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Letter from Darina Silone, Via di Villa Ricotti 36, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, recommending a sanatorium in Davos for Lorna’s sister Eleanor, who is suffering from tuberculosis; describing their new living quarters in Rome; enquiring after Lorna’s plans for the summer and listing her own; recommending the literary journal Botteghe Oscure edited by Marguerite di Bassiano for Lorna’s poetry and prose; and inviting Lorna to spend the summer with her in Rome. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone, Via di Villa Ricotti 36, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, providing additional information about the sanatorium in Davos for Lorna's sister. With envelope.

Typed letter from Darina Silone, Via di Villa Ricotti 36, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, recommending Lorna to send short stories and poetry to Harper’s Bazaar, two of whose editors she has recently met and who are keen to find new material and pay well. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds. She apologises for her inability to firm up her plans for the summer owing to her husband’s mercurial nature and regrets that they will not be going to Edinburgh after all. She describes her husband as poisonous and disagreeable and her relationship with him as ‘slow suicide’. She describes a recent visit to Freiburg and accepts Kate O’Brien’s invitation to Roundstone. She writes at length about her Indian lover and asks if it might be possible for him to stay in Roundstone for part of the time.

Typed letter from Darina Silone, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, mainly describing her love for Keshev. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, apologising to Lorna for her long silence. She discusses at length the deplorable state of her marriage, the financial and emotional control exerted over her by her husband, her desire to leave him and the deep sense of responsibility she feels for him, which prevents her from doing so. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. She thanks Lorna for her letter and Christmas present and describes at length a recent lunch with Denis and Caren Devlin and his high opinion of Lorna. She complains about the deplorable state of her marriage, expresses regret that Lorna does not like Keshev and defends his character to her at some length. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. Darina is daunted by the idea of starting from scratch financially, but is determined to leave her husband by the autumn. The UNESCO job in Paris has once again fizzled out. She provides a lengthy account of recent political upheavals in Italy in which her husband is heavily involved, and of a secret tryst in Venice with Keshev, which her husband’s sudden illness almost prevented. She reminisces about her affair with ‘A.F’ and acknowledges that it happened because her husband had her desperate and she needed something human. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone in Paris to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. She has been given the American [Fulbright] scholarship, which has thrown her summer plans into disarray, with the added difficulty of trying to secure a visa for Keshev. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, Albergo Europa Palace, Ferrara. She declines Lorna’s and Kate O’Brien’s offer to join them on a trip to Ferrara and Ravenna as her relationship with her husband is reaching crisis point. With envelope.