0001 UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN

0002 TRINITY COLLEGE
0003 DUBLIN 2

0004                                                             Home address :
0005                                                             22, Kildare Street,
0006                                                             DUBLIN, 2.
0007                                                             Tel : 762662.

0008 Tel. 772941

0009 31 : V: 1984

0010 Dear Baroness Musulin,

0011                      I remember you telling me that you liked the novels of
0012 Molly Keane when I visited you with Peter Muller in October of last year. I
0013 was delighted to see that Virago Press have decided to reprint her early
0014 novels and I thought of you when I saw them oin the bookshops. I am sending
0015 you herewith The Rising Tide - the first in the series of reprints and I very
0016 much hope you enjoy reading it.

0017                      I remember with great affection our chat about W.H. Auden
0018 and I am very grateful to you for sharing those memories with me. Plans for
0019 the Auden Exhibition in the Kunstlerhaus are now very far advanced. I have
0020 put togther a complete collection of Auden's first editions, selections from
0021 his contributions to periodicals, representative anthologies, his films for
0022 the G.P.O Film Unit^1/2, many items connected with his work for the Group Theatre,
0023 all the opera libretti^{1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9}, hisBritten's arrangements of his poems and many other items.
0024 I have also arranged for various portraits of Auden to be sent to Vienna ; they
0025 include Sir William Coldstream's 1937 portrait, a portrait by Mervyn Peake painted
0026 in the same year, two drawings by Maurice Field and a portrait by Don Bachardy.
0027 I have also managed to get 26 lithographs by Henry Moore which he did in 1973 to
0028 illustrate a selection of Auden's poems.

0029                      Stephen Spender has agreed to come to Vienna during the
0030 period of the Exhibition - that is 11th October to 3rd November.  Humphrey
0031 Carpenter will lecture on Auden at the invitation of the British Council, so it
0032 all promises to be a splendid celebration of Auden's life and work.

0033                      I was terribly disappointed not to have seen you when I was
0034 in Vienna in March but alas I was at the mercy of my friends who have cars and,
0035 as luck would have it,they were all so busy at various things I was left stranded in
0036 Vienna throughout my brief visit. However I shall be spending September, October
0037 and November in Austria and I very much look forward to seeing you then.

0038                      I had a letter from Edward Mendelson yesterday and he asked
0039 me to send you his very best wishes which I do along with my own. I hope this
0040 finds you in good spirits and that Summer is being better behaved in Austria []than
0041 it is here in Ireland.

0042                      With all good wishes,
0043                      Yours very sincerely,

0044 Michael O'Sullivan

0045                      MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN.