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Samuel Beckett Collection1932-1996MS.1991.001http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3248

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Samuel Beckett Collection MS.1991.001

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Table of Contents

Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3

Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 4

Biographical Note: Samuel Beckett .............................................................................................................. 6

Biographical Note: Calvin Israel ................................................................................................................... 6

Biographical Note: Robert Pinget .................................................................................................................. 7

Biographical Note: Barney Rosset ................................................................................................................ 7

Biographical Note: Judith Schmidt Douw ..................................................................................................... 8

Biographical Note: Alan Schneider ............................................................................................................... 8

Scope and Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 9

Arrangement ................................................................................................................................................... 9

Collection Inventory ..................................................................................................................................... 11

I: Samuel Beckett - Calvin Israel collection ............................................................................................. 11

II: Samuel Beckett - Robert Pinget letters ................................................................................................ 18

III: Samuel Beckett - Barney Rosset collection ....................................................................................... 21

IV: Judith Schmidt Douw collection of Samuel Beckett letters ............................................................... 33

V: Samuel Beckett - Judith Schmidt Douw collection ............................................................................. 37

VI: Alan Schneider - Samuel Beckett collection ...................................................................................... 44

VII: Other Beckett-related material .......................................................................................................... 54


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Summary Information

Creator: Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

Title: Samuel Beckett collection

ID: MS.1991.001

Date [inclusive]: 1932-1996

Physical Description 22.25 Linear Feet (58 boxes)

Language of theMaterial:

Materials in this collection are primarily in English, with some Frenchand German.

Abstract: The Samuel Beckett collection at the John J. Burns Library iscomposed of seven distinct collections of Beckett-related materialincluding manuscripts and typescripts by Beckett, correspondencewith Beckett, ephemera, photographs, and publications by and aboutBeckett.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, Box number, Folder number, Samuel Beckett Collection, MS.1991.001,John J. Burns Library, Boston College.


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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Processed by George R. Fuir, SJ, 1991; Tina McCusker, 2000; Christopher Kamerbeek, 2002; ScottPeterson, 2006; Mark Roskoski; and Amy Braitsch, Elise Franklin, Sarah Hills, and Katie Lyle inNovember 2011. This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Provenance

The Samuel Beckett - Calvin Israel collection was purchased from George Robert Minkoff, Inc., in1991. The Samuel Beckett - Robert Pinget letters were purchased from Gekoshi in 2001. The SamuelBeckett - Barney Rosset collection was purchased from George Robert Minkoff, Inc., in 1993 and1996. The Judith Schmidt Douw collection of Samuel Beckett letters was purchased from SchmidtDouw in 2006. The Samuel Beckett - Judith Schmidt Douw collection was a gift from Schmidt Douwin 2006. The Alan Schneider - Samuel Beckett collection was purchased in 1994 from multiplesources. Other materials were a combination of gifts and purchases, 1991-2008.

For further research

Emory University maintains a register of the location of Samuel Beckett letters. This resource mayhelp researchers locate additional original correspondence by Samuel Beckett held in publiclyavailable archives. Beckett Location Register https://beckett.library.emory.edu/

Processing Information

In 2011 the various Beckett holdings at the John J. Burns Library were rehoused and the materialscollectively described in this single finding aid. In most cases, the rehousing did not disrupt theprevious arrangement.

The collections and materials brought together in this finding aid are those previously known as: --Calvin Israel – Samuel Beckett Collection --Robert Pinget – Samuel Beckett Collection --BarneyRosset – Samuel Beckett Collection --Judith Schmidt Douw Letters to Samuel Beckett --JudithSchmidt Douw Collection of Samuel Beckett Letters --Alan Schneider – Samuel Beckett Collection

Added to these collections, for the ease of description and access, were a few small pieces of Beckett-related material not connected to any larger Beckett collection.


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Restrictions on use

Copyright interests have not been transferred to Boston College.


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Biographical Note: Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, Ireland, near Dublin.He studied modern languages at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1927. The following year,Beckett went to Paris, where he quickly became acquainted with a group of avant-garde artists, includingJames Joyce. There, Beckett taught English at the École Normale Superieure in Paris for two years beforereturning to Trinity College to teach French in 1930. He left Trinity College after one year to travelthrough Europe. Beckett settled in Paris, France in 1937, and lived there for most of the rest of his life.

During World War II, Beckett joined an underground resistance group. He was forced to flee from Paristo unoccupied France in 1942 because of the threat of arrest by the German Gestapo. Hiding in thevillage of Roussillon in Southern France, Beckett worked as an agricultural laborer until the war ended in1945, at which time he returned to Paris and began his most productive creative period.

As a poet, Beckett made his debut in 1930 with "Whoroscope," followed by a collection of essays, Proust(1931), and one of his short stories, "More Pricks than Kicks" (1934). His career as a novelist began in1938 with the publication of Murphy. After the war, Beckett wrote the trilogy of novels Molloy (1951), Malone Meurt (1951, "Malone Dies"), and L'Innommable (1953, "The Unnamable"). He also wroteplays during this period, including Eleutheria and Waiting for Godot. Upon its first performances inFrance and then America, Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame. Beckett translated Waiting for Godot into English himself - something he would do for almost all his work - and it waspublished by Grove Press in 1953. In the succeeding years Beckett avoided the limelight and dedicatedhis life to his work, which was continuously published by Grove Press in America during his lifetime.He made his only trip to the United States in 1964 to be present at the shooting of the film he had writtenentitled Film. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

Beckett died in Paris on December 22, 1989.

Sources

Encyclopedia Britannica Online, s.v. "Beckett, Samuel," accessed July 31, 2014, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/57966/Samuel-Beckett.

Knowlson, James. Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

"Samuel Beckett." Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2001.

Biographical Note: Calvin Israel

Calvin Israel was an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Geneseo. Hebegan his relationship with Beckett by writing a magazine article to publically correct an encyclopediaerror concerning Beckett's work. Beckett read the article and initiated a correspondence with Israel. Aftera 1976 meeting with Israel in Paris, Beckett sent him manuscripts and other materials. Israel also began a


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personal collection of Beckett's work and sent many of his purchases to Beckett to be signed. Israel diedin 1984, after which his collection of Beckett materials passed to his wife Joann.

Biographical Note: Robert Pinget

Robert Pinget was born in 1919 in Geneva, Switzerland. As a young man, he studied and practiced law.He became dissatisfied with his legal career, however, and moved to Paris and enrolled in the Écoledes Beaux-Arts to study painting in 1946. Gradually he discovered his interest in writing and becameensconced in the Nouveau Roman (or "New Novel") literary movement led by authors such as AlainRobbe-Grillet and Marguerite Duras. He published his first book, the collection of short stories EntreFantoine et Agapa, in 1950. Although his unconventional style made publishers leery, Pinget's workswere aided by endorsements from renowned French writers Alain Robbe-Grillet and Albert Camus.Pinget met Samuel Beckett in 1955, and they forged a friendship that became important to Pinget bothpersonally and professionally. Beckett translated Pinget's La Manivelle into English and Pinget, in turn,translated Beckett's All That Fall into French. L'Inquisitoire, published in 1962 and translated intoEnglish as The Inquisitory in 1966, is perhaps Pinget's best known work. Robert Pinget died in 1997 inTours, France.

Sources

Encyclopedia Britannica Online, s.v. "Pinget, Robert," accessed July 31, 2014, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/461050/Robert-Pinget.

Henkels, Jr., Robert M. Robert Pinget: The Novel as Quest. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,1979.

"Robert Pinget." Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2000.

Biographical Note: Barney Rosset

Barnet ("Barney") Lee Rosset was born in Chicago in 1922. He attended Swarthmore College, Universityof California, Los Angeles, and the New School. Although he had no background in publishing, heacquired the nearly-defunct Grove Press in 1951. During his tenure at Grove, the publishing housewas pivotal in the introduction and publication of avant-garde writers. Rosset was the first to publishSamuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the United States in 1954, and later published the works ofAbsurdist playwrights Eugène Ionesco and Jean Genet. Rosset and Beckett maintained their closefriendship after the sale of Grove in 1985 until Beckett's death in 1989. Rosset has remained committedto protecting Beckett's legacy. Under Rosset, Grove also published The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.

Sources


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"Barney Rosset, Courting Literary Controversy." National Public Radio (April 18, 2009). http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102070224

Encyclopedia Britannica Online, s.v. "Rosset, Barney," accessed July 31, 2014, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1836205/Barney-Rosset.

McGrath, Charles. "Barney Rosset: The publisher who fought Puritanism, and won." The New YorkTimes, September 24, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/24iht-24obsc.16437736.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0

Biographical Note: Judith Schmidt Douw

Judith Schmidt Douw was born Judith Schmidt in 1926. She began working at Grove Press in 1955.Although she was officially Barney Rosset's secretary, the small staff at Grove Press dictated dutiesbeyond her official job title. It was during her time at Grove Press that Douw and Samuel Beckett begana correspondence that grew from a professional correspondence to a personal one. They met for the firsttime when Douw traveled to Paris in 1959. While at Grove Press she also became friends with AlanSchneider, Beckett's friend and American director of his only foray into cinema, Film (1964). In 1965Schmidt traveled to Europe to represent Grove Press, Beckett, and Schneider at film festivals screening Film. Judith Schmidt married John de Peyster Douw in 1970. That same year she left Grove Press towork on the presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy.

Biographical Note: Alan Schneider

Alan Schneider was born in a suburb of Kharkov, Ukraine in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution.On July 4, 1923, the Schneiders emigrated to America. His parents, Leo Victor Schneider and RebeckaMalkin Schneider, were both physicians specializing in tuberculosis. Schneider attended Johns HopkinsUniversity with the intention to study theoretical physics, but transferred to the University of Wisconsin,Madison, to study political science and literature. Once in Madison, he actively pursued the theatre.In 1940 he attended Cornell University, where he received an MA in Literature and the DramaticArts. In 1956 Schneider began a lifelong artistic partnership with Beckett when he agreed to direct theAmerican premier of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In 1964 he directed Beckett's Film, for whichBeckett visited New York. Throughout his career as a director, Schneider was committed to teachingand directing student productions. He served as assistant professor of speech and drama at the CatholicUniversity of America from 1941 to 1952 and as professor of theatre arts at Boston University from 1972to 1979, was the director of the Juilliard School Theatre Center from 1975 to 1979, and from 1979 untilhe died he was professor of drama and head of the graduate directing department at the University ofCalifornia, San Diego. Schneider suddenly died in 1984 when he was struck and killed by a motorcyclein London. He had just mailed a letter to Samuel Beckett.

