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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, in which Clarke discusses his dissertation, which dealt with the Jacobean dramatist and poet John Ford, and which he has just finished; his concept of Dreamland; and his poem A Cliff Story [published in 1917] which he encloses, explaining its origins and the inspiration behind it.

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.’

Letter from Austin Clarke to Anne O'Brien, discussing his studies, his dislike of his duties as temporary librarian, his inclination to give more of himself to poetry, and his concerns about his first collection of poetry, which is about to be published.

Letter from Austin Clarke to Anne O'Brien, discussing his writing, enclosing his poem The Isle (now not present) and referring to his studies, which are not progressing.

Letter from Austin Clarke to Anne O'Brien, discussing the subject of subjective joy and sorrow and containing a brief reference to Clarke’s thesis.

Letter to Walsh from Ó Faracháin stating that they will pay a fee of £5 5 shillings for his story as he suggests.

Letter to Walsh from Ó Faracháin stating that they will pay three guineas and provide a reader. He requests a copy of Thomasheen James and the Blind Pension.

Letter to Walsh from Charlie Kelly informing him that they will be able to broadcast The Road to Nowhere, preferably in the autumn when audiences are larger again after the summer.

Letter [from J. G. Barry?] to Lord Emly giving an account of his meeting at Mungret Farm with respectable farmers about the prospect of taking the land. The offers he received were so unsatisfactory that he failed to set any portion of the land. The farmers all complained of the dirty condition of the tillage land and want of proper manuring. Lacking last page(s).