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Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 24a Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her Easter gifts. She exchanges family news and thanks Anne for her many kindnesses and apologises for the impotence of her expression of gratitude, but inwardly she will never forget it. The last page is handwritten.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Minerva Club, [28a Brunswick Square, London WC1] to May O’Brien. Kate thanks May for the March issue of Social & Personal. She asks if she may occupy May’s flat for a week in June, when she has business to transact in Dublin. Kate is dining with her new American literary agent, Dorothy Olding, at David Higham’s house in Hampstead.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Minerva Club, [28a Brunswick Square, London WC1] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for the parcel of mended and laundered clothes. She mentions the Holtaheia Accident [on 9 August 1961], in which 34 schoolboys from Lanfranc Secondary School, Croydon were killed.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Avila, [Spain] to Anne O’Mara. Kate encloses cards (now not present) for Anne, Clare and May. She is appalled to relate that Spain markets 8 December [the Feast of the Immaculate Conception] as Mother’s Day.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Hotel Jardin, Avila, [Spain] to Anne O’Mara. Kate is planning a 14-day tour of Roman Spain in late February and early March. The Irish Times has requested another set of articles for May. She is also preparing to do four short readings on Spain for Radio Éireann’s Between Ourselves, a programme she considers idiotic. She snipes at Kilkee Town Commissioners, who have never acknowledged her existence while at the same time spreading Kate’s praises of Kilkee on all the winds. She adds that when My Ireland appears in May, if the Kilkee Commissioners do not offer Kate and all her family a free month at Moore’s Hotel, the do not know their duty. She notes her niece Anne’s fascination with words and recalls how when she was small she was also greatly engaged with words and debated with herself on their colours. To her, the word ‘yellow’ was not yellow, it was a word of a nice grey hue.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Hotel Roma, Travesia Trujillos 1, Madrid, [Spain] to Anne O’Mara. The letter deals in the main with the forthcoming COMES conference in Florence, and Kate’s travel plans in the spring.

Correspondence between Kate O’Brien, Mercury House (The Irish Trade Protection Association Ltd.) and P. S. Connolly & Co. Solicitors relating to an account overdue since 1959 to Messrs. Walpoles (Ireland) Ltd.

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].