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Postcards, telegram and letter from her sister Clare O’Brien, mainly conveying news of her travels; in a fragment written soon after Stephen O’Mara’s death Clare notes: ‘I’m so glad Kate will be with you soon – she is such a grand, sympathetic companion.’

Letters from her nephew Donough O’Brien conveying and discussing domestic news and giving an account of his studies.

Letter from Austin Clarke to Anne O'Brien, expressing his sorrow on the death of Anne’s father.

Letter from Austin Clarke to Anne O'Brien, in which Clarke discusses his depression and morbidity, dreading the approach of winter.

Letter from Austin Clarke to Anne O'Brien, describing a journey to Louth, Cavan, Donegal and Sligo, which has relieved Clarke from his depression, and discussing the concept of Nature in poetry.

Letter from Austin Clarke to Anne O'Brien, in which Clarke gives a long description of a stormy landscape, discusses a poem on the death of Diarmuid, which he is currently writing, and encloses a page-long extract from it. He discusses his relationship with words and truth, asserting that ‘it is not enough to understand an opinion or truth, or to agree with it, one must become possessed by it.’

Pages 7-9 of a letter from Austin Clarke to Anne O'Brien, forming a lengthy postscript in which Clarke gives an account of a dream in poetic language, beginning with the line ‘Youth slipt away quietly and sadly from the Court of Poesy’, and encloses his poem O Lightfoot Girl!.

A half-page of prose by Austin Clarke, beginning with the sentence ‘They sped on the electric tram to far away realms of Romance.’

Letter from Austin Clarke to Anne O'Brien, in which Clarke expresses concern at not having heard from Anne.

Letter written after Anne O’Brien’s rejection of Austin Clarke’s offer of marriage. Clarke discusses at some length his divided existence between the parallel worlds of reality and dreams, his aspirations as a writer, his feelings towards Anne and his perception of her. He quotes a verse from one of his poems, beginning with the line ‘By star-pale waters of autumn’. Also a related cover note.