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Letter to Walsh from Patrick Rooney (circulation manager), The Bell, 43 Parkgate Street, Dublin, acknowledging receipt of two cheques for £7 4 shillings and £1 16 shillings. Their office had just opened that week. Attached is a receipt for twelve months’ subscription (12 shillings).

Letter in French from ‘Daria’ relating to a proposed trip to Ireland; also notes in French by an unidentified hand (possibly that of John Wilson Fowler, for whom see P18/1/4/5) relating to ornithology; and an unsent postcard from Lysaght to Roland Häusler, Switzerland.

Letter from Seán Mac Diarmada, Irish Freedom, 5 Findlater Place, Dublin to John Daly, relating to Mac Diarmada’s ongoing nationalist and republican activities. He discusses the GAA football final at Jones’ Road on 29 June; an exhibition of a film about a pilgrimage to Wolfe Tone’s grave at Bodenstown in the Rotunda; and the forthcoming Gaelic League convention. With an accompanying note.

Letter from S. J. Farnan, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin, to Seán Mac Diarmada enclosing an X-ray examination report relating to a gunshot wound in Thomas Clarke’s arm.

Letter to Walsh from Francis Inglis (executive secretary), Screen Writers’ Guild, 8782 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, informing him that he has been awarded the prize – a medallion – for ‘the best written American Comedy of 1952’ for The Quiet Man and enclosing the certificate of nomination for the award.

Letter and cards congratulating the Schulz family on Hella’s birth.

Letter to Walsh from M. E. Barber (assistant secretary), The Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers, 11 Gower Street, London, referring to a copy of a contract with Chambers which Walsh had sent for comment. Barber considers some clauses ‘are capable of improvement’ and outlines changes to seven of them. Enclosed is the wording of both a ‘subsidiary rights clause’ and a ‘termination clause’ which are recommended for inclusion.

Letter to Walsh from Patricia Walsh Goss, 1379 Farrell Street, San Francisco, California, complimenting him on his article ‘Ireland in a Warring Europe’. She encloses a cutting from the San Francisco Examiner with her poem ‘Ode to Ireland’, beginning: ‘Oh! The glory and the glamour’. Also enclosed is the text of a poem entitled ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ beginning: ‘Stars fell on Scotland’s lonely shore and heaven’s gates flew wide’.

Letter to Walsh from Seán O’Faoláin (honorary secretary), The Irish Academy of Letters, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, enclosing copy of a letter inviting him to become a founder member of the Council of the Friends of the Irish Academy of Letters. The council is to consist of twenty-one members. The enclosed letter states that the academy was established in 1932 and seeks to promote high literary standards. It has bestowed £1040 in literary awards, and now depends upon money which was raised in the U.S. by W. B. Yeats. But ‘owing to world conditions, it has lost the greater part of its financial patronage, and most of its awards must, temporarily, lapse’. The new body will assist by creating public interest. Walsh is invited to attend a meeting at the Abbey Theatre on 24 January to discuss the initiative. Also enclosed is a copy of the proposed constitution.

Letter to Walsh from J. M. O’Dwyer (tax inspector), Dublin General District, 14 Upper O’Connell Street, in relation to tax on residence. Attached is a page entitled ‘E. A. Russell and Norman Russell to Catherine I. J. Walsh – Apportionment Account’ (26 February) containing details of purchase money, deposit, rates, income tax and ground rent.