Small half-length photograph (35 x 20 mm) of Caroline Walsh (‘Toshon’).
Sin títuloLarge portrait (270 x 310 mm) of Walsh sitting in a chair, dressed in a three-piece suit with a bowtie. He is smoking a pipe. The original background was cut away and the figure has been mounted on cardboard and a background depicting a room with bookshelves has been drawn.
Sin títuloThis series contains Walsh’s literary papers and includes drafts of his novels, short stories and other published works.
Sin títuloThis sub-series contains drafts of Maurice Walsh's novel White Rivers Run, published in 1928.
Sin título‘Letter Book C. and E. No. 151’ containing part of a handwritten draft of While Rivers Run beginning: ‘“You seem to like it”’, pages 76-174. Also contains part of draft of The Small Dark Man (25 November 1927-10 June 1928) which begins upside down from the back and opens: ‘The three people covered the door of the little post-office’. Alterations. Each text is paginated separately.
Sin títuloFragment of a typescript draft of While Rivers Run beginning: ‘They found themselves in a room that was surprisingly unexpected’. Alterations. Pagination.
Sin títuloIncomplete handwritten draft of Blackcock's Feather. Begins: '"Blackcock’s Feather" – A Plain Cloak-and-Sword Story. Transliterated from the Scots and Gaelic by one Maurice Walsh’. Alterations. Pagination.
Sin títuloHardback notebook ‘supplied for the public service’. Some pages and parts of pages have been cut out. Contains a fragment of a handwritten draft of Blackcock's Feather beginning: ‘A story of the days of Hugh Roe’ (1 page). Also parts of drafts of The Road to Nowhere as follows: beginning: ‘Paddy Joe Long’s limewashed green bungalow’, pages 1-18; followed by section beginning: ‘Paddy Joe leant shoulder against the gatepost’, pages 1-3; followed by section beginning: ‘Jamesy Coffey came to his feet’, pages 1-18; and various short fragments of the novel upside down from the back of the book. Also contains two drafts of the beginning of the short story Then Came the Captain’s Daughter (pages 1-12 and 1-3) upside down from the back. Alterations. Some blank pages. Each text is paginated separately.
Sin títuloLoose pages from notebooks with handwritten draft of most of the novel The Man in Brown upside down on the ‘back’. Handwritten drafts of parts of The Road to Nowhere, on the ‘front’ of the text, described as ‘Nameless at present’ and beginning: ‘South by east the early sun’ (pages 1-42); further on, section beginning: ‘Ch. VII’ opening: ‘Two hours had elapsed before Paddy Joe appeared…’ (pages 55-127). ‘Front’ also contains partial draft of the short story The Red Girl (pages 8-27) beginning: ‘…of laughter. Mickeen Oge drank his glass of stout quickly’; and complete draft of the same story (pages 1-46), finished 27 April 1932. The draft of novel The Man in Brown begins ‘Chapter I – Choose Your Murderer’ which opens: ‘The big, loosely built man lounged back in his cane chair’. Alterations. Each text is paginated separately.
Sin títuloHardback notebook similar to P7/2/1/5/1/1, labelled ‘No. 2’ and apparently a continuation of it. Begins: ‘…as well as most war-hardened camp-woman’, page 98. Four lose fragments are together in the back of the book, apparently torn from it. The first has the title of the novel and ‘Chapter One –The Girl in the Stocks’. Pagination on pages with text.
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