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Letter from P. A. Brennan, Honorary Secretary. The President Kennedy Memorial Committee, Houghton Place, New Ross, county Wexford, expressing his pleasure that Condell will be helping with the fundraising efforts to inaugurate the Kennedy Recreation Centre in New Ross and the Kennedy Library at Harvard University, Boston. Also a booklet relating to the proposed John F. Kennedy Library at Harvard University, Boston.

Letter to Walsh from the agency manager (name indecipherable), the Hibernian Insurance Company attaching an endorsement slip noting his amended address – ‘Greenrushes’, 16 Avoca Road, Stillorgan.

Letter to Walsh from A. S. Watt C.B.E., A. P. Watt and Son (literary agents), Hastings House, 10 Norfolk Street, Strand, London, thanking him for ‘so kindly mentioning my name to your friend Dr. H. de L. Crawford’ who has proposed sending a manuscript. Watt hopes that Walsh might become a client of his soon also. Encloses a printed letter of endorsement of Watt’s services from H. G. Wells (author), 4 Whitehall Court, London (5 October 1926).

Letter to Walsh from Brett Stokes (secretary), Frederick A. Stokes Company (publishers), 443-449 Fourth Avenue, New York, requesting a photograph of him and a copy of any feature article or interview which may have been done in Ireland. Encloses a leaflet with his likeness which they have printed to publicise The Road to Nowhere.

Letter to Maurice Walsh (son) from ‘Nellie M.’, Office of the Revenue Commissioners, Dublin Castle, enclosing photostatic copies of articles from Irisleabhar, the journal of Comhaltas Cána the customs and excise officers’ association. Contents include reviews of Walsh’s work; articles by him on aspects of the association’s activities; a review of Morning Tide, a novel by Neil Gunn (Walsh’s Scottish friend), April 1931; and a tribute to Walsh on his retirement (January 1934).

Letter to Walsh from his sister Mary O’Connor, 1602 Drake Avenue, Ottawa, Canada, expressing concern that he is ill. She had been informed by their cousin Mother Benignus, Presentation Convent, Listowel.

Letter to Walsh from Desmond Williams, Savermo (Éire) Limited., Patrick Street, Tullamore, county Offaly. States that the story should be ‘printed in a form most acceptable to the U.S.A.’ The fee requested by Walsh is too high, the main reason being the fact that ‘the main body of the story is not an “original”’. Williams had half that sum in mind. Marketing the product in the U.S. is very expensive. Hopes that Walsh will reconsider.

Letter to Walsh from Carl Brandt, Brandt and Brandt, 101 Park Avenue, New York, enclosing the typescript edited version of the short story Thomasheen James and the Dangerous Age which will be published in the Saturday Evening Post. States that the cutting was necessary due to the length. Typescript begins: ‘That year I did not take my annual holiday until September’ (22 pages). Pagination.

Letter to Walsh from Moses [Greeph, 5 Maretimo Gardens West, Blackrock, county Dublin] enclosing a typescript draft of the short story The Honest Fisherman. He cites particular aspects and parts of it for praise and concludes: ‘It’s as fresh as a mountain stream.’ Draft begins: ‘Listen to me know!' (pages 1-20). Pagination.

Letter to Walsh from Captain Frederick Moore (screen and radio rights), ‘associated with William C. Winship Agency, 8506 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California’, referring to the rights of the 'Thomasheen James’ stories about which he has been in contact with Brandt and Brandt. He has not yet received their reply. He has ‘a definite plan’ for the stories, but ‘without a green light and a clearance of the rights to handle the material, we’d be working blind’. He has not seen Alex McLaren for some time.