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Two letters written by Blacket Gill & Small, Solicitors, 9 Staple Inn, Holborn, London, W.C. 1, to Burrows & Company, Solicitor, 39/41 Bank street, Ashford, Kent, regarding the purchase of the Boughton property noting an offer by their client, Kate O’Brien, for £1100, subject to Burrows & Company being able to arrange a mortgage of £900 and a satisfactory report from Rentokil.

Letters from assorted correspondents to Madge Daly, mainly letters containing general pleasantries and conveying social and domestic news. Correspondents include Mark Ryan, S. Ginnell; G. G. Tyndall; Patrick MacBride (discussing his brother John); Gomar de Bhalla; Sorcha MacGuinness; Frances Melland; Richard Campbell and C. J. Frome of the American Committee for Relief in Ireland; John R. Reynolds & Co. Accountants and Auditors (lacking last page); William Molloy [?]; Mary Bowles; Peter Murray; Phyllis Ryan; Máire Ní Shuibhne; Father Senan; Mrs Kilroy; and eight unidentified writers.

From assorted correspondents looking for their county Tipperary ancestors or making other queries of genealogical nature.

From assorted correspondents exchanging or seeking information on local history, arranging outings of historical interest, or requesting permission to consult the manuscript material in Looney’s possession. Also a copy letter by Looney announcing his resignation from Cahir Community Study Group. One item in Irish. In two folders.

Letters from assorted correspondents, mostly in Irish.

Letters from assorted correspondents, as follows: Edward M. Taylor discussing his financial difficulties, the general election, and the poor state of his mother’s health; Joseph Thompson relating to a sale of wool; Cornelius Kelleher of Knockdrislagh seeking a receipt of a year’s rent paid; John Bell concerning payments made to him for works at Shanbally Castle; Rowland Bourke enclosing his accounts (now not present); Keady Bourke stating that he will not redeem Banteer and requesting the return of his money; Jeremiah Lane of Gurteenbeha relating to the quarrying of stone, stripping of bark, and the sale of a horse; Richard Tooker seeking to take a lease of Viscount Lismore’s shooting rights on his mountain near Banteer; J. V. Carpenter complaining about the conduct of quarrymen at a quarry in Gortmore; and John Turner relating to a dispute over a passage leading to his place through his neighbour’s field. Also a petition signed by Viscount Lismore’s tenants on the lands of Feohanagh, county Limerick, enclosing a memorial (now not present) to be forwarded to Viscount Lismore. Also one undated note [by Taylor?] ordering receipt stamps from Dublin.

Letters from assorted correspondents, as follows: M. Boland, Clonmel Union concerning the rent of cottages at Temple-etney and Ballyboe; Tatham Procter, 36 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London enclosing unspecified accounts (now not present); from S. S. & E. Reeves Solicitors, [Dublin] acknowledging receipt of counterfeit mortgage; Ed Hanrahan, Caherbrack, Ballinmamult, [county Waterford] enclosing rent; Frederick W. Higginbotham, Civil Engineer and Architect, 9 Lower Sackville Street, Dublin, enclosing plan of gate lodge (for which see P43/1/1/7/3); and E. T. Glazier, The British Employment Agency, Horsham, Sussex, enclosing receipts for postal orders received. With some copy replies.

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 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.

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.’