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Letter from J. J. McCarthy, Butte, Montana to John Daly, expressing his concern for Daly’s failing health. A note on the reverse states ‘The bearer, Mr. Jerry Egan is an old Fenian friend of mine and he is (O’K.)’.

Letter to Walsh from J. G. McBride, 105 Lucile Avenue, Los Angeles, California, informing him of the recent establishment of the ‘Ancient and Honorable Society of Walshians’ and enclosing a copy of its constitution. He states that the document was written by ‘your good friend and admirer, Gene Rhodes’, and among other founder members is Major (F. R.) Burnham, author of Scouting on Two Continents.

Letter from J. Casey, 23 Bowman Street, Limerick to ‘Jim’ concerning the allocation of funds collected, the bulk of which is to be spent on funerals and burial plot.

Letter to Walsh from J. Alden Sears, Kenilworth, Illinois. He was introduced to Walsh’s work by his colleague Mrs. Alice B. Dungan and now his fiancée has become a reader. They are to be married on 3 May and intend to spend their honeymoon in Ireland, Scotland and England. Mrs. Dungan showed him the letter Walsh wrote to her and they ‘would like to “ring you up” and have the opportunity to pay homage to the man (red headed wife an all) who has given us both so much pleasure’.

Typed letter from Irvin [---], Bennigsenstrasse 8, 1 Berlin 31 to Gisela Dietrich [née Scholz], informing her of Karl Gessner’s death and Helga’s hospitalisation and asking her to inform Hella of same.

Letter from Fred Cullen & Co. Ltd., Insurance Brokers, 51 O’Connell Street, Limerick, to [Michael] Allott with a quotation for an estate duty policy.

Letter from Hugh Kenner, writer, critic and author of inter alia 'Dublin’s Joyce', 512 Hunter Street West, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. In reply to a question posed by McGrath, Kenner suggest that Joyce’s talent was to some extent recognised or Dubliners would not have been accepted by the publishers in the first instance. States that he suspects that Joyce had ‘powerful ecclesiastical enemies in Dublin’ and that this may have had some bearing on why the there was a delay in the publication of Dubliners.

Letter from Holmes O’Malley & Sexton, Solicitors, to Michael and Helen Allott relating to title deeds and the revision of their wills.

Letter from Herbert Moore Pim (‘A. Newman’), 65 University Road, Belfast to [Madge?] Daly, asking for permission for an advertisement for John Daly’s bakeries to be placed in the 'Irish Volunteer' newspaper. With a related advertisement.