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Folder 1: 'Early Attempts' was the label on the original folder.

Early drafts of the essay 'Constellation and Questionmark' with diagrams of cones and triangles from Dandelin's paper (see P120/3/5/2/1), and different iterations entitled 'Geometrics' and 'Forms in the Void'; early drafts of 'A Career in Art, I: Right Hand and Left Hand; early draft with annotations of 'Farewell (for thickets)'; 'Thickets and Dark Woods'; 'Firewalking'; 'The Globe'; three drafts of 'Horizons' which became 'The Curvature of the Earth'; 'Birdlife'.

Newspaper clipping 'Ringing in the new cosmology' by Wayne Hu; Faxed copy of an article 'The Theory of a pre-Christian Sanctuary in the Barony of Duhallow' by an tAthair Seán Ó Duinn.

Folder 2: 'Forms in the Void', dated July 1999, cover note says 'SB notations inserted', and paper cuttings have been pasted in the volume [Spencer-Brown].

Published writings by young Carolyn Swift. These stories were published under her real full name of Carol Samuel and Carol Cecil Samuel, and written when Samuel (Swift) was in her late teens and other works in her early twenties.

File includes a TS report by Etienne Rynne on an early church located at Omey Island. Also includes drawings and sketches of artefacts and objects such as [iron] pins. Also correspondence between Rynne and locals in Cleggan area regarding local history and folklore of Cleggan and Omey area, issues of local newsletters etc. Also maps of the site at Omey.

Letter from Dennis J Hannan to Robinson enclosing a photocopied map marking his property, Newtown. (14 Jun 1984) 2pp;

Handwritten letter from D F O'Loghlin to Robinson with information about Corkscrew Hill and Spectacle Bridge, both of which were surveyed and built by his grand uncle Michael O'Loghlin. Carbon copy reply from Robinson. (10 - 18 February 1986) 2pp;

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

Early typescript draft of 'Mementos of Mortality', excluding photographs. Spellings errors and grammar corrected in ink. A handwritten note on the cover indicates it was intended to be sent to a proofreader. "Please return to us later on. TR".

Early typescript draft of Part 1, Discussion, of 'Mementos of Mortality', with spelling and grammar errors corrected in ink.

Two pages of handwritten notes, with a peano line drawn on the back.

File of 19th and 20th century Ordnance Survey maps of Aran. Although the items in this file are undated, it is probable these are the early building blocks of Robinson's 1975 map of the Aran Islands. The OS maps have been cut into fragments and heavily annotated, with the Irish language version of each placename written in, local features drawn, corrections and updates added, and some additional features hand-drawn using coloured ink.

There are 7 cut outs in total. Two from OS Map Sheet 110, one from Sheet 111, and four from Sheet 119. These are taken from the 1966 edition of the 6 inch OS map.

Also filed with these maps are photocopies from other reference maps, with annotations. These seem likely to have come later, when Robinson went on to update his mapping. One is a hand-drawn sketch on tracing paper entitled 'Aran areas of small fields 1cm²'.

6pp of Robinson's notes with calculations on the fields in Árainn, giving average perimeters, grids and calculations.

Four copies of sections of the 1839 OS map showing Baile na Sean.

Newspaper clipping dated 7 November 1992 of a 16th century map of Ireland by Paolo Forlani soon to be auctioned.

Sheets 113 and 122 from the Geological Survey of Ireland, showing the Aran Islands and Inisheer at the scale of one inch to a mile. (Published Oct 1862 and Mar 1869).

Sheet 113 of the OS 1 inch map of Aran Islands showing Inishmaan and Inishmore. Robinson's calculations drawn in pencil.

Typed draft of 'The Sound of the Past', which became part of the Preface of 'Listening to the Wind'. The draft is dated May 1998.

Typed outline of chapters for 'Connemara', with some handwritten notes. Dated 28 Jul 2004.

Typed draft of 'The Cold of Charity'. Dated 25 Nov 2004.

Typed draft entitled 'Ballinaboy', undated.