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JEK James and Elizabeth Knowlson Collection This catalogue is based on the listing of the collection by James and Elizabeth Knowlson
1906-2010
JEK A Research material created by James and Elizabeth Knowlson
JEK A/1 Material relating to Samuel Beckett
JEK A/1/1 Beckett family material
JEK A/1/1/1 Folder of Birth Certificates, Parish registers and Army records Consists of a copy of the Beckett Family tree from Horner Beckett, a rubbing of the plaque on William Beckett’s Swimming Cup, birth certificates of the Roes and the Becketts, including Samuel Beckett, his brother, mother and father and photograph of the Paris Register Tullow Parish Church and research information gathered by Suzanne Pegley
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James Knowlson note: Detailed information from Suzanne Pegley who researched for James and Elizabeth Knowlson the families of both the Roes – Beckett’s mother was a Roe - and the Becketts in the records of the Church Body Library, St Peter’s Parish, City of Dublin, St Mary’s Church Leixlip, the Memorial Registry of Deeds, etc. Very detailed results.
2 folders 1800s-1990s
JEK A/1/1/2 Folder entitled May Beckett’s appointment as a nurse Consists of correspondence
James Knowlson note: Inconclusive actually
1 folder 1990s
JEK A/1/1/3 Folder entitled Edward Beckett Consists of correspondence
James Knowlson note: Beckett’s nephew with much interesting information.
1 folder 1990s-2000s
JEK A/1/1/4 Folder entitled Caroline Beckett Murphy Consists of correspondence and interview
James Knowlson note: Beckett's neice
2 folders 1990s-2000s
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JEK A/1/1/5 Folder entitled John Beckett Consists of correspondence between Samuel Beckett and John Beckett, 1968 – 1989, annotated by John Beckett, correspondence between John Beckett and James Knowlson, 1970-c.1992, extracts from the Beckett letters to different people concerning his cousin John Beckett, copies of letters of John Beckett to Rosemary Poutney, 1974 – 1978 and material relating to a Deed of Variation for a Henri Hayden picture
5 folders 1974-2007
JEK A/1/1/6 Folder entitled Ann Beckett Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Ann Beckett and to her mother, Beckett’s Aunt Peggy, 1960-1988 and letters from James Knowlson to Ann Beckett and her replies
2 folders 1960-2003
JEK A/1/1/7 Folder entitled Dr Desmond Beckett Consists of correspondence between Desmond Beckett and Samuel Beckett and James Knowlson and Desmond Beckett and copy of a transcription of a letter from Samuel Beckett to his cousin Desmond Beckett
James Knowlson note: Dr Desmond Beckett was Beckett’s cousin, the son of James Beckett, his uncle, in New Zealand, with much valuable information about the family and his father and uncles.
1 folder 1980s-2000s
JEK A/1/1/8 Folder entitled John Beckett (South Africa John) Consists of correspondence between John Beckett and James Knowlson Page 3 of 562
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James Knowlson note: John Beckett is the son of Harry Beckett – the fifth son not mentioned in Bair’s biography.
1 folder 1990s
JEK A/1/1/9 Folder entitled Horner Beckett Consists of correspondence between Horner Beckett and James Knowlson and information relating to John Beckett
James Knowlson note: Horner Beckett supplied James Knowlson with much helpful information about the wider family and the building contracts of Beckett’s grandfather and his father. Has pictures of awards, even headed notebook of the Grandfather Beckett’s building firm. A major file.
1 folder 1990s
JEK A/1/1/10 Folder entitled Roger Beckett Consists of a copy of a letter to Mrs Beckett, Roger's wife, from James Knowlson
1 folder 1992
JEK A/1/1/11 Folder entitled Walter Beckett Consists of correspondence between Mary Bryden and Walter Beckett
James Knowlson note: Walter Beckett, the musician
1 folder 1990s
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JEK A/1/1/12 Photograph of the Irish Times with the announcement of the birth of Samuel Beckett
James Knowlson note: Proves conclusively that Beckett was indeed born on 13 April 1906.
1 doc 16 April 1906
JEK A/1/2 Interviews with Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson and others
JEK A/1/2/1 Interviews with Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson Consists of transcripts of interviews and James Knowlson's notebooks
5 folders, 9 notebooks 1989
JEK A/1/2/2 Folder of notes entitled Queries for Sam Sent to Samuel Beckett, with Beckett’s very detailed answers and many additional notes written in red ink
James Knowlson note: These contain some of Beckett’s most explicit commentary ever offered on Krapp’s Last Tape. Four sides of material, page four consisting almost entirely of Beckett’s own comments.
1 folder 1979, 1986
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JEK A/1/2/3 Notes made by James Knowlson on meetings with Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1976, 1983, 1984, 1989
JEK A/1/2/4 Samuel Beckett Questionnaire with Beckett's holograph manuscript replies to questions put to him by James Knowlson, a card from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson 1972 and draft of a talk by James Knowlson on Happy Days 1972
James Knowlson note: These includes some fascinating answers, including that he much preferred Barlach's plays to his sculptures, that he was 'more concerned with W.B. Yeats's plays as writing than as theatre', that he had read Antonin Artaud 'for the odd blaze', as well as his usual 'all gone from mind'. There are also his attributions to detailed sources of all the French quotations in 'Oh les beaux jours' ('Happy Days'). There are seven pages of queries and answers. This is not on the original list and is a gift to the Beckett Archive at UoR.
There is also Beckett’s original letter to James Knowlson of April 1972 in which he is asked about one of the quotations (W.B. Yeats' 'the eye of the mind') in 'Happy Days'. This is where he writes: 'I simply know next to nothing about my work in this way, as little as a plumber of the history of hydrology. There is nothing /nobody with me when I'm writing, only the hellish job in hand. The 'eye of the mind' in H.D. does not refer to Yeats any more than the 'revels' in Endgame to The Tempest, they are just bits of pipe I happen to have with me' etc. This important letter was not part of the original acquisition either.
This letter was quoted in ‘Beckett’s “bits of pipe” ‘, a talk given by JK at the Ohio State University Conference on Beckett in May, 1981 and published in Samuel Beckett: Humanistic Perspectives, ed. S.E. Gontarski et al. There is a draft and a proof of this talk and details of the conference programme in a folder with these manuscripts.
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1972
JEK A/1/2/5 Transcript of interviews with Samuel Beckett by Sean O Mordha
1 doc 1983
JEK A/1/3 Manuscripts and works - by Beckett
JEK A/1/3/1 Copy of typescript of Ill seen Ill Said by Samuel Beckett James Knowlson note: "Apparently I have held for many years, without realising it, a version of Ill seen ill said that is not in the Reading collection and not otherwise known. It looks like a version prepared, Dirk van Hulle suggests, for a broadcast reading with divisioning into sections. I had shown it to Krance, who then described it. Three possible explanations occur to me. One that the original may be lost, since this is only a copy. Two that the original was with the reader [who he?]. Three that it was sent to me at a later date from the others and that the source would in that case undoubtedly have been Beckett."
2 docs Undated
JEK A/1/3/2 Photocopy of Beckett's revisions of cuts and changes in Berlin 1967 production of Endspiel James Knowlson note: In an envelope from Samuel Beckett - original corrected typescript was given to the editor of the Page 7 of 562
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Theatrical Notebook Endgame, S.E. Gontarkski
1 folder 1967
JEK A/1/3/3 Negatives of two pages from Beckett's production notebook for Warten auf Godot at the Schiller-Theater Werkstatt, Berlin James Knowlson note: These negatives were probably taken originallyfrom the notebook held at the University of Reading
1 doc 1975
JEK A/1/3/4 Transcripts of Samuel Beckett's German diairies Includes notes by James Knowlson
2 folders Undated
JEK A/1/4 Items belonging to Samuel Beckett
JEK A/1/4/1 Address book belonging to Samuel Beckett James Knowlson note: This is the original, not a copy ‘Répertoire’, spiral metal ring spine, an A to Z containing all the addresses of his friends and acquaintances in the early 1960s. This was a personal gift from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson, when he began his authorised biography. It is, needless to say, unique.
