Copy letter from Herrema to J. Ruddock, Villiers School, Limerick, enclosing a cheque for £10 as a contribution towards the presentation of Cosi Fan Tutte (for which see P22/1/5/1).
Herrema, Tiede (1921-2020), managing director of Ferenka Ltd.Photocopy of a letter in Dutch from Herrema to J. Venema, Nederlandse Omroep Stichting [Dutch Broadcasting Foundation], Afd. Culturele Programma’s, Postbus 10, Hilversum, Netherlands. The letter has been written following an interview with two men called Bremen and Wilson, whom Herrema had agreed to meet. In the letter, Herrema states that while he enjoyed the meeting, he still wants to maintain his original decision not to become involved in any form of publicity.
Herrema, Tiede (1921-2020), managing director of Ferenka Ltd.Letter from Tom O’Brien to his brother Jack O'Brien, written on a journey to Bombay, where Tom will be working for Cox and Co. Bankers. He asks for family news and asks Jack to look after a financial matter for him until he can start drawing his cheques in India.
O'Mara family of Strand House, LimerickLetter from his uncle John (Jack) O’Brien, Wellington, Telford, Salop, enclosing documents (now not present) and commenting on the engagement of his nephew John.
O'Mara family of Strand House, LimerickLetter from Holmes O’Malley & Sexton, Solicitors, to Michael and Helen Allott relating to title deeds and the revision of their wills.
Allott family of Odellville, County LimerickLetter from Hugh Kenner, writer, critic and author of inter alia 'Dublin’s Joyce', 512 Hunter Street West, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. In reply to a question posed by McGrath, Kenner suggest that Joyce’s talent was to some extent recognised or Dubliners would not have been accepted by the publishers in the first instance. States that he suspects that Joyce had ‘powerful ecclesiastical enemies in Dublin’ and that this may have had some bearing on why the there was a delay in the publication of Dubliners.
McGrath, Edward Patrick (1929-1994), journalist and consultantLetter from Hugh Shearman, c/o Mrs Atkinson, 13 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin on the subject of censorship and the Irish Censorship Board following the banning of his novel The Bishop’s Confession (1943). Attached to the letter is Shearman’s statement of appeal to the Censorship Board. With envelope.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetLetter from Fred Cullen & Co. Ltd., Insurance Brokers, 51 O’Connell Street, Limerick, to [Michael] Allott with a quotation for an estate duty policy.
Allott family of Odellville, County LimerickTyped letter from Irvin [---], Bennigsenstrasse 8, 1 Berlin 31 to Gisela Dietrich [née Scholz], informing her of Karl Gessner’s death and Helga’s hospitalisation and asking her to inform Hella of same.
Fuller, Hella née Scholz (1925-2003)Letter to Walsh from J. Alden Sears, Kenilworth, Illinois. He was introduced to Walsh’s work by his colleague Mrs. Alice B. Dungan and now his fiancée has become a reader. They are to be married on 3 May and intend to spend their honeymoon in Ireland, Scotland and England. Mrs. Dungan showed him the letter Walsh wrote to her and they ‘would like to “ring you up” and have the opportunity to pay homage to the man (red headed wife an all) who has given us both so much pleasure’.
Walsh, Maurice (1879-1964), writer