Sources


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"Register of Alan Schneider Papers – MSS 103." Mandeville Special Collections Library University ofCalifornia, San Diego. http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0103a.html

Scope and Contents

The Samuel Beckett collection at the John J. Burns Library comprises seven distinct collections ofBeckett-related material including manuscripts and typescripts by Beckett, correspondence with Beckett,ephemera, photographs, and publications by and about Beckett.

The Samuel Beckett-Calvin Israel collection is primarily Beckett manuscripts and publications, but alsoincludes theater programs, audiovisual material, and ephemera spanning 1929 to 1981.

The Samuel Beckett-Robert Pinget letters document the friendship between Beckett and Pinget anddemonstrate Beckett's support for Pinget's literary career. Both authors worked with the publisherJerome Linden at Editions de Minuit and each translated a work written by the other – Pinget convertingBeckett's All That Fall into French and Beckett translating Pinget's La Manivelle into English. Theseand other business-related matters are well documented in the letters. There are also many letters of anexclusively personal nature.

The Samuel Beckett-Barney Rosset collection includes manuscripts representing three decades ofBeckett's writing, annotated copies of plays, stories, and other works, letters and cards from Beckett toRosset discussing the author's life and work, and Grove Press business and financial records relating toBeckett's career. Included is a manuscript of the early, unpublished play Eleutheria written in French.The focus of the correspondence is primarily business and publishing aspects of the literary world;however, as their friendship developed, the correspondence became increasingly personal.

The Judith Schmidt Douw collection of Samuel Beckett letters and Judith Schmidt Douw Letters togetherdocument a correspondence between Beckett and Judith Schmidt (later Schmidt Douw) from 1956 to1984. The letters deal with professional matters relating to Grove Press and Beckett's works and alsoconcern the personal relationship between Beckett and Schmidt Douw.

The Alan Schneider-Samuel Beckett collection is primarily composed of correspondence betweenAmerican stage director Alan Schneider and Samuel Beckett, with some additional correspondencebetween Schneider, Thornton Wilder, and others; also included are manuscripts and other materialrelating to Beckett's Film and a translation of Waiting for Godot by Thornton Wilder.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in seven series: I. Samuel Beckett - Calvin Israel collection; II. SamuelBeckett - Robert Pinget collection; III. Samuel Beckett - Barney Rosset collection; IV. Judith Schmidt


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Douw collection of Samuel Beckett letters; V. Samuel Beckett - Judith Schmidt Douw collection; VI.Alan Schneider - Samuel Beckett collection; VII. Other Beckett-related material.


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Collection Inventory

Series I: Samuel Beckett - Calvin Israel collection, 1929-1981

Scope and Contents

The Samuel Beckett - Calvin Israel collection is primarily Beckett manuscripts and publications, but also includestheater programs, audiovisual material, and ephemera spanning 1929 to 1981. Material is arranged in six subseries:A. Manuscripts; B. Publications; C. Theater programs; D. Audiovisual materials; E. Ephemera and miscellaneous; F.Photocopies.

Subseries A: Manuscripts, 1930-1979

Scope and Contents

This subseries includes Beckett manuscripts and typescripts. The manuscripts are in English, French, and German.The typescripts include two playscripts. Manuscripts are arranged alphabetically; typescripts are arranged as asecond alphabetical sort.

"All That Fall", undated box 11 folder 1

"Company", 1979 box 11 folder 2

"Dread Nay", 1974 January 31 box 11 folder 3

"Hors Crâne", 1974 January 1 box 11 folder 4

"Neither", 1976 box 11 folder 5

"Pour Finir Encore", 1969 box 11 folder 6

"Radio Play No. 1", 1976 August 31 box 11 folder 7

"Solo", undated box 11 folder 8

"Suite", 1946 box 11 folder 9

Unidentified, undated box 11 folder 10

"Abandonné", undated box 11 folder 11

"Alba", 1935 box 11 folder 12

"All Strange Away", 1976 box 11 folder 13-14

"As the Story was Told", 1973 August 18 box 11 folder 15

"Cascando", 1936 box 11 folder 16

"Compagnie", 1979 box 11 folder 17-20

"Company", 1980 box 12 folder 1-4

"Da Tagte Es", undated box 12 folder 5

"Dortmunder", undated box 12 folder 6


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"Dread Nay", 1974 box 12 folder 7

"Echo's Bones", 1935 box 12 folder 8

"Faux Departs" and "Imagination Morte Imaginez", circa 1964 box 12 folder 9

"Foirade", undated box 12 folder 10

"Footfalls," Paris, 1978 June box 12 folder 11

"Happy Days," playscript, circa 1979 box 12 folder 12

"Home Olga", undated box 12 folder 13

"Hors Crâne", circa 1974 box 12 folder 14

"Mercier et Camier", undated box 12 folder 15-21

"Neither", 1976 box 12 folder 22

"Not I", undated box 12 folder 23

"Pas", undated box 12 folder 24

"Radio Play No. 1", circa 1976 box 12 folder 25-28

"Rockaby", 1981 box 13 folder 1

"Sounds", circa 1979 box 13 folder 2

"Still", circa 1979 box 13 folder 3

"That Time," playscript, 1979 box 13 folder 4

"The Vulture", undated box 13 folder 5

"Whoroscope", 1930 box 13 folder 6

Subseries B: Publications, 1938-1981

Scope and Contents

The subseries includes stories, poems, and plays written by Beckett, as well as reviews and essays written aboutBeckett's work. Material is arranged alphabetically with material by Beckett in its own alphabetical sort precedingarticles about him.

Beckett's "Bon Bon Il Est Un Pays" in Avigdor Arikha..., 1959 box 13 folder 7

Beckett's ...but the clouds..., 1977 box 13 folder 8

Beckett's Come and Go published in The Arts and Censorship,1968

box 13 folder 9

Beckett's Company, undated box 13 folder 10-12

Beckett's En Attendant Godot, circa 1953 box 13 folder 13

Beckett's "For Avigdor Arikha in Arikha 39 Ink Drawings, 1972 box 13 folder 14

Beckett's "Kottabista" in Hermanthena, 1973 box 13 folder 15

Beckett's "Long After Chamfort" in The Blue Guitar, 1975


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box 13 folder 16

Beckett's "The Lost Ones" in Fiction, 1972 box 13 folder 17

Beckett's "Roundelay" published in Modern Drama, 1976 box 13 folder 18

Beckett's "¡Uptherepublic!" in Authors Take Sides on theSpanish War, undated

box 13 folder 19

"After Godot the Waiting Was Over" review of Samuel Beckett:A Biography, 1978

box 14 folder 1

"The Beckett Circle" vol. 1 nos. 1 and 2, vol. 2 no.1, 1978-1979 box 14 folder 2

"Beckett's Off-break Had Me Stumped" review in Daily Mail,1977

box 14 folder 3

"Samuel Beckett" by Avigdor Arikha, 1976 box 14 folder 4

"Samuel Beckett: Essai de Bibliographie", undated box 14 folder 5

"Samuel Beckett and the Gnostic Vision of the Created World",1979

box 14 folder 6

"Samuel Beckett, Self-Translator" in PMLA, 1961 box 14 folder 7

"A Callithumpian Life" review of Samuel Beckett: A Biography,1978

box 14 folder 8

"Company Samuel Beckett" review in The American BookReview, 1980

box 14 folder 9

"Dire, c'est inventer" review of Watt in La Quinzaine, 1969 box 14 folder 10

"Happy Birthday, Samuel Beckett" in Reporter, 1981 box 14 folder 11

"Israel and Beckett" in Ramblings Magazine, 1977 box 14 folder 12

"A Landscape of Desolation" review of "Lessness" in RadioTimes, 1971

box 14 folder 13

"The Life of Sim Botchit" review of Samuel Beckett: ABiography in The New York Review of Books, 1978

box 14 folder 14

"The Playwright as Director: Eye to Eye with Samuel Beckett"in Washington Post, 1979

box 14 folder 15

"The Poetry of Samuel Beckett" in PN Review, 1978 box 14 folder 16

"Sculptor Dies; Known for Minimal Art" in Democrat andChronicle, 1980

box 14 folder 17

"The Stark Imagery of Samuel Beckett" in Washington Post,1976

box 14 folder 18

That Time and Footfalls review in The New Yorker, 1970s box 14 folder 19

"Waiting for Beckett was Well Worthwhile" in The ProvidenceJournal, photocopy, 1977 May 18

box 14 folder 20

"A Writer at the Mercy of Memory" review of Company in TheNew York Times Book Review, 1980 November 2

box 14 folder 21


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Sub-Subseries 4: Copies of manuscripts and adaptations, 1978-1983

Scope and Contents

This sub-subseries includes a number of copied Beckett manuscripts and adaptations. These include a five-page copy of the corrected typescript of Company; the preliminary shooting script of Film; a copy of Beckett'snotes on a television adaptation of Krapp's Last Tape; an article examining Beckett's philosophical structure,"Essence: Source of Collision in the Art of Samuel Beckett" by John Lawrence; a nine-page copy of Beckett'scorrected galleys of Not I; a copy of Project I: Three Original Motion Picture Scripts by Samuel Beckett,Eugène Ionesco, and Harold Pinter; the Blue Moon edition of Beckett's Stirrings Still; and an operaticadaptation of Beckett's Watt.

