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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.

Typescript draft of 'The White Boat' beginning 'The rains flooded the fields along the riverbank for miles.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-43.

Typescript draft of 'The White Boat' beginning 'The rains flooded the fields along the riverbank for miles.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-39.

Typescript draft of the script of 'The Sisters' beginning 'The Aunt and Stephen are on the way from evening devotions.' Contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of the revised version of 'The Image' beginning 'When I reflect on the image, two things from which it cannot be separated come: the rhythm and the vision.'

Typescript draft of 'The Image' beginning 'When I reflect on the image two things from which it cannot be separated come: the rhythm and the vision.' Contains handwritten amendments.