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Typescript draft of a review of 'Victory Over Japan' beginning 'Ellen Gilchrist's first book, "The Land of Dreamy Dreams, was a wonderful collection of stories." Contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of a review of The Singing Flame beginning 'When I was teaching in Clontarf in the late 1950s I had an O'Malley boy in class'.

Typescript draft of a review of 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Cambridge Edition Volume IV', beginning 'That Lawrence is so patronised in England must leave roots deep in that country's class-ridden consciousness.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-3.

Typescript draft of a review of 'The Greeks and the Irrational' by E.R. Dodds, 'The Land of Dreamy Dreams' and 'Victory Over Japan' by Ellen Gilchrist and 'Sicilian Uncles' by Leonardo Sciascia published under the title 'Critic's Choice - Another Dip' in the Evening Herald on 19 December 1986. Begins 'I find rereading becoming increasingly more a part of my reading.'

Typescript draft of a review of 'The Golden Gate' by Vikram Seth beginning 'In those old useless arguments about the upperosity of verse contra prose even the more obtuse disputants were able to agree that poetry was found more often in verse than in prose, but that in the vast general prose of both it was recognizable only by its absence.'

Typescript draft of a review of 'Sunday's Children' beginning 'This work is at first set securely in the past, in the summer of 1926 at the ramshackle, eccentric house Pastor Dalberg had built above Difnan's village....' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-5.

Typescript draft of a review of Patrick Kavanagh's collected poems, probably the 2005 Penguin edition; begins with a quote from Kavanagh: "Posterity has no time for anything but the soul, the lines that speak the passionate heart, the spirit that lives alone." Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-3. Reverse side contains handwritten fragments of Memoir .

Typescript draft of a review of Patrick Kavanagh's collected poems, probably the 2005 Penguin edition; begins with a quote from Kavanagh: 'Posterity has no time for anything but the soul, the lines that speak the passionate heart, the spirit that lives alone.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-3. Reverse side contains handwritten fragments of Memoir .

Typescript draft of a review of 'Outlaws' by George V. Higgins published in under the title 'Higgins Goes to the Brinks' in the Evening Herald on 17 June 1987. Begins 'This interesting crime novel sets the first of its many leisurely themes at once....' Contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of a review of 'O'Neill, Son and Playwright' beginning 'Mr Schaeffer makes this claim for his first volume of what is to be a two volume biography of America's greatest playwright.' Contains handwritten amendments. This draft bears the title 'Fact and Factotum' and quotes the price of the book as 60s.