Letter from Colbert Kearney, Finglas, Dublin, to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc commiserating with him on the death of his father. Comments that he has been writing again, and that he will pass on something to him when it is better.

"Letter from Colbert Kearney, King's College, Cambridge to Eugene Watters, hoping that he had received his last note. He comments that the weather is ""abject"" and that he has been working on many books and papers from 1780 to 1840, commenting that he knows a lot more about Keats and the others than before, ""but mostly superficial"". He has been consoling himself with Eliot, and writing a few pieces he considers scrappy. Eamonn was telling him of the student protests in Dublin, and that he thinks Cambridge will be unrecognisable in twenty years time. Tells him to let him know if there is anything he wants copied from the library there."

"Letter from Colbert Kearney, King's College, Cambridge to Eugene Watters saying that he was sorry he missed him because he wanted to discuss ""An Dord Fhian"" which appeared in Comhar. He has just finished a draft of a chapter on Haydon and the idea of historical painting. He comments that the people he has shown Weekend to are very favourable about it. He has sent on four pieces to Gus Martin in UCD for Atlantis."

"Letter from Colbert Kearney, King's College, Cambridge, to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc recounting his trip to the states. Encloses a poem for comment, saying that he wants to order all the material from the States first before he returns to it, but would welcome his views. Encloses copy of the poem ""Introitus""."

"Letter from Colbert Kearney, King's College, Cambridge, to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc thanking him for his letter and gives his comments on some of his poems, including ""Stalactite"". Says things are quiet in Cambridge and that he will have to work hard to finish by the 1st December as planned, discusses the topic in the wider context of English creativity. Also typescript copy of poem ""A10""."

Letter from Colbert Kearney, King's College, Cambridge to Eugene Watters, saying that he is laid up after a cartilage operation. He did not get an internal fellowship but he feels no-one else did either. He comments that he has written two things but wants to work on them first before letting him see them. He will be staying there over the Easter to try and get the thesis done and hopes all is going well for him.

Letter from Colbert Kearney, King's College, Cambridge to Eugene Watters apologising for not writing sooner, and giving him news of his interview for the teaching post. He has applied for VEC teaching and is checking through the dissertation in the National Library.

Letter from Colbert Kearney, King's College, Cambridge to Eugene Watters, commenting that he is working through the footnotes for the thesis, giving news of his work in the Bodleian, gives family news and asks if he has written much lately?

Letter from Colbert Kearney, Finglas, Dublin to Eugene Watters, apologising for his last letter from the National Library, commenting that he is in much better humour. He has been teaching in Ballyfermot Vocational School. Gives him news of his conferring, and asks if he would like to meet up sometime. He has not written anything since, and asks how his work is going.

"Letter from Colbert Kearney, Department of English, UCC, to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, thanking him for his letter, commenting that he is supposed to be preparing two lectures, one on Greek drama and the other on ""Julius Caesar"". He gives out that the university is shut down to indicate its holiness, and that it took him an hour to get into his office and that the Library is closed. He comments that the Department is congenial and more civilized that many he has heard about. He ends by giving him family news."