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Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her gift of money and tells her that there are delays and difficulties with the Irish Arts Council’s annuity. She thanks Anne for her goodness and constancy. She is planning a trip to Ireland and is hoping to spend some time in Cork as she is not in the mood for her sister May’s company at Fitzwilliam Square.

Partly typed and partly handwritten letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her gift of money. She regrets the shameful way her life is ending and blames it on her own constant misjudgements. She gives a brief outline of her trip to London to contribute to a documentary to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of 1921. She is the only woman among the chosen twelve participants. She mentions Radio Éireann’s plan for a dramatization of The Last of Summer. She discusses the prospect of letting her house.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, [177 The Street], Boughton, [Faversham, Kent] to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her birthday present. She discusses her forthcoming lecture tour in Spain, which she has decided to accept.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent to Anne O’Mara. The letter is almost solely concerned with the spell of ill health Anne and May are experiencing and Kate’s back pain, which has left her unable to stand for more than a few minutes at a time.

Letter from Kate O’Brien to Anne O’Mara. Kate is in hospital for X-rays as a consequence of her continued back pain. Lacking first two sheets.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 39 Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate apologises to Anne for even contemplating to pay rent at £7 a week, which she would never be able to keep up. Instead, she will concentrate on finding a cottage within a reasonable reach of London.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 39 Steele’s Road, London NW3 to Anne O’Mara. Kate has found a house she likes and discusses her options for acquiring it, one of which involves Anne acting as guarantor for Kate to secure a mortgage.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 39 Steele’s Road, [London] NW3 to Anne O’Mara. The codicil of Kate's will has been signed and witnessed and she attaches a copy with the letter. She has no news, except those relating to her house, on which subject she could become an awful bore.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent to Anne O’Mara. Kate thanks Anne for her Christmas parcel of food and gives an account of her Christmas celebrations, which included a burst pipe in the kitchen, necessitating some amateur plumbing and mopping up. She is looking forward to her forthcoming trip to Ireland in January.

Letter from Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent to Anne O’Mara. Kate discusses the forthcoming elections to the N.U.I Senate and her recent social activities. She mentions having expressed her willingness ‘to have any one of the American jobs’. She disapproves of Peter and Mary’s plan to visit Lincoln and Norwich cathedrals, which she considers boring. She makes a reference to Anne’s appearance on the radio.