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JEK A/1/4/2 Note made by Samuel Beckett relating to the name of his nurse, piano teacher, dogs, kindergarten teacher and Ursula Thompson's address
1 folder Undated [late 1980s]
JEK A/1/4/3 Photocopies of three books owned by Beckett: Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur, Paris, Hachette, 1913; Jean de la Fontaine, Fables, Paris, Hachette, 1921 and Pierre Corneille, Nicomède, Paris, Hachette, 1921
1 folder Undated
JEK A/1/4/4 Folder entitled Books read by Beckett in Germany 1936-1937 Consists of details of books acquired by James Knowlson, extracts, notes and correspondence
1 folder Undated
JEK A/1/4/5 Luggage label from Samuel Beckett's suitcase in his own hand with empty envelope
2 docs Undated
JEK A/1/5 Scripts
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JEK A/1/5/1 Photocopy of Jean Martin’s 1970 script for La dernière bande (Krapp’s Last Tape) with Beckett’s own corrections and changes to the text in French, the changes are made in Jean Martin’s hand, also with photocopy in Beckett's handwriting noting how Krapp should react to the mentions of the various women in Krapp’s Last Tape
James Knowlson note: The original manuscript is believed to be still in private hands with Jean Martin
1970
JEK A/1/6 Beckett Exhibition
JEK A/1/6/1 Notebook belonging to James Knowlson relating to the Samuel Beckett exhibition, Reading
1 vol 1971
JEK A/1/7 Manuscripts - not by Beckett
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JEK A/1/7/1 Original typescript of The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Vol. III, Krapp’s Last Tape, edited by James Knowlson Faber and Faber, typescript heavily corrected and annotated by Samuel Beckett in red ink
James Knowlson note: These corrections contain extensive comments and additional notes by Samuel Beckett. They are invaluable for an understanding of the play.
1 folder 1992
JEK A/2 Research Files I - People
JEK A/2/1 Folder entitled Aaronson, Laz Consists of correspondence relating to Aaronson with Knowlson trying to track down his son, David, James Knowlson’s initial letter to The Secretary to the The Board of Deputies of British Jews, 21 Sept 1992, typescript letter from David Massel, Executive Director, The Board of Deputies of British Jews, in answer to James Knowlson’s letter seeking information about friend of Beckett, the lawyer and poet Laz Aaronson, 9 Oct 1992, letter from Colin Shindler to David Massel, The Board of Deputies of British Jews, 20 Oct 1992, letter from T. M. Simon to James Knowlson saying that he has passed on James Knowlson’s letter to the Jewish Chronicle to Mrs Enid Isaacs, 26 May 1993, letter from James Knowlson to T. M. Simon’s letter, 8 Jun 1993, letter from Enid Isaacs to James Knowlson, 3 Jun 1993 about Laz Aaronson and her husband’s friendship with him, letter from James Knowlson to Enid Isaacs, 16 Jun 1993, bibliographical information about Aaronson’s books, including a photo of a copy of Echo’s Bones Page 11 of 562
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inscribed by Beckett for Laz Aaronson, Dec 1935, notes from Aidan Higgins speaking to James Knowlson about meeting Aaronson and his wife, extract from the interview with Aidan Higgins, 6 Aug 1992, obituary of Laz Aaronson
James Knowlson note: Aaronson (‘Laz’ to Beckett) was a good friend of Samuel Beckett and of his friend, A. J. Leventhal in the early 1930s. Beckett inscribed a copy of Echo’s Bones and other Precipitates to him in 1935. This copy was put up for sale by Rick Gekoski in 2004. Aidan Higgins also got to know Laz Aaronson through Arland Ussher.
1 folder 1992-2003
JEK A/2/2 Folder entitled Albee, Edward Consists of photograph of Edward Albee by Jerry Speier, sent by Albee’s assistant for the book Beckett Remembering – Remembering Beckett, texts of an interview with Edward Albee about Beckett recorded on 6 Dec 1993 in Albee’s Tribeca apartment, New York, personal correspondence between James Knowlson and Edward Albee, review by Jonathan Kalb of Albee’s plays, Counting the Ways and Listening, Signature Theatre, New York, Village Voice, 23 Nov 1993, article by Mel Gussow on Edward Albee, Edward Albee, Elder Statesman, is in a State of Professional Reprise, The New York Times, 1 Dec 1993, article by Michael Billington and interview with Edward Albee, The Guardian, 9 Nov 1994 Review of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Almeida Theatre London, Independent on Sunday, 29 Sept 1996 and US playbills and British theatre programmes of Albee’s plays, one, Three Tall Women, with the copy of a letter from James Knowlson to Edward Albee thanking Albee for giving him guest tickets to the London production of that play starring Maggie Smith
James Knowlson note: Edward Albee (1928- ) American playwright. Among his best-known plays are The Zoo Story (1958), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1961-62), A Delicate Balance (1966), Three Tall Women (1991) and The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia (2000). Directed several of Beckett’s plays, especially at the Alley Theatre in Houston. A friend of Samuel Beckett, he talks with James Knowlson on a tape about his various meetings with Samuel Beckett in London, Paris and Page 12 of 562
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New York and about Beckett’s importance in world theatre.
1 folder 1993-2006
JEK A/2/3 Folder entitled Albrecht, Günther Consists of copies of two letters from Samuel Beckett to Günther Albrecht, (in German) 31 Dec 1936, with a partial translation by Mark Nixon, and (in English) 30 Mar 1937, copy of card – of Giorgione’s portrait of a young man from the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum in Berlin – to Günter Albrecht, copy of a photograph of Günter Albrecht and copy of letter from Günter Albrecht to Axel Kaun, partly about Beckett, 3 Jan 1937
James Knowlson note: Günter Albrecht was the bookseller’s assistant in Hamburg with whom Beckett became very friendly during his visit to that city in 1936. There are numerous references to their meetings and conversations in the German Diaries, volumes I and II. Copies of 2 typescript letters and an autograph postcard to Günther Albrecht, 1936 – 37. Copy of holograph letter from Günther Albrecht to Axel Kaun about Samuel Beckett 3.1. 37. These already in UoR collection, however
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JEK A/2/4 Folder entitled Albery, Heather Consists of letter from James Knowlson to Heather Albery and her reply
1 folder 1994
JEK A/2/5 Folder entitled Aldington, Richard Consists of various notes on his papers in the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale, Illlinois
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James Knowlson note: Richard Aldington knew Beckett first while the latter was in Paris, first through Nancy Cunard, then through Charles Prentice, the partner at Chatto and Windus, who was a good friend of Aldington, Beckett and his close friend, Tom MacGreevy.
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JEK A/2/6 Folder entitled Anders, Richard Consists of two photocopied holograph letters from Samuel Beckett to Richard Anders 1976 and 1978, copy of pages of poems by Robert Creeley Après Anders’ and Collection of poems entitled The Footprints of One Who Has Not Stepped Forth, by Richard Anders, translated by Andrew Joron, Black Square Editions, New York, 2000
1 folder 1976, 1978, 2000
JEK A/2/7 Folder entitled Arikha, Avigdor and Atik, Anne Consists of invitation card to a private view of the drawings of Avigdor Arikha at the Galerie Bernard in Paris, 1967, which includes Beckett’s text about Arkha, and invitations to private views in Paris, London and Edinburgh, letter from Avigdor Arikha to James Knowlson, 5 Jun 1972 with enclosure of catalogue of 39 ink drawings 1965 – 1972 at the Los Angeles Museum of Art and Matisee and The Beatus Apocalypse of Saint-Sever brochure, fax from Arikha about Samuel Beckett replying to James Knowlson’s queries 8 Apr 1994, with later fax answering some of Knowlson’s queries 20 May 1994, reproduction of Anne from the back, with many details of ectachromes sent to James Knowlson to choose for Damned to Fame, letter to James Knowlson from Avigdor Arikha, 7 Jul 2002, replying to Knowlson who had sent a copy of his article on Beckett in the Musée Condé at Chantilly, notes on Knowlson’s meeting with Arikha on 14 Jul 1989, reproduction of Arikha’s graphite Young Woman Undressing from the British Museum on art paper as a New Year greeting c.2000 and letters from Arikha and his wife, Anne, to James Knowlson
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James Knowlson note: Arikha, the Israeli painter and art historian, was a close personal friend of Samuel Beckett as was his wife, the poet, Anne Atik. There are several important interviews with him and his wife in the Transcripts of Interviews file.
