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Similar format to P7/2/1/8/1 and a continuation of it (‘II The Spanish Lady by Maurice Walsh’). Alterations. Pagination on pages with text. Insert at the front with extract from novel and diagram.

Hardback notebook entitled II. The Small Dark Man which is a continuation of P7/2/1/2/1. Alterations. Pagination on pages with text.

Hardback notebook similar to P7/2/1/5/1/1, labelled ‘No. 2’ and apparently a continuation of it. Begins: ‘…as well as most war-hardened camp-woman’, page 98. Four lose fragments are together in the back of the book, apparently torn from it. The first has the title of the novel and ‘Chapter One –The Girl in the Stocks’. Pagination on pages with text.

Hardback notebook ‘supplied for the public service’, labelled ‘No. 2 And No Quarter’ and apparently a continuation of the first section in P7/2/1/5/1/3. Opens: ‘I did not see any more of that battle’, page 74. Some alterations. Pagination on pages with text.

Copies of pages 65-69 of The Man in Brown with some alterations.

Copy agreement between Jerome O’Connor, 5 Little Ship Street, Dublin, and The Hammond Lane Foundry, 42 James’s Street. Refers to a ‘supplementary contract’ of 6 November 1934 between the Lusitania Peace Memorial Committee and O’Connor by which they agreed to pay him $50,000 for ‘designing, executing and completion of a Memorial known as the Lusitania Memorial’. $20,000 has been paid to O’Connor, with the balance due on completion. Now it is agreed that his rights are to be transferred to the foundry who will undertake to complete the project.

Copy letter to Bernice Baumgarten (Brandt and Brandt) from Brett Stokes relating to the serialisation of Blackcock’s Feather in Adventure magazine. He states that since the sale was made ‘entirely by yourselves’, they will not claim their ‘50% share to which we are entitled under our contract with the author’. However, with future serialisations of it or any of his earlier novels – The Key Above the Door, While Rivers Run or The Small Dark Man – they should receive their share. Also see P7/1/3/1/2.

Copy of the minutes of the meeting of 24 January 1940 held at the Abbey Theatre at which the proposal to establish the Friends of the Irish Academy of Letters was discussed. It was attended by the council of the academy and ten invitees, including the Countess of Antrim, Erskine Childers and Francis McManus. Apologies for non-attendance were received from a further eight people including Maurice Walshe (sic), Mrs. Sean McEntee and Desmond Fitzgerald junior. Elizabeth Bowen (writer), vice-president of the academy, addressed the meeting, explaining that it has depended on the public for its funding. O’Faoláin then spoke, outlining the circumstances of the establishment of the academy by George Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats, its mission and the need for public support. In addition to the money collected by Yeats, donors including Shaw, the Harmsworth family, Dr Patrick McCartan, the Marquis MacDonald and Brian Guinness have contributed over the years. Now, the annual prizes for a novel (£100) and a Gaelic work (£50) have lapsed, and the prize for verse and drama presented in alternate years, is likely to end also. O’Faoláin stated that he would rather see an academy ‘endowed by the shillings of the people... than with thousands of pounds by the State and without the active interest of the people’. Some discussion followed and it was decided to establish a provisional committee composed of those present and those absent which would meet the council of the academy on 2 February.

Copy of letter to Jackson from Walsh in relation to P7/2/1/4/2/1. He compliments her on the version she has produced and proceeds to outline the changes to the draft which he considers appropriate, act by act. Attached is a note on act one.

Copy of P7/1/2/4/3 (2) [letter from Carl Brandt].