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Pages 5-8 of a list of head rents, quit rents and tithe rent charges due out of Viscount Lismore’s estate.

Part of handwritten letter [to Walsh] from the United States Marine Corps (Eastern Recruiting Division), 405 New Custom House Building, Second and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, giving information on John Walsh (1743-1828), a captain in the Continental Navy and ‘a cousin of Thomas Fitzsimons, signer of our Constitution’. Also has brief information on John Walsh’s sons Thomas and Edward and daughter Mary.

First two pages of a letter from A. M. Bradshaw, Forage Contractor, Oakham, to [Timothy?] Looney, exchanging news and expressing concern over the shortage of forage.

Large pages from an account book folded over, labelled ‘I The Spanish Lady by Maurice Walsh’ and containing part of a handwritten draft of the novel The Spanish Lady beginning: ‘I was the only passenger that got off at Craik Station’. Alterations. Pagination on pages with text.

Hardback notebook entitled I. The Small Dark Man containing part of a handwritten draft of the novel beginning with chapter one which opens: ‘The small, dark man came round the corner’. Alterations. Pagination on pages with text.

Hardback notebook ‘supplied for the public service’ labelled ‘No. 3’ and containing part of handwritten draft of The Road to Nowhere beginning: ‘“There you are head-master”, taunted Ailish’. Alterations. Pagination on pages with text beginning at page 129.

Notebook similar to P7/2/1/4/1/5 with part of a handwritten draft of The Road to Nowhere, from the beginning of chapter one. Alterations. Blank pages at the end of the book. Pagination on pages with text.

The back cover of a hardback notebook with part of handwritten draft of The Road to Nowhere marked page 128 and beginning ‘…something drained out of Ailish Conroy’s heart’.

‘Letter Book C. and E. No. 151’. There are medical notes at the front of the book (14 pages). Part of a handwritten draft of The Road to Nowhere'begins upside down from the back with ‘Chapter VII’ which opens: ‘Two hours elapsed before Paddy Joe appeared on the patch’ and goes to the end of story. Some alterations. Pagination on pages with text.

Loose pages from ‘The Irish Office Diary’ (1942) containing part of a handwritten draft of the novel The Man in Brown. Begins: ‘The big, loosely built man slouched in his cane chair’ (57 pages). Two inserts at page 28. Sketch map opposite page 8. Also contains a piece which begins: ‘This article by “Ultach” is sanely written’ (4 pages). Alterations. Paginated differently from the printed version.