A Samuel Beckett Collection, by Dan Pope, photocopies, 1989 box 43 folder 1

...but the clouds... photocopy from The Collected Short Playsof S. Beckett, undated

box 43 folder 2

Catastrophe two copies, undated, possibly 1980s box 43 folder 3

Company two copies - incomplete with annotation, undated box 43 folder 4

"Untitled Film" copy of preliminary script, undated box 43 folder 5

Film production files and Schneider introduction, typescript,1969-1973

box 43 folder 6

Beckett's notes on Krapp's Last Tape, photocopies, undated box 43 folder 7

John Lawrence "Essence: Source of Collision in the Art ofSamuel Beckett", 1970

box 43 folder 8

Beckett prose, photocopies made 1986, undated box 43 folder 9

Not I excerpt annotated by Beckett, photocopy, undated box 43 folder 10

"Not Many Steps" adaptation and correspondence, 1993 box 44 folder 1

Project I: screenplay by Samuel Beckett, 1963 box 44 folder 2

Project I: screenplay by Eugene Ionesco, undated box 44 folder 3

Project I: screenplay by Harold Pinter, undated box 44 folder 4

A Tribute to Samuel Beckett at the Public Theatre, undated box 44 folder 5

Stirrings Still, illustrations by Louis le Brocquy, undated box 44 folder 6

Unidentified galleys, noted by Prof. Cohn 1996 August 28 box 44 folder 7

Waiting for Godot, Al Diallo's version, undated box 44 folder 8

Watt operatic adaptation, undated box 45 folder 1

"What is the Word" copy, 1989 box 45 folder 2

Transcripts of What Where, Ohio Impromptu and Catastrophe, undated

box 45 folder 3

Film script of A Piece of Monologue, based on work byBeckett, undated

box 45 folder 4


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Ephemera: publisher's flier for Murphy, circa 1938 box 45 folder 5

Subseries C: Theater programs, 1973-1981

Scope and Contents

This subseries includes theatre programs and playbills from Beckett plays staged in the United States, Canada,and Europe, including many playbills from the Royal Court Theatre in London, England, as well as symposiumschedules. This subseries is arranged alphabetically.

"A Beckett Festival", New York University, 1978 box 15 folder 1

"Beckett at the Royal Court Theatre", 1976 box 15 folder 2

"Samuel Beckett Season", Royal Court Theatre, undated box 15 folder 3

"Damals" and "Tritte", Shiller-Theatre Werkstaat, 1976-1977 box 15 folder 4

"En Attendant Godot", Comedie Francaise, 1978 box 15 folder 5

"Endgame", Squat Theatre, undated box 15 folder 6

"The English Stage Society", Royal Court Theatre, undated box 15 folder 7

"Le Festival D'Automne" New York University, 1981 box 15 folder 8

"Happy Days", Royal Court Theatre, undated box 15 folder 9

"A Homage to Samuel Beckett", University of Rhode Island,1977

box 15 folder 10

"Krapp's Last Tape" and " Not I", Royal Court Theatre, 1973 box 15 folder 11

"Nothing Real than Nothing is More Real Than", BeckettSymposium, Ohio State University, 1981 May 7-May 9

box 15 folder 12

"Not I", " Footfalls", " From an Abandonned Work", and " Come and Go", Stratford, Canada, 1978

box 15 folder 13

"Rockaby", State University of New York, Buffalo, undated box 15 folder 14

"Waiting for Godot", The Brooklyn Academy of Music, circa1974-1975

box 15 folder 15

Subseries D: Audiovisual materials, 1967-1976

Scope and Contents

This subseries includes both audiotapes and photographs. There are two radio plays, Cascando and Radio PlayNo. 1., on audiotape and photographs of Beckett, his Paris residence, and stagings of his productions. Audiotapesprecede photographs.

Audio: Cascando, undated box 15 folder 16

Audio: Radio Play No.1, undated box 16 folder 1

Photo: Samuel Beckett, childhood and youth, undated box 16 folder 2

Photos: Samuel Beckett, directing, undated box 16 folder 3


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Photo: Samuel Beckett, head shot, undated box 16 folder 4

6 photos: Samuel Beckett, posed, undated box 16 folder 5

3 photos: Samuel Beckett's Paris residence, undated box 16 folder 6

2 photos: Samuel Beckett with E. Schroder Adham andHerot Bollman Endspeil production at Schiller Theatre, 1967September 26

box 16 folder 7

Photo: Hieronymus Bosch's Christ Mocked photograph andpostcard of painting referred to in Watt, undated

box 16 folder 8

Photo: Patrick Magee in Endgame, 1976 May box 16 folder 9

Photo: Patrick Magee in That Time, 1976 May box 16 folder 10

Photo: Patrick Magee and Stephen Rea in Endgame, 1976 box 16 folder 11

Photo: Stephen Rea in Endgame, 1976 May box 16 folder 12

Photo: Waiting for Godot production, 1961 June 15 box 16 folder 13

Photo: Billie Whitelaw in Footfalls, 1976 May box 16 folder 14

3 photos: Unidentified display, undated box 16 folder 15

3 photos: Unidentified production, undated box 16 folder 16

Subseries E: Ephemera and miscellaneous, 1957-1979

Scope and Contents

This subseries includes two letters by Samuel Beckett, book and play promotions, notes for a production of aBeckett play, copies of artwork for Beckett plays, and a U.S. first day cover Paul Laurence Dunbar stamp on anenvelope signed by Beckett.

Beckett to Israel, photocopy and transcription, Paris, 1976February 11

box 17 folder 1

Beckett to Geneseo University, photocopy and resume ofStanley Gontarski, Paris, 1979 June 21

box 17 folder 2

Letter: OSU to Samuel Beckett Society, 1981 December 11 box 17 folder 3

Letter: Reid to Beckett, 1978 May 6 box 17 folder 4

Order Form: Australasian Society for Beckett Studies, circa1981

box 17 folder 5

Promotion: Samuel Beckett books, undated box 17 folder 6

Promotion: "Drunken Boat", undated box 17 folder 7

Promotion: Evergreen Books Review, 1959 box 17 folder 8

Promotion: Films for Humanities, Inc., 1979 box 17 folder 9

Promotion: prospectus of Fizzles, 1976 box 17 folder 10

Promotion: theatre workbooks, undated box 17 folder 11


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Promotion: "Three Plays by Samuel Beckett", undated box 17 folder 12

Promotion: "Whoroscope", 1957 box 17 folder 13

Notes: "Eleutheria," photocopy, 1978 box 17 folder 14

Sketch by Jocelyn Herbert of Patrick Magee's costume for worldpremier at Royal Court Theatre London, copy, 1958

box 17 folder 15

"In Memoriam: J.F.K.", 1964 box 17 folder 16

"James Joyce in Zurich", photocopy, and note from Leo Daly toIsrael, 1979

box 17 folder 17

Journal of Beckett Studies title page and table of contents,photocopy, 1978

box 17 folder 18

Notes for Krapp's Last Tape at Schiller Theatre, photocopy,1969

box 17 folder 19

Smithsonian Magazine, 1979 box 17 folder 20

Uncashed check from Aileen MacGowran, 1978 box 17 folder 21

U.S. first day cover of Paul Lawrence Dunbar stamp withBeckett signature, 1975

box 17 folder 22

Subseries F: Photocopies, 1932-1979

Scope and Contents

This subseries consists of photocopies of Beckett manuscripts and typescripts, many of which were presumablymade by Samuel Beckett, some are signed and/or annotated by Beckett.

"All Strange Away", 1976 box 18 folder 1

"Bon Bon Il Est Un Pays", 1930s box 18 folder 2

Company, 1979 box 18 folder 3

"Drunken Boat", 1932 box 18 folder 4

Fizzles, circa 1970 box 18 folder 5

Human Wishes, circa 1930 box 18 folder 6

Mercier et Camier, 1978 June box 18 folder 7

Murphy, 1936 box 18 folder 8-10

"Pas", undated box 18 folder 11

"Still", 1973 June 29 box 18 folder 12

"Whoroscope", undated box 18 folder 13

Jean Du Chas, undated box 18 folder 14

Footfalls, 1976 box 18 folder 15

"Imagine Si Ceci" in Hand and Eye, 1977 box 18 folder 16-17


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Eleutheria, 1947 box 19 folder 1

En Attendant Godot, undated box 19 folder 2

Play, undated box 19 folder 3

"Premier Amour", undated box 19 folder 4

"Le Voyage de Mercier et Camier" manuscript, 1946 July 5 box 20 folder 1

Poster of Happy Days at Royal Court Theatre, 1979 June 5-June10

box 20 folder 2

Series II: Samuel Beckett - Robert Pinget letters, 1956-1984

Scope and Contents

The series consists of letters by Samuel Beckett to Robert Pinget, both handwritten and typed, mainly in French. Thecorrespondence documents both their friendship and professional relationship.

Beckett to Pinget, Paris Editions de Minuit, 1953 December 5 box 1 folder 1

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1955 July 9 box 1 folder 2

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1955 July 14 box 1 folder 3

Beckett to Pinget, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1955 September 20 box 1 folder 4

Beckett to Pinget, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1955 September 28 box 1 folder 5

Beckett to Pinget, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1955 December 14 box 1 folder 6

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1956 January 3 box 1 folder 7

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1956 March 8 box 1 folder 8

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1956 March 19 box 1 folder 9

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1956 March 29 box 1 folder 10

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1956 April 4 box 1 folder 11

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, undated box 1 folder 12

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1956 May 24 box 1 folder 13

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1956 May 28 box 1 folder 14

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1956 September 23 box 1 folder 15

Beckett to Pinget, undated box 1 folder 16

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1956 November 23 box 1 folder 17

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1956 December 9 box 1 folder 18

Beckett to Pinget, 1957 February 12 box 1 folder 19

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1958 April 2 box 1 folder 20

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1958 September 3 box 1 folder 21


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Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1959 June 18 box 1 folder 22

Beckett to Pinget, 1959 June 18 box 1 folder 23

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1959 June 19 box 1 folder 24

Beckett to Pinget, Sorrento, Italy, 1959 September 14 box 1 folder 25

Beckett to Kenneth Tynan, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1959November 20

box 1 folder 26

Beckett to Herbert Berghof, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1959November 20

box 1 folder 27

Beckett to Mrs. Mark Howe, Paris, 1959 November 20 box 1 folder 28

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1959 November 30 box 1 folder 29

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1959 December 13 box 1 folder 30

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1959 December 21 box 1 folder 31

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1960 January 14 box 1 folder 32

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1960 February 6 box 1 folder 33

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1960 February 16 box 1 folder 34

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1960 April 2 box 1 folder 35

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1960 May 20 box 1 folder 36

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1960 August 11 box 1 folder 37

Beckett to Pinget, 1961 February 3 box 1 folder 38

Beckett to Pinget, Folkestone, Kent, 1961 March 14 box 1 folder 39

Beckett to Pinget, Dover, 1961 March 23 box 1 folder 40

Beckett to Pinget, Godalming, Surrey, 1961 June 20 box 1 folder 41

Beckett to Pinget, Etretat, 1961 August 21 box 1 folder 42


Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1962 April 15 box 1 folder 44

Beckett to Pinget, London, 1962 October 26 box 1 folder 45

Beckett to Pinget, Zell Am See, Austria, 1963 June 21 box 2 folder 1

Beckett to Pinget, Zell Am See, Austria, 1963 July 10 box 2 folder 2



Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1964 August 9 box 2 folder 5


Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1964 October 3 box 2 folder 7


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Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1964 October 20 box 2 folder 8

Beckett to Pinget, London, 1964 December 25 box 2 folder 9

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1965 August 5 box 2 folder 10

Beckett to Pinget, Stuttgart, 1966 March 26 box 2 folder 11

Beckett to Pinget, Ussy, 1966 May 24 box 2 folder 12

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1966 July 16 box 2 folder 13

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1966 September 4 box 2 folder 14



Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1967 January 25 box 2 folder 17

Beckett to Pinget, 1968 July 5 box 2 folder 18

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1968 July 19 box 2 folder 19

Beckett to Pinget, 1968 August 9 box 2 folder 20

Beckett to Pinget, Porto Santo, 1969 January 1 box 2 folder 21

Beckett to Pinget, Porto Santo, 1969 January 8 box 2 folder 22

Beckett to Pinget, Porto Santo, 1969 February 7 box 2 folder 23



Beckett to Pinget, Arião, 1970 January 4 box 2 folder 26

Beckett to Pinget, Alghero, 1970 May 30 box 2 folder 27



Beckett to Pinget, Paris (mis-dated by Beckett as September 18;postmark and Emory University research suggest September 16),1973 September 16

box 2 folder 30



Beckett to Pinget, Tangier, 1977 April 27 box 2 folder 33

Beckett to Pinget, Stuttgart, 1977 June 4 box 2 folder 34

Beckett to Pinget, Stuttgart, 1977 June 13 box 2 folder 35

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1980 October 30 box 2 folder 36

Beckett to Pinget, Seine et Marne, 1981 March 21 box 2 folder 37

Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1987 June 20 box 2 folder 38


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Beckett to Pinget, Paris, 1988 June 9 box 2 folder 39


Notes, undated box 2 folder 41

Notes, undated box 2 folder 42

Beckett to Pinget, envelope only, La Ferte sous Jouarre, 1967February 23

box 2 folder 43

Beckett to Pinget, envelope only, Paris, 1964 March 4 box 2 folder 44

Note, undated box 2 folder 45

Series III: Samuel Beckett - Barney Rosset collection, 1954-1993

Scope and Contents

The Samuel Beckett - Barney Rosset collection includes manuscripts representing three decades of Beckett'swriting, annotated copies of plays, stories, and other works, letters and cards from Beckett to Rosset discussingthe author's life and work, and Grove Press business and financial records relating to Beckett's career. The series isarranged in four subseries: A. Manuscripts; B. Correspondence; C. Barney Rosset Grove Press files; D. Oversizedmaterials.

Subseries A: Manuscripts, 1954-1982

Scope and Contents

The subseries is comprised of Beckett manuscripts. Included are plays, notably the early, unpublished Eleutheria(1915), as well as later works, Quad (1981) and Nacht und Traume (1982). There are also galley proofs fromthe Grove Press edition of Rockaby and Other Short Pieces (1981), Beckett's translations of "The Calamative"from Nouvelles et textes pour rien and "In The Train with Mr. Madden" from Mercier et Camier. Most of themanuscripts contain corrections made by Beckett and some have notes from Beckett to Barney Rosset.

"The Calamative," typescript, 1954 box 21 folder 1

"Eleutheria" carbon typescript (cover, description, and 133numbered pages), 1951

box 21 folder 2-15

box 21 folder 16"Eleutheria" thermofax copy with Beckett's corrections (133pages), undated

box 22 folder 1-13

"In the Train with Mr. Madden", original typescript and 1postcard, Paris, 1973 April 19-23

box 22 folder 14

"Nacht und Traume" original 2-page typescript with Beckett'scorrections and photocopy, 1982

box 22 folder 15

"Quad" original 3-page typescript and postcard, Paris, 1981September 5

box 22 folder 16

"Rockaby" and other short pieces, Grove Press file with notes bytypesetter, undated

box 23 folder 1-4

"Rockaby" and other short pieces, 31 pages of galleys withcorrections by Rosset, undated

box 23 folder 5-8


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Subseries B: Correspondence, 1956-1989

Scope and Contents

This subseries consists of letters and postcards to Rosset. The focus is primarily business and publishing aspects ofthe literary world; however, later letters are increasingly personal.

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, 1956 May 26 box 23 folder 9

Envelope, Paris, 1956 June 14 box 23 folder 10

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1956 July 8 box 23 folder 11

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1956 August 1 box 23 folder 12

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1956December 1

box 23 folder 13

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1957January 11

box 23 folder 14

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1957 March 20 box 23 folder 15

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1957 April 6 box 23 folder 16

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1958January 1

box 23 folder 17

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1958 January 9 box 23 folder 18

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, no yearFebruary 8

box 23 folder 19

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Ussy, 1958 November 20 box 24 folder 1

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1958 November 23 box 24 folder 2

1 card, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, undated box 24 folder 3

1 letter and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1969 May 22 box 24 folder 4

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1969 May 28 box 24 folder 5

1 card, Beckett to Rosset, 1970 November 30 box 24 folder 6

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, telegram, Ussy, 1972 June 30 box 24 folder 7

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Ussy, 1972 August 7 box 24 folder 8

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1972 November 5 box 24 folder 9

1 letter, Arlene Donovan to Rosset, New York, 1973 January 17 box 24 folder 10

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Ussy, 1973 February 13 box 24 folder 11

1 card, Beckett to Rosset, Morocco, 1973 March 21 box 24 folder 12

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1973 April 11 box 24 folder 13

1 card, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1973 June 26 box 24 folder 14


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1 letter and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, 1973 July 4 box 24 folder 15

1 letter, Estelle Parsons to Beckett, 1973 July 4 box 24 folder 16

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1973 July 11 box 24 folder 17

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1971 December 8 box 24 folder 18

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Ussy, 1974 February 10 box 24 folder 19

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Tangier, 1974 April 9 box 24 folder 20


1 card, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1974 April 22 box 24 folder 22

1 card, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1974 May 1 box 24 folder 23

1 card, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1974 June 7 box 24 folder 24

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1974 July 3 box 24 folder 25

1 postcard and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1974December 23

box 24 folder 26

1 letter and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Berlin, 1975 January 24 box 24 folder 27

1 postcard and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Berlin, 1975February 5

box 24 folder 28

1 card, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1975 March 13 box 24 folder 29

1 letter, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1975 April 8 box 24 folder 30


1 card, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1975 December 9 box 24 folder 32


1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1976 June 29 box 24 folder 34

1 letter from Ugo Baldassari, with notes by Beckett, New York,1976 December 27

box 24 folder 35

1 letter to Beckett with notes by Beckett, 1977 January 3 box 24 folder 36

1 letter, Paul Vangelisti to Beckett, California, 1977 January 9 box 24 folder 37

1 letter, Stephen Anthony to Beckett, with notes by Beckett,1977 February 15

box 24 folder 38

1 letter and envelope, K.D. Rowe to Beckett with note byBeckett, Arizona, 1977 February 23

box 24 folder 39

1 letter and envelope, K. Campbell to Beckett with note byBeckett to Rosset, New York; plus copy of card with Beckett'sreply to Campbell, Paris, 1977 March 16, 1977 March 24

box 24 folder 40


1 letter to Beckett with note by Beckett, New York, 1977November 14

box 24 folder 42


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Envelope, Paris, 1977 November 21 box 24 folder 43

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1977 December27

box 25 folder 1

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1978 February 15 box 25 folder 2

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1978 March 28 box 25 folder 3


1 card, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1978 October 12 box 25 folder 5

1 card, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1978 November 28 box 25 folder 6

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1979 January 30 box 25 folder 8

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, 1980 April 20 box 25 folder 9

1 postcard, Beckett to Rosset, 1981 July 30 box 25 folder 10

1 telegram, Rosset to Beckett, before 1981 September 3 box 25 folder 7

1 telegram, Beckett to Rosset, 1981 September 3 box 25 folder 7

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Ussy, 1981 November 4 box 25 folder 11

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1981 November19

box 25 folder 12

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Ussy, 1981 December 2 box 25 folder 13

1 letter forwarded to Rosset with notes by Beckett, 1982February 20

box 25 folder 14



1 card and envelope, Beckett to Simmen, Paris, 1982 September27

box 25 folder 17



box 25 folder 19


1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1983 August 27 box 25 folder 21

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1983 September14

box 25 folder 22

1 postcard and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1984 May 14 box 25 folder 23


Contract, New York, 1985 February box 25 folder 25


Beckett and Kane correspondence, 1985 June


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box 25 folder 27

1 card and envelope Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1985 November 21 box 25 folder 28




1 postcard and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, 1986 April 28 box 25 folder 32

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Ussy, 1986 December19

box 25 folder 33


1 card, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1987 March 30 box 26 folder 1

1 card, Beckett to Rosset, 1987 October 17 box 26 folder 2

1 letter to C. Lake, Paris, 1987 October 22 box 26 folder 3

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1987 November 2 box 26 folder 4

1 postcard and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1988 April 12 box 26 folder 5

1 postcard and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, 1988 May 16 box 26 folder 6

1 telegram, Beckett to Rosset, 1988 September 21 box 26 folder 7


1 letter and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1988 November8

box 26 folder 9

1 letter and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1988 November19

box 26 folder 10

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1988 November28

box 26 folder 11

1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1988 December 1 box 26 folder 12


box 26 folder 13


1 card and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1989 March 28 box 26 folder 15

1 postcard and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1989 July 14 box 26 folder 16

1 postcard and envelope, Beckett to Rosset, 1989 July 29 box 26 folder 17

Subseries C: Barney Rosset Grove Press files, 1954-1993

Scope and Contents

The subseries consists of Rosset's business files from Grove Press. The files range from requests for productionrights with Grove Press's responses, to the royalty statements listing the earnings of each production. Also foundin the files are copies of Beckett manuscripts and adaptations of his work. The subseries is arranged in four sub-


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subseries: 1. Requests and agreements; 2. Subject files; 3. Royalty statements; 4. Copies of manuscripts andadaptations.

Sub-Subseries 1: Requests and agreements, 1954-1992

Scope and Contents

This sub-subseries consists of requests to perform or use specific Beckett pieces, Grove Press responses, and allcontracts and agreements. The contracts signed by Beckett cover the period 1961-1975, and the agreements withGrove Press date from 1954-1992. Photocopies of notes written by Beckett appear throughout the files.