2 folders 1965-2002
JEK A/2/8 Folder entitled Arnould, E. J. Consists of letters from E. J. Arnould and Charles Chadwick about Beckett
1 folder 1996
JEK A/2/9 Folder entitled Arrabal, Fernando Consists of copy of a document from Samuel Beckett written in 1967 in defence of Arrabal and a poem of Beckett's in a letter dated 19 Mar 1977 for the Cahier du Silence Arrabal, with various documents and a theatre programme of Le lai de Barabbas at the Théâtre 173
1 folder 1967, 1977
JEK A/2/10 Folder entitled Ashcroft, Dame Peggy Consists of extracts in The Sunday Times, News Review, 16 and 23 Feb 1997, from Garry O’Connor's biography of Dame Peggy Ashcroft, The Secret Woman: A Life of Peggy Ashcroft, interview with Lord Jeremy Hutchinson about that “squalid” biography [by Garry O’Connor], The Daily Telegraph, 18 Feb 1997, A Celebration of Dame Peggy Ashcroft by Michael Billington, Woman’s Weekly, undated, press cutting about Dame Peggy Ashcroft, The Sunday Times, 31 Mar 1985, profile by Andrew Stephen, press cutting about Dame Peggy’s 80th birthday Gala by the Royal Shakespeare Company Beckett at Eighty, readings from Beckett’s poetry and prose by Page 15 of 562
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Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Ronald Pickup, 11 May 1986, signed by Peggy Ashcroft to Laura, James Knowlson’s daughter, with ticket, draft in Dame Peggy Ashcroft’s handwriting of programme for the Beckett at Eighty readings, photocopies of photographs of Dame Peggy Ashcroft in various plays, exhibited in original photographs as part of small exhibition mounted at time of above readings, with accompanying letter from Bob Bright of the BBC Data Hulton Picture Library 17 Apr 1986 and reply from Jim Knowlson, drafts in typescript form of James Knowlson’s speech when he presented Dame Peggy Ashcroft for the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at the University of Reading, 19 Sep 1986, also with her letter to thank him for the oration, 19 Sep 1986, with various documents about the congregation for the conferment of the honorary degree, press cutting Evening Post, 22 Sept 1986 about the honorary degree conferment, various letters concerning this event, Sir Alec Guinness, tribute to Dame Peggy Ashcroft after her death in 1991, The Spectator, 22 Jun 1991, photocopy, press cutting, article about Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Evening Post (Reading), 21 Dec 1985, notes by James Knowlson on Dame Peggy Ashcroft’s long and illustrious career in the theatre and letters from Peggy Aschroft to James Knowlson
James Knowlson note: Dame Peggy Ashcroft knew Samuel Beckett through her mother-in-law, Mary Hutchinson. But she also worked with him on the production of Happy Days when Sir Peter Hall directed her with Beckett advising on the production. This section with books, letters, theatre programmes and press cuttings amounts to a mini-archive on Dame Peggy Ashcroft.
3 folders 1980s
JEK A/2/11 Folder entitled Asmus, Walter Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Walter Asmus, 1975 – 1987 and letters, cards and a fax from Walter Asmus to James Knowlson
James Knowlson note: Walter Asmus kindly agreed to the inclusion of these letters from Beckett in the archives after a request from James Knowlson. Page 16 of 562
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2 folders 1976 – 2004
JEK A/2/12 Folder entitled Asse, Geneviève Consists of collection of cards and invitations to private viewings to shows of Geneviève Asse to James and Elizabeth Knowlson
James Knowlson note: The painter, Geneviève Asse, was a good friend of Samuel Beckett. She also knew Bram van Velde. She illustrated Beckett’s text, Abandonné See Damned for Fame for a discussion of this book.
1 folder 1993-2007
JEK A/2/13 Folder entitled Auster, Paul Consists of card and letter from Paul Auster to James Knowlson, typescripts by Paul Auster’s typescript and press cuttings
James Knowlson note: The novelist, poet, critic and screen- writer, Paul Auster, knew Samuel Beckett in Paris in the 1970s and, by his own admission (see interview with James Knowlson and his contribution to Beckett Remembering – Remembering Beckett) was heavily inspired by Beckett’s writing.
1 folder 1995-2005
JEK A/2/14 Folder entitled Avrech, Mira Consists of copy of ‘Quelques jours dans la vie de Samuel Beckett’, Globe, no. 44, Feb 1990, pp. 56-61, transcriptions of letters from Samuel Beckett to Mira Averech 1967-1971, copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Avrech, and typescript of Master of Silence – Master of Words Page 17 of 562
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James Knowlson note: An Israeli journalist who had a brief affair in Berlin with Beckett in 1967 when they were both staying at the Akademie der Kunst. Correspondence between Mira Avrech and James Knowlson. This checked out with Mira Avrech and agreement given.
3 folders 1967-2008
JEK A/2/15 Folder entitled Bakewell, Michael Consists of information about Bakewell’s publications and productions for the BBC and typescript of an interview with James Knowlson
1 folder 1994-2006
JEK A/2/16 Folder entitled Banville, John Consists of correspondence between John Banville and James Knowlson and press cuttings
1 folder 2002-2007
JEK A/2/17 Folder entitled Barlog, Boleslaw Consists of photocopies of letters and transcriptions of letters from Samuel Beckett to Boleslaw Barlog, list of Barlog’s theatre and opera productions and photograph of Barlog
2 folders 1953-2004
JEK A/2/18 Folder entitled Barnes, Djuna Consists of review of Philip Herring’s book on Djunja Barnes, Page 18 of 562
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1 folder 7 Apr 1996
JEK A/2/19 Folder entitled Barrault, Jean-Louis Consists of photocopy of the Théâtre de France programme of the production of Oh les beaux jours, Aldwych Theatre, London, 1965, theatre programme of Jean-Louis Barrault’s production of Rabelais, The National Theatre at the Old Vic, Sept-Oct 1969, review in The Observer, of Rabelais, 28 Sep 1969, article by Eric Shorter, Two’s company at Orsay [on the Barraults], Drama The Quarterly Theatre Review, Autumn, 1977, pp.20-24, obituary of Jean-Louis Barrault, A Child of Paradise, by Patrick O’Connor, The Guardian, 24 Jan 1994
1 folder 1965-1994
JEK A/2/20 Folder entitled Barrett, William Consists of photocopies of holograph letters from Samuel Beckett to Charles Barrett, New York Times reviewer
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JEK A/2/21 Folder entitled Beach, Sylvia Consists of copies of newspaper articles about Sylvia Beach and James Joyce
1 folder 1962
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Consists of letter from Josette Hayden, about Miss Beamish, identifying one of the photographs, genealogical information concerning Miss Beamish and her ancestors and reviews of two of Miss Beamish’s translations of Italian plays when they were put on in London
James Knowlson note: Miss Beamish was Samuel Beckett’s close neighbour in Roussillon, living in a house opposite Suzanne and he and meeting him on a regular basis during his and her stay in the little Vaucluse village where Beckett and Suzanne were hiding out. She wrote, both before and after the Second World War, under the name of Noel de Vic Beamish with two books on dogs and many historical novels. She helped out the Resistance cell in Roussillon of which Beckett was a member. For an account of this highly picturesque figure, see James Knowlson, Damned to Fame, UK edition, pp. 327-33; USA edition, pp. 293-301.) There are also the typescript and the page proofs of an article by James Knowlson, adding further details on Miss Beamish’s career. This article appeared as ‘Miss Beamish, Beckett’s Roussillon neighbour’ in the Journal of Beckett Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, 2001, pp. 87-90
1 folder 2001
JEK A/2/23 Folder entitled Beaufret, Jean Consists of information about Jean Beaufret’s career as a teacher of philosophy at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, with a letter, dated 12 Apr 1991, from the Librarian of the Lycée Condorcet and some pages from a book in honour of Beaufret, as well as a copy of Beaufret’s file, article in three languages Die Grundgrage nach dem Seinh selbst, La Question portent fondamentalement sur l’être-mêm, The Basic Question of Being as Such by Martin Heidegger, prepared by Philippe Clidière (from Heidegger Studies, volume 2, 1986) with references to Beaufret’s major post-war work on Heidegger, sent to James Knowlson by Philippe Clidière, letter from Philippe Clidière to Knowlson, 7 Aug 1991, enclosing an article about Jean Beaufret from the Auxerre Bulletin Municipal, Auzances, no. 5, Jul 1991, with James Knowlson’s reply Various other letters from James Knowlson to Claude Lasibille Page 20 of 562
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(Beaufret’s friend in Paris) and list of all of Beckett’s references to Jean Beaufret in his correspondence
James Knowlson note: Jean Beaufret (1907 – 1982) was a personal friend of Samuel Beckett at the Ecdole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1928-29. He helped Beckett with his understanding of philosophy and his reading and he is certainly the source for the character Lucien in Dream of Fair to Middling Women. See interviews with Georges Belmont. Philippe Clidière knows Beaufret’s work well and there are a number of letters and accompanying information from him.
1 folder 1991
JEK A/2/24 Folder entitled Beckett, Desmond Consists of transcriptions of a letter from Samuel Beckett to his cousin Desmond Beckett
1 folder 24 May 1986
JEK A/2/25 Folder entitled Beckett, Suzanne Consists of notes written by James Knowlson, extract from an article, correspondence and obituary
1 folder 1949-1993
JEK A/2/26 Folder entitled Berghof, Herbert Consists of an Obituary
1 folder Undated
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JEK A/2/27 Folder entitled Bernold, Andre Consists of of correspondence and press cuttings
1 folder 1992
JEK A/2/28 Folder entitled Bessler, Albert Consists of copies of Beckett’s letters to Albert Bessler, the dramaturg of the Schiller-Theater, Berlin and translations and Bessler’s replies
James Knowlson note: These letters concern Happy Days in 1961, they originate with the theatre historian, Klaus Völcker. They do not appear to be originals - which are probably in the Akademie der Kunst archives - but transcriptions.
