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Letter from Kate O’Brien, Sneydens [Sneden’s] Landing, Palisades, N.Y. State to Anne O’Mara. Kate is taking a short break by herself before the first night in New York. They are expecting Mrs Roosevelt to attend the performance, which Kate finds a frightening prospect. The letter deals in the main with domestic and family news. Note that the letter is dated Friday 10 November, but in 1949 that date fell on a Thursday.

Latter part of a letter from Kate O’Brien to Anne O’Mara. The letter deals predominantly with the purchase of wedding presents for Kate and Anne’s niece Kay and other family matters. Kate is recovering from a fit of depression and disappointment over That Lady and the New York critics. She has sold the German acting rights to Vienna and Berlin and is in negotiation with Paris, Rome and Stockholm. Madrid has expressed the wish that the play would never be licensed for performance in Spain. Kate has read Patricia Lavelle’s book [Crumbling Castle], which she found dull but not without merit. She thinks Lavelle could have been a novelist had she started in time. Lacking first two sheets.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway to Anne O’Mara. Kate is at Roundstone with May [O’Brien] and Lorna [Reynolds]. She thanks Anne for all her help with the move into Roundstone, gives a few impressions of the house and grounds and a short account of her recent activities with her two guests.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, [Roundstone, county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate is looking forward to seeing her brothers Gerard and Michael O’Brien the following week.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway to Anne O’Mara. Kate is concerned about the reasons for Anne and Stephen’s sudden trip to Dublin and seeks reassurance that they are both well. She is looking forward to seeing Anne in Roundstone in early February. The letter deals mainly with domestic and family news, Kate’s lumbago and her attempts at gardening. She laughs at her sudden discursiveness and confesses that it is her way of postponing a return to the novel [The Flower of May].

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, [county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate repeats her request for Anne to join her at Roundstone to attend a viewing of the auction at Castle Taylor, Ardrahan. She asks news of Aunt Fan’s jubilee day. She tries to imagine being sixty years a nun, or sixty years anything consistently.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, [county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate is looking forward to having Peter in Roundstone. She is tired and has come to the conclusion that summer is a bad season for a recluse novelist, for she is inundated with callers. She mentions the English playwright Wynyard Browne and also Patricia Lavelle, who is staying in the village of Roundstone with her family.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway to Anne O’Mara. Kate wishes Anne a happy birthday and is looking forward to seeing Peter at Roundstone in the near future. The letter is mainly concerned with domestic and family news, May’s forthcoming visit and Mary O’Neill, whom Kate is expecting the following week. She makes a brief reference to Nano Reid, Gerard Dillon and Pat Lavelle, all of whom have paid her visits.

Letter from Kate O’Brien to Anne O’Mara. Kate gives a brief account of her trip to London, which is full of post-flu weariness. Lacking first page(s).

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent to Anne O’Mara. Kate mentions having opened a local fete and promises to send Anne any articles about it in the local papers.