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Letter from David Higham, Director of David Higham Associates Limited, London, to Mary O’Neill, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, regarding some of Kate O’Brien’s material, stating ‘Very sadly, I don’t think that these few pieces have any value either as manuscripts or for publication.’

Letter from David Higham, Director of David Higham Associates Limited, Authors’ Agents, 5-8 Lower John Street, Golden Square, London, W1R 4HA, to Mary O’Neill, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, regarding the issue of literary executor.

Photocopy of a letter from David L. Byers, Chairman, FOE, 17 Arbutus Place, South Circular Road, Dublin 8, to an unidentified recipient, outlining the group’s objections to the proposed power station at Carnsore Point.

Letter to Walsh from Sears stating that he is enclosing a copy of the manuscript of The Man in Brown. He has also sent a copy to ‘Pedelty’. Believes that Walsh should sign the ‘agreement’ and had objected only because he was ‘thinking in terms of the theatre’. Believes that a film is ‘a chancy proposition’ and a producer could get all of the profit. The agreement which refers to the Abbey players is fair according to legal advice and indicates the standard which should be aimed at. They are ‘well ahead’ and ‘that increases the chance of a film being made this year’. The second writing can include aspects such as the love scenes which he will leave to Walsh.

Letter to Walsh from Sears regarding The Man in Brown. He has not supplied any more information to Walsh because he cannot allow himself to think about something so ‘unreal’ due to the absence of characters. States ‘I hope you’re not feeling that the characters will not come to life if you have to make them behave the way I want rather than the way you feel they (?) go’. Encloses a conversation which could take place ‘between John Doe and the detective’. When he has written 5,000 or 10,000 words, Sears would like to receive them ‘for a few days’. Refers to ‘the last stuff I gave you’ which covered the trial. He thinks that the detective should not be present at the trial but should read a transcript of the evidence. The remainder of the document consists of ‘Gist of conversation between Sherlock Holmes and John Doe’, followed by a sketch map which Walsh had requested, and notes on it.

Letter to Walsh from David Sears, 74 Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin, regarding progress with The Man in Brown. Has taken Walsh’s requirements into consideration and ‘in taking some of the plot from real life’, he hopes that ‘everyone remotely connected with the Gleeson trial would study our story to see if there was any possibility that he could take an action against us for libel’. He is satisfied that such an action is not possible but suggests that ‘Sean McBride (lawyer) who was in the case would… be glad to read the story for a small fee’. Believes that it leaves Walsh with the ability to shape the characters – Sears did not even name the important ones. The situation described allows for some margin for the ‘real murder’.

Letter from the president and the chief secretary, De Nederlandsche Bank, Postbus 98, Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Kraijenhoff, AKZO, Ijssellaan 82, Arnhem 6001, Netherlands, offering congratulations on Herrema’s release.

Letter from Denis [---], 4 Lower Montenotte, Cork, relating to a section of news from University College Cork to be included in the next issue of the University Review. With envelope.

Letter from Denis McCullough, 319 Grosvenor Road, [Belfast] to Madge Daly thanking her for her hospitality during his holiday in the South of Ireland.

Letter from Denis McCullough, St James’s Park, Falls Road, [Belfast] to Madge Daly apologising for not having written sooner and expressing his sense of loss following the death of Thomas Clarke.