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Letter from P. Fitzgibbon B.A. (Pearse Street, Listowel, county Kerry), honorary secretary of Listowel Blackcock’s Feather Gaelic Football Club, enclosing copy of a resolution, adopted at the meeting of 6 November 1935, which acknowledges Walsh’s generosity in donating a set of jerseys to the club. Fitzgibbon states that the club is experiencing ‘very lean times owing to the encroachment of the foreign game on our preserves and more so by the ban, which I personally consider, to be a stupid institution and of the greatest detriment to our national game’.

Letter from John Daly, Mayor’s Office, Limerick to Thomas Clarke, enclosing an agenda paper relating to the Freedom of Limerick.

Letter to Walsh from Alex(ander) McLaren, 5160 Linwood Drive, Laughlin Park, Hollywood, California. He compliments him on his ‘yarn’ [The Quiet Man] which appeared in the ‘Sat. Post’. States that he had recently visited Harry Knibbs, who writes for the Saturday Evening Post, who reported that Eugene Manlove Rhodes has had ‘several severe heart attacks’. Hopes to visit Ireland next summer and anticipates the return of ‘this land of the free… to a state of civilisation on the fifth of December 1933’ with the repeal of the eighteenth amendment (‘prohibition’). Attached to the top is a newspaper cutting from the Los Angeles Times announcing the creation of ‘a local society of Walshians’.

Letter from Maximilian George Rooper, Rooper & Whately, 17 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London to the 4th Earl of Limerick, advising the Earl to sell some of his agricultural land and outlining his reasons for it.

Letter from Andrew Hewson, John Johnson Limited, 12/13 Henrietta Street, London, acknowledging receipt of the first chapter of an untitled historical novel and suggesting that Nestor take the book to a complete first draft before offering it for reading.

Letter from Andrew Hewson, John Johnson Limited, 12/13 Henrietta Street, London, acknowledging receipt of Jack of All Fools.