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Letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Clare O’Brien. Kate regrets that she has to postpone their meeting as she has to go to Oxford to finish an urgent piece of work.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, London NW3 to May O’Brien. Kate exchanges family news and gives a brief account of her stay in Oxford. She asks May to send her the September issue of Hibernia when it appears, although she is disappointed with the paper. They put her under great pressure to write the article and then paid an insultingly low fee for it.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Steele’s Road, [London NW3] to Anne O’Mara, enclosing a letter (now not present) from Willie [Moloney].

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate encloses a letter from Willie Moloney (for which see P40/3/10/1/29/24). She is looking forward to seeing Anne in London and warns her that she will be inundated with invitations when she comes.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate discusses the Walpole debt (for which see P40/3/10/1/29/14). She tells Anne of her plans to return to Ireland at the end of the month as Lorna Reynolds has offered her a rent-free loan of a flat in the Mespil Houses. This will give her an opportunity to live cheaply while finishing her novel [Constancy]. She is happy to say that after her protest Batsford has agreed to a new contract for a second impression of My Ireland on a normal royalty basis.

Postcard from Kate O’Brien in Dublin to Anne O’Mara, thanking her for a book and promising to write from London.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to May O’Brien. Kate has just returned to London, where she is staying with Mary O’Neill. She thanks May for her kindness during her stay at Mespil Flats. She refers to the forthcoming election of the new Pope.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, [London NW3] to May O’Brien. Kate has returned from the Soviet Consulate seeing about her Russian visa. She has nothing appropriate to wear for her expedition, but consoles herself with the fact that the COMES Congress is not a fashion parade. She discusses her travel plans to Leningrad. She will be lunching with her publisher in an attempt to get Presentation Parlour brought out in November instead of February. She is concerned about Mary O’Neill, who has been stricken hard by her brother’s death.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her present of money to purchase clothes for her forthcoming trip to Leningrad.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate has just returned from a wonderful trip to Russia and is too busy, too tired and too full of impressions to write a long letter.