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- [1991]
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21 pp
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Copybook containing handwritten draft of The New York Times Magazine The Sophisticated Traveller ' version of the essay on County Leitrim article begins 'We live in the poor heart of the Island of Ireland.'; also includes an article on reading beginning 'Some years ago 'Poetry''' estimated it had submissions from 20,000 poets while it had less than 1,000 subscribers.' Also contains another draft of an article on reading beginning 'The two books about reading or looking that have meant the most to me are Auden's "The Dyer's Hand" and Proust's "Contre St. Beuve"; also includes handwritten transcript of a letter received by John McGahern from Winifred Turner, dated 3 January 1991 ; Turner a reader aged 84 who had heard McGahern speak on the radio details the her childhood in Boyle, where she moved with her father who was a bandmaster with the Connaught Rangers, she writes 'I hope you don't mind me writing to you but your books give me great pleasure.' A transcript of this letter appeared in early drafts of Memoir .
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P71/1111
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