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Letter from Arthur Shields, Nicolette Hotel addressed to Lini Saurin., Shields describes going ice-skating in Madison with Barry Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea and [Denis?] Johnstone and complains about having to catch up on his accounts, he writes 'Lord how I envy those people haven't accounts to keep.'

Letter from Arthur Shields addressed to Lini Saurin, apparently written in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Shields describes the harsh weather conditions; he writes 'The snow is falling and almost as soon as it touched the ground was blown about so that it flies in all directions...'

Letter from Arthur Shields, 'Somewhere in the Rockies' addressed to Lini Saurin. Shields attempts to describe the scenery of a trip through the Rockies between Calgary and Vancouver, he writes 'I have been using superlatives so much all day that any word I would use now to describe what we have passed through would sound poor.'

Letter from Arthur Shields, Hotel Georgia, Vancouver B.C. addressed to Lini Saurin; Shields writes that 'We had awful trouble with the U.S. customs getting out of, into and again out of Canada.' He writes of Vancouver, 'It's a good interesting town too. A Chinese quarter, a Japanese quarter, a Sikh quarter and lots of others.'

Letter from Arthur Shields, Coeur D'Alene Hotel, Spokane, Washington addressed to Lini Saurin; in a very brief letter Shields writes '...everyone says I am getting fat and never looked better...Lord I wish it was over.'

Letter from Arthur Shields, Green River, Wyoming addressed to Lini Saurin; the letter was completed in Denver, Colorado, Shields writes 'This rush and grind is having a queer effect on me, I find myself doing unusual things - being rude, very rude - or quite calm when I would ordinarily be flustered. I feel I've learned a good deal.' He also writes 'Shelah Richards...is leaving us in a few weeks time. That means a lot of extra work and rehearsing someone else into her parts.'

Letter from Arthur Shields, Southern Hotel, Denton Texas, addressed to Lini Saurin. Shields writes of Texas 'it's the most untidy country I have ever been in...anything and everything just thrown in heaps. Its extraordinary, the people generally down here are rather uncouth.'

Letter from Arthur Shields, Hotel Georgian, Terrace, Atlanta, Georgia addressed to Lini Saurin. Shields writes of Tuskegee University, Alabama where the Abbey touring company performed 'It's a big negro college of the south, in fact the principle negro coll of the States...You cannot imagine how fine those audiences were. So quick in seeing the humour that is so often lost on the white audiences here.' He also writes with reference to the 16 February 1932 general elections in Ireland 'Heard today for the first time the real results of the elections. I wonder what will happen. I'm sure we'll loose the grant. I really think though that a change of government - that is not too drastic a change - will be good for the country.'

Letter from Arthur Shields, Hotel Lafayette, Buffalo, New York addressed to Lini Saurin. Shields describes the pleasant experience of eating oysters in Washington: '...the memory of them lives with me. All or nearly all food we have had in America tastes as though it had been cooked a week ago and been kept warm since.' He also writes 'Yesterday when we reached Baltimore we were quite delighted because reaching that point meant that we had completed our circle of the country. I have all our journey marked in red on a map and it makes a long red line.' (T13/58)

Letter from Arthur Shields, The Edison Hotel, Schenectady, New York addressed to Lini Saurin; in this short letter Shields complains of having been struck down by 'Flu or grip as they call it here'. He also writes 'I'm sorry to have to tell you that they made some more bookings after the Boston engagement so that all my hopes are dashed as to being home when I told you.'