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Letter from Alex McDonnell, Race Equality Policy Group, Middlesex House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SB thanking O’Neill on behalf of the organisers of the Irish Book Fair for the part he played in making the event a success. Also see P9/3/2/3.

Letter from Alex Spain to Lorna Reynolds, recalling her English lectures in Earlsfort Terrace in the early 1950s, which ‘were a beacon of light in an otherwise mediocre world’.

Letter from an unidentified correspondent [but possibly Shelah Richards or Judith Furse] to Kate O’Brien. The letter deals with the casting, rehearsals and forthcoming first night of That Lady in Dublin, and about the story’s film possibilities. The writer notes that John Ford is shooting The Quiet Man in Cong from the beginning of June and wonders how to get him to come to the Gaiety to see That Lady. Water-stained and partly illegible.

Letter from an unidentified writer to Katty O’Brien, expressing concern over her state of health and urging her to let her really know what is the matter with her. Lacking last page(s).

Letter from an unidentified writer, St Patrick’s, Esker, Athenry, [county Galway] who has just been transferred from Limerick to Athenry and expresses regret at having to leave behind the dear old spot and his spiritual children. He extends his good wishes to May’s father [Tom O’Brien], who will be always welcome at Esker.

First part of a letter from an unidentified writer, St George’s Retreat, Burgess Hill, Sussex to Ellen Daly conveying social and domestic news.

Letter from Andrew Carpenter, 6 Richmond Hill, Monkstown, county Dublin to Lorna Reynolds, enclosing a foreword to Irish Literary Studies, a compilation of essays presented to third triennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature (IASAIL) held in Galway in July 1976.

Photocopy of a letter from Andrew McEnery, General Secretary, Students Union, University College Cork, to the editors of the Cork Examiner and Evening Echo, disassociating the Students Union from any allegations made against the Governing Body of UCC concerning its refusal to host an anti-nuclear energy seminar.

Photocopy of a letter from Angela O’Farrell, First Secretary, Cultural Section, Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin 2 informing Fiona Quilligan that the Polish Artists Agency wish to present their Nijinsky medal to Rubato Ballet in recognition of the 1991 Cultural Capital of Europe celebrations.

Letter from Ania Corless, assistant to Bruce Hunter of David Higham Associates Limited, Author’s Agent, 5-8 Lower John Street, Golden Square, London W1R 4HA to Mary O’Neill, 24A Steele’s Road, Hampstead, London NW3 4RE, enclosing a typescript draft of a biographical sketch entitled ‘Presentation Parlour or Five Aunts or My Aunts by Kate O’Brien’. The introduction begins: ‘I had five aunts. So had my brothers and sisters, the same five in name and place’. Paginated and contains stamp of David Higham Associates Ltd, 76 Dean Street, Soho, London W.1 on cover page, and note in pencil which reads, ‘Return to Mary O’Neill’.