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Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her generous food parcel. She discusses her Christmas preparations, conveys news of mutual friends and touches upon domestic matters.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Dublin to Anne O’Mara. Kate gives an account of her activities in Dublin and her meeting with her nephew John O’Brien, whose father [Kate’s brother, Gerard O’Brien] is dying. Kate has been preparing a radio programme to be broadcast on 25 April. She expresses her deep admiration for her nephew John.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate is making arrangements to be with Anne within a week because she is lecturing in Limerick on 26 May. She is angry with the Irish Banks strike, which has left her in an awkward position with the English banks. She has dined with Father Elias and with the Canadian editor.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent to Anne O’Mara. Kate asks Anne to act as a host to Professor and Mrs Chilver during the Limerick leg of their forthcoming visit to Ireland.

Letter from Kate O’Brien to Anne O’Mara. Kate tells Anne about a maintenance grant that the Arts Council of Great Britain are going to give her. She is not sure of the exact sum, but it will be at least £500. This, coupled with increased requests for her work from Telefís Éireann and the Irish Times, she finds both wonderful and ironic. She is uncomfortable about the Queen’s Civil List being published in the London Gazette because the only other time she got into the London Gazette was when her divorce was listed in it. Lacking first sheet.

Letter from Kate O’Brien to Anne O’Mara. Kate gives Anne her address in Madrid and advises her on how to contact her in an emergency. Lacking first page(s).

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, Croyle, Cullompton, Devon to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for all her news about the silver jubilee and for the efforts she has made in order to find suitable maids in Ireland. She continues to write for one of the government ministries and to struggle with the end of her book on diaries [English Diaries and Journals].

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Clifden to Anne O’Mara. Kate and Anne have just parted after spending some time together. She misses her very much and was sorry to see her go. The letter is filled with amusing anecdotes about Kate’s life at Clifden.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Clifden to Anne O’Mara. Kate is looking forward to returning to Limerick with the ‘old albatross’ [That Lady] off her neck. She can hardly believe to be almost free of it at last. She is to attend a United Arts Club dinner and a Radio Éireann broadcast in Dublin and plans to return to England on 1 November. She is suffering from writer’s cramp, which she is quite used to, and from writer’s neck, which is a new ailment and which she puts down to years-long stress over the book.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Shelbourne [Hotel, Dublin] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne and Stephen for their hospitality and gives her date of departure for London and her temporary address there. She is waiting for New York’s decision on what to do next. She mentions Lennox Robinson, who has asked if she would consent to being elected to the Irish Academy of Letters. [Kate was formally elected to the Academy in 1947.]