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Large pages from an account book folded over and containing handwritten draft of an untitled piece. Begins: ‘In considering this censorship of Literature I realise that it is one of the efforts of the Irish Church to save our souls’. Alterations. Pagination.

Hardback diary – ‘Dialann 1955 – Oifig an tSoláthair – Baile Átha Cliath’. Contains handwritten draft of an untitled piece which begins: ‘This that I am writing is not about myself, young Charles Conroy’. Alterations. Pagination on pages with text. Remainder of book blank.

Handwritten draft of an essay in a notebook which begins: ‘I do not remember the Time when I could not read.’ Contains amendment. A handwritten heading on the cover reads ‘Kate O’Brien (13 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin) Radio Éireann – April 1959. (Ask Dan the exact meaning of the word Pentecost – K. Also – the gifts & the prints – 7 & 12).’ Unpaginated. Also see P12/2/1/3/7.

Handwritten draft of A Strange Woman’s Daughter, beginning with part one which opens: ‘Let me begin in the traditional way: It was an evening in Spring’. Minor alterations. Pagination.

Part of a notebook (without a cover) containing a handwritten draft of a section of While Rivers Run entitled ‘Section 1 – Croft o’ Drum’, beginning: ‘He was a big, straight-backed, middle-aged man’. Alterations. Pagination on pages with text.

Handwritten draft of a lecture in French on headed paper of Comunità Europea degli Scrittori which begins: ‘M. le President, MM. les Vice-Présidents, chers collégues – Il n’est jamais facile de parler avec precision à la fois…’.

Handwritten draft of lecture given in Leningrad, which begins: ‘I shall be brief. The novelist’s responsibility is immense – since his intention is to be read – by millions!’

Handwritten draft of a lecture for Comunità Europea degli Scrittori on back of agenda for the 10th meeting of council of directors, which begins ‘Hélas pour des raisons compliqués la delegation Irlandaise…’.

Handwritten draft of a lecture with some typescript inserts, entitled ‘Ireland & Avantgardisme’ which begins: ‘Etc. etc. I am honoured & glad to be here, & to know that your Association saw fit to invite me…’. Paginated and contains some amendments in ink.

Handwritten draft of a lecture entitled ‘Burial of a Poet’, which begins with quote from William Butler Yeats: ‘Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed’. Some pagination.