D/1
"Joyce: A Post-Mortem" ('The Bell' 5 February, 1942)

• 8 page carbon typescript, lightly corrected in holograph

  D/2
  "Trollope" ('Irish times' 6 October, 1945)

• 7 page carbon typescript, clean, titled "The Greatest English Novelist"

  D/2.1
  "Ireland" ('Holiday' December, 1949)

• Tearsheets

  D/3
  "And It's A Lonely Personal Art" ('New York Times Book Review' 12 April, 1953)

• 4 1/4 page carbon typescript with a few holograph notes

  D/4
  "Novels and Novelists" ('New York Times Book Review' 23 August, 1953, as "The Novel Approach."

• 4 page carbon typescript, clean

  D/5
  "The Buck" ('Spectator' 26 June, 1954)

• 4 page typescript, a review of Ulick O'Connor's biography of Oliver St. John Gogarty

  D/6
  "The Strayed Reveller" ('New York Herald Tribune' 7 November, 1954, as Out of the Apprentice Years)

• 1 1/4 page carbon typescript, clean, a review of Evelyn Waugh.

  D7
  "A Matter of Fact" ('New York Times Book Review' 12 December, 1954)

• 4 page carbon typescript, clean
• 3 page partial carbon typescript

  D/8
  "The Last of the Liberals" ('New York Times' 24 April, 1955)

• 3 page carbon typescript, clean
• 3 page carbon typescript, extensively corrected in holograph
• 2 page typescript lightly corrected in holograph
• 2 page clean typescript
• 5 page typescript lightly corrected in holograph, a review of Lillian Hellman's edition of the Letters of Anton Chekhov

  D/9
  "Irish Literature" (unpublished)

• 12 page typescript, lightly corrected in holograph
• 21 page carbon typescript of a later draft, essay on creative writing intended for publication in The Character of Ireland, Rogers and MacNeice editors.

  D/10
  "For A Two-Hundredth Birthday" ('Harper's Bazaar' January, 1956)

• 3 page typescript titled "Happy Birthday Dear Mozart" heavily corrected in holograph
• 4 page typescript titled "After 200 Years" lightly corrected in holograph
• 3 page clean typescript

  D/l l
  "Sean O'Casey and the Ghosts" ('Holiday' January, 1956)

• 5 page carbon typescript very lightly corrected in holograph, with tearsheets from magazine publication

  D/12
  "Imported Vintage" (unpublished)

• 5 page clean typescript, sign
• 5 page carbon of above draft

  D/13
  "The Most American Playwright" ('Holiday' February, 1956)

• 5 page carbon typescript titled "A View From the Stalls" with a few holograph corrections
• 4 page carbon typescript titled "A View From the Stalls" with a few holograph emendations
• Galleys from magazine publication
• Tearsheets from magazine publication, an article on Arthur Miller

  D/14
  "In the Lion's Cage" ('Holiday' 16 February, 1956)

• 4 page carbon typescript titled "Making People Laugh," scored through with "In the Lion's Cage" replacing it; scattered holograph emendations
• 4 page carbon typescript, heavily corrected in holograph
• 4 page clean carbon typescript
• Galleys from magazine publication with copy-editor's corrections
• Tearsheets from magazine publication, a review of Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker"

  D/15
  "St. Joans from Arc to Lark" ('Holiday' March, 1956)

• 4 page typescript titled "Hark Hark the Lark," very lightly corrected in holograph
• 4 1/4 page carbon typescript titled "Hark Hark the Lark" clean
• 4 page carbon typescript titled "How to Be a Saint," an essay on Jean Anouilh

  D/16
  "Laughter" (unpublished)

• 3 page holograph manuscript

  D/17
  "In Quest of Beer" ('Holiday' January, 1957)

• 9 page carbon typescript titled "Not for the Want of Oiling," clean
• 13 page carbon typescript titled "The Want of Oiling," lightly corrected in holograph
• 10 page typescript, heavily corrected in holograph
• Tearsheets from magazine publication

  D/18
  "The Novelist as Politician" ('New York Times' March, 1957)

• 2 page typescript titled "The Political Novelist," extensively corrected in holograph
• 2 page carbon typescript, very lightly corrected

  D/l9
  "Is This a Dagger" ('The Nation' 26 April, 1958)

• 3 page typescript, lightly corrected in holograph
• 3 page clean typescript; a satirical essay

  D/20
  "A Walk in New York" ('Holiday' November, 1958)

• 6 page clean typescript titled "Me and New York"
• 6 page carbon of above draft, heavily corrected in holograph
• 11 page carbon typescript, clean
• 2 page editorial letter from Harriet Sheehy suggesting revisions

  D/21
  "I Know Where I'm Going" ('New Yorker' 14 February, 1959)

• 10 page typescript, lightly corrected, an autobiographical article

  D/22
  "It's All in the Telling" ('New York Times' 12 April, 1959)

