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Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her birthday wishes. She is shocked to hear the news of the death of Nan O’Mara. She is pleased with Mary O’Neill’s and her nephew Austin’s joint Christmas present of the fifth and final volume of the life of Henry James. She is glad now to have the five volumes of a work she considers to be of profound literary interest, even if James is sometimes a bore.

Postcard from Kate O’Brien in Faversham to Anne O’Mara. Kate promises to write and telephone when she has regained peace and mental order. She feels very lonely for them all.

Intermediate certificate examination papers in various subjects. Some of the papers bear the signature of Lorna’s sister Eleanor Reynolds.

Lorna Reynolds’ membership card of the Dublin branch of the National University Women Graduates’ Association.

Lorna Reynolds’ application for the professorship of English at University College Dublin in booklet form, with a rough manuscript draft of same. Also an application of Liam de Paor for the professorship of Celtic Archaeology at University College Dublin in 1957, which Reynolds may have used as a template for her own application. For related press cuttings, see P74/4/3/7.

Short curriculum vitae, containing Lorna Reynolds’ professional appointments and a list of her publications.

Letter from Hugh Shearman, c/o Mrs Atkinson, 13 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin on the subject of censorship and the Irish Censorship Board following the banning of his novel The Bishop’s Confession (1943). Attached to the letter is Shearman’s statement of appeal to the Censorship Board. With envelope.

Letter from Dr D. J. Cannon, St Brigid’s Hospital, Kildare to Executive Editor, University Review, University College, Dublin, enclosing an amended version of an essay entitled ‘Criticism of our Knowledge of the Material World’. The first page is not paginated and is typed on different paper from the rest; remaining pages are paginated, but pages 1-12 are missing.

Letter from Seán Lucey, Department of English, University College Cork, enclosing an outline plan for a series of Thomas Davis lectures on Anglo-Irish poetry to be given in 1971 and inviting Reynolds to deliver a lecture on the Irish Romantics from 1850 to 1900. Also see P74/1/3/6/5/1 and P74/4/3/7.

Letter from James Shiel, University of Sussex, School of European Studies, Arts Building, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex BN1 9QN, asking Reynolds for a short review of E. R. Dodd’s autobiography Missing Persons.