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Mainly letters to Kate O’Brien from a range of bodies including The Alpha Club, Belfast; Artists and Writers’ Cookbook, Los Angeles; Cività Delle Macchine, Rome; Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; Salvat Editores, S.A., Barcelona; La Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid; Society of Authors, London; Edwards-Mac Liammóir, Dublin Gate Theatre Productions Limited; and Irish Academy of Letters. Includes letter from Dorothy Evans, Honorary Secretary of The Alpha Club, 14 Donegal Square West, Belfast, to Kate O’Brien, Strand House, Limerick, with details on talk to be delivered by her, stating ‘You ask what type of audience. The majority are married women with varied interests and some quite intellectual, very rarely any men’ (1 June 1960). Also a letter to Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, from Dalmiro de la Válgoma Díaz-Valera, La Real Academia de la Historia, Léon 21, Madrid 14, Spain, noting a forthcoming publication based on opinions of foreigners about Santiago de Compostela, and requesting permission to include a number of passages from Farewell Spain, and also to reproduce Mary O’Neill’s drawing of the Hospital de Santiago (9 December 1970). Also a letter from Micheál Mac Liammóir, director of Edwards-Mac Liammóir, Dublin Gate Theatre Productions Limited, 4 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin 2, referring to his own health: ‘…I am always thinking of you. Even when weighed down by the most depressing bug ever known to man or woman since Pandora opened that box – a sorting of creeping compromise between a plain foul cold in the head and what I strongly suspect of being leprosy’ (22 December 1973).

This sub-series contains letters relating to other or unspecified building schemes in Limerick city and its neighbourhood.

This sub-series contains correspondence and bank statements concerning property and Kate O'Brien's financial affairs.

This series contains share certificates, accounts and correspondence relating to other clients of Maxwell, Weldon & Co.

This sub-series contains letters to and from friends and family members in Hella Scholz's circle. Letters written to her sister Gisela have also been included in this sub-series for ease of access.

This sub-series contains other correspondence, mostly on matters of literary nature.

This sub-series contains letters to unidentified recipients or to recipients other than members of the Daly family.

This sub-series contains assorted correspondence not generated by the land agents in charge of the Shanbally Castle estate in county Tipperary.

This sub-series contains other correspondence by William Rochfort relating to general estate management.

This sub-series contains other correspondence of military nature received or created by the East Limerick Brigade.