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Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate discusses the news of her nephew John’s son Tom being deaf and conveys news of friends. Lacking last page(s).

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate outlines her travel plans for her trip to Cork and Limerick by sea in mid-September. She regrets that she has been unable to find a tenant for her house.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent to Anne O’Mara. The letter deals mainly with the wedding anniversary of her brother Jack and the jubilee tea set the family are buying as a present. She makes a brief reference to a ‘Long Distance’ column she has just finished.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne and May for their hospitality during her stay in Ireland. She is planning a trip to London to see Mary O’Neill and her nephew John O’Brien.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her birthday wishes. She is shocked to hear the news of the death of Nan O’Mara. She is pleased with Mary O’Neill’s and her nephew Austin’s joint Christmas present of the fifth and final volume of the life of Henry James. She is glad now to have the five volumes of a work she considers to be of profound literary interest, even if James is sometimes a bore.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate is glad to hear that Anne likes her efforts on Radio Éireann. She does not welcome Conor Cruise O’Brien into Irish politics. She has been invited to spend Christmas in Dublin with May and Clare, but would prefer to go over when her two Galway lectures are to be done in early February. She has seen no advertisements of Elizabeth Craig’s cookery book [probably The Art of Irish Cooking, published in 1969]. Lacking middle page(s).

Letter from Kate O’Brien to Anne O’Mara. Kate is heartened by the fan mail generated by Without My Cloak. She is sorry to have missed a viewing of Pasolini’s film The Gospel According to Matthew. Lacking first page(s).

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate has had a letter from the BBC telling her of the great number of extremely complimentary letters about Without My Cloak and inviting her to lunch to discuss the demand.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate mentions Mary O’Neill, who has departed from Boughton, where she had been for a week’s holiday. She discusses their sister Clare and worries about the difficulty she will cause for Anne and May.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her Christmas wishes and her presents of ham and money. She has had a bad Christmas as everyone around her has been sick.