File includes letters and email from Wilbur T. Albrecht, Professor of English, Colgate University, USA, to John McGahern, 1972 - 2003. Letters discuss academic matters at Colgate University, personal conversations between McGahern and Albrecht and respective families, travel plans, McGahern's teaching at Colgate. Also Albrecht discusses works by McGahern including The Leavetaking (3 May 1975); Amongst Women (18 Dec 1990). Latter letters (2003) including email from John McGahern to Janette [Albrecht] talks in detail of McGahern's cancer diagnosis and with details of treatment, etc.

File of MS and TS letters to John McGahern from Frank Dolan (2006) with descriptions of growing up in Leitrim and of people and places in the area; from Bill Doheny (n.d.); Gerry Dukes regarding the GPA book prize for which McGahern was nominated and with details of the television ceremony to be attended by John Updike (1992) also letter thanking McGaherns for meeting with Dukes (2005); from Luke Dodd with comments after having read 'Memoir'; and from John Donegan (letters of 1988-1993) also a primary teacher and with details re. his own father being a Garda sergeant and who had a connection to Frank McGahern Snr.

Letters from Tristram Powell, B.B.C., discussing McGahern's work and related commentary on writing and B.B.C. work.

File of postcards, letters, and email from Tony Cartano, Francoise Cartano, Paris, to John McGahern. some items from Tony Cartano are on "Presses de las Renaissance" headed paper and also Albin Michel headed paper, both Paris-based publishers. The letters and cards detail some discussions around McGahern's books published in French through Albin Michel, the sales figures and distribution of works by McGahern and general discussions between all on literary matters.

Letters from Tom Watters, Ballinasloe, to his son Eugene, giving him family and local news.

One letter and one postcard from poet Tom Paulin to John McGahern, sending good wishes and comments on "That They May Face The Rising Sun", and also making arrangements to meet a festival event in Oxford.

Letter and postcard from playwright Tom Murphy to John McGahern with comments on having seen his play, "The Power of Darkness " at the Abbey Theatre, describing it as wonderful and disagreeing with the negative Irish Times review of the play.

File of manuscript letters from teacher and friend, Tom Jordan, to John and Madeline McGahern, with personal discussions, comments on Irish society, news and current events, visits to the McGaherns, comments on McGahern's writing, and wider general discussions. Letters are grouped and arranged by decade from the 1960s to the 2000s, with some letters with no date.

MS letters from Tom and Peggy Leen, sending personal good wishes, news of McGahern family members, and comments on the public attitude to McGahern's books, from The Barrack to the Dark and later public attitudes towards McGahern that he encounters in the local pub.

Letters from Tom and Anne Bradley to John and Madeline ('Bambi') McGahern. Tom Bradley was Professor of Russian Literature in Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA. Letters include invitations to the McGaherns to visit and stay with the Bradleys; letter thanking McGahern for sending a Polish translation of "The Pornographer" to Tom Bradley, and talking about visits to Lodz and Warsaw in Poland (2001); letter from Bradley saying he had read McGahern's later works and offering comments on the books and on family/work matters (2002); Letter of 2004 with further news and updates on work, family, travel etc. with comments on protests in Ireland against George W. Bush.

Also two letters from Maurya Bradley, daughter of Tom and Anne, asking McGahern if he would add support to her Fulbright application to study in Ireland, with later letter to say that she did not get a Fulbright fellowship that year (1996). Copy of letter of support written by McGahern is included.