Mockups of the intended layout of Mementos of Mortality, specifying margin sizes, font, and including draft maps. Lists of estimated costs.

Four mockups of the book jacket, with different tonal arrangements.

Copy letter from Robinson to Gerry Cloherty (Connacht Tribune) enclosing a draft layout for Mementos of Mortality, and seeking a quote for printing. Two replies from John O'Donnell (Connacht Tribune) providing quotations. (7-26 Sep 1990).

British Library Bibliographic Services, cataloguing information to include in their publication, with ISBN and Dewey Decimal number. (26 Sep 1990).

Letter to Robinson from Anthony Farrell (Lilliput) giving advice on printing. (11 Dec 1990).

Copy letter from Robinson to Anne Yeats seeking permission to use Jack Yeats' 'An Island Horseman' in the publication. (16 Aug 1991).

Contact sheets, negatives, and prints of Gilbert Stucky's black and white photographs of funerary cairns and centographs for 'Mementos of Mortality'. There are also black and white contact sheet images of a smiling Tim and Máiréad Robinson in Roundstone in their home, next to a Folding Landscapes sign, and with a pet dog.

A folder of photographs in an envelope addressed to an tAth / Fr Tadhg Ó Móráin. Postmark dated 5 Jun 1986.

Typed letter to Robinson from Doreen Caraher-Manning, Honorary Secretary of the Caraher Family History Society. Encloses a copy of an illustration she made of the O'Flaherty centograph when visiting the islands in 1970, includes a story about her experience. (14 Aug 1988).

Handwritten letter to Robinson from Leon Manning of the National Monuments Section of the OPW, thanking him for the invitation to the launch of Mementos of Mortality, makes a suggestion regarding the Fitzpatrick monuments. Enquires about 18th century mainland examples of similar monuments, mentioning Levally near Clarinbridge. (6 Jan 1992).

Correspondence with Lord Killanin, with a letter to Robinson clarifying information from 'Mementos of Mortality' on the FitzPatricks, and a marriage to George Morris. Notes on the division of Cill Ainthin after the Catholic wardenship of Galway, and enquiring about the location of Killarone. A copy of Robinson's reply, with information on the likely repair and conservation of the momuments by a FÁS scheme, to be overseen by the archaeologist Jim Higgins. Brief mention of the Mullaghmore scheme in the Burren. (6-21 Jan 1992).

Photocopied handwritten letter from Robinson to Jim Higgins, enclosing contact prints of the Leachtaí to give an idea of their condition ahead of the FÁS scheme.

Three printed invitations (blank) to the launch of 'Mementos of Mortality' at Kenny's Bookshop.

Photocopy of a review of 'Mementos of Mortality' in Archaeology Ireland, reviewed by Etienne Rynne in the Spring 1992 issue.

File of correspondence.

Two handwritten letters to Robinson from Jim [Higgins] on léachts and cairns, and whether there is a connection between the ones on Aran and the mainland. Mentions Ardrahan and Menlo, (c. Aug 1993).

Handwritten letter to Robinson from [Deirdre Ní Fhloinn], Irish Folklore Department at UCD. Encloses a print out entitled 'Ainmneacha Áireacha cois na farraige'. (15 Aug 1994).

Copy typed letter from Robinson to Fr Dara Molloy following the publication of 'Mementos of Mortality'. Discusses the benefits of a possible FÁS scheme under archaeological supervision to restore some of the monuments on Aran. (Undated).

Letter from Ríona Egan, a student of Heritage Studies at GMIT enclosing field research she has done on the Wayside Memorials of counties Clare, Mayo and mainland Galway. The enclosure and a copy of Robinson's reply with a few notes is included (6-13 Mar 2003).

Material relating to the commissioning and publication of J M Synge's 'The Aran Islands' by Penguin Classics. Tim Robinson wrote an introduction and notes on the piece.

Print out from microfilm (and roll of microfilm) of 'The Aran Islands: by J M Synge, with drawings by Jack B Yeats' (1907).

Also included are the reprographics slips from Trinity College Library's Department of Early Printed Books who provided the print out.

Tim Robinson's handwritten notes on J M Synge's time in Aran. Notes taken from a reading of Robert Skelton's 'J M Synge and his World'. Notes on Synge's usage of marriage themes, the Celtic Twilight, on his notebook, the subjects not covered by Synge in his work, and on Synge as a man island. Some examples of Robinson's immediately recognisable doodles framing some pages.

Typed draft of "Person/Place/Book, Synge's The Aran Islands" with handwritten notes and annotations.