1 folder 1961
JEK A/2/29 Folder entitled Bethell, Mrs Adrienne (née Hope) Consists of a newspaper cutting
1 folder 1969
JEK A/2/30 Folder entitled Bierry, Etienne Consists of letter from Etienne Bierry with information about Beckett, Blin and Estragon’s trousers, replying to James Knowlson’s earlier letter
1 folder 1994
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JEK A/2/32 Folder entitled Blanchot, Maurice Consists of an obituary of Maurice Blanchot
James Knowlson note: Source unknown, sent on by Bernard Wasserstein.
1 folder 23 Feb 2003
JEK A/2/33 Folder entitled Blau, Herbert and Beatrice Manley Blau Consists of letter from Herbert Blau to James Knowlson about Beckett 13 Aug 1970 and copy of letter dated 10 Sept 1970 from Beatrice Manley Blau and transcription of her words about playing Winnie in Happy Days
James Knowlson note: An interesting response.
1 folder 1970
JEK A/2/34 Folder entitled Blin, Roger Consists of James Knowlson’s notes on the Beckett letters to Roger Blin which are held at IMEC in Paris and article by Mary Benson in periodical, Theater, Fall 1978, Blin on Beckett, pp. 90-93
James Knowlson note: Roger Blin was Beckett’s first director in France, played the original Pozzo in the première of En attendant Godot and was a friend of Beckett for many years. Elsewhere in the collection is a tape-recording on cassette of an interview with Roger Blin by James Knowlson used in his Theatre Workbook no. 1 on Krapp’s Last Tape.
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JEK A/2/35 Folder entitled Blum, Helaine Dorothy Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Helaine Blum
James Knowlson note: See a list of their meetings in the 70s in Paris taken from SB’s day by day diaries.
1 folder 1994-1996
JEK A/2/36 Folder entitled Bosquet, Alain Consists of texts in French and English of Alain Bosquet on La mort de Beckett, The Death of Beckett, card from Bernard Stone regarding Alain Bosquet, 14 Jan 1972, to James Knowlson about a collection of ms Poems that James Knowlson owned, copy of a letter from Martha Fehsenfeld and Lois Overbeck to Alain Bosquet, 7 Apr 1993
1 folder 1972-1993
JEK A/2/37 Folder entitled Bowles, Patrick Consists of transcriptions of Beckett’s letters to Patrick Bowles - with a letter from Patrick Bowles to a Norman Moss for Ruby Cohn about the way Bowles worked with Beckett on the English transition of Molloy, letters from James and Elizabeth Knowlson to Patrick Bowles and his replies, 20 May 1992 and 15 Feb 1994, proofs of How to Fail. Notes on talks with Samuel Beckett, PN Review, 96, vol. 20, no. 4, pp.24-38, Patrick Bowles, How Samuel Beckett Sees The Universe, Patrick Bowles on Molloy, The Listener, 19 Jun 1958, pp.1011-1012, obituary of Patrick Bowles, by James Campbell, copy of Conversations with Samuel Beckett, Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett, James and Elizabeth Knowlson, pp. 108-115
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James Knowlson note: Patrick Bowles, a South-African writer, translated Beckett’s novel, Molloy, working intensely with Beckett. See his PN Review article, a proof of which is included
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JEK A/2/38 Folder entitled Boyle, Kay Consists of copies of transcriptions of letters from Samuel Beckett to Kay Boyle, 1957-1989, holograph letter from Kay Boyle to James Knowlson, 27 Mar 1990, with envelope, two letters from Kay Boyle to James Knowlson relating to her letters from Samuel Beckett which were sold to the University of Texas at Austin, 9 Apr 1990 and 14 Jul 1990, letter from James Knowlson to Kay Boyle, 24 Apr 1990, letters from Lorie Saxon to James Knowlson regarding the sale to Texas of Boyle’s letters, 21 Apr 1990 and 3 May 1990, obituary of Kay Boyle by Eric Pace, The New York Times, 29 Dec 1992, press cutting regarding award of $35,000 award to 87 year old Kay Boyle, 21 Sept 1989, letter from Sandra Spanier, editing Kay Boyle’s letters, to James Knowlson 14 Oct 1994 and a reply from James Knowlson, follow up letter from Sandra Spanier, 9 Nov 1994 regarding Kay Boyle and Duchamp’s partner, Mary Reynolds, press cutting Carmen Cahill’s Book of the Century: Robert McCalmon and Kay Boyle, Being Geniuses Together: 1920-1930, Daily Telegraph, 9 Jan 1999, inventory of Kay Boyle’s papers at Southern Illinois University Library, Carbondale, correspondence check-list, Elizabeth Knowlson’s notes on letters from Samuel Beckett to Kay Boyle, biographical sketch of Kay Boyle, transcript of interview by James Knowlson with Kay Boyle and Ruby Cohn
James Knowlson note: Kay Boyle was a good friend of Beckett - she knew him first in Paris in 1929 - and she may well have had an affair with him much later, after the Second World War.
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JEK A/2/39 Folder entitled Bray, Barbara Consists of correspondence from Barbara Bray to James Page 25 of 562
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Knowlson, 1983 - 2001, letters, from Harold Pinter and James Knowlson, of support for a Royal Literary Fund grant for Barbara Bray after her earlier stroke, 9 May 2005, programme of theatrical events in Paris 1999, with productions of Beckett’s Shorter Plays by Barbara Bray’s theatrical company Dear Conjunction in French and English, theatre leaflet and cast list about a production by Dear Conjunction of Summer Lightning, adapted from P. G. Wodehouse by Giles Havergal, directed by Barbara Bray. Lucernaire theatre Paris, 13 Jan 1993, newspaper cutting about the sale of Barbara Bray’s letters to Trinity College, Dublin, The Times 14 Feb 1997 and invitation card to a reception marking the acquisition of these letters from Bernard Meehan, The Keeper of Manuscripts and Archives 13 Feb 1997 with an accompanying card and index from the BBC Caversham Library of Barbara Bray’s very many contributions to BBC radio programmes 1955 - 1964 and 1965 – 1976 and obituary
James Knowlson note: The translator, Barbara Bray, was for a long time a mistress of Samuel Beckett and a close friend for thirty years. She was also (independently) a friend of James and Elizabeth Knowlson. She translated most of Marguerite Duras’s work and many other books, as these (many inscribed) copies reveal. Beckett certainly helped Bray by reviewing her translations and helping her with them and he was a regular visitor at her apartment at 15 rue Séguier. Full card index from the BBC Caversham Library of Barbara Bray’s very many contributions to BBC radio programmes 1955 - 1964 and 1965 – 1976. Includes her productions, translations as well as her contributions to ‘The Critics’ programmes
1 folder 1983-2010
JEK A/2/40 Folder entitled Breuer, Rolf Consists of correspondence between Rolf Breuer and James Knowlson, copies of some of Breuer’s letters to Beckett and Samuel Becketts’s replies
1 folder 1994-2008
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JEK A/2/41 Folder entitled Bronowski, Jacob Consists of copies of letters from Lois Overbeck to John Vice who was working on Bronowski, and his reply with some responses to the questions asked
1 folder 1992
JEK A/2/42 Folder entitled Brook, Peter and Natasha Parry Consists of correspondence between Peter Brook and James Knowlson, Dec 1994 regarding Knowlson’s bilingual edition of Happy Days/Oh les beaux jours, letter from Peter Brook to James Knowlson, 20 Dec 1994, regarding trying to obtain letters from Beckett to Alan Schneider about Happy Days, letter to Peter Brook from James Knowlson 15 Jan 1995 regarding sending him a copy of his bilingual edition of Happy Days/ Oh les beaux jours with Faber and Faber, letter from Natasha Parry to James Knowlson, 12 Mar 1996 about borrowing extracts from Knowlson’s introduction for the theatre programme of Oh les beaux jours, letter from James Knowlson to Peter Brook 25 Apr 1996, card from Peter Brook, undated, reply from Peter Brook to James Knowlson, 19 Jan 1995 regarding the help given to him on Happy Days, letter from Natasha Parry to James Knowlson, 2 Oct 1995 regarding her ‘joyous and enriching experience’ rehearsing Oh les beaux jours (Happy Days) and requesting permission to reproduce some extracts from Beckett’s notebook and James Knowlson’s writing on Happy Days in the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne programme, with reply from James Knowlson Natasha Parry to James Knowlson, list of dates and venues of Peter Brook’s production of Beckett’s Oh les beaux jours with Natasha Parry and a review from Libération, 4 Sept 1995, letter from Natasha Parry to James Knowlson, 9 Feb 1996 from Le Havre and Liège about the audience response to her performance in Oh les beaux jours, letter from Natasha Parry to James Knowlson, 23 Feb 1996, sending review from Liège, letter from James Knowlson to Natasha Parry, 26 Feb 1996 regarding a possible visit to Reading, letter from Natasha Parry to James Knowlson 10 Mar 1996, letter from James Knowlson to Natasha Parry, 12 Mar 1996 regarding Natasha’s possible visit to Reading, letter from Natasha Parry to James Knowlson, 13 Aug 1996, letter from James Knowlson to Peter Brook and Natasha Parry, 16 Oct 1997, letter from Peter Brook to James Page 27 of 562
