Samuel Beckett collection

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Samuel Beckett collection

1929-1988

The collection contains published and unpublished book manuscripts, essays, poems, plays, short stories, letters, photographs, clippings, playbills, audio and video tapes and slides related to the the work of Samuel Beckett, including two novels: "Dream of Fair to Middling Women" and "Mercier et camier." Some of the manuscripts are photocopies which were part of the research Lawrence E. Harvey did on Beckett, prefaced by explanatory notes. Many of the original material included in the collection were gifts from Samuel Beckett to Harvey during the course of their friendship that spanned two decades. A long series of letters from Beckett to Gloria MacGowran (1973-1988) is also included.

0.75 linear ft. (3 boxes)

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 7121608

Rauner Special Collections Library

Related Entities

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Beckett, Samuel Barclay, 1906-1989

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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, including James Joyce. There, Beckett taught English at the École Normale Superieure in Paris for two years before returning to Trinity College to teach French in 1930. He left Trinity College after one year...

Lathem, Edward Connery

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Harvey, Lawrence E. 1925-....

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MacGowran, Gloria.

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