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Typescript draft of a critical essay on 'An tOileanach' ( The Islandman ) by Tomas Ó Criomhthain, beginning 'The nineteenth-century Portuguese ironist, Eça de Queiroz, reporting the death of Lord Beaconsfield for a Brazilian newspaper, wrote from London: ....' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-8.

Typescript draft of a critical essay on 'An tOileanach' ( The Islandman ) by Tomas Ó Criomhthain, beginning '...world, his view of reality. Within that view such a description would be pointless.' Contains handwritten amendments, first page is missing, paginated pp 2-13.

Typescript draft of a critical essay on 'An tOileanach' ( The Islandman ) by Tomas Ó Criomhthain, beginning 'When I first was interested in An tOileanach, I was always puzzled by the difference between the original and Robin Flower's translation.' Contains handwritten amendments, original typescript identical to 272, paginated 1-13. Reverse side of the last page contains brief notes on 'Swift', 'Yeats' and 'Beckett'.

Typescript draft of a 'A Slip-UP', this draft bears the title 'Albert and Ladybird', begins 'Albert and Ladybird left their ground floor flat in Ainsworth road every evening on the stroke of eight-thirty.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-4.

Typescript draft of a review of 'The Outlaw' by Simenon beginning 'The Outlaw, published in France in 1943, and wears only the flimsiest trappings of the detective novel: This is almost certainly why it has waited so long for translation into English.'

Typescript draft of a review of 'Patrick Kavanagh: Man and Poet' beginning 'There was a definite sense of excitement about Kavanagh in this city when I was young.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-3.

Typescript draft of 'Why We're Here' beginning 'Gillespie tested the secondhand McCullagh chainsaw as soon as he bought it from the auction, sawing some blown down branches stacked against the wall of the house into lengths for firewood.' Contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of ' 'What Ever You Say, Say Nothing', this draft bears the title 'The Fifties' beginning 'There were two sectarian States in place, North and South, inward looking and ostensibly secure, secretly content with one another despite public claims and utterances.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-26. Reverse side contains typescript fragments from Amongst Women .

Typescript draft of 'The White Boat', this draft bears the title 'The Old Man'; begins 'It was already late October when the old man took the big white houseboat all the way up the Shannon from Limerick to an empty quay and ties it up below the bridge.' Contains a small number of handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-9.

Typescript draft of 'The White Boat', this draft bears the title 'The Old Man'; begins 'The pleasure boats had long gone and the rowboats lay keel upwards here and there in the fields along the banks when a big white boat, Morning Star, came round by the reeds into the lake and then turned upriver to the bridge and quay.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-20.