• 2 page carbon typescript titled "Composition in Green Flat Minor"
• Tearsheets from newspaper publication, a review of Ralph Cusack's "Cadenza"

  D/23
  "The One Day of the Year" ('New Yorker' 19 December, 1959)

• 5 page carbon typescript, lightly corrected; an autobiographical article

  D/24
  "Go Where Glory Waits Thee" ('New Yorker' 26 March, 1960)

• 34 page typescript lightly corrected; an autobiographical article

  D/25
  "A Writer Who Refused to Pretend" ('New York Times' 17 June, 1960)

• 5 page carbon typescript titled "The Man Who Saw Through Poses," with a lengthy holograph note on the verve of one page
• Tearsheets from newspaper publication; an article on Anton Chekhov

  D/26
  "The Noble and Melancholy Turgenev" ('New York Times' 1960 ?)

• 2 page carbon typescript very heavily revised in holograph
• 3 Page clean carbon typescript, with 'New York Times' review slip

  D/27
  "The Modesty of Literature" ('New York Times Book Review'15 January, 1961 as "Discovery")

• 3 page typescript, heavily corrected
• 3 page typescript, different draft, heavily corrected
• 3 page clean typescript

  D/28
  "O'Malley's Character" ('Evening Press' 23 July, 1962)

• 2 page carbon typescript, clean

  D/29
  "Undoing the Conquest" (unpublished ?)

• 2 page carbon typescript, clean

  D/30
  "Festival Fever" ('Sunday Independent' 7 October, 1962)

• 3 page carbon typescript, clean

  D/31
  "The End of the Festival" ('Sunday Independent' 9 December, 1962)

• 2 page typescript heavily revised and corrected in holograph
• 3 page carbon typescript, very lightly corrected in holograph

  D/32
  "165 Places Still Remember Lug" ('Sunday Independent' 9 December, 1962)

• 3 1/4 page carbon typescript titled "The Quest for Lug," very lightly corrected in holograph

  D/33
  "The Unknown Heritage" ('Sunday Independent' 3 February, 1963, as "All the Way From Finn to Finnegan"

• 3 page carbon typescript, clean, review of the "Shell Guide to Ireland"

  D/34
  "The Holy Places of Ireland" ('Holiday' April, 1963)

• 11 page carbon typescript, clean 13 page carbon typescript, clean

  D/35
  "The New Abbey" ('Sunday Independent' 1962-1963?)

• 3 page carbon typescript, clean

  D/36
  "Young Limerickman's Play A Triumph" ('Sunday Independent' 29 September, 1963, under the heading "Plays: The Dublin Theatre Festival")

• 4 page clean typescript

  D/37
  "Happy Days at the Drama Festival" ('Sunday Independent' 3 October, 1963)

• 3 page carbon typescript with heavy holograph revision to the last page

  D/38
  "Our Crumbling Heritage" ('Sunday Independent' 17 November, 1963)

• 2 page typescript titled "The Land We Live In" heavily corrected in holograph; tearsheets

  D/39
  "Tribute to John F. Kennedy" ('Sunday Independent' 24 November, 1963)

• 1 page typescript, lightly corrected, titled "John Fitzgerald Kennedy"

  D/40
  "Irish National Monuments" ('Sunday Independent' 1962-63?)

• 3 page typescript extensively corrected in holograph, possibly an early version of "The Neglect of Our Historical Monuments"

  D/41
  "A Master's Mixture" ('New York Times' 1 March, 1964)

• 2 page carbon typescript titled "The Emergence of Chekov," clean; clipping by article

  D/42
  "Meditation in Clonmacnois" ('Sunday Independent' 7 June, 1964), as "Our National Monuments: Clomacnois & Clontooskert)

• 3 page carbon typescript, clean

  D/43
  "Glendalough" ('Sunday Independent' 15 June, 1964, as "A Neglected Monument: Glendalough")

• 3 page carbon typescript very lightly corrected in holograph

  D/44
  "Cashel and Its Shame" ('Sunday Independent' 21 June, 1964, as "Our Greatest Monument--Our Greatest Disgrace: Cashel")

• 4 page carbon typescript titled "Ball Alleys and Celtic Crosses," very lightly corrected in holograph
• 3 page typescript titled "The Capital That Became A Church," heavily corrected in holograph
• 3 page carbon typescript, clean

  D/45
  "New Grange Bombs" ('Sunday Independent' 27 September, 1964)

• 3 page carbon typescript titled "The Land of Elmar's Wife," with one word change in holograph
• 2 page typescript titled "New Grange," clean

  D/46
  "Edwards the Magician" ('Sunday Independent' 4 October, 1964)

• 3 page typescript titled "Festival Two," clean
• Tearsheets of magazine publication and published reply from Hilton Edwards

  D/47
  "McCabe Deserves Every Penny of His Prize" ('Sunday Independent' 27 September, 1964)

• 3 1/2 page carbon typescript titled "The Theatre Festival," clean; clipping of article

  D/48
  "Thoughts on the Festival" ('Sunday Independent' 1963-64?)