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Knowlson, 30 Oct 1997, letter from James Knowlson to Peter Brook,10 Nov 1997 regarding an invitation to Oh les beaux jours in London in November, letter from James Knowlson to Peter Brook and Nina Sufi, 4 Dec 1997, letter from Natasha Parry, 7 Dec 1997, letter from Natasha Parry letter to James Knowlson, 30 Apr 1998, agreeing to appear at MacMillan Cancer relief evening in Nov 1998, letter from Natasha Parry to James Knowlson, 10 Feb, with reply to James Knowlson’s review in the Beckett Circle of Natasha Parry’s performance of Oh les beaux jours, with a card from the décoriste of the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne to James Knowlson, and a photo of James Knowlson with Peter Brook at the birthday celebrations for Natasha’s birthday at their apartment in London, letter from Natasha Parry to James Knowlson, 11 Feb 1999, fax regarding the launch of James Knowlson’s French edition of Damned to Fame in 1999 which James Knowlson was not well enough to attend but at which Natasha Parry was to read, letter from Natasha Parry and Peter Brook wishing James Knowlson well and speaking about the launch party in French of James Knowlson’s book which happened in his absence, 15 Feb 1999, letter from James Knowlson to Natasha Parry to hers about the French launch party, letter from Natasha Parry, 13 Feb 1999, offering to read the poem in French Natasha Parry to James Knowlson, describing the launch party and her role in it, 25 Feb 1999, letter from Natasha Parry, to James Knowlson, 2 Sept 2000, Christmas card from Natasha and Peter, undated and James Knowlson’s notes on Peter Brook’s The Empty Space
James Knowlson note: Peter Brook knew Beckett in Paris and wrote about his work on several occasions and his wife, Natasha Parry also met Beckett and was a great admirer of his plays. When Brook chose to direct Oh les beaux jours (Happy Days), they consulted James Knowlson who had earlier published a bilingual edition of the play and had also edited Samuel Beckett’s Theatrical Notebook (both published by Faber and Faber, London) when he was directing the play in London at the Royal Court Theatre in 1979. The approach made by Brook in December 1994 initiated a correspondence between Knowlson and both Brook and his wife who played Winnie, touring the world with that production first done at the Théâtre Vid-Lausanne in Switzerland. See various documents. Knowlson later reviewed the production in the Beckett Circle. Knowlson’s first communication with Peter Brook occasioned by Brook directing his wife, Natasha Parry in Beckett’s Oh les beaux jours.
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JEK A/2/43 Folder entitled Brown, Warren [agent at Spokesmen -Curtis Brown] Consists of letters to James Knowlson giving details of Beckett plays due for production in 1976 (Beckett at 70 celebrations)
1 folder 1975-1976
JEK A/2/44 Folder entitled Bruce, Brenda Consists of photocopy of Brenda Bruce’s script from 1962 when she played in the British première of Happy Days containing suggestions made by Beckett, who attended rehearsals and assisted the director, George Devine, letters from James Knowlson to Brenda Bruce, copies of reviews of Happy Days at the Royal Court Theatre London, Nov 1962 and obituary of Brenda Bruce, The Guardian, 21 Feb 1996
1 folder 1962-1996
JEK A/2/45 Folder entitled Büttner, Gottfried Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Gottfried Büttner, 1963-1989, and two letters from Eugène Ionesco to Gottfried Buttner, correspondence between Gottfried Büttner and James Knowlson, 1989-2002, and three letters and cards from Marie-Renate, also notification of Büttners death, illustration of Karl Leyhausen’s portrait of Peggy Sinclair, with on verso letter from Samuel Beckett to Gottfried Büttner on 24 May, 1963, extracts from Gottfried Büttner’s book, Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1984, typescript by Gottfried Büttner, Art Compassion and Resignation, copies of Gottfried Büttner’s memoirs of his many meetings with Samuel Beckett Page 29 of 562
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Samuel Beckett’s Poetry of the Mote, by Gottfried Büttner, Towards, Vol. III, No 1, Fall, 1987 and typescript of Gottfried Büttner’s The Theatre of the Absurd and Man’s Changing Consciousness, undated
James Knowlson note: Gottfried Büttner was a German doctor from Kassel who met Beckett in Paris and Berlin and corresponded with him for many years. He also wrote books about Beckett’s novel Watt and a volume of memoirs.
4 folders 1963-2002
JEK A/2/46 Folder entitled Caetani, Princess Marguerite Consists of obituary of her death
1 folder 1963
JEK A/2/47 Folder entitled Calder, John Consists of James Knowlson’s notes on the correspondence between Samuel Beckett and John Calder, 1958 – 1989, correspondence between John Calder and James Knowlson, 1971-1990, 1998, copies of documents from material already deposited in the Beckett Archive of Reading University, including Beckett’s tax exemption form with dates of visits out of France, 1962-1965, copies of corrected typescripts of The North and Still and other material from the Reading Beckett Archive, contracts between Samuel Beckett and John Calder Publishers, record of Calder material sold to Lilly Library, Bloomington, Indiana, sent on to James Knowlson by Bernard Stone who dealt with the sale, press cuttings regarding Beckett productions, record of dispute between John Calder and Chatto & Windus over his publication of More Pricks than Kicks, extracts on Beckett from John Calder’s memoirs of Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, article on John Calder Publishing’s one-man band, and two reviews of Calder’s memoirs, Pursuit, with advertising material for that volume and invitation card for John Calder to be made an Officier dans l’Ordre National de Mérite on the occasion of The Scott Moncrieff Prize 1997 at the Institut français, London Page 30 of 562
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James Knowlson note: John Calder was Beckett’s UK publisher and a friend for many decades
7 folders 1962-1998
JEK A/2/48 Folder entitled Carossa, Hans Consists of references to the German novelist, Hans Carossa, in Beckett’s German Diaries and a photocopy of Encyclopaedia entry
1 folder Undated
JEK A/2/49 Folder entitled Castro, Sergio de Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Sergio de Castro, 1972-1975, letter from Sergio de Castro to James and Elizabeth Knowlson, 9 Aug 1993 and reply from James Knowlson, 13 Oct 1993, booklet, Sergio de Castro Gouaches Les Ateliers, with an essay by Claude Esteban, 1972, Monique Delcourt, Exhibition 19 Oct – 3 Nov 1974, Exhibition catalogue, Sergio de Castro à Atochem, with an interview with the artist, Paris la Défense, 1987, Brochure Atochem, Sergio de Castro, paintings in entrance foyer of the society at Paris –la Défense, exhibition catalogue, 1e Festival d’Art Sacré contemporain de Bayeux Sergio de Castro – Sujets Religieux 1948-1978, exhibition 6 Jul – 5 Sept 1988, exhibition catalogue, with an essay by Jean-Dominique Rey, L’Atelier du Saint-Gothard, Sergio de Castro les Ateliers 1958-1969, Galeries des Ambassades, Paris, 1989 and exhibition catalogue, Sergio de Castro Peintures, 1972-1978, Hôtel de Ville de Sochaux, exhibition 16 Mar – 28 Apr 1991
James Knowlson note: A painter who knew Beckett and whose studio the latter visited on a number of occasions. Permission requested to include but no reply received from his address.
1 folder 1972-1991
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JEK A/2/50 Folder entitled Castronuovo, Julio Consists of copies of Samuel Beckett’s letters to Julio Castronuovo, one of his translators in Spain
James Knowlson note: Permission to include in archive sent by James Knowlson 2008
1 folder 1968-2008
JEK A/2/51 Folder entitled Chabert, Pierre Consists of typescript with Pierre Chabert’s annotations in red on the changes made by Beckett on his production of La dernière bande, with Jean Martin in 1970, Pierre Chabert, Samuel Beckett as Director, typescript text prior to being revised by James Knowlson to be published in Krapp’s Last Tape Theatre Workbook I, La Création collective dans le théâtre contemporain, in la Création collective, sous la direction de René Passeron, Clancier-Guénaud, undated, inscribed to James Knowlson by Pierre Chabert, Genèse d’un transposition scénique d’un texte de S. Beckett [Compagnie], by Pierre Chabert, programme of Oh les beaux jours, directed by Pierre Chabert with Denise Gence as Winnie, Théâtre National de la Colline, 1992, repertoire leaflet for Pierre Chabert’s company, 2001, with an invitation to the Lucernaire from Pierre Chabert, both inscribed to James Knowlson, photograph including Pierre Chabert to right of photo, James Knowlson to the left and obituary
James Knowlson note: Pierre Chabert was directed by Beckett in Robert Pinget’s L’Hypothèse and in Becket’s own play Krapp’s Last Tape. Beckett also advised Chabert on several other productions including Compagnie.
