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Typescript draft of a script entitled ‘Out of Store’, which begins: ‘When your earthly goods have been in store for ages and at last they arrive, in a sunburst…’. Paginated with amendments in ink.

Typescript draft of script entitled ‘Christmas and Happy New Year’, which begins ‘Well, here we are once again, plunged in those last festive and exhausting days of the exhausted old year.’ Paginated with amendments in ink.

Typescript draft of script for The Monday Play, adapted and produced by Guy Vaesen, including information regarding the studio, rehearsal, recording, transmission, editing and cast. Begins: ‘(A town in the west of Ireland is the setting for this romance of the nineteenthirties)’. Paginated.

This sub-series contains research notes compiled by Kate O'Brien.

Notebook containing handwritten research notes for the travelogue My Ireland including chapter structure and related notes, and financial calculations. The notebook begins with an incomplete draft of the structure: ‘Foreword. 1. Hesitations. 2. Holy Places.’ The following is recorded about the Burren in county Clare: ‘…alkaline limestone. Carboniferous, ledged, shelved – in plateau formation. Small flowers… Shelter in crevices.’ Unpaginated.

Notebook containing a handwritten essay on the art of writing which begins: ‘The art of writing – the art – is that which stands a long way back from the idea of writing.’ Also handwritten research notes for the unpublished novel, Constancy, including chapter structure and character sketches. Unpaginated.

Letter from David [Higham], Managing Director of David Higham & Associates Limited, Authors’ Agents, 76, Dean Street, Soho, London W.1 to Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent (22 October 1964) referring to her new house and the enclosed signed memorandum of agreement (2 October 1964), between O’Brien care of David Higham & Associates, Ltd, Grantor, and Penguin Books Limited, publishers, granting publishers exclusive right and licence to produce and publish That Lady, subject to conditions regarding copyright, royalties and payment of monies, and publishing rights. Notes royalty of 7.5% on all copies sold calculated on the United Kingdom published price, and after three years from date of first publication, the Grantor shall be paid 10% of the net amount received except copies sold at cost price or less no royalty shall be payable. A sum of £100 will be payable on signature of the agreement and the second half to be paid on first publication of said book.

Letter from Elizabeth Bird, David Higham & Associates Limited, Authors’ Agents, 5-8 Lower John Street, Golden Square, London W1R 4HA, to Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, dated 10 October, stating ‘I’m so glad you’re pleased Chivers want to do a Large Print edition of Without My Cloak’, and enclosing the memorandum of agreement dated 5 October, between Cedric Chivers Limited, Portway, Bath, Somerset, and David Higham & Associates Limited, granting to publishers an exclusive licence to publish an edition of Without My Cloak in hard cover volume form for persons with impaired vision printed in large type not less than 15 point for a period of three years from date of agreement, on behalf of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association in the English language throughout the world. Notes conditions relating to royalties, copyright and publishing rights. Royalty of 10% of published price on all copies of the licensed edition sold, wherever sold, with certain provisions. Also grants sum of £50 upon signature of agreement by both parties being in advance and on account of all royalties and percentages.

Two letters from Y. Muller, secretary to Mr. Laurence Pollinger, of Pearn, Pollinger & Higham, Literary, Film and Dramatic Agents, of 39-40 Bedford Street, Strand, London, W.C. 2, to Kate O’Brien, care of Miss E. M. Deladield, Croyle, Cullompton, Devon, referring to Spanish translation rights of The Last of Summer and The Anteroom and an enquiry from Alfred Scherz of Switzerland for copies of O’Brien’s novels free for translation into Italian. The first letter includes comment ‘Messrs. Saturnino Calleja offers for the Spanish translation rights of The Last of Summer and The Anteroom the same terms as for Without My Cloak, namely: A sum of £75 payable as to half upon signature of the agreement by both parties, and half on publication for an edition of 5,000 copies and a sum of £20 payable upon printing of each subsequent edition of 1,000 copies’.

This sub-series contains letters from the Irish University Press mainly concerning paperback rights.