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Loose pages from a notebook containing an untitled handwritten draft of the short story The Prudent Man which begins: ‘Kemp Clancy had been busy all that forenoon and he was now ten minutes late for lunch’. Alterations. Pagination.

This sub-series contains material relating to Maurice Walsh's short story The Smart Fellow, published in 1964 in the collection The Smart Fellow.

Typescript draft of the short story Face of Stone – A Saga of Old Time, published in Chambers’s Journal and The Elks Magazine in 1936, which begins: ‘In their own gathering way and in their own time, the rumours of the sword fights’. Alterations. Pagination.

This sub-series contains drafts of essays, articles and stories written by Maurice Walsh.

Small notebook (18 x 9 cm) containing two poems. The first begins: ‘‘Tis a pity I came where my name/was unknown in the town’ and another entitled Myself which begins: ‘If myself had a singing brown thrush’.

Letter to Maurice Walsh (son) from ‘Nellie M.’, Office of the Revenue Commissioners, Dublin Castle, enclosing photostatic copies of articles from Irisleabhar, the journal of Comhaltas Cána the customs and excise officers’ association. Contents include reviews of Walsh’s work; articles by him on aspects of the association’s activities; a review of Morning Tide, a novel by Neil Gunn (Walsh’s Scottish friend), April 1931; and a tribute to Walsh on his retirement (January 1934).

Proof copy of the printed text of The Hill Is Mine.

Letter to Walsh from J. Smith, The Thomson Publications, Courier Place, Dundee, expressing interest in serialising one of his Scottish stories in The Peoples' Friend or The Sunday Post.

Letter to Walsh from Wesley Stout (editor), Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, reporting that ‘Mr. Summers has been released from Sing Sing, perhaps owing to your good offices’. Asks about another ‘Thomasheen James’ story for which he would be paid $1000.

Letter to Walsh from Edward R. Cross (chairman and managing director), Cross-Courtney Limited (advertising, printing, publishing), 1 Brazenose Street, Manchester. States his admiration of Walsh’s works and asks if he would consider involvement in the production of a film on the Lake District of England. The proposal arises following his appointment as a ‘consultant to the Cumberland Area for the Cumberland Development Council’. He has been in contact with Mark Ostrer, head of the Gaumont British Film Company, and has mentioned Walsh as the ‘one man in the world who could do the scenario justice’. He could either adapt one of his stories or else write a completely new one. Cross can arrange a meeting between Walsh and Ostrer and Walsh and Mr. St. Clare Grondona, the government’s Cumberland Commissioner who is also aware of the plan.