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Letter from Kate O’Brien, 33 Great James Street, WC1, London to Anne O’Mara. She thanks Anne for being so good about the money Kate owes and hopes to be able to pay her back soon. She intends to let her flat and depart for the south of France in the first week of April and regrets she cannot get away sooner to work in peace on the novel [Pray for the Wanderer].

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Crown Hotel, Croombridge, Kent to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her kind offer of a ticket but regrets that she will not travel to Ireland for Easter as she would only be able to stay for four or five days. She is recovering from a heavy cold and would prefer to carry on with work and avoid dashing violently about. Instead, she hopes to come to Ireland for a fortnight in June to coincide with Peter’s summer holidays. She believes that her novel [Pray for the Wanderer] is published on Easter Tuesday and promises Anne a copy.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 33 Great James Street, London WC1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for the copy of Green Fields and promises to write to Stephen Rynne as soon as she has read it. She has received a lot of attention from both theatre and cinema, but has no idea whether anything comes of all of it. She mentions that Heinemann’s spring catalogue announces her new novel [Pray for the Wanderer] as if it was about to appear, but as she hasn’t been sent any proofs yet she doesn’t see how the book can be out before April or even May.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Crown Inn, Croombridge, Kent to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her letter and apologises for not having written before, but she has had several short jobs of writing and is working on some film stories in a hurry, which means that only absolutely necessary letters get written. She is pleased with the reviews of Pray for the Wanderer. The book appears to be selling well, even attempting a mild form of best-selling, which surprises her.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Crown [Hotel], Croombridge, Kent [to Anne O’Mara]. Kate thanks Anne for photographs and expresses a hope to get to Ireland just after Whitsun.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 11 Great James Street, London WC1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate has attended the last performance [of Distinguished Villa]. She is pleased that the play will be opening in America on 25 October, although she regrets that she has been asked to change the ending for the American audience to ensure greater financial success. She has reluctantly agreed and now has to find a way to end the play without ruining its point. She is anxious to have the cast for America decided on as all the good English actors are getting booked up for winter engagements. She has sent one of her short stories for America and has been asked to lengthen it before it is sent to New York. She is encouraged by the positive response. She asks if she might give Stephen’s name to her bank manager as her guarantor for an overdraft of £100 to help her get ready for America, and gives a lengthy explanation for her reasons for being short of ready money.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 5 Rossetti Gardens Mansions, Flood Street, [London] SW3 to Anne O’Mara. She notes that her sister May is still gaining great fun and gossip over Kate’s book [Without My Cloak], and she hopes to be able to provide her with similar entertainment for many years to come. She confesses that their Aunt Min was one of the many models of the novel’s character, Cousin Rosie, and that Rosie’s fancy for Eddy first stirred in Kate’s mind when she saw Aunt Min glinting at Phons [O’Mara] at a party at Strand House. She mentions that Charles Seddon Evans, the managing director of Heinemann’s, is making a great fuss of her, and she is amused by all the sudden attentions now that she is a success.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Crown Hotel, Croombridge, Kent to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for the information regarding the burning of Cork. She is looking forward to Stephen Rynne’s book [Green Fields], which Anne has promised to send her as soon as it is published. She apologises for being so lazy about letters, but between writing the novel [Pray for the Wanderer], the Spectator work and her daily constitutional, the days simply fly. She is hoping to finish her writing by the first week of December and then return to London. She is hoping to visit Ireland in January as she wants to see Strand House before the Town Hall throws a shadow on it. She asks after Peter, who is at Glenstal.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Croombridge, [Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne, Stephen and Peter for their birthday wishes and in reply to Anne’s query suggests that respectable stockings would make an ideal present for when she returns to civilization. She is working through her novel [Pray for the Wanderer] and hopes to return to town with the text completed on or before 15 January.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 33 Great James Street, WC1, London to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne and Stephen for their hospitality and hopes to return to Ireland soon, although she admits a craving for new scenes to buck up her flagging brain and a bout of the sun to soothe her rheumatic joints. She has applied for a job with a movie firm, which she is almost certain to get and which would give her a foothold in that industry. She is working on a difficult and ambitious novel [The Land of Spices?], which she won’t be able to finish until she gets the movie job through and can retreat into solitude. She asks Anne to wait for another few weeks for the four guineas which Kate owes her for La Moderne.