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Consists of programme of Texts by Samuel Beckett, adapted by Joseph Chaikin and Steven Kent undated, obituaries of Joe Chaikin and reviews of Chaikin’s performances
1 folder 1980s-1990s
JEK A/2/53 Folder entitled Chatto and Windus Consists of letters from the Chatto and Windus files about Samuel Beckett, mostly from Charles Prentice to Beckett and copies of Beckett letters to Prentice, copies of Tom MacGreevy’s letters to Prentice and his replies when it concerns Beckett, notes on the entire correspondence between Beckett and Chatto and Windus and letter to literary agent A. P. Wat and Son accompanying a report from Chatto and Windus about the typescript of Beckett’s novel Watt dated 8 Apr 1946
1 folder 1946-2000
JEK A/2/54 Folder entitled Cioran, E. M. Consists of various documents about Cioran and his relations with Samuel Beckett, obituary of Cioran, The Times, 23 Jun 1995 and a number of articles about Cioran
1 folder 1995-2001
JEK A/2/55 Folder entitled Clarke Austin Consists of letter to James Mays 19 Sept 1972 about his meetings with Beckett and concerning the suggestion made to him by Oliver St John Gogarty that a character in Murphy was based upon Clarke himself urging him to take an action for libel against Beckett and letter from James Mays to James Knowlson, 27 Jan 1993
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Ticklepenny in Beckett’s novel Murphy and was criticised by Beckett for his views on poetry expressed in Pilgrimage (1929). He was also a well-known figure in Dublin artistic and literary circles and Beckett met him from time to time in the pubs and at the occasional social gathering.
1 folder 1972-1993
JEK A/2/56 Folder entitled Clodd, Alan Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson to Alan Clodd, copies of from Samuel Beckett to Alan Clodd
1 folder 1970-2008
JEK A/2/57 Folder entitled Cluchey, Rick Consists of book proposal typescript, From the Dead, 2005, copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Rick Cluchey and from Cluchey to Beckett, 1974-1989, press cuttings about Rick Cluchey and his relations with Samuel Beckett and Beckett’s work My Years with Beckett by Rich Cluchey, New Edinburgh Review Anthology, Polygon Books, Edinburgh, 1982, pp. 20-30 Krapp’s Last Tape Theatre Workbook, No I, Brutus Books Ltd., London, 1980, pp.120-123, with typescript of the version published in Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett, pp.195-199, theatre programme, Mt. San Antonio College Theater Department, Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, with Rick Cluchey as Hamm [Workshop production], transcriptions of letters from Samuel Beckett to Rick Cluchey and Cluchey's letters to Beckett 1974-1983
James Knowlson note: Rick Cluchey (1935- ) Founder and animator of the San Quentin Drama Workshop. Formerly an inmate for many years at San Quentin prison before being released on parole and receiving a pardon. Worked with Samuel Beckett as an assistant in Berlin, he then played the roles of Krapp in Krapp’s Last Tape, Hamm in Endgame and Pozzo in Waiting for Godot, all directed in Berlin and London by Beckett. Copies of his letters to Beckett were transmitted Page 34 of 562
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to James Knowlson long before there was any question of their sale to De Paul which is where the originals are now deposited.
2 folders 1970s-1990s
JEK A/2/58 Folder entitled Codish, K.D. Consists of press cuttings, copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to K.D. Codish, and correspondence between James Knowlson and K.D. Codish
1 folder 1985-2008
JEK A/2/59 Folder entitled Coetzee J. M. Consists of typescript letter from J. M. Coetzee to James Knowlson about Samuel Beckett’s application for a Lectureship in Italian in 1937 in the University of Cape Town 1 Jan 1995, and reply from James Knowlson, 11 Jan 1995, typescript letter from J. M. Coetzee, 24 Jan 1995, with testimonials for Beckett from Walter Starkie, Rudmose-Brown, R. W. Tate, Jean Thomas and a letter of support from Beckett’s former Professor, Rudmose-Brown, typescript versions, sent by Coetzee in 2004, of a piece entitled Samuel Beckett in Cape Town: An Imaginary History, first version was published in Passage (Sydney), no. 2, correspondence between Knowlson and Coetzee 2003, press cuttings about J. M. Coetzee winning the Nobel prize in October 2003, includes The Sunday Times Profile 5 October 2003 and article by John Leonard about J. M. Coetzee’s work with a computer on Beckett’s text Lessness, New York Times Book Review, 19 August 1973, Beckett Safe from Computers with a cartoon
James Knowlson note: Although the novelist, J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature 2003, did not know Beckett personally, he did his Ph. D. thesis on Beckett’s novel Watt for the University of Texas and was deeply influenced by his work. He also investigated Beckett’s application for a Lectureship in Italian in the University of Cape Town and wrote about that and his debt to Beckett in a brief correspondence with James Page 35 of 562
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Knowlson and in an article. His work includes Dusklands, In the Heart of the Country, Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, Age of Iron, The Master of Petersburg, Boyhood, Disgrace and Youth.
1 folder 1973-2006
JEK A/2/60 Folder entitled Coffey, Denise Consists of copy of a letter from Samuel Beckett to Denise Coffey
1 folder 1976
JEK A/2/61 Folder entitled Coffey, Brian Consists of letters from Brian Coffey to James Knowlson, notes on Coffey’s letters to Tom MacGreevy 1933-1965 with several references to Beckett, Brian Coffey, Memory’s Murphy Maker, notes on Samuel Beckett, Eonta Arts Quarterly 1991, vol. I, no. 1, pp. 3-10, Brian Coffey, More and/or less than fifty years ago Southern Arts, July/August 1984, no. 27 and Music and mantras and obituary of Brian Coffey by Augustus Young, The Guardian, April 21 1995
James Knowlson note: The Irish poet, Brian Coffey was a good friend of Beckett in the 1930s and is often referred to in his correspondence.
1 folder 1979-1985
JEK A/2/62 Folder entitled Cohen, Robert Consists of copy of a letter from Samuel Beckett to Robert Cohen dated 5 Oct 1960, relating to cuts he had made in Waiting for Godot and Endgame, with an offprint of an article by Robert Cohen Parallels and the Possibility of influence between Simone Weil’s Waiting for God and Samuel Beckett’s Page 36 of 562
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Waiting for Godot, Modern Drama, Feb 1964, pp. 425-436 and typescript of an article by Robert Cohen entitled Beckett’s Mistake prepared for REMLA Montreal, 8 Apr 2010
James Knowlson note: The 2 letters and a card from 1977 relate to a Tribute to George Reavey in the Journal of Beckett Studies, no. 2. Other letters from 1990 and 1993 relate to James Knowlson’s approach to Coffey for help with his biography of Beckett. In fact Anthony Cronin approached Coffey and James Knowlson’s meeting with Coffey may well have become impossible as a result. But it may be that Coffey had heard that James Knowlson had said some harsh words to Deirdre Bair in Chicago in 1979 and had taken offence on her part. See letter from Coffey in 1993.
1 folder 1960-2010
JEK A/2/63 Folder entitled Cohn, Ruby Consists of correspondence of Ruby Cohn with James Knowlson, 1972 – 2003, references to works of Beckett in letters from him to Ruby Cohn, 1966-1989, list of errors in Watt, Molloy and Malone Dies, sent to Judith Smidt of Grove Press by Ruby Cohn The Godot Circle, original typescript for Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett, from Ruby Cohn with note saying this was part of a paper she read at Blackheath in 1966 and letters about Samuel Beckett from S.B. Tawfeek to Ruby Cohn
James Knowlson note: Ruby Cohn (1922 - ) Professor Emerita at the University of California, Davis; a friend of Beckett for almost thirty years. She has written many books on European and American theatre and several books on Beckett, including Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut, Back to Beckett, Just Play, and, most recently, A Beckett Canon. She has edited Disjecta, a collection of his critical writings, as well as two casebooks on Waiting for Godot.
