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Letter from Kate O’Brien, Hotel de France, La Turbie, Alpes Maritimes, France to Anne O’Mara. Kate is struggling with the local climate, which affects her ability to write. She is looking forward to meeting Darina Silone, who is coming to see Lorna Reynolds as the latter has failed in her attempts to get to Rome. She has been asked by her Aunt Fan to write for a missionary paper, but she confesses that she could no more write a story with a missionary flavour than she could fly.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 37 Gordon Square, London WC1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate is anxious to get Anne’s date of arrival in London and the type of accommodation she requires in order to book her into a hotel. She will be lunching with Arthur Rank on Monday. With an envelope.

Typed letter from Kate O’Brien, 37 Gordon Square, [London] WC1 to Anne O’Mara. Kate has notified the Basil Street Hotel about the date of Anne and Peter’s arrival. She is well, but extremely busy, and anxious to get away to work in solitude.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Salthill Hotel, Monkstown, [county Dublin] to Anne O’Mara. Kate informs Anne of a sudden change in her plans. Guthrie McClintic is due in London to start work with her on 3 December. She had hoped to visit Anne for a few days, but between McClintic and [Arthur] Rank she has to keep her nose to the desk.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, Eyre House, Eyre Square, Galway to Anne O’Mara. Kate must abandon her plan of going to Corofin as her agents are getting restless. She intends to travel to London and to return to Strand House in October unless she is summoned to rehearsals in New York. The rest of the letter deals with family and domestic news.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. The letter centres primarily on their sister Clare, whose health is deteriorating.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent to Anne O’Mara. The letter centres primarily on their sister Clare, who has become a problem owing to her ill health. Lacking last page(s).

Letter from Kate O’Brien to Anne O’Mara. The letter conveys mainly social and family news, including the marriage of Margaret Ray to [Niall] Nestor, and the difficulties Kate’s nephew John O’Brien is experiencing in finding accommodation. Kate concludes with the thought that on midsummer night they will be lighting bonfires all around the bay in Roundstone. Lacking first two sheets.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her generous help over the marriage of their nephew John O’Brien. She gives a description of a Dunkirk Church Fete organised by George Semple, where she did her best at games of bowls and darts and penny-rolling, but found the whole thing idiotically old-fashioned.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her birthday wishes and her generous gift of money and food. She notes that Christmas cards are already arriving and recalls Willy Moloney’s great Latin affairs, which always arrived at about this time.