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Letter from Kate O’Brien, Hotel Jardin, Avila, [Spain] to Anne O’Mara. Kate is planning a 14-day tour of Roman Spain in late February and early March. The Irish Times has requested another set of articles for May. She is also preparing to do four short readings on Spain for Radio Éireann’s Between Ourselves, a programme she considers idiotic. She snipes at Kilkee Town Commissioners, who have never acknowledged her existence while at the same time spreading Kate’s praises of Kilkee on all the winds. She adds that when My Ireland appears in May, if the Kilkee Commissioners do not offer Kate and all her family a free month at Moore’s Hotel, the do not know their duty. She notes her niece Anne’s fascination with words and recalls how when she was small she was also greatly engaged with words and debated with herself on their colours. To her, the word ‘yellow’ was not yellow, it was a word of a nice grey hue.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Hotel Roma, Travesia Trujillos 1, Madrid, [Spain] to Anne O’Mara. The letter deals in the main with the forthcoming COMES conference in Florence, and Kate’s travel plans in the spring.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Steele’s Road, [London NW3] to Anne O’Mara, enclosing a letter (now not present) from Willie [Moloney].

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate encloses a letter from Willie Moloney (for which see P40/3/10/1/29/24). She is looking forward to seeing Anne in London and warns her that she will be inundated with invitations when she comes.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her present of money to purchase clothes for her forthcoming trip to Leningrad.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 24A Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate has just returned from a wonderful trip to Russia and is too busy, too tired and too full of impressions to write a long letter.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 334 Russell Court, Woburn Place, [London] WC1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her food parcel. She is disappointed that she has heard nothing from Seán McCann of the Evening Press about the two good long articles on Russia, which he had requested and which she had sent him.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 39 Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks her sister for her offer of a security of £100 a year and gratefully accepts it. Her state of financial insecurity has been a source of considerable anxiety to her. She lives from hand to mouth, and lately there have been disappointments about work. The market for old writers is terrible, unless one is prepared to write pornography or science fiction, neither of which she can manage. She is hoping to secure a fortnightly reviewing job with the Yorkshire Post, and one of the Oxford Women’s Colleges has suggested that Kate might give extra-mural lectures to their students. Heinemann wants her to return to Russia in the spring to write a light and friendly book, which would be serialised before publication, for example in the US and in the Sunday Times.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 39 Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate gives an account of her attempts to find a cottage to settle in and her agreement with Elizabeth Sprigge, who has agreed to buy it as an investment and install Kate as a life-tenant at a rent of five percent of the capital outlay.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 39 Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate provides an update on the purchase of the house in Boughton, makes arrangement for moving her goods from Ireland to Kent by CIE, and gives an account of her activities in doing up the property.