation by Éamonn de hÓir to an unspecified Irish-language event. Mostly in Irish.

Letters, cards and telegrams from Denis Fitzpatrick (former Mayor of Waterford), Dr J[ohn] F. Devane (of St John’s Hospital, Limerick), Polio Fellowship (Ireland), and friends and family, congratulating Condell on her successful election as member of Limerick City Council.

Mainly letters and notes to Maurice Walsh, ‘Ard-na-Glaise’, Stillorgan Park, Blackrock, county Dublin, expressing condolences on the recent death of his father, Maurice. Among the senders are: P. Cowley, c/o Mater Private Hospital, Eccles Street, Dublin; Brian O’Nolan (author), 21 Watersland Road, Stillorgan; Kevin O’Shiel, 39 Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin; Paddy(?) Quinn, on behalf of Old Belvedere Rugby Club, 85 Anglesea Road, Donnybrook, Dublin; Eileen Collins, 29 St. Helen’s Road, Booterstown, Dublin; Maurice Kerins, on behalf of Dun Laoghaire Golf Club, Eglinton Park, Dun Laoghaire, county Dublin; Richard Hayward, 352 Antrim Road, Belfast; and the secretary (name indecipherable), Listowel Race Company Limited, The Square, Listowel.

Letters of condolence from the Limerick County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association, M. M. McGuire, Christina Ryan, and Edward Martin on behalf of the prisoners in Frongoch to Madge Daly on the deaths of Thomas Clarke, Edward (Ned) Daly and John Daly.