Letters from Margaret Maurer, Academic and Department Chair at English, Colgate University, NY, with details of inviting McGahern to become an Adjunct Professor, and with general discussions on wider department news.

Two manuscript letters from Margaret McGahern to John (Sean) and Madeline McGahern, stating apologies for receiving post in error for John McGahern, and other letter with arranging of a visit in Leitrim.

File of MS letters from Mary Hutchinson, London, primarily in 1971, to John McGahern, with comments on a visit to Dublin, gift of a book from John, comments on his writing and wider personal conversations.

File includes two manuscript letters from Mary Lavin to John McGahern, from 1985 and from 1989.

File of letters from Michael and Edna Longley to John and Madeline McGahern, includes thanks for support in "the Hewitt affair", separate letter thanks McGahern for pulling out of a summer school over the incident and with detail on the situation (1996), meeting with the McGaherns in Denmark; comments after McGahern visited to Belfast (1979); Letter from Edna to John from her base in Sweden as a Visiting Professor, thanking McGahern for reading at a Festival and adding comments on Seamus Heaney's Nobel Prize win (1996); Letter from Edna to John inviting him to read at Queen's University Belfast (1978).
Card with poem "The Blackthorn" from Edna Longley, with added comments about the breakdown of marriage of John and Janey Banville; Poem from Michael Longley, "The Rainbow" with note sent to John (!999); Poem in dedication to John McGahern, "Hawthorn", by Michael Longley and sent to Madeline McGahern following the funeral of John McGahern. (2006).

File of cards and letters from poet Michael Gorman to John McGahern, discussing both their work, Irish writing and literature, and related matters.

File of MS letters from German translator, critic, and poet, Michael Hamburger, with comments to John McGahern on his books and writing, including The Pornographer, wider comments on both their writing, visits to Ireland, and general personal conversations.

File of letters and postcards from writer, Michel Déon to John McGahern. Includes TS letter (30th Apr 1996) thanking McGahern for copies of "Les Creatures de Reve" and adding comments on McGahern's collected stories and on story writing; Letter (26 Feb 1998) sending detailed comments on "The Pornographer"; postcards sending personal good wishes, comments on publishing and on details for arranging a visit; Postcard 28 Sep 2005) thinking McGahern for sending Déon an inscribed copy of his "Memoir".

File with two letters, one from Tom McGurk, RTÉ broadcaster, making contact since he and his wife Miriam O'Callaghan, had with McGahern in 1982, updating on personal family news and asking id McGahern had thought of a film treatment for The Leavetaking.
Second letter is from RTÉ broadcaster Miriam O'Callaghan, writing following her watching of the "Arts Lives" documentary on RTÉ on McGahern. She talks in detail in response to McGahern's writing and life, calling him "truly one of life's special people".

File of manuscript letters from Monica McGahern to Sean (John) and Madeline McGahern. Also includes the text of remarks made by Monica on the occasion of the launch of the McGahern archive at NUI Galway.