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Letter from Kate O’Brien, 334 Russell Court, Woburn Place, [London] WC1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her kindness during her recent stay at Strand House and wishes her a happy birthday. She has been busy with work and has had some potentially interesting propositions. There seems to be great interest in her novel [As Music and Splendour] and she hopes it will be justified. She is dining with Edith Starkie on Thursday.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Hotel Excelsior, Av. José Antonio 50, Madrid, [Spain] to Anne O’Mara. Kate gives an account of Michael Rynne, his wife Natalie and the embassy they occupy. [Michael Rynne (1899-1981) was Irish Ambassador to Spain from 1954 until 1961. His mother, Mary née O’Mara, was sister to Stephen O’Mara Junior.] She gives an account of her activities in Madrid, where she intends to stay until the middle of the month. The rest of the letter deals with family and domestic matters.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, [Roundstone, county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne, Stephen and Peter for a wonderful birthday. She is preparing to go to Dublin, where she has a few Radio Éireann jobs to do, and longs to return to her native city before too long.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Roundstone, [county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne and Stephen for their hospitality during her stay at Strand House and for their present of a wall-flower plant. The publication of her novel [As Music and Splendour] has been postponed to 31 March. She will be lecturing to women graduates in Dublin on 25 February.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 88 King Henry’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne and Stephen for their hospitality during her stay at Strand House. She has been seeing her agents and bank about her various [financial] problems. She is about to depart for Spain to work on a novel [Constancy] she has begun to write.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway to Anne O’Mara. Their sister May is visiting her. She hopes that Peter enjoyed the wedding (but does not specify who got married) and is glad that Mrs Rynne was able to attend.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Roundstone, [county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her generous food parcel, which she and Clare, who is staying with her, are enjoying. She gives an account of a local auction, where she thoroughly enjoyed watching local matrons bidding for worthless items. She mentions Micheál Mac Liammóir, who is due for a visit the following week and who is rehearsing his Diarmuid and Gráinne in Galway.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Minerva Club, [28a Brunswick Square, London WC1] to Anne O’Mara. The letter is written on the eve of Kate’s departure for Spain. She thanks Anne for her present of £10 of spending money for Lisbon. She discusses her travel plans in some detail. She mentions her recent lunch with Willie Moloney.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Minerva Club, [28a Brunswick Square, London WC1] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for the parcel of mended and laundered clothes. She mentions the Holtaheia Accident [on 9 August 1961], in which 34 schoolboys from Lanfranc Secondary School, Croydon were killed.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Avila, [Spain] to Anne O’Mara. Kate encloses cards (now not present) for Anne, Clare and May. She is appalled to relate that Spain markets 8 December [the Feast of the Immaculate Conception] as Mother’s Day.