Act Without Words, 1988-1990 box 26 folder 18-19

All That Fall, 1990 box 26 folder 20

BBC, 1991 box 26 folder 21

Contract, signed: Act Without Words, 1961 June 21 box 26 folder 22

Contract, signed: Krapp's Last Tape, 1961 box 26 folder 23

Contract, signed, with Samuel French, 1964 box 26 folder 24

Contract, signed: Not I etc., 1972 August 23 box 26 folder 25

Contract, signed: Not I etc., 1972 August 23 box 26 folder 26

Contract, signed: Breath, 1974 March 27 box 26 folder 27

Contract, signed: Breath, 1974 March 11 box 26 folder 28

Contract, signed: Not I, 1975 August 14 box 26 folder 29

Contract, signed: Not I, 1975 box 26 folder 30

Postcard, Paris, 1984 January 15 box 26 folder 31

Memo and letters to Beckett, 1985 January 22-1985 March 16 box 26 folder 32

Letter to Grove Press annotated by Beckett, 1985 March 3 box 26 folder 33

Letter Beckett to Rosset, 1986 February 1 box 26 folder 34

Card Beckett to Rosset, Paris, 1987 February 26 box 26 folder 35

Letter Beckett to Grosse, Paris, 1988 November 26 box 26 folder 36

Beckett Festival correspondence: performance requests,reviews and letters from Hume Cronyn and Alan Schneider toRosset, 1972-1973

box 26 folder 37

Beckett Festival correspondence: performance requests,reviews and letters from Hume Cronyn and Alan Schneider toRosset, 1972-1974

box 27 folder 1

Beckett other permissions, 1986-1988 box 27 folder 2

Beckett production requests, 1988 box 27 folder 3

Beckett other permissions, 1989 box 27 folder 4


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Beckett productions, 1989-1990 box 27 folder 5

Beckett rights listings, 1990, undated box 27 folder 6

Beckett television rights Rubicon Pictures, undated box 27 folder 7

Beckett Theatre, 1990-1992 box 27 folder 8

Kim's requests for permission to use Beckett material formusical compositions, 1960-1992

box 27 folder 9

Krapp's Last Tape production correspondence, 1986-1988 box 28 folder 1

Beckett production requests and other permissions, 1990 box 28 folder 2

Beckett requests, announcements, reviews, 1990 box 28 folder 3

Beckett production requests and other permissions, 1993 box 28 folder 4

Beckett other permissions - Beginning to End, 1986-1990 box 28 folder 5

Beckett permissions correspondence - Georges Borchardt,1981-1988

box 28 folder 6

Beckett permissions correspondence - Georges Borchardt,1981-1983

box 28 folder 7

Beckett-Rosset correspondence, handwritten annotations,1981

box 28 folder 8

"Brief Dream" permission, 1990 box 28 folder 9

Footfalls and Rockaby rights request and annotation byBeckett, undated

box 28 folder 10

Beckett permissions correspondence - Curtis Brown, London,1985-1988

box 28 folder 11

Beckett permissions - ...but the clouds..., 1990 box 29 folder 1

Beckett production permissions, 1990-1991 box 29 folder 2

Beckett permissions - Catastrophe, 1982-1988 box 29 folder 3

Beckett permissions - Catastrophe, 1990-1991 box 29 folder 4

Beckett permissions - Company, 1984-1985 box 29 folder 5

Beckett permissions - Company, 1988-1990 box 29 folder 6

Permissions licensing correspondence: Grove, Curtis Brown,Dramatist Play Service, 1984-1993

box 29 folder 7

Beckett permissions Eh, Joe, 1989 April 6 and September 21 box 29 folder 8

Beckett other permissions, 1990 box 29 folder 9

Beckett permissions "Enneg II", 1987 box 29 folder 10

Film contracts, 1966-1981 box 29 folder 11

Film Horizon Film Productions, 1991 box 29 folder 12


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Film New York Public Library, 1990 box 29 folder 13

Film television, video and outside sales, 1970-1987 box 29 folder 14

Film, 1969, 1986-1990 box 30 folder 1

Film, 1991 box 30 folder 2

Film, 1992-1993 box 30 folder 3

Beckett permissions "First Love", 1991 box 30 folder 4

Beckett permissions "Foirades/Fizzles", 1986-1990 box 30 folder 5

Foreign rights / foreign agents, 1982-1987 box 30 folder 6

Samuel French, Inc. agreement, photocopy, 1971 box 30 folder 7

Samuel French, Inc. permissions and agreements, 1958-1981 box 30 folder 8

Samuel French, Inc. permissions and agreements, 1972-1973 box 31 folder 1

Samuel French, Inc. rights requests and licensing, 1971,1980-1985

box 31 folder 2

Samuel French, Inc. rights requests and licensing, 1984-1986 box 31 folder 3

Samuel French, Inc. correspondence, 1984-1985 box 31 folder 4

Samuel French, Inc. correspondence, 1987 box 31 folder 5

Rosset-Kahan correspondence, 1988 box 32 folder 1

Samuel French, Inc. correspondence, 1990-1991 box 32 folder 2

Photocopied reviews, annotated, 1969-1973 box 32 folder 3

Samuel French, Inc., including copies of notes by Beckett,1982-1986

box 32 folder 4

Samuel French, Inc., 1990-1993 box 32 folder 5

Grove Press/Beckett agreements, 1954-1985 box 32 folder 6

Grove Press/Beckett agreements, 1953-1984 box 32 folder 7

Grove Press/Beckett agreements, 1957-1984 box 33 folder 1-2

Grove Press/Beckett agreements: translations, 1957-1984,1992

box 33 folder 3

Grove Press/Beckett agreements: copyright, 1963-1985 box 33 folder 4

Grove Press correspondence, 1992 box 33 folder 5

Happy Days requests and agreements, 1987-1990 box 34 folder 1

Materials associated with Happy Days, Krapp's Last Tape,1985-1988

box 34 folder 2

Lifton-Rosset correspondence, 1985-1986 box 34 folder 3

"Imagination Dead Imagine" correspondence, 1986-1988 box 34 folder 4


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I'll Go On correspondence, 1989 box 34 folder 5

Linden-Rosset correspondence, 1989-1991 box 34 folder 6

Beckett agreements: Krapp's Last Tape, undated box 34 folder 7

Beckett agreements: Krapp's Last Tape, 1986-1993 box 34 folder 8-9

Beckett agreements: Krapp's Last Tape, 1989-1991 box 35 folder 1

Beckett agreements: Not I, undated box 35 folder 2

Beckett agreements: Ohio Impromptu, undated box 35 folder 3

Beckett agreements: A Piece of Monologue, undated box 35 folder 4

Beckett agreements: Rough for Radio I, undated box 35 folder 5

Beckett agreements: "Roundelay", copy of note Beckett-Dodge, 1985 May 3

box 35 folder 6

Beckett agreements: "Stories and Text for Nothing (VII)",undated

box 35 folder 7

Beckett agreements: Stirrings Still, 1990 box 35 folder 8

Beckett agreements: Teleplays and radio plays, undated box 35 folder 9

Video requests and royalty discussions, 1980-1990 box 35 folder 10

Beckett agreements: Waiting for Godot, 1974 box 35 folder 11

Waiting for Godot agreement templates, 1956, undated box 35 folder 12

Waiting for Godot, 1980-1985 box 35 folder 13




Waiting for Godot, 1993 box 36 folder 3

How It Is agreement, 1973 box 36 folder 4

What Where, 1988-1993 box 36 folder 5

Rubicon Pictures correspondence, 1992 box 36 folder 6

Sub-Subseries 2: Subject files, 1956-1989

Scope and Contents

This sub-subseries includes reviews of performances and articles about Beckett; photographs of Beckett;booklets, ephemera, and playbills; Grove Press inventory listing (1987); letters to Rosset and Beckett fromdirectors, writers, and actors including Hume Cronyn, Israel Horowitz, Alan Schneider, Robert Brustein, SteveMartin, and Peter O'Toole; programs and announcements of Beckett Festivals and Conferences; and informationon specific productions, such as Robert Brustein's American Repertory Theatre's Endgame (1984) and the San


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Quentin production of Waiting for Godot (1987). Photocopies of short notes written by Beckett often appear inthe files.

Arrangement

Alphabetical by subject.

Beckett Colloquium, New York, 1986 April 12 box 36 folder 7

Beckett festivals, undated box 36 folder 8

Beckett photograph, Bob Alder, undated box 36 folder 9

Beckett photographs and negatives, undated box 36 folder 10

Beckett programs and articles, undated box 37 folder 1

Beckett Scholars and Associates/Centre Pompidou, 1986 April28

box 37 folder 2

Beckett Society, undated box 37 folder 3

Beckett translations and additions, undated box 37 folder 4

Bishop, Tom/Paris Beckett Festival, undated box 37 folder 5

Brown, Andreas/Gotham, undated box 37 folder 6

Calder, John, undated box 37 folder 7

Cascando, undated box 37 folder 8

Cataloguing in progress, Library of Congress, 1990 box 37 folder 9

Common Wealth Award, given to Beckett, 1987 box 37 folder 10

Rosset correspondence, 1988 box 37 folder 11

Beckett announcements, undated box 37 folder 12

Correspondence Beckett-Rosset, annotated copies, for Rosset'stalk in Amsterdam, 1953-1958, 1977

box 37 folder 13

Correspondence, annotated copies by Rosset, selected for1990 "Beckett's Words", 1990

box 37 folder 14

Excerpts from Beckett letters, found at University of TexasAustin, 1935-1938

box 38 folder 1

Grove Press correspondence, undated box 38 folder 2

Wylie-Rosset correspondence, etc., 1992 box 38 folder 3

Correspondence, copies, re: female Godot, 1988 box 38 folder 4

Theatre notes corrected, 1985-1986 box 38 folder 5

Endgame American Repertory Theater controversy, assortedmaterials

box 38 folder 6-7

Endgame American Repertory Theater production, undated box 38 folder 8-11


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Endgame German production, undated box 38 folder 12

Grove Press/Beckett inventory, 1987 box 47 folder 1

The Hague Beckett Festival, 1992 box 39 folder 1

Happy Days newspaper reviews, undated box 39 folder 2

Knowlson, Jim re: biography, undated box 39 folder 3

McGovern, Barry, undated box 39 folder 4

New School Symposium, 1986 April 12 box 39 folder 5

Obituaries, undated box 39 folder 6

Periodical clippings, 1971-1989 box 39 folder 7-8

Periodical clippings, 1990-1991 box 40 folder 1-2

Periodical clippings, 1992 box 40 folder 3

Radio plays, 1986-1987 box 40 folder 4

Rockaby related materials, 1980-1990 box 40 folder 5

Rosset trip to Paris and correspondence, 1970-1971 box 40 folder 6

Stories and Texts for Nothing reviews, 1992 box 40 folder 7

Theatre programs and reviews, 1986-1988 box 40 folder 8

Assorted magazines on Beckett, circa 1990 box 40 folder 9

Waiting for Godot, Beaumont Theatre and Lincoln Center,reviews and magazines, 1988

box 40 folder 10

Waiting for Godot, Lincoln Center, ticket sales and requests,1988

box 41 folder 1

Waiting for Godot, Lincoln Center, house seat orders, 1988 box 41 folder 2

Waiting for Godot, Lincoln Center, rights and correspondence,1988

box 41 folder 3

Waiting for Godot news clipping, 1956 box 41 folder 4

Waiting for Godot, San Quentin Prison production, 1987-1988 box 41 folder 5

Waiting for Godot 20th Anniversary program, 1977 box 41 folder 6

Sub-Subseries 3: Royalty statements, 1984-1993, undated

Scope and Contents

This sub-subseries contains exhaustive financial material including all royalty statements, original accountingforms, and flow sheets from Chase Manhattan Bank, Dramatist PlayService Inc., Lincoln Center, and especiallySamuel French, Inc.


