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Letter from Darina Silone, bei Doujak, Velden am Wärthersee, Kärnten, Austria, to Lorna Reynolds, The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway, mainly revolving around her travel plans for Ireland. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, providing Lorna with a schedule of her movements during the summer months and regretting that she will not be able to see much of her. What happens after August will depend on her husband’s reaction to the news that she is leaving him. She has told her sisters about her situation, and they have both expressed their support for her. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. Darina sympathises with Lorna’s problems with Kate, which are identical to those she had with her husband for ten years. She promises to write to Denis Devlin on Gioia Gaidoni’s behalf about the prospect of a scholarship, but offers little hope as ‘one is probably up against either a case of nepotism or a case of giving a reward to someone for political favours rendered’. She is living with Keshev, but doesn’t see it as a permanent solution, nor does she want her husband to find out. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone in Paris to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. Her relationship with her husband remains in transition , but transition to what, she does not yet know. She is suffering from depression caused by the thought that she has so far more or less wasted her life. She is happy with Keshev, but aware that she cannot keep him as a kind of secret pet forever. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone, 79 Cromwell Road, London SW7 to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. She apologies for the delay in writing, but she has been overrun with work, including the typing out of Rosamond Lehmann’s translation of [Les Enfants Terribles by James] Cocteau. She feels Keshev must return to India for warm weather to cure his catarrh. With envelope.

Letter from Darina Silone, 79 Cromwell Road, London SW7 to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. She describes her continuing difficulties with finding work and more appropriate accommodation. She describes a cocktail party at which she met the actress Diana Graves, who is also struggling to make ends meet. She thanks Lorna for helping her open a bank account, although she hardly needs one as any money she earns is swallowed up by living expenses.

Letter from Darina Silone, Geneva to Lorna Reynolds, giving a further update on the state of her health and looking back on the past eight years of her life.

Letter from David Bonnell Green, Boston University, Charles River Campus, 236 Bay State Road, Boston 15, Massachusetts to Lorna Reynolds, Department of English Literature, National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland, asking Reynolds to help them by urging her library subscribe to Studies of Romanticism.

Letter from David Godwin, Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 54 Poland Street, London W1V 3DF, congratulating J. M. O'Neill on his performance in Birmingham. Also see P9/3/2/1.

Copy letter to David Gray (U.S. minister in Ireland), The Phoenix Park, Dublin, from Carl Brandt, Brandt and Brandt (literary agents), 101 Park Avenue, New York, wishing him well in his new post and noting ‘that I have a client and friend… who I know will be a new friend to you and a grand one’, referring to Walsh.