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Letter from Kate O’Brien, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1 to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. She apologises to Lorna for being difficult and impatient. She asks her not to lecture her and promises to behave better. She is going to see some doctors to fix her insides and asks Lorna not to tell anyone that she is ill. She may have to go to New York in November after all but will try and come to Dublin before that and accepts Eleanor’s offer of help in finding suitable lodgings. With envelope.

Postcard from Lorna Reynolds to Kate O’Brien, c/o Miss E. Sprigge, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1, letting her know that Mrs Lyons requires a deposit for the Monkstown lodgings.

Letter from Lorna Reynolds to Kate O’Brien, c/o Miss E. Sprigge, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1. Lorna thanks Kate profusely for her gift of an umbrella and asks Kate to consider it as Lorna’s birthday present. With envelope.

Postcard from Lorna Reynolds to Kate O’Brien, c/o Miss E. Sprigge, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1 containing general pleasantries.

Letter from Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin to Kate O’Brien, c/o Miss E. Sprigge, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1. Lorna has attended a presentation by [Roger] Chauviré with Kate’s sister May and gives an account of the evening. She mentions Chauviré’s interest in a translation of The Ante-Room. Lorna has made enquiries about Kate’s skirt, but accidentally misdialled the number and ended in a confusing communication with the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire. With envelope. Note that the last sheet appears to be from another letter.

Letter from Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin to Kate O’Brien, c/o Miss E. Sprigge, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1. She apologises for a gap in her letters, but she has been ill with gastric flu all through Christmas. She misses Lorna and is overwhelmed by a feeling of the shortness of life and the stupidity of having to send much of it away from the person who gives life its meaning. She has found the missing Christmas cards and thanks Kate for forgiving her idiotic behaviour of forging copies of them. She wonders what it is about one’s native country that captures the heart and feels sorry for Darina Silone who can never have that feeling. She regards Darina’s mother as a truly terrible woman. She has been reading Theodora Bosanquet’s book [presumably Henry James at Work] and also some of the poems by Dylan Thomas which she finds good but difficult to penetrate. With envelope.

Letter from Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin to Kate O’Brien, c/o Miss E. Sprigge, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1. She thanks Kate for her Christmas cards, asks for news of how she spent her Christmas, enquires after her state of health and conveys domestic news. The house is full of Christmas guests and the atmosphere in the house makes her feel as if she were surrounded by Spanish captains. She has bought a penguin from a country shop for her young nieces who are showing no interest in it. She has grown very attached to the penguin and wonders if it would be very mean to keep it for her and Kate as she would hate to see it thrown aside. With envelope.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1 to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. She describes her Christmas, which she spent with the O’Neills. She compliments Lorna on her poem 'Les Choux do Noël' and urges her to get it published. She is arranging to return to Ireland on 22 January and proposes taking a room at the Salthill Hotel rather than the Shelbourne for the sake of privacy. She asks Lorna not to tell anyone about her movements. She has been reading essays by Thomas Mann and includes extracts from some of them concerning the connection that artists have through their senses with human dignity. This is a sentiment of which she has always been anxiously aware. She asks Lorna about her Christmas. Kate has received a present of an enormous ham from Lynn Fontanne. With envelope.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1 to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. Kate has borrowed a typewriter and has a great deal of business to get through but all she wants to do is to write to Lorna and to think of her. She insists on having the penguin reserved for her and Lorna and will wire her an imperative about it. She has been reading Thomas Mann’s essays on Goethe and is surprised to note that Mann’s portrait of Goethe reminds her of herself. She has had a meeting with A. [Arthur] Calder Marshall to work out her BBC interview. She is going to Oxford soon to attend Rosamund Dashwood’s wedding. With envelope.

Letter from Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin to Kate O’Brien. Lorna has had a fit of putting her house in order and has cleared her desk and polished the floor. She now has a terrible sense of emptiness, as if she required a degree of disorder to be able to do her work. She also realises how uncomfortable her desk and chair are and has decided to replace them. She conveys domestic news and reveals how tired she is from the constant din of visitors in the house. She is getting more and more excited about The Fort (see P74/3/1/2/10/17). She wishes Kate a fruitful and happy new year ‘and a house in Connemara into the bargain.’