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This sub-series contains untitled essays by Kate O'Brien.

Black and white photograph (57 x 87 mm) of a view of Roundstone, county Galway, from Kate O’Brien’s garden in The Fort, consisting of the bay and mountains in the distance. A note on the back by Kate O’Brien reads ‘Roundstone – the bays & the Twelve Bens – from my garden. K. O’B.’

Black and white photograph (86 x 59 mm) of a view of Roundstone, county Galway, from Kate O’Brien’s garden in The Fort, consisting of a number of trees, with the sea and some houses in the distance. A note on the back by Kate O’Brien reads ‘Roundstone from my garden – K. O’B.’.

Publication by Kate O’Brien entitled Without My Cloak with the subheading ‘In this chronicle of the family founded by John Considine, masterful, self-made Irishman, are brilliantly revealed the ambitions and passions which governed this turbulent breed. This book was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1932’. The book was first published in 1931 and then in 1949 by Penguin Books. Contains the signature of Elizabeth Hall on the first page.

Black and white photograph (115 x 70 mm) of a woman with a child on her lap in a garden.

Colour photograph (125 x 90 mm) of a wooden chair in a garden with notes in ink on the back relating to measurements of some of Kate O’Brien’s furniture. Also notes her address in Boughton.