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Letter from Kate O’Brien, Roundstone, [county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne and Stephen for their hospitality during her stay at Strand House and for their present of a wall-flower plant. The publication of her novel [As Music and Splendour] has been postponed to 31 March. She will be lecturing to women graduates in Dublin on 25 February.

Postcard from Kate O’Brien in Hampstead to Peter O’Mara, recommending to him a hotel in Paris.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 88 King Henry’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne and Stephen for their hospitality during her stay at Strand House. She has been seeing her agents and bank about her various [financial] problems. She is about to depart for Spain to work on a novel [Constancy] she has begun to write.

This sub-series contains letters from Kate O'Brien mainly to her sister Anne O'Mara, her brother-in-law Stephen O'Mara and her nephew Peter O'Mara written in 1959.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway to Anne O’Mara. Their sister May is visiting her. She hopes that Peter enjoyed the wedding (but does not specify who got married) and is glad that Mrs Rynne was able to attend.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Roundstone, [county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her generous food parcel, which she and Clare, who is staying with her, are enjoying. She gives an account of a local auction, where she thoroughly enjoyed watching local matrons bidding for worthless items. She mentions Micheál Mac Liammóir, who is due for a visit the following week and who is rehearsing his Diarmuid and Gráinne in Galway.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 334 Russell Court, [London] to Peter O’Mara. Kate commiserates with Peter, who has been in an accident. She complains of the suffocating heat in London. She is biding her time about the Picasso exhibition because of the enormous crowds.

Letter from Kathleen Barlow, Roundstone, county Galway to Kate O’Brien. Kathleen thanks Kate for her letter of sympathy and gives a detailed account of the death and funeral of her mother.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Minerva Club, [28a Brunswick Square, London WC1] to Clare and May O’Brien. Kate has finally been able to send £23 to CIE and thanks her sisters for their gifts of money to enable her to clear the debt. She is relieved that she has been able to make great strides towards solvency and that her small debts are vanishing by degrees.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Minerva Club, [28a Brunswick Square, London WC1] to Anne O’Mara. The letter is written on the eve of Kate’s departure for Spain. She thanks Anne for her present of £10 of spending money for Lisbon. She discusses her travel plans in some detail. She mentions her recent lunch with Willie Moloney.