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Letters and postcards from Patrick Pearse, St Enda’s College, Rathfarnham, county Dublin to Madge Daly, relating to lectures he is to give in Limerick.

Mainly letters and postcards to O’Brien from friends and admirers from Ireland, England, Poland, Russia, Spain, Canada and the United States, including literary friends, Brendan and Beatrice Behan, Willie and Nora Moloney and Antonio White. Also contains material from Rupert Hart-Davis, Pat Speakman of Montreal, Canada, Irma Hitschfield, Joseph O’Donnell of Limerick, Eleanor Kapp, Katherine Cornell, and Paul Potts of London. Includes Christmas cards from novelist, Antonio White (1967), Willie and Nora Moloney (1967) and actress Catherine Cornell or ‘Kit’. In addition, a postcard from Beatrice and Brendan Behan from New York addressed to O’Brien carer of Salkeld, 43 Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin, and signed by Brendan ‘Love to Kate, Father Fox’ (9 May 1963). Also contains a postcard addressed to 177 The Street, Boughton, Kent, from ‘Bimbo’ [Eleanor Kapp, actress] and Margaret in Siena, Italy, with brief account of their travel plans, and a letter from Sandra L. Velvick, 35 Fawe Park Road, Putney, S.W. 15, London, addressed to O’Brien in Kent, describing herself as ‘your fan!’ and accompanied by a musical composition inspired by novel As Music and Splendour (9 November 1967).

Letter from Father James Canon Ryan, Ferrybank, county Waterford relating to parish records; and letters from various correspondents relating to the size of professors’ salaries in the 1850s. With related notes.

Letters and cards to Nora Dore née Daly from Babs Mullane, Madge Daly, her husband Eamon Dore, ‘Maire’ and Kathleen [O’Mahony].

Thomas Noonan's letters to his mother and father written during his military service in the First World War.

This series contains letters of general administrative nature.

Letter to Walsh from Janet Cohn enclosing a press cutting from the New York Times (9 August 1960) stating that ‘key personnel are being lined-up by Fred Hebert for his “Donnybrook”’ – the musical version of The Quiet Man – with Jack Cole in the leading role. Accompanying the article is a sheet on which Walsh has written a note about the change in setting from his ‘native Kerry’ (in the short story) to Connemara (in the film) and now to 'Donnybrook' (in the planned musical).

Letter from Martin Secker, director of The Richards Press Ltd., 5 Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London. Informs McGrath that he cannot be of any help as Mr. Grant Richards (founder of Richards Press) and others associated with the business at the time of the publication of Joyce’s Dubliners were now dead. Also notes that the reason why publication was delayed was because ‘publishers were too blind to recognize genius when they saw it’ and that any suggestion of outside influences was ‘purely moonshine’. Included with this letter by McGrath is a brief history of Richards Press Ltd. and a newspaper cutting advertising a Sotheby’s auction at which inter alia the page proofs of Joyce’s Dubliners were to be sold.

Letter from Seán O’Casey, Irish writer, Flat 3, 40 Trumlands Road, St. Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, in which he encloses a large signed black and white photograph of himself instead of a signed program, which McGrath requested. Asks McGrath that when remembering Irish literature, not to forget American writers such as Emerson whose work O’Casey admires. Also states that he is not ‘bothered’ about being an exile and that he is ‘lost in the crowd, for 50,000 [Irish people], or so, leave Éireann every year’.