Letter from Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, Lock House, to Rita Kelly, commenting that she is packing more experience into a day than he does in a month. He gives his news.
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Letter from Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, Lock House, to Rita Kelly, saying that her job with Voss would be fine once her creative writing would not suffer. He says he can't wait for her to return.
"Letter from Eoghan Ó Tuairisc to Allen Figgis asking if the rights to ""L'Attaque"" now revert to him as it has gone out of print. He comments that if it were not commercially viable to reprint that Bord na Leabhar would grant aid the reprint, and asks if the photo-litho would be available for purchase."
"Copy of typed letter from Eoghan Ó Tuairisc to David Marcus enclosing ""The Gnarled and Stony Clods of Townland's Tip"" from Ó Cadhain's first book, ""Idir Shugradh agus Dairire"". He comments that it is in the spoken story style, very different from ""Floodtide"". He comments that being confined to his first two books has its advantages ""depicting various aspects of Western life between mountain and seashore in the early part of this century"". He comments that he misses Rita around to help him ""Like all women-writers … she has an uncanny ear for the fall and tone of actual speech"". Also copy of ""The Gnarled and Stony Clods of Townland's Tip""."
Letter from Énrí Ó Murgheata, 164 Bóthar Binn Éadair, Baile Átha Cliath to Ciarán Bairéad, saying that he has only three books from the early days of the Gaelic League [in Irish].
"Letter from Elizabeth Coxhead, The Red House, St. Mary's Way, Gerrards Cross, Bucks., to Ciarán Bairéad, saying that Dr Wall had given her his name. She is writing a book on Lady Gregory, and is interested in her gathering of folklore in the area. She asks him what he thinks of her work as a folklorish, wondering if her literary talents were used to embellish this work. She comments that Lady Gregory's ""understanding of the people came from her years as - virtually - an unpaid social worker on her father's estate""."
"Letter from Elizabeth Coxhead, The Red House, St. Mary's Way, Gerrards Cross, to Ciarán Bairéad, thanking him for his most interesting letter. She takes his point about Lady Gregory, feeling that her work in folklore was a stepping stone towards writing plays. She feels that Lady Gregory was not as cut off from people because of her position and religion as he imagines. ""The surface Toryism and Ascendancy attitude of Sir William Gregory never really ""took"", and wore off with what her family considered scandalous rapidity the moment he was dead"". She gives her travel arrangements to Ciarán, hoping that she will get a chance to meet him."
Letter from [ ] Coxhead, The Red House, St. Mary's Way, Gerrards Cross, Bucks., to Ciarán Bairéad saying that she will be arriving in Galway for three days. They would be unable to spend the three days in Gort as the Fair would be on. She goes on to discuss the possibility of Lady Gregory proselytising, commenting that she had not realised how potent these accusations could be. She comments that the Pearses could have been involved in that, but that Lady Gregory herself seems to have been against this. She also talks about Mrs Farrell, a niece of Lady Gregory, whose father Frank had been shunned by the other members of the family because he had married a Catholic.
Letter from Eleanor Manganielle, Dublin, to Ciarán Bairéad, 7 July [ ], stating that she is working on a novel on folklore, and would like to meet him after getting him name from Professor Delargy.
"Letter from Eithne Browne, Poolbeg Press to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, saying that David would like him to do ""Anam an Easpaig""."