Letter from Colbert Kearney, King's College, Cambridge to Eugene Watters, commenting that he feels like a heretic in a Cistersian Abbey, as 90% of the students are away. He comments that Spain was great, and that he enjoyed his visit to Barcelona in particular. The only interesting thing about Madrid in his eyes was the Prado. Asks how he is getting on.

Letter from Colbert Kearney, King's College, Cambridge to Eugene Watters, saying that he knows what he means about dead-end feelings, giving his views on academia. He thanks him for his comments on his introduction and goes on to defend a number of points in it. He feels keenly the lack of a meta-physic in his writing. Comments that he should be in Arklow on the 21st if he wants to meet up for a pint.

Letter from Colbert Kearney, King's College, Cambridge to Eugene Watters, saying that he was sorry he missed him over Christmas. He had hoped to go to the Galbally dance but he got his dates messed up. He gives details of his research. He comments that Robert Gitting's book on Keats is very good. Comments that he saw E M Forster shuffling around the College in the snow and wrote a poem about it, which he encloses. He also encloses five other short poems.

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.

Note from Colbert Kearney to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc thanking him for critiquing his poetry so well, and wonders if they could meet up at the end of the month when he is back for a week.

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 hi

Typescript copy of "The Road to Athens", a poem by Colbert Kearney.

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 b