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Letter from Kate O’Brien, Glenbeigh to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. Kate discusses the food supplies they are permitted to bring to France and what these should comprise. She is stuck for soap as she has used up all her coupons and a new ration book won’t be issued until June. She assures Lorna that she is taking good care of herself and that she is feeling more rested. The hotel in Glenbeigh is simple and far from perfect but she prefers it to that in Parknasilla. With envelope.

Letter from Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin to Kate O’Brien, Strand House, Limerick. Lorna has the long manuscript of That Lady and will do her best to remember to give it to Kate before she goes to London. She has received a large parcel of first year examination scripts from University College Dublin to be corrected and will need to get up very early in the mornings to get through them all before their trip to France. She thinks of France more than ever now. With envelope.

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.

Telegram from Lorna Reynolds in Dublin to Kate O’Brien in London to let her know that Eleanor’s temperature is down.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1 to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. Kate is enormously relieved to hear that Eleanor is better. She apologises for not having written to her for a few days, but she was too crippled with anxiety to do so. She had decided on a similar opening treatment to Mary Magdalen as the one Lorna proposed. She asks Lorna to bring a copy of the script of Swear Not by the Moon to London and is looking forward to seeing here there on 27 June. With envelope.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1 to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. Kate is concerned for Lorna who must be very tired from her trials. She is making final arrangements for their trip to France but feels very unprepared. She is having lunch in the House of Commons today with Wilson Harris, editor of The Spectator and MP for Cambridge University. With envelope.

Letter from Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin to Kate O’Brien, c/o Miss E. Sprigge, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1, telling her that barring an accident Lorna will be at Victoria Station on the afternoon of 27 June. With envelope.