| Description | Holograph letter (3 pp) from John [McGahern], Newcastle upon Tyne (England), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Details about their Paris property which they are letting for now. Meeting Madeline 's stepmother. Relating at length the way his brother-in-law died while his sister out of guilt tried to nurse him at home; satirical dialogue between her and her twin (his sisters). Gossip about Charles, Lennon, and Hamilton, whom they met in London. Séamus Heaney's permanent post in Carysfort Training College; an anecdote regarding him and his neighbour who mistook him on the radio for Séamus Twomey, then on the death list of the Ulster Defence Association. (Envelope establishes detail.) |