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Arrangement

Alphabetical

box 42 folder 1Chase Manhattan, 1987

box 46 folder 1

Dramatists Play Service royalties, 1992 box 42 folder 2

Happy Days royalties, 1987 box 42 folder 3

Lincoln Center, undated box 42 folder 4

Payments, 1990-1992 box 47 folder 2

Report, 1991 box 47 folder 3

Royalties statements, 1986-1989 box 46 folder 4-5

Samuel French, Inc. royalties, 1987-1989 box 46 folder 2

Samuel French, Inc. royalties, 1992 box 46 folder 3

Statements, 1984-1987 box 42 folder 5

box 42 folder 6Statements, 1988-1989

box 47 folder 5

box 42 folder 7Statements, 1990-1993

box 47 folder 6

box 42 folder 8-9Theatre payments, undated

box 47 folder 4

Subseries D: Posters, circa 1953-1988

Scope and Contents

This subseries consists of items related to publicity for Beckett's plays and events honoring Beckett. It includesposters for Waiting for Godot in multiple languages.

Arrangement

Chronological

En Attendant Godot ( Waiting for Godot), Theatre Babyloneand Theatre-Hebertot, Paris; and Criterion Theatre, London,after 1953 January

box 56

Fin de Partie ( Endgame), Schlosspark Theater and Le Theatredu Studio des Champs-Elysees, after 1956

box 56

Film film festival posters, 1965-1966 box 55

Hirschfeld 'Waiting for Godot' Prints, 1969 May box 57

Ohio Impromptu poster and playwriting award, 1981-1984 box 55


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Tribute events honoring Beckett's 75th and 80th birthdays, 1981,1986

box 55

Waiting for Godot, Lincoln Center Theater, 1988 box 55

Series IV: Judith Schmidt Douw collection of Samuel Beckett letters, 1956-1984

Paris, 1956 December 13 box 48 folder 1

Paris, 1957 September 18 box 48 folder 2

Paris, 1957 October 29 box 48 folder 3


Paris, 1959 June 11 box 48 folder 5

Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1959 December 18 box 48 folder 6

Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1960 May 13 box 48 folder 7

Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1960 June 7 box 48 folder 8


Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1960 July 20 box 48 folder 10

Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1960 September 21 box 48 folder 11

Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1960 October 26 box 48 folder 12

Paris (mis-dated by Beckett as March 3; Emory research showsthat Beckett returned to Paris from more than a month of travel onApril 3), 1961 April 3

box 48 folder 13

Paris, 1961 March 9 box 48 folder 14

Folkstone, 1961 March 14 box 48 folder 15


Paris, 1961 April 17 box 48 folder 17


Paris, 1961 May 2 box 48 folder 19



Paris, 1961 August 30 box 48 folder 23


Paris, 1961 November 20 box 48 folder 25

Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1962 box 48 folder 26




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Paris, 1964 February 25 box 48 folder 36


London, 1964 July 8 box 48 folder 38



Ussy-Sur-Marne, 2 copies included, 1964 August 17 box 48 folder 41

Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1964 September 8 box 48 folder 42


Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1964 October 7 box 48 folder 44

Paris, with envelope, 1964 December 7 box 48 folder 45

London, 1964 December box 48 folder 46

Paris, 1965 January 1 box 48 folder 47


Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1965 January 17 box 48 folder 49


Berlin, 1965 February 14 box 48 folder 51


Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1965 April 27 box 48 folder 53




Paris, 1965 July 17 box 48 folder 57

Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1965 August 16 box 49 folder 1

Ussy-Sur-Marne, with envelope, 1965 August 31 box 49 folder 2

Ussy-Sur-Marne, with envelope, 1965 September 8 box 49 folder 3


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Ussy-Sur-Marne, with envelope, 1965 September 9 box 49 folder 4


Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1965 November 30 box 49 folder 6


Santa Margherita Ligore, Italy, 1966 March 11 box 49 folder 8





Courmareur, Italy, 1966 July 1 box 49 folder 13




Paris, with envelope, 1967 February 4 box 49 folder 17



Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1967 April 21 box 49 folder 20





Berlin, 1967 August 2 box 49 folder 25





No address, 1968 July 13 box 49 folder 30

Written on Schmidt Douw letter, dated 1968 August 12, 1968August 14

box 49 folder 31

Funchal, Madeira, 1968 December 6 box 49 folder 32

Funchal, Madeira, 1968 December 11 box 49 folder 33

Porto Santo, Madeira, 1969 January 7 box 49 folder 34

Porto Santo, Madeira, 1969 January 10


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box 49 folder 35


Telegram, 1969 April 30 box 49 folder 37




Berlin postcard, 1969 September 3 box 49 folder 41

Berlin, 1969 September 17 box 49 folder 42

Nabeul, Tunisia, 1969 December 14 box 49 folder 43

Cascais, Portugal, 1969 December 30 box 49 folder 44

Cascais, Portugal, 1970 January 19 box 49 folder 45




Paris, with envelope, 1970 March 15 box 49 folder 49





Alghero, Italy, postcard, 1970 May 11 box 50 folder 3

Alghero, Italy postcard, 1970 May 22 box 50 folder 4






Paris, after 1970 August 9 box 49 folder 28







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Paris, 1971 July 10 box 50 folder 16

Berlin, 1971 August 27 box 50 folder 17

Paris, telegram, 1971 October 3 box 50 folder 18

Selmun, Malta, postcard, 1971 October 14 box 50 folder 19






Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1973 November 11 box 50 folder 25


Envelope stamped Paris, no letter, 1974 June 4 box 50 folder 27

Ussy-Sur-Marne, 1974 June 27 box 50 folder 28


Paris postcard, 1978 May 16 box 50 folder 29

Paris, with envelope, 1984 June 24 box 50 folder 30

Series V: Samuel Beckett - Judith Schmidt Douw collection

Arrangement

This series is arranged in two subseries: A. Correspondence; B. Photographs.

Subseries A: Correspondence, 1960-1998

Judith Schmidt Douw to Samuel Beckett, 1960-1974, 1984

Typed letter signed , 1960 March 21 box 53 folder 1

Typed letter signed, 1960 March 29 box 53 folder 1

Typed letter signed, 1960 August 3 box 53 folder 1

Typed letter signed, 1960 September 15 box 53 folder 1

Typed letter, 1961 September 25 box 53 folder 2

Typed letter signed, 1961 November 12 box 53 folder 2

Typed letter, 1961 November 30 box 53 folder 2

Typed letter, 1962 February box 53 folder 3


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Typed letter signed, 1962 May 11 box 53 folder 3

Typed letter signed, 1963 October 23 box 53 folder 4

Typed letter signed, 1963 December 3 box 53 folder 4

Typed letter signed, 1964 January 5 box 53 folder 5

Typed letter, 1964 April 1 box 53 folder 5

Typed letter signed, copy, 1964 August 13 box 53 folder 5





Typed letter, 1964 October 19 box 53 folder 5


Typed letter signed, 1964 December 17 box 53 folder 5

Typed letter signed, last part autographed letter signed, 1964December 22

box 53 folder 5

Typed letter, 1965 January 8 and January 11 box 53 folder 6

Typed letter signed, 1965 February 2 box 53 folder 6

Typed letter signed, 1965 February 15 box 53 folder 6

Typed letter signed, 1965 April 22 box 53 folder 6

Typed letter signed, 1965 June 4 box 53 folder 6

Typed letter signed, 1965 July 12 box 53 folder 6




Typed letter signed, copy, 1970 March 11 box 53 folder 8

Typed letter , 1970 April 3 box 53 folder 8

Typed letter signed, and typed letter signed to Hotel Lutece,Paris, 1970 August 18

box 53 folder 8

Typed letter signed, 1972 April 9 box 53 folder 9



Typed letter, 1973 July 28 box 53 folder 10

Typed letter signed, two versions , 1974 May 28 box 53 folder 10


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Between Alan and Jean Schneider and Judith Schmidt Douw, 1962-1973, 1986,1998

