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Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway to Anne O’Mara. Kate gives an account of her brother Gerard’s visit and hopes that her brother Michael, who is in Ireland, will also visit.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, [Roundstone, county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate has had a falling out with her housekeeper Nora. She asks for bacon, rashers and a fruitcake. Her house is overrun with mice.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne and Stephen for their hospitality. She mentions Elizabeth Bowen, who is also in residence to write a history of the hotel. She is about to go to tea with poet Seamus O’Sullivan.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway to Anne O’Mara. Kate regrets the news of the death of Sheila Rice. The rest of the letter deals with family and domestic news, with a brief reference to Mary O’Neill, who is at Roundstone, painting. The letter also contains an entertaining account of Kate’s experiments with her new Murphy long-wave radio.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, [Roundstone, county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate has written to José Maria de Areilza and promises to pass on his remarks to Stephen at once. She wants to know if her short piece called The Children was in the 4 July special issue of the Spectator, and if Anne has seen her small story in The Bell. She describes a picnic during which she skidded on some seaweed and hurt her knee.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, [county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. The letter deals in the main with visitors Kate is expecting in August and September and how to organise their arrivals and departures. She makes a reference to Mary O’Neill, who is currently staying with her. Note that the letter is dated Friday 9 August, but in 1952 that date fell on a Saturday.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, [county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate apologises for not writing sooner, but she feels ashamed of herself owing to recent events and doesn’t know what to say. She is confident that the [financial] muddle under which she finds herself will be resolved within the current year. She gives a short description of the [25th annual] PEN congress, which she attended [in Dublin on 9-13 June 1953]. She is asking Anne for any paperback copies of novels by Elizabeth [von Arnim] to lend to Mary [O’Neill]. The rest of the letter deals with family and domestic matters.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Roundstone, [county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. Kate has listened with great interest to a talk on Radio Éireann [by Gerald Bourke on Harriet Smithson, wife of Hector Berlioz, which was given on Radio Éireann on 11 December 1953]. She wants to spend Christmas at Strand House. She does not expect to get any offer for the house until the New Year. Two of her Hellebores have flowered at last.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Albergo Miramare, Naples, [Italy] to Anne O’Mara. Kate and Lorna Reynolds have been forced to vacate their flat and she is currently living from hotel to hotel until her departure to Milan in two weeks’ time. She provides a list of things she wishes to do and places she wants to see during her stay in Naples. Note that the letter is dated Tuesday 24 March, but in 1954 that date fell on a Wednesday.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, [county Galway] to Anne O’Mara. The letter commences with a brief account of Kate’s financial arrangements with the bank and with Stephen to clear her overdraft. She has just returned to Roundstone and is glad to be back in it. The rest of the letter deals with family news.