1 folder 1966-2003
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JEK A/2/64 Folder entitled Collobert, Danielle Consists of list of meetings with Samuel Beckett from 1967 to 1973 taken from Beckett’s day to day diaries, meetings were mostly at the Closerie des Lilas or the Cluny, information about Collobert’s life and her books, typescript by James Knowlson about Collobert’s relations with Beckett and e-mails from Collobert’s translator, Norma Cole
James Knowlson note: Young French writer who used to meet Beckett. Committed suicide in 1978. James Knowlson met this young beautiful depressed young woman with Barbara Bray and spoke to Beckett of her. See a short piece in typescript James Knowlson wrote about her.
1 folder 2004-2006
JEK A/2/65 Folder entitled Colosimo, Clara Consists of correspondence from Colosimo, Connie Ricono, the Unione Nazionale Scrittori, Jérôme Lindon, Curtis Brown, London, about the above case of dispute over rights in Italy, see Damned to Fame, pp. 529-530, letter also from Beckett’s agent in Italy Connie Ricono to James Knowlson giving addresses of Clara Colosimo and Laura Betti and James Knowlson’s draft of biographical treatment of The Colosimo Affair
James Knowlson note: Italian actress who went on hunger strike in order to obtain rights to play Winnie in Giorno felice, much of this material comes from the Archives of IMEC Paris.
1 folder 1965-1993
JEK A/2/66 Folder entitled Costello, Nuala Consists of card from Nuala Costello to James Knowlson, 27 Sept 1973, copies of two letters from Samuel Beckett to Nuala Costello, 27 Feb 1934, 10 May 1932, copy of a piece based upon Nuala Costello’s letters to her mother from Paris, entitled Letters from Paris about her meetings with James Page 38 of 562
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Joyce, meetings with Samuel Beckett, Tom MacGreevy and George Reavey, Tuam Annual, undated, letter from Patrick O’Dwyer to James Knowlson about Nuala Costello, 21 Jun 1993 and e-mail from him to Lois Overbeck with an account of Nuala Costello’s background, letters from James Knowlson to Solicitors trying to find out more about Nuala Costello
James Knowlson note: Nuala Costello had a ‘very unclitoridian affair’ (Beckett’s own phrase) with Samuel Beckett in the mid- 1930s and is written about in Damned to Fame, in which Knowlson quotes from the letters from Beckett to Costello, also included in this collection in photocopied form.
1 folder 1934-2003
JEK A/2/67 Folder entitled Cousse, Raymond Consists of letter dated 24 Mar 1991 from Raymond Cousse to James Knowlson, about Beckett, with some programmes about Cousse’s own plays, copy of a Samuel Beckett – Raymond Cousse Lettres inédites piece with Cousse’s letters to Beckett and Samuel Beckett’s replies, copied from Les Episodes, Revue littéraire, Nov 2003, copy of letter from James Knowlson of condolence to Cousse’s widow after his death in 1992
James Knowlson note: French dramatist who knew (met him perhaps 7 times he said) and corresponded with Samuel Beckett. He committed suicide.
1 folder 1991-1992
JEK A/2/68 Folder entitled Coulomb, Jean Consists of copies of letters from Tom MacGreevy to Jean Coulomb, document by Jean Coulomb on Henri Laugier entitled Henri Laugier: Laugier vivant la science, l’art, la politique and letters from Jean Coulomb to James Knowlson and Susan Screibman
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knew him and Samuel Beckett at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1928-30.
1 folder 1935-1991
JEK A/2/69 Folder entitled Cunard, Nancy Consists of notes on Charles Burchart’s correspondence with Nancy Cunard, letter dated 18 Jun 1930 from Nancy Cunard to Allen Lane in which she speaks of having found a really good poem about Time, which is Beckett’s Whoroscope, copy of University of Reading Bulletin, correction by Anthony Barnett about the location of the Cigogne nightclub, article from the Daily Mail about Nancy Cunard, 4 Nov 2000 and transcripts of letters from Samuel Beckett to Nancy Cunard, 1956-1963
James Knowlson note: Nancy Cunard, one of Beckett’s first admirers, became a friend as well the publisher of his poem, Whoroscope, with The Hours Press (1930). She helped Beckett financially early in his career. Beckett wrote to S. E. Gontarski of Nancy Cunard often speaking to him of George Moore and that she “wrote a book on him, I forget the title” (SB to S. E. Gontarski, 16 Jun 1982)
1 folder 1956-2001
JEK A/2/70 Folder entitled Dachy, Marc Consists of letter to James Knowlson about Beckett and the Jolases undated, with a faint copy of a letter from Beckett to Maria Jolas 16th Apr 1958, text by Marc Dachy on Jolas and Joyce
1 folder 1958-1992
JEK A/2/71 Folder entitled Daiken, Leslie Consists of material relating to the sale in Summer 1958 by Page 40 of 562
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The Beauchamp Bookshop of Daiken’s lecture notes on Beckett’s lectures on Vigny, Musset, Balzac, Bergson, Flaubert and Stendhal, with a letter from Adele Wenning and other documents including copy of the bookshop catalogue, copy of Daiken’s lecture notes on Beckett on Racine, Reading University Library copy, with a drawing of Samuel Beckett, correspondence between James Knowlson and Melanie Daiken, with queries
James Knowlson note: Leslie Daiken was a student of Samuel Beckett at Trinity College, Dublin in 1930-1931. His name was originally Yodaiken and he often signed himself ‘Yod’. He remained friendly with Beckett for the rest of his life and used to see him sometimes when Beckett was in London or he in Paris.
1992-2003
JEK A/2/72 Folder entitled Daneman, Paul Consists of obituary of Paul Daneman, Daily Telegraph 30 Apr 2001 and article by Paul Daneman about the British première of Waiting for Godot and his role as Estragon, Drama, undated
1 folder 2001
JEK A/2/73 Folder entitled Darley, Arthur Consists of English translation by Dublin solicitor, Ernest Keegan, of Beckett’s poem Mort de AD (Keegan was Darley’s cousin), various letters about Darley and the libel case between Oliver St John Gogarty and William Sinclair, copy of the Probate and the Last Will and Testament of Arthur Brewster Warren-Darley 1948, with a copy of Darley’s death certificate (he died at the age of 35 of tuberculosis) and letters from Ernest Keegan to James Knowlson
James Knowlson note: A physician friend of Beckett at St-Lô. The subject of the poem ‘Mort de AD’
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1949-1995
JEK A/2/74 Folder entitled Delavenay, Emile Consists of letters from Emile Delavenay to James Knowlson and a copy of Delavenay letters to Richard Ellmann, copy letter from Beckett to Emile Delavenay 1989 and transcript of interview with Emile Delavenay 17 May 1991
1 folder 1989-1991
JEK A/2/75 Folder entitled Demélier, Jean Consists of catalogue for Michael Silverman of London including a letter from Samuel Beckett to Jean Demélier
1 folder 1997
JEK A/2/76 Folder entitled Deyrolle, Jean Consists of transcriptions of letters from Samuel Beckett to Jean Deyrolle
1 folder 1966-1967
JEK A/2/77 Folder entitled Devine, George Consists of article in The New Yorker, 15 Jan 1990, about Beckett at Devine’s cremation
1 folder 1990
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JEK A/2/78 Folder entitled Devlin, Dennis Consists of notes on Mervyn Wall writing about Devlin in The Lace Curtain, No 4, Summer 1971, letter from James Mays to James Knowlson giving information about Devlin’s estate and notes on Mays’ introduction to his 1989 edition of Collected Poems of Denis Devlin
James Knowlson note: Denis Devlin was a friend of Samuel Beckett (and his poems were admired by him). See Samuel Beckett, Disjecta, pp. 75-76, for the article of 1934 “Recent Irish Poetry” in which Beckett praises among Irish poets above all Devlin and Coffey.
1 folder Undated
JEK A/2/79 Folder entitled Donaghy, Lyle Consists of dealer’s catalogues relating to Donaghy’s books, details of Donaghy books and correspondence
James Knowlson note: These books once belonged to Beckett’s friend Professor W. S. Maguinness. In these William English the dealer had found a 4 page copy of Beckett’s poem ‘For Future Reference’. English asked the advice of Knowlson and Pilling as to whether this was a true Beckett manuscript. Both were sure it was not but was a fair copy probably made by Mrs Maguinness. This explains one letter.
1 folder 1997-2005
JEK A/2/80 Folder entitled Douw, Judith Consists of entries from Douw's diary relating to Beckett activities in New York Jul 1964 when he was in the USA to film with Buster Keaton, copies of Douw correspondence with Samuel Beckett and correspondence between Judith Douw and James Knowlson
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1 folder 1960-2008
JEK A/2/81 Folder entitled Dowden Hester Consists of extracts from Edmund Bentley, Far Horizon A biography of Hester Dowden Medium and Psychic Investigator, Rider and Company, London, undated
James Knowlson note: medium at whose house Beckett used to play the piano in London in 1934-1935 and who was Tom MacGreevy’s landlady. Nothing more.