Typed letter signed by Alan Schneider to Judith SchmidtDouw, 1962 July 1

box 53 folder 12


box 53 folder 12

Typed letter signed by Alan Schneider to Judith SchmidtDouw, 1964 May 5

box 53 folder 12

Autographed letter signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1964 October 1

box 53 folder 12

Autographed note card signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1965 March 16

box 53 folder 12

Typed letter to Alan Schneider and Jean Schneider by JudithSchmidt Douw, 1965 June 7

box 53 folder 12

Autographed letter signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1965 June 16

box 53 folder 12

Autographed postcard signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1965 June 28

box 53 folder 12

Typed letter signed by Alan Schneider to Judith SchmidtDouw, 1965 November 9

box 53 folder 12

Autographed note card signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1966 May 17

box 53 folder 12

Autographed letter signed by Jean Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1966 June 2

box 53 folder 12

Autographed postcard signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1966 June or July

box 53 folder 12

Autographed note card signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1966 September 26

box 53 folder 12

Autographed note card signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1966 December 8

box 53 folder 12

Autographed note card signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1967 July 6

box 53 folder 13

Autographed letter signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1967 July 25

box 53 folder 13

Typed letter signed by Alan Schneider to Judith SchmidtDouw, 1967 August 25

box 53 folder 13


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Autographed note card signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1967 November 21

box 53 folder 13

Autographed letter signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1968 July 26

box 53 folder 13

Autographed postcard signed Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1968

box 53 folder 13

Autographed postcard signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1968

box 53 folder 13

Autographed letter signed by Jean Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1969 July 14

box 53 folder 13

Autographed letter signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1970 January 24

box 53 folder 13

Autographed postcard signed by Jean Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1970 June 25

box 53 folder 13

Autographed postcard signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1970 July 9

box 53 folder 13

Autographed postcard signed by Alan Schneider and JeanSchneider to Judith Schmidt Douw, 1970 July 18

box 53 folder 13


box 53 folder 13

Autographed postcard signed by Jean Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1971 July 25

box 53 folder 13

Autographed postcard signed by Alan Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1973

box 53 folder 13

Autographed letter signed by Jean Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, 1986 September 11

box 53 folder 14

Autographed card signed by Jean Schneider to Judith SchmidtDouw, 1998 January 12

box 53 folder 14

Autographed card signed by Jean Schneider to Judith SchmidtDouw, undated

box 53 folder 15

Autographed letter signed by Jean Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, undated

box 53 folder 15

Typed note card signed by Jean Schneider to Judith SchmidtDouw, undated

box 53 folder 15

Autographed letter signed by Jean Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, no year December 18

box 53 folder 15

Autographed postcard signed by Jean Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, undated

box 53 folder 15

Autographed letter signed by Jean Schneider to JudithSchmidt Douw, includes a letter to Grace Schneider fromJudith Schmidt Douw on other side, undated

box 53 folder 15


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Between Judith Schmidt Douw and Rudolph Von Abele, 1973-1977

Typed letter to Judith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph Von Abele,1973 July 14

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph VonAbele, 1973 July 18

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to Rudolph VonAbele, 1973 July 20

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph VonAbele, 1973 August 12

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph VonAbele, 1973 October 1

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter by Judith Schmidt Douw to Rudolph Von Abele,1973 October 14

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph VonAbele, 1973 October 19

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to Rudolph VonAbele, 1973 October 31

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph VonAbele, 1973 November 13

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph VonAbele , 1973 December 13

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to RudolphVon Abele, includes unsent rough draft of letter dated 1973November 27, 1973 December 10

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph VonAbele, 1974 January 16

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph VonAbele, 1974 March 11

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter by Judith Schmidt Douw to Rudolph Von Abele,1974 April 14

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph VonAbele, 1974 April 30

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to Rudolph VonAbele, 1974 June 10

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph VonAbele, includes typed letter signed to Samuel Beckett, care ofJudith Schmidt Douw by Rudolph Von Abele, 1976 December8

box 53 folder 16

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to Rudolph VonAbele, 1977 May 3

box 53 folder 16


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Between Judith Schmidt Douw and James Knowlson, 1992-1994

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by JamesKnowlson, with envelope and copy of letter by SamuelBeckett explaining that James Knowlson is to be his officialbiographer, 1989 October 23, 1992 February 5

box 53 folder 17

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to JamesKnowlson, copy, 1992 February 19

box 53 folder 17

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by JamesKnowlson, with envelope , 1993 April 26

box 53 folder 17

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to JamesKnowlson, copy, 1993 May 6

box 53 folder 17

Autographed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by JamesKnowlson, with envelope, 1993 May 30

box 53 folder 17

Typed letter by Judith Schmidt Douw to James Knowlson,copy, 1993 June 6

box 53 folder 17

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by JamesKnowlson, with envelope, 1993 July 5

box 53 folder 17

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to JamesKnowlson, copy, 1993 July 11

box 53 folder 17

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by JamesKnowlson, with envelope, 1993 July 17

box 53 folder 17

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to JamesKnowlson, copy, 1993 August 5

box 53 folder 17

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by JamesKnowlson, with envelope, 1993 August 9

box 53 folder 17

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to JamesKnowlson, copy, 1994 October 3

box 53 folder 17

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by JamesKnowlson, with envelope, 1994 October 6

box 53 folder 17

Between Judith Schmidt Douw and Emory University (Martha Fesenfeld andLois Overbeck), 1994-1995

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by MarthaFehsenfeld, with information on the publication of thecorrespondence of Samuel Beckett by Emory University, 1994September 19

box 53 folder 18

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by LoisOverbeck, with envelope, 1994 September 26

box 53 folder 18

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to MarthaFehsenfeld and Lois Overbeck with permission to photocopyletters form , 1994 October 3

box 53 folder 18


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Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by LoisOverbeck, with envelope and enclosed questions for JudithSchmidt Douw, 1994 October 10

box 53 folder 18

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to LoisOverbeck, copy, 1994 October 17

box 53 folder 18

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by LoisOverbeck, with printout of dates of all Judith Schmidt Douw'sletters to Samuel Beckett received at Emory, 1995 January 25

box 54 folder 1

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to Lois Overbeckand Martha Fehsenfeld, copy, 1995 January 26

box 54 folder 1

Typed letter by Judith Schmidt Douw to Lois Overbeck andMartha Fehsenfeld, copy, 1995 January 30

box 54 folder 1

Typed letter by Judith Schmidt Douw to Lois Overbeck andMartha Fehsenfeld, copy, 1995 February 5

box 54 folder 1

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to Lois Overbeckand Martha Fehsenfeld, copy, 1995 February 6

box 54 folder 1

Typed letter to Judith Schmidt Douw by Lois Overbeck, copy,1995 March 11

box 54 folder 1

Between Judith Schmidt Douw and M. M. Spitzer, 1962-1966

Typed letter by Judith Schmidt Douw to M. M. Spitzer, twocopies, 1962 September 7

box 54 folder 2

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by M. M. Spitzer,1962 September 17

box 54 folder 2

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to M. M. Spitzer,copy, 1963 March 13

box 54 folder 2

Typed letter by Judith Schmidt Douw to M. M. Spitzer, 1963May 13

box 54 folder 2

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by M. M. Spitzer,1963 July 9

box 54 folder 2

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to M. M. Spitzer,1966 May 9

box 54 folder 2

Judith Schmidt Douw to Mel Gussow,includes copy of Samuel Beckett poem"What is the Word", 1997 June 26

box 54 folder 3

Other correspondence, 1960-1996

Autographed postcard signed to Judith Schmidt Douw byHarry Joe, 1960 September 13

box 54 folder 4

Typed letter by Judith Schmidt Douw to Bettina Calder, 1961March 15

box 54 folder 4


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Typed letter signed and cable by Judith Schmidt Douw toAndre Hodeir, 1966 April 12

box 54 folder 4

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by Clas Zilliacus,1971 February 24

box 54 folder 4

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to the Director ofthe New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, copy,1971 June 21

box 54 folder 4

Typed letter by Judith Schmidt Douw to Joseph Liss, 1973May 12

box 54 folder 4

Fax by Judith Schmidt Douw to Barney Rosset, of Beckettletter dated 1967 January 19, 1990 January 25

box 54 folder 4

Typed letter signed to Judith Schmidt Douw by MauriceHarmon, 1995 December 1

box 54 folder 4

Typed letter signed by Judith Schmidt Douw to MauriceHarmon, copy, 1996 February 10

box 54 folder 4

Autographed letter signed to Samuel Beckett by JudithWeitzmai, 1964

box 54 folder 5

Subseries B: Photographs, 1964

From the set of Film, taken by Frank Serjack, eight photographs,1964

box 54 folder 6

Samuel Beckett by Bruce Davidson, 1964 July 23 box 54 folder 7

Subseries C: Ephemera, 1964-1995

Eleutheria (English translation) book jacket, program, andpublisher's abstract, 1995

box 54 folder 8

"Cascando" typescript on Grove Press letterhead, undated box 54 folder 9

Cancelled check, endorsed by Beckett, 1964 box 54 folder 10

Subseries D: Articles, 1955-1995

On Beckett, 1955-1964, 1986-1995 box 54 folder 11

On Alan Schneider, 1966-1986 box 54 folder 12

"Typewriter Commandos" by Richard Searer, 1961 May 6 box 54 folder 13

Series VI: Alan Schneider - Samuel Beckett collection, 1955-1984

Arrangement

This series is arranged in two subseries: A. Correspondence; B. Manuscripts.

Subseries A: Correspondence, 1955-1984


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Arrangement

This subseries is arranged in three sub-subseries: 1. Beckett to Schneider; 2. Schneider to Beckett; 3. Other letters.

Sub-Subseries 1: Beckett to Schneider, undated

1 letter and 3 pages of notes, Paris, 1955 December 14 box 3 folder 1

1 letter, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1955 December 27 box 3 folder 2

1 telegram, Paris, 1956 January 3 box 3 folder 3

1 letter, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1956 January 11 box 3 folder 4

1 letter, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1956 April 12 box 3 folder 5

1 letter, Paris, 1956 June 21 box 3 folder 6

1 letter, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1956 October 15 box 3 folder 7



1 letter, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1957 August 12 box 3 folder 10

1 telegram, Paris, 1957 September 30 box 3 folder 11

1 letter, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1957 September 30 box 3 folder 12

1 postcard, 1957 October 26 box 3 folder 13

1 letter with 1 page of notes, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1957 November21

box 3 folder 14

1 letter, Paris, 1957 December 29 box 3 folder 15

1 letter, Paris, 1958 January 9 box 3 folder 16


1 letter, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1958 January 29 box 3 folder 18

1 letter, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1958 February 4 box 3 folder 19

1 letter, Paris, 1958 March 17 box 3 folder 20

1 letter, Ussy, 1958 March 30 box 3 folder 21

1 letter, Paris, 1958 April 27 box 3 folder 22

1 card, Ussy, 1958 June 10 box 3 folder 23

1 letter, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1958 May 15 box 3 folder 24

1 card, Ussy, 1958 May 20 box 3 folder 25


1 letter, Paris, 1958 July 7 box 3 folder 27

1 postcard, Paris, 1958 September 13 box 3 folder 28


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1 letter, Ussy, 1958 October 18 box 3 folder 29

1 letter, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1958 November 21 box 3 folder 30

1 letter, 1958 November 27 box 3 folder 31

1 telegram, 1961 September 17 box 3 folder 32

1 letter, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1959 January 27 box 3 folder 33


