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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 Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin to Kate O’Brien, c/o Miss E. Sprigge, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1. With envelope. Lorna is tired of correcting examination papers. She has not yet had time to go the National Library to look for books on Mary Magdalen but will do so shortly. Her sister Eleanor is suffering from terrible attacks of pain and Lorna feels guilty about going off to enjoy herself in France while she is ailing. Aer Lingus has confirmed her flights. She asks if Kate would have Jean Anouilh’s Pièces Noires to bring with her to France.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1 to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. Kate expresses grave concern for Eleanor’s state of health and reassures Lorna that their travel plans can easily be altered should the need arise. She is preoccupied with the Mary Magdalen project. With envelope.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1 to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. Kate asks for news about Eleanor. She has arranged the finances for the vacation in France with her publisher. She is delighted that Guthrie McClintic has cancelled his trip to London and asked Kate to go to New York in October instead. She has found a volume of Stefan George’s poems in a bookshop but is still looking for Rilke’s Letters for Lorna. With envelope.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1 to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, anxious for news about Eleanor. With envelope.