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Letter from Battersby & Co., Auctioneers & Valuers, 39 Westmoreland Street, Dublin, to E. Lloyd, Heathfield, Kilmeady[, county Limerick], enclosing in the form of a notebook a valuation of furniture and effects in Heathfield.

Letter to Walsh from J. [?] B., 3 Homesteads, Stirling. He includes the text of a short poem which he wrote three months earlier but has not improved-upon since and sends it now ‘because it is probably the last piece of my handwriting you will ever see’. He is now suffering from dropsy as well as heart disease. The poem of twelve lines begins: ‘No single rhyme for Brereton [the writer] can be found’.

Letter enclosing a photocopy of a drawing of a harp seeking assistance in deciphering Irish text on the top curved section of the instrument.

Letter from ‘J’ to an unidentified recipient enclosing a list of the names and ranks of 16 West Clare Brigade Volunteers, three civilians and one attached Volunteer who died during the War of Independence or the Civil War.

Letter from Metcalfe, Lilburn & Enright, Public Accountants, 46 O’Connell Street, Limerick, to Mrs Michael Allott, Odell Ville, Ballingarry, county Limerick, enclosing a list of documents deposited with the Bank of Ireland for safekeeping.

Letter to Walsh from Dalton enclosing a copy of Maiden’s first treatment of Blackcock’s Feather. States that it will require alteration. Maiden may have to return home before his intended visit to Dublin. Dalton states that ‘there is a deep depression of the Studios regarding the production of Historical and Swashbuckling pictures’, but vows to continue ‘for all I am worth’ in promoting the project. Encloses a sheet with eight points about the adaptation. The draft itself is paginated and runs to 82 pages.

Letter from Sylvia Tankel, Editor, Short Story International, 6 Sheffield Road, Great Neck, New York, enclosing a fee for the short story The Kingmaker.

Letter from Sylvia Tankel, Editor, Short Story International, 6 Sheffield Road, Great Neck, New York, enclosing a fee for the short story Portrait and regretting that they will not be able to produce a collection of Nestor’s stories.

Letter from Sylvia Tankel, Editor, Short Story International, 6 Sheffield Road, Great Neck, New York, enclosing a fee for the short story Passing Glory.

Letter to Kate O’Brien, 117, The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, from A. J. Crouch, Secretary of David Higham Associates Limited, 5-8 Lower John Street, Golden Square, London, W1R 4HA, referring to an enclosure of a cheque amounting to £108.67 received from British Broadcasting Corporation in payment for the broadcast of That Lady in ‘Woman’s Hour’.