1 letter, Paris, 1969 September 6 box 3 folder 35

1 letter, Ussy, 1959 September 21 box 3 folder 36

1 card, Paris, 1959 November 20 box 3 folder 37

1 letter, 6 Rue des Favorites, Paris, 1959 December 7 box 3 folder 38

1 letter, Ussy, 1960 January 4 box 3 folder 39


1 letter, Ussy, 1960 February 25 box 3 folder 41

1 letter, Paris, 1960 May 23 box 3 folder 42

1 letter, Ussy, 1960 August 4 box 3 folder 43



1 letter with 3 drawings, Ussy, 1961 July 13 box 4 folder 1



1 letter, 1961 March 9 box 4 folder 4

1 letter, 38 Boulevard de Saint-Jacques, Paris, 1961 February1

box 4 folder 5

1 letter, Ussy as from 38 Boulevard St-Jacques, Paris, Port-Royal, 1961 July 25

box 4 folder 6

1 letter, 38 Boulevard St. Jacques, Paris, Port-Royal, 1961January 13

box 4 folder 7


1 letter, Paris, 1961 November 11 box 4 folder 9

1 letter with 3 pages of notes, Surrey, 1961 September 3 box 4 folder 10



1 letter with 2 pages of notes, Paris, 1961 August 25 box 4 folder 13


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1 letter with 3 drawings, Paris, 1961 September 12 box 4 folder 14



1 letter, Ussy, 1962 July 11 box 4 folder 17

1 letter, Ussy, 1962 February 20 box 4 folder 18






1 letter, Paris, 1962 August 4 box 4 folder 24




1 letter, contract, 1963 January 23 box 4 folder 29

1 letter, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1963 February 6 box 4 folder 30




1 card, Paris, 1963 May 2 box 4 folder 34

1 sheet, inscribed title page, 1963 May box 4 folder 35




1 letter, 2 pages, Paris, 1963 November 26 box 4 folder 39

1 letter, Ussy, 1963 December 1 box 4 folder 40

1 letter, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1963 December 29 box 4 folder 41



1 letter, Ussy, 1964 April 11 box 4 folder 44




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1 postcard, Paris, 1964 September 24 box 5 folder 5









1 letter, Ussy, 1965 June 11 box 5 folder 15

1 letter "Paris Friday", around 1965 June 11 box 5 folder 12

1 letter, Hotel Aiglon, Paris, after 1965 June 13 box 4 folder 27


1 letter, Ussy, 1965 September 8 box 5 folder 17


1 letter, Paris, 1966 February 11 box 5 folder 19

1 letter, 2 pages and 1 drawing, Paris, 1966 April 7 box 5 folder 20


1 telegram, Paris, 1966 April 13 box 5 folder 22



1 letter, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1967 February 8 box 5 folder 25


1 letter, Berlin, 1967 September 11 box 5 folder 27




1 card, with 1 sheet typescript, Paris, 1968 October 3 box 5 folder 31

1 letter, Cascias, 1969 February 15 box 5 folder 32


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1 letter with 1 page of notes titled "Changes", Ussy, 1969March 27

box 5 folder 33



2 postcards, Berlin, 1969 September 7 and 14 box 5 folder 36

1 postcard, 1 card, Berlin, 1969 September 22 and Navarre,1969 November 12

box 5 folder 37

1 letter, Cascias, 2 pages, 1970 January 11 box 5 folder 38


2 cards, Paris, 1970 October 7 box 5 folder 40




1 letter, Paris, 1971 February 12 box 6 folder 3

1 card, Paris, 1971 March 5 box 6 folder 4


1 card, 1971 April 12 box 6 folder 6

1 card, Paris, 1971 April 18 box 6 folder 7


1 card, Paris, 1971 June 9 box 6 folder 9


1 letter, Selmun Malta, 1971 October 18 box 6 folder 11

1 postcard, Malta, 1971 November 4 box 6 folder 12

1 card, Paris, 1972 January 30 box 6 folder 14

1 card, Ussy, 1972 April 25 box 8 folder 26


1 card, Ussy, 1972 July 7 box 6 folder 17

1 card, Paris, 1972 July 16 box 6 folder 18


1 card, Paris, 1972 August 31 box 6 folder 20

1 letter, Paris, 1972 October 16 box 6 folder 21




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1 card, Paris, 1972 December 3 box 6 folder 24




1 letter, 1973 January 14 box 6 folder 27


1 card, Paris, 1973 February 20 box 6 folder 29

2 cards, Paris, 1973 April 11 and 17 box 6 folder 30


1 card, Paris, 1973 September 7 box 6 folder 32





1 postcard, Tangier, 1974 April 16 box 6 folder 37


1 letter, Hotel Aiglon, Paris, 1974 June 11 box 8 folder 25



1 card, 1974 September 14 box 6 folder 41

1 letter, Berlin, 1975 January 6 box 6 folder 42

1 card, Berlin, 1975 February 11 box 6 folder 43

1 card, Berlin, 1975 February 12 box 6 folder 44




1 postcard, Ussy, 1975 May 30 box 7 folder 2



1 card, Ussy, 1975 September 10 box 7 folder 5


1 letter, Long Sutton, 1976 April 17 box 7 folder 7


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1 card, London, 1976 May 13 box 7 folder 8

1 card, Akademie der Kunste, 1976 mid-September box 7 folder 9

1 card, Berlin, 1976 September 28 box 7 folder 10






1 card, Stuttgart, 1977 June 10 box 7 folder 16

1 telegram, Stuttgart, 1977 June 21 box 7 folder 17

1 card, Stuttgart, 1977 June 21 box 7 folder 18

1 card, Tangiers, 1977 August 16 box 7 folder 19

1 card, Berlin, 1977 September 24 box 7 folder 20

1 card, Ussy, 1977 December 4 box 7 folder 21



1 card, Tangiers, 1978 February 18 box 7 folder 24


1 card, 1978 August box 7 folder 26

1 card, Paris, 1978 October 24 box 7 folder 27

1 letter, Stuttgart, 1979 January 14 box 7 folder 28

1 card, Ussy, 1979 March 29 box 7 folder 29


1 card, 1979 July 6 box 7 folder 31



2 cards, 1980 April 28 box 7 folder 34

1 card, Paris, 1980 June 20 box 7 folder 35



1 letter, Ussy, 1980 November 20 box 7 folder 38



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1 card, 1980 December 3 box 7 folder 40

2 cards, 1981 January 11 and, Paris, 1981 February 24 box 7 folder 41



2 cards, Paris, 1981 June 23 and, Ussy, 1981 August 12 box 7 folder 44

2 cards, 1981 September 25 and, Paris, 1981 November 8 box 8 folder 1

2 cards, Paris, 1981 November 20 and 1981 December 11 box 8 folder 2




1 letter, 1982 February 20 box 6 folder 15




1 letter, Ussy, 1982 May 22 box 8 folder 10

1 card, Ussy-sur-Marne, 1982 June 20 box 8 folder 11

1 letter, Ussy, 1982 June 24 box 8 folder 12


1 letter and 1 card, Paris, 1982 September 2 box 8 folder 6




1 card, Ussy, 1982 December 22 box 8 folder 17





1 card, 1983 May 25 box 8 folder 22


1 letter, London, 1984 February 28 box 8 folder 24

1 card, "Thursday", undated box 8 folder 27

Beckett to Mr. Cronyn, 1 card, Paris, 1972 November 20 box 8 folder 28


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Sub-Subseries 2: Schneider to Beckett

2 letters, 1957 box 8 folder 37












5 letters and 1 telegram, 1969 box 9 folder 11
















Sub-Subseries 3: Other letters, undated

8 letters and 2 postcards, 1956-1971 box 10 folder 14


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Schneider to Thornton Wilder, 1956-1971 box 10 folder 14

Charles Laughton to Schneider, 1956-1971 box 10 folder 14

Suzanne Beckett to Schneider, 1956-1971 box 10 folder 14

Schneider to "Sister", 1956-1971 box 10 folder 14

Brooks Atkinson to Schneider, 1956-1971 box 10 folder 14

Subseries B: Manuscripts, undated

Production notes, 1 letter, Ussy, 1964 September 29 box 8 folder 29

Production notes, 1 page, Paris, 1964 October 28 box 8 folder 30

Production notes, 1 page, 1965 January 21 box 8 folder 31

Production notes, 1 page, 1965 March 12 box 8 folder 32

Production notes, 1 page, undated box 8 folder 33

Production notes, 1 card, undated box 8 folder 34

Production notes, 6 pages numbered pages 7-12, undated box 8 folder 35

Production notes, 6 pages numbered pages 1-6, undated box 8 folder 36

Translations: Thornton Wilder translations of Waiting for Godot,undated

box 10 folder 15

Series VII: Other Beckett-related material, undated

Letter Beckett-Herbert, Tangier, 1977 April 27 box 51 folder 1

Beckett poem, typed, 1982 July box 51 folder 2

Letter and envelope, Beckett-Lowery, Robert G., Tangier, 1976January 26

box 51 folder 3

Letter and envelope, Beckett-Lowery, Robert G., Paris, 1977November 7

box 51 folder 4

Letter and envelope, Beckett-Lowery, Robert G., 1978 January 26 box 51 folder 5

Letter and envelope, Beckett-Lowery, Robert G., Paris, 1978 June25

box 51 folder 6

Letter and envelope, Beckett-Lowery, Robert G., Paris, regardingSean O'Casey, 1979 December 12

box 51 folder 7

Letter and envelope, Beckett-Lowery, Robert G., Paris, 1980March 2

box 51 folder 8

"Por finir concore" with annotation, photocopy, undated box 51 folder 9

Beckett agreement, 1960 November 1 box 51 folder 10

Beckett agreement, 1964 January 22 box 51 folder 11

Beckett agreement, 1965 April 6


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box 51 folder 12


Beckett agreement, 1966 April 21 box 51 folder 14





Beckett agreement, 1978 September 27 box 51 folder 19

Beckett agreement, 1980 February 27 box 51 folder 20


Letter Beckett-Deane, Paris, 1985 November 28 box 51 folder 22

Letter Beckett-Deane, Paris, 1986 May 4 box 51 folder 23

Letter Beckett-Deane, Paris, 1987 October 9 box 51 folder 24

Postcard Beckett-Deane, Paris, 1989 October 15 box 51 folder 25

Postcard Beckett-Deane, undated box 51 folder 26

Ephemera: Publisher's flier for "Murphy", circa 1938 box 51 folder 27

Samuel Beckett engraving, undated box 52 folder 1

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