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Letter from Darina Silone, Clinique Générale, Beaulieu, 20 Chemin Beau-Soleil, 1206 Geneva to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. Darina is in Switzerland being treated for depression, exhaustion and digestive problems. She discusses the state of her physical and mental health and various domestic issues. She also talks about her husband’s archive, and plans to write an exposé to defend herself to provide a written record of the reasons why certain vital things are missing from her husband's archive. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone, Clinique Générale, Beaulieu, 20 Chemin Beau-Soleil, 1206 Geneva to Lorna Reynolds. The letter has been written as a postscript to P74/3/1/3/5/13 and relates to Darina’s digestive problems which, it has suddenly dawned on her, are psychosomatic in origin and a result of the extreme stress she has lived under for the past eight years.

Letters in Italian from Ana Maria Borga.

Letters, accounts and receipt from Moore, Kelly & Lloyd Solicitors, 31 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 relating to a fine issued to Lorna Reynolds for dangerous driving.

Blank postcards featuring Keel Bay, Achill; the ruins of Clonmacnoise; and the interior of the chapel at New College, Oxford. Also a postcard featuring a portrait of Kate O’Brien from the collections of Limerick City Gallery of Art; cards depicting a Celtic cross at Monasterboice and a page from the Macregol Gospels; card depicting a view of Rome; card featuring an illustration of rosehips hanging from a branch; Christmas card designed by Jack B. Yeats featuring a poem by Douglas Hyde [1948]; and a card printed by Cuala Press featuring an old Gaelic rune of hospitality recovered by Kenneth Macleod.

Personal reflections on the nature of love.

Bound hardback diary kept by Lorna Reynolds in 1991. Inserted between the pages are loose notes (for which see P74/3/2/9) and a photograph (for which see P74/5/2/5).

Small notepad containing a page of accounts, recipes for cocktails, mulled cider and tea punch, drafts of two poems, crochet instructions and random jottings. Most of the notepad is blank. Inserted inside the notepad is a small press cutting advertising a secretarial vacancy and containing several spelling errors.

Handwritten page containing a menu for a three-course Christmas dinner for six guests and a recipe for an upside-down cake.

In memoriam cards dedicated to members of Lorna Reynolds’ family, including her maternal grandparents James Hickey and Teresa Hickey née Hogan, her father Michael Arnold Reynolds, her uncles John and James Hickey, her sister Eleanor Reynolds [and her mother, Teresa Anne née Hickey?].