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Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent to Anne O’Mara. Kate is struggling with an overdraft of £600 and is seeking Anne’s consent to sign a charge to the bank of the title deeds of the property at Faversham against the overdraft.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Harcourt Cottage, North Leigh, Witney, Oxon to Anne O’Mara. Kate wishes Anne a happy birthday. She regrets that it may not be possible for her to visit her until the autumn, because she cannot stir until she has finished the book [The Last of Summer]. She has had another letter from her publisher asking when they may count on having it. She talks about war shortages and the imaginative solutions people find to get round problems.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 88 Park Mansions, Knightsbridge [London] SW1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate has returned to London for a few weeks on business, the nature of which she does not yet wish to reveal. She confesses that she has not yet finished her novel [The Last of Summer], but she hopes she won’t be too long about it. She is staying in a flat lent her by E. M. Delafield, who is in a nursing home. She mentions Mary O’Neill, who is working in a factory.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Croyle, Cullompton, Devon to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her birthday wishes and food parcels. Lacking last page(s).

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Croyle, Cullompton, Devon to Anne O’Mara. Kate asks Anne’s help in trying to find two female servants to look after the Dashwood household as owing to the war there are no able-bodied women available in England.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 10 Buckingham Street, Adelphi, London WC2, to Anne O’Mara. Kate discusses at length the rehearsals of The Last of Summer, describing each actor in the play in detail. She considers John Gielgud a good and hard-working producer. Lacking last page(s).

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 34 Beaufort Gardens, Brompton Road, [London] SW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate has been receiving massage and exercise treatment and is feeling better. She has managed to find a flat through a friend in Mecklenburgh Square, in the location she wants, the size she wants and at rent she can afford, but she won’t be able to move in until July as it has to be repaired from war damage. She hopes to have begun another book before returning to Ireland. She relates that the American publishers have rejected the title That Lady and will publish the book under the title For One Sweet Grape instead. The end of the letter has been cut out.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate is greatly cheered by praise she has received for her Paris articles from Douglas Gageby, editor of the Irish Times. It is particularly gratifying because editors rarely make such gestures and because she found the research for and composition of the articles very difficult. She gives a brief impression of her trip to Paris.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 33 Great James Street, [London] to Anne O’Mara. Kate informs Anne that she is going into the Florence Nightingale Hospital to have a small operation to repair a displacement of her right ovary and ovarian tube.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 33 Great James Street, London WC1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her kind invitation and outlines her plans to spend the summer in Ireland as long as she can get certain things off her mind before departure. She complains that times are very bad and that people in her profession are going through an awful period. She will try to let her flat for the summer although the scare of war makes people unwilling to occupy a top flat in a shaky old house like hers. She and Clare discuss European wars and rumours whenever they meet, and she worries what may happen to Europe in the end. She notes that all the treatments are over and she is very well now. She extends her love to Peter, who has been sent to board at Clongowes [Wood College].