1 folder Undated
JEK A/2/82 Folder relating to Doyle, Ruth Consists of photograph of Barrington Tower, information relating to the tower, correspondence from Ruth Doyle to James Knowlson and biographical information about Ruth Doyle
1 folder 2004
JEK A/2/83 Folder entitled Duckworth, Colin Consists of correspondence between Colin Duckworth and James Knowlson, 1977 – 1994, with a Michael Silverman Catalogue 18, 2000 of Autographs and Manuscripts containing sale of 23 letters from Samuel Beckett to Colin Duckworth
1 folder 1978-2000
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JEK A/2/84 Folder entitled Dukes, Gerry Consists of correspondence between Gerry Dukes and James Knowlson and copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Gerry Dukes, 1986
1 folder 1986-2002
JEK A/2/85 Folder entitled Duthuit, Georges Consists of Rémi Labrusse’s transcriptions of Beckett’s letters to Georges Duthuit, with copy of one letter of Beckett to Georges Duthuit 9 Mar 1949, correspondence of Claude Duthuit and Rémi Labrusse with James Knowlson, texts of Georges Duthuit with marginal notes probably from his son, Claude Duthuit and copies of Beckett’s translations for Georges Duthuit for publication in transition and other journals
James Knowlson note: Art critic who published Transition magazine and employed Beckett to do many translations. Beckett also knew Duthuit socially and wrote the Trois Dialogues avec Georges Duthuit.
6 folders DATES
JEK A/2/86 Folder entitled Egan, Desmond Consists of letter from Desmond Egan to James Knowlson 29 Apr 1999 about Beckett and his biography, photocopy of Desmond Egan A Song for my Father poetry collection with a poem dedicated to Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1989-1999
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1 folder 1992-1994
JEK A/2/88 Folder entitled Eisenstein, Sergei Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Sergei Eisenstein 2 Mar 1936
1 folder 1992
JEK A/2/89 Folder entitled Emery, Jack Consists of correspondence from Jack Emery to James Knowlson, 1971-1998, with copies of 2 letters from Samuel Beckett to Jack Emery, 1967
1 folder 1967-1998
JEK A/2/90 Folder entitled Envoy magazine Consists of notes made by James Knowlson in the Southern Illinois collection at Carbondale, Illinois
1 folder Undated
JEK A/2/91 Folder entitled Esposito, Bianca Consists of notes of information contained in James Knowlson’s interview of 8 Apr 1989 with Samuel Beckett, including his reference to Bianca Esposito’s card to him dated 1926 now in Reading University and draft for Damned to Fame of the section on Bianca Esposito, Beckett’s private Italian tutor in Dublin
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1 folder 1989
JEK A/2/92 Folder entitled Esposito, Mario Consists of letters exchanged between Richard Pine and James Knowlson about the Espositos especially Mario and the Elsners, copy of Waiting for Mario: The Espositos, Joyce and Beckett, J. Bowyer Bell. Eire-Ireland A Journal of Irish Studies, St Paul, Minnesota, Summer 1995, vol. 30, no. 2, pp.7 -26, notes by James Knowlson on Vera (Dockrell) and Mario Esposito material at the University of Tulsa and record of Mario Esposito’s publications on medieval manuscripts
1 folder 2002
JEK A/2/93 Folder entitled Esposito's and Florence Consists of letter from Keir Elam, arranging a meeting with James Knowlson
1 folder 1995
JEK A/2/94 Folder entitled Esslin, Martin Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Martin Esslin, press cuttings and correspondence relating to his death
1 folder 1960-1979, 2002
JEK A/2/95 Folder entitled Fandos, Manolo Masti Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett and Suzanne to Manolo Fandos, 1961-1989, colour illustration, Fin de Party, dedicated to Suzanne and Samuel Beckett, 1992, letter in Spanish from Manolo Fandos to James Knowlson, 17 Feb Page 47 of 562
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1993, with accompanying English translation and letter from James Knowlson to Manolo Fandos, 6 Apr 1993
James Knowlson note: Manolo Fandos, Spanish painter friend of Suzanne and Samuel Beckett.
1 folder 1989-1993
JEK A/2/96 Folder entitled Federman, Raymond Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Raymond Federman, 1965-1985, letters from Raymond Federman to James Knowlson, 1970-2004, typescript poem, Singularly Bored (Remembering Samuel Beckett), by Raymond Federman and Thomas Hartl, 1996, typescript poem, Notes for Sam, by Raymond Federman, undated, typescript Samuel Beckett, The Gift of Words, original typescript of a piece printed in Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett, two photographs of Raymond Federman and correspondence relating to the death of Raymond Federman
James Knowlson note: Raymond Federman (1928-). Raymond Federman is a distinguished bilingual novelist, poet and translator, who is also a critic and scholar. He has written eight novels in French and English including Double or Nothing, Amer Eldorado (written in French and nominated for the Prix Médicis), Take It or Leave It, The Voice in the Closet, The Twofold Vibration, Smiles on Washington Square (Winner of the 1985 American Book Award), To Whom It May Concern and La Fourrure de ma Tante Rachel. A friend of Samuel Beckett for many years, he also wrote Journey to Chaos: Samuel Beckett’s Early Fiction and was the co-author of the bibliography, Samuel Beckett : His Works and His Critics.
1 folder 1965-2004
JEK A/2/97 Folder entitled Feldman, Morton Consists of typescript of text by Samuel Beckett, Neither, copy of the accompanying card from Samuel Beckett to Morton Feldman dated Berlin, 31 Sept 1976, with a note to James Page 48 of 562
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Knowlson from Morton Feldman, letter from Morton Feldman to James Knowlson, 6 Sept 1977, correspondence between James Knowlson and Chris Villars about the publication of an extract from Damned to Fame about Morton Feldman, 1997, article In the Shadows with Feldman and Beckett, Lively Arts, Nov 27, 1976, letter from W. M. Colleran to James Knowlson about Morton Feldman’s Neither and collection of photocopies of articles about Feldman’s music
1 folder 1976-1997
JEK A/2/98 Folder entitled Fenton, Leonard Consists of letters and cards from Leonard Fenton to James and Elizabeth Knowlson, 1979-2006, A Beckett Evening with Leonard Fenton, 31 Mar 1990, at the French Studies Annual Conference, article about Leonard Fenton and his acting in Beckett plays, Doctor in the House, Jewish Chronicle, 16 Jul 1999, programmes of plays and brochure of a film involving Leonard Fenton, list of paintings by Leonard Fenton at the University of Surrey in Guildford and exhibition of Watercolours by Leonard Fenton at the Primrose Hill Gallery
James Knowlson note: British actor who played Willie in Happy Days by Samuel Beckett in 1979, directed by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1979-2006
JEK A/2/99 Folder entitled Ferrarini, Guido Consists of copies of letters to Guido Ferrarini at the Teatroaperto in Bologna from Samuel Beckett, letter from Guido Ferrarini to James Knowlson, 24 Mar 1993 and programme of Act Without Words, Krapp’s Last Tape, and Happy Days, directed by Guido Ferrarini at the Teatroaperto in Bologna
James Knowlson note: Italian director of Teatroaperto.
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1984-1993
JEK A/2/100 Folder entitled Fischer Verlag Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Fischer Verlag and reply from Dr Barbara Neu, 1994
1 folder 1994
JEK A/2/101 Folder entitled Fletcher, John Consists of letters from Samuel Beckett to John Fletcher, 1961-1986, questionnaire to Samuel Beckett from John Fletcher with holograph replies by Samuel Beckett, correspondence between John Fletcher and James Knowlson, 1974-2005, script for the BBC transmission Poems by Samuel Beckett – No. 1, 27 Jan 1966 recording with John Fletcher as narrator and Jack MacGowran and Denys Hawthorne as readers, script for the BBC transmission – No. II, 9 Feb 1966 , script of Beginning to End, with Jack MacGowran, recording 30 Sept 1965, typescript of French adaption of Beginning to End and review of New Directions in Literature, by John Fletcher,The Listener, 4 Jul 1968
James Knowlson note: Former Professor of European Studies at the University of East Anglia. Early critic on the work of Samuel Beckett. Author of The Novels of Samuel Beckett and the bibliography of Beckett with Raymond Federman.
4 folders 1961-2005
JEK A/2/102 Folder entitled Foldes, Andor Consists of letters from Samuel Beckett to Andor Foldes, 1967-1987, with an accompanying note from Mrs Foldes who copied them for the Knowlsons, letter from Mrs Lili Foldes to James Knowlson, April 1993, enclosing a photograph of Beckett and her husband and two letters from Mrs Lili Foldes, April 1993 Page 50 of 562
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James Knowlson note: Famous pianist who met Beckett and