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- [195-]-[200-]
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1 box, c. 500 items
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Files of manuscript and typescript letters from John McGahern to various including writers, editors, family, and friends.
These are the original letters which are transcribed and published in "The Letters of John McGahern" edited by Frank Shovlin (Faber and Faber 2021). The files of letters present include from John McGahern to:
Patsy Murphy, Tom Callan, Jimmy Swift, Anne Annerson, Susannah Cappon, Patrick Gregory, Debbie Newt (Colgate), Neil and Mary Joy, Brian Friel, Nicholas and Eleanor Grene, Madeline McGahern, Mr. Charleton, Jason Epstein, Matthew Evans, Peter Lennon, Dympna McGahern, Tony Swift, Patrick Gregory, Stanley Van Der Ziel, Faber and Faber (re. Ligne de Fond Cover), Clare Rehill Robertson, J.D. Langton and Passmore (Colgate), Mary Keelan, Charles Monteith, Maggie Pernod, Donald, Ian Jack, Mary Kay Wilmer, and Dolores Cleary. Letter to a Sophie [ ], with comment "letters ...are never quite honest".
Also a piece of manuscript quotation by McGahern, with labelling as being "...Quoting Critique of "Walking along the Border".
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19/07/2022
14/07/2025