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This sub-series contains executors' account books and related items.

Exercise book containing notes taken from The English: Are They Human by C. J. Renier and drafts of letters from Reynolds to John Jordan.

Exercise book containing drafts of poems, including ‘This Is the Life’, ‘Celtic Cross at Clonmacnoise’, ‘Self-Deception’, ‘Thief Visiting’, ‘Here are Roses’, ‘Thoor Ballylee June 1965’, ‘October Gift’ and ‘St Patrick’s Day 1966’. The end of the notebook contains an extract from a letter from Kate O’Brien dated 28 September 1951 relating to George Eliot and Lorna’s value to Kate as a critic. For some of these poems, also see P74/2/2/2/5.

Exercise book containing handwritten drafts of two short stories, the first one titled ‘Mrs Allenbury’s Death Habit’; the second untitled, beginning with the line ‘It was a very old pear-tree, perhaps a little rotten inside, and it swayed tenderly in the wind.’

Softback exercise book containing notes on William Butler Yeats, Andrew Marvell’s poem ‘Thoughts in a Garden’, Kate O’Brien and other mainly literary subjects; also a cake recipe. Most of the notebook is blank.

Small softback notebook containing notes on Shakespeare’s plays The Tempest, Hamlet and King Lear; also assorted quotations and drafts of poems, followed by notes relating to Kate O’Brien, mostly extracts from and summaries of the contents of her letters.

Bound hardback notebook containing notes on the English prose style and the characteristics of good prose. With one loose insert.

Exercise book containing primarily drafts of poems, including ‘Ruin’ and ‘A Dream’, but mostly untitled. Also a draft of a play or part of a play on Sir William Temple; notes on Jonathan Swift and Stella; and notes written in Irish and French.

Catalogue of an exhibition entitled ‘15 exposición de primavera al aire libre’ at Plaza de las Cortes [Madrid, Spain] between 14 and 28 May [1967]. Some images are marked in ink.