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Letter from Kate O’Brien, 11 Great James Street, London WC1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate apologises to Anne for having overstrained her kindness and promises to write when she has anything to report.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 11 Great James Street, WC1, London to Anne O’Mara, conveying the news that Distinguished Villa is being put on by the Little Theatre.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 11 Great James Street, Bloomsbury WC1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate wishes Anne a happy birthday and extends her condolences on the death of Anne’s father-in-law [Stephen O’Mara Senior, who died 26 July 1926]. She mentions that Distinguished Villa is opening in New York in the second or third week of October and is on tour in the English provinces in the same month.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 5 Rosetti Gardens Mansions, Flood Street, Chelsea to Anne O’Mara. Kate lets Anne know her date of departure for Ireland (19 March) and asks her to look for accommodation for her in Adare, Castleconnell or Doonass. She wants to work while in Ireland, which will be impossible if she stays at Strand House all the time because she needs hermit-like seclusion to do her best work. She is glad to hear from her publishers that Without My Cloak continues to sell steadily at about two hundred copies a day.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 33 Great James Street, WC1, London to Anne O’Mara. Kate regrets to hear about the cramp in Anne’s arm and gives her advice of how to ease it. She occasionally suffers from the same problem and hopes it won’t affect her too much in the next two months, when she is hoping to do masses of work. She is going to visit the O’Neills at Illington Hall in Norfolk from Friday to Wednesday. She is not sure of her movements after that, but will not be going back to London until September as it is too hot and she would prefer to be at work in some quiet inn or farmhouse. She protests in the strongest terms against the title (‘Signifying Nothing’) that Stephen Rynne has chosen for his book.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, the Red Lion Inn, Bridgham, Norwich to Anne O’Mara. Kate wishes her sister a happy birthday. She discusses Juan Belmonte’s Killer of Bulls, which she has ordered for Anne as a present, and outlines her reasons for liking the book so much. She notes that her own travel book [Farewell Spain] comes out on 9 August and promises Anne a presentation copy. She deems the book a light and hasty effort, but with some good chapters, including one on Saint Teresa and another about El Escorial. She was interested in everything Anne told her about Stephen Rynne’s book and relieved to learn that he has changed the title. She enjoys her current isolated surroundings, but suffers from writer’s cramp already. She gives a brief description of her living quarters and the village and surrounding country. There are no buses and she is mainly quite alone. There is nothing to do but work and take contemplative strolls by the river, which is exactly what she wants.

Letter from Kate O’Brien to Anne O’Mara. Kate asks Anne to pass on to Stephen the information that Celtic coins of gold and silver are unobtainable for the reason that they were never minted in the first place.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, End Farm to Anne O’Mara. Kate is unable to write a long letter as she is in the very last stages of her novel [The Land of Spices] and wants to get it finished within a week. She has decided to rent a cottage and get into another book during winter. It is what her publishers want and seems the most sensible and economical thing to do. She tries to alleviate Anne’s concerns about the war and urges her not to worry more than she can help. She is looking forward to seeing Clare, whom she regards a great soldier having to go through the strain of it all by herself. Kate apologises for the quality of her writing owing to her pen, which she bought in Limerick two years ago and which is the only pen she can stand. It has written her latest novel besides many other things and seems to be wearing out.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 12 Richmond Road, Oxford to Anne O’Mara. Kate will remain at Oxford for at least another ten days to finish off and type her novel [The Land of Spices]. She is certain that by the time she is ready to take it to London the Blitzkrieg will be finished.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Harcourt Cottage to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her gift of a pound of butter. She notes that Heinemann have decided to publish her book [The Land of Spices] in January [1941] instead of November [1940]. It will miss the chance of being given as Christmas presents, but Kate concedes that it is a serious book and she would not like it dismissed in the rush of pre-Christmas reviewing. She mentions Mary O’Neill, who has visited her.