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Photocopy of a certificate issued by Alexandra College for a full course of instruction in household management.

Photocopy of a Stage 1 elementary certificate issued by the Royal Society of Arts, London, for a course in English at Alexandra College, Dublin.

Photocopy of a result sheet issued by the All Ireland Board of Ballroom Dancing for Cha Cha Cha, Bronze Grade.

Photocopy of a certificate issued by the All Ireland Board of Ballroom Dancing for a Gold Grade in modern ballroom dancing.

Loose pages from a notebook containing handwritten draft of the short story The Quiet Man in pencil. Untitled. Begins: ‘Shawn Kelvin went to the States, a blithe young lad of twenty, to make his fortune.’ Alterations. Pagination.

Letter to Walsh from to T. B. Costain, the Saturday Evening Post (Philadelphia) referring to the draft of the short story The Quiet Man which he had just received. States that they are ‘heavily stocked with fiction at present’. It is contrary to their policy to suggest revisions of stories, but due to ‘the fact that we are working at long range’, he will suggest some alterations. He should have ‘brought the wedding off early’ and developed the ‘situation between Shawn and his wife’s brother at greater length and with corresponding tenseness’. The fight should be publicly staged.

Hardback notebook with Walsh’s name and address on the front and the following inscription: ‘The Quiet Man. The Red Girl. Bad Town Dublin’, containing handwritten drafts of the stories. The Quiet Man begins at the front and opens with a verse beginning: ‘The Quiet Man he sate him down and to himself did say’ (pages 1-24); followed by The Red Girl (29 October-16 November 1934) which begins with a verse opening: ‘The Red Girl, who now sings her’ (pages 1-42); and Bad Town Dublin (26 November-5 December 1934) which begins with a verse opening: ‘Clean town Dublin; the Norseman built it’ (pages 1- 49), with an insert of two pages after page 16 and text from page 33 on pages inserted in the back of the book.

This sub-series contains drafts of Maurice Walsh's short story The Red Girl, published in 1935 in the collection Green Rushes.

Loose pages containing parts of handwritten draft of the short story The Red Girl. Begins: ‘The Major-General took his cigar from his lips.’ Alterations. Pagination, some pages missing.

Hardback notebook ‘supplied for the public service’ and labelled: ‘Face of Stone. Thirty Pieces of Copper. Prudent Dan. Thomasheen James and the Canary Bird’. Some pages have been removed and some are loose. Contains handwritten draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Thirty Pieces of Copper which begins: ‘Thomasheen James was poor; he was as poor as a church mouse’ (pages 1-10). Also draft of the short story Face of Stone (24-29 October 1935) which begins: ‘In their own time, the rumours of the sword-fights of Urnal’ (pages 1-33); draft of Thomasheen James and the Canary Bird (14-21 January 1936) which begins: ‘“Begor!”, said Thomasheen James, his head through the French window’ (pages 1-12); draft of Thomasheen James and the Professor (26 February-4 March 1937) which begins: ‘“You are going to miss that bus”…’ which continues upside down from the back (pages 1-19); on the inside of front cover a piece ‘From “The Lectures of Professor John Fletcher”’ beginning: ‘The geologists insist that no civilisation’. Alterations. Each piece paginated separately.