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Copybook containing detailed production notes for W.B. Yeats plays: The Dreaming of the Bones , The King's Threshold, Purgatory , The Only Jealousy of Emer , The Death of Cuchulain , Calvary , Resurrection , and The King of the Great Clock Tower . Also includes records of expenses, rehearsals and casting notes.

Copybook containing drafts and fragments on 'Oldfashioned'. one beginning 'After the war Colonel Sinclair found that administration didn't suit him, going into the Ministry each morning in a pinstripe from the house they'd bought in Wimbledon, and he and his wife decided that he should take early retirement.' Also contains a handwritten draft of part of 'Crossing The Line' beginning ' "You're from the west a fine dramatic part of the country but no fit place at all to live, no dept of soil.'

Copybook containing general household lists.

Copybook containing general household lists.

Copybook containing handwritten draft of 'Bank Holiday' beginning It had been unusual weather, hot for weeks, and the white morning mist above the river, making ghostly the figures crossing the metal bridge, seemed a certain promise that the good weather was going to last beyond the Bank Holiday.' Copy book also contains fragments of the same story and part of a draft of 'The Creamery Manager' beginning 'He felt little quiet. The Shareholders would write him off as a loss against profits.'

Copybook containing handwritten draft of 'The Church and Its Spire' beginning ' I was born into the Catholic Church in the same way as I might have been born into Buddhism or Protestantism or any of the small isms - materialism, agnosticism, atheism and I was born into it in the infancy of this small state when it had almost total and unquestioned power.' also includes a few short notes relating to the publication of Amongst Women .

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 .

Copybook containing handwritten drafts of 2 portions of part 1 of 'The Leavetaking' ; one begins 'I knew he was about to go, the two day visit over; and to avoid the awkwardness of the unfelt emotion of the leavetaking climbed into the ash tree, where I could watch him go without being seen.' The other begins 'I was swinging under the ash tree when they came out and, rather than face them scrambled up into the hiding of it high branches.'

Copybook containing handwritten drafts of two portions of part 1 'The Leavetaking' , one beginning ' "Who do you love the most in the world?" ', the other beginning 'I watch the gulls shadows float among on the concrete as I walk in a day of my life with a bell. Its brass tongue in my hand.'

Copybook containing notes on actors who auditioned for Mary O'Malley.