• 2 1/2 page typescript, heavily corrected in holograph; a review of the Dublin Theatre Festival

  D/49
  "Quarreling with Yeats: A Friendly Recollection" ('Esquire' December, 1964)

• 15 page carbon typescript titled "The Death of Yeats" extensively corrected in holograph; tearsheets of article

  D/50
  "Regency Colonial" ('Spectator' 11 June, 1965)

• 3 page carbon typescript, clean
• 3 page clean typescript titled "Cork," with carbon of same
• 2 page typescript titled "Cork," lightly corrected in holograph
• 3 page carbon typescript titled "Cork," clean

  D/51
  "Irish Monuments: Mystery Man Takes Over" 'Sunday Independent' 19 September, 1965)

• 2 page holograph manuscript titled "What Should A Director Know..."
• 2 page typescript titled "Monuments-The New Director," heavily corrected in holograph
• 2 page carbon typescript titled "Monuments-The New Director," clean, a different draft

  D/52
  Series of drafts of pieces on Irish Monuments intended for publication in a book, a project never realized, circa 1964-1965

• 4 page heavily worked holograph manuscript
• 12 page clean typescript titled "Ulster Miles"
• 6 page clean typescript titled "The Three Ulsters"
• Related letter to Frank O'Connor from Rev. Edwin Owen concerning the church at Killaloe

  D/53 "Early Irish Art" ('Sunday Independent' 13 November, 1965)

• 7 page typescript, lightly corrected, with two pages of holograph notes; a review of four books

  D/54
  "Yeats" ('The Critic' December 1966-January 1967; incorporated into The Backward Look: A Survey of Irish Literature, 1967)

• 11 1/2 page typescript heavily corrected in holograph, dated June 13, 1965
• 9 page typescript, heavily corrected in holograph

  D/55
  "Yeats" ('Sunday Independent' 13 June, 1965; Speech delivered by Frank O'Connor at Yeats' graveside at Drumcliffe Cemetary at centennial anniversary)

• 4 page typescript, heavily corrected in holograph

  D/56
  "Yeats" (unpublished? circa 1965)

• 9 page carbon typescript, extensively corrected in holograph with three additional pages of inserts, variant readings

  D/56.1
  Yeats articles

• Tearsheets from 'Sat. Rev.' December 10, 1966 "All the Olympians"
• Xerox tearsheets from 'Vogue,' March 1, 1965 "Willie Is So Silly"

  D/57
  "A New Years Diary" (intended for 'New York Times Book Review' but never published; no date)

• 3 page typescript, heavily corrected in holograph
• 3 page typescript, clean

  D/58
  "A Non-Literary Letter From Two Capitals" (intended for 'New York Times Book Review' but never published as Frank O'Connor remained unsatisfied)

• 3 page typescript
• 4 page typescript
• 3 page typescript
• 2 page typescript, all drafts variant

  D/59
  "Compulsory Bluff" (intended for 'New York Times Book Review,' this article was never published, though a similar piece ran in 'Sunday Independent')

• 4 page typescript
• 4 page typescript, heavily corrected in holograph

  D/60
  "The Doctor" (intended for magazine publication though never published in this form; a portion was incorporated into MFS)

• 9 page typescript, heavily corrected in holograph, essay on Richard Hayes

  D/61
  "The Two Faiths" (unpublished review of "The Two Faiths" by Xavier Rynne)

• 3 page typescript
• 3 page typescript, variant draft, with editorial rejection letter

  D/62
  "Will in Over Plus" (unpublished review of Shakespeare's Sonnets)

• 3 page typescript
• 3 page typescript, different draft, with editorial letter

  D/63
  File of manuscripts and related material about Roger Casement and his diaries, a long-time interest of Frank O'Connor

• "The Accusing Ghost of Roger Casement" 4 pages of holograph notes
• 2 page typescript titled "The Birth of A Hero" scored through with "Out of the Night a Voice Speaks" in holograph, heavily revised by Frank O'Connor in holograph
• 4 page mixed typed and holograph manuscript titled "The Emergence of Myth" heavily corrected in holograph
• 3 page typescript titled "Out of the Night a Voice Speaks," heavily corrected in holograph
• Tearsheets from Frank O'Connor review about Casement in 'New York Times' 17 November, 1957 with letter to Frank O'Connor from Francis Brown, NYT editor, and Alfred Noyes, author of the book reviewed
• Tearsheets of letters to the NYT editor reacting to Frank O'Connor's Casement article
• 1 page fragmentary carbon typescript of Frank O'Connor's review of "The Black Diaries of Roger Casement"
• Roughly 20 letters to Frank O'Connor from various people concerning the Casement case, approximately 35-40 pages
• 89 page carbon typescript of a scholarly work on Casement sent to Frank O'Connor, circa 1958
• File of several clippings of reviews and articles about the Casement case

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