Carlton Lake Collection of Samuel Beckett Papers

ArchivalResource

Carlton Lake Collection of Samuel Beckett Papers

Carlton Lake Collection of Samuel Beckett Papers

1947-2000

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00011&showrequest=1

The Samuel Beckett Papers in the Carlton Lake Collection consist of manuscripts and proofs of Beckett's works, letters to various correspondents including Georges Belmont and Rick Cluchey, correspondence and works associated with the authors of the first extensive bibliography of Beckett, information on the 1992 and 1993 publications of his "Dream of Fair to Middling Women," and a few third-party works. Works are generally brief monologues and prose passages, which are all in English except Solo, which is written in French. Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Solo have all been published in both English and French. Beckett's letters to Parisian journalist and novelist Georges Belmont span nearly forty years. They primarily discuss Beckett's daily life, travels, and what he was reading or viewing on the stage. Correspondence to former convict-turned-actor Rick Cluchey is written almost entirely on postcards and concerns the staging of Beckett's plays during the 1980s, both those in which Cluchey was involved as well as other productions. The Works by Other Authors Series contains Eoin O'Brien and Edith Fournier's "Some facts relating to the publication of Samuel Beckett's Dream of Fair to Middling Women," discussing the Black Cat Press' new edition of the work.

3 boxes (1.26 linear feet)

eng, Latn

fre, Latn

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center