| Description | Typescript letter signed Madeline [McGahern], [Walthamstow postmark], to Niall and Mrs.Walsh, Ballinasloe. About small errands; their satisfactory living arrangements; John's visiting friends and enemies; her securing a job at the Observer . Points about John's sisters - "there is a special extravaganza coming up around the gout pills and we watch with interest." Remarks about Ian [Hamilton] who "seems to be more at the center of power than ever"; the enlargement of The Review which will be "the literary magazine of the period" and will have extracts from The Leavetaking ; possible Arts Council award for John. Her plans for a visit to Paris. (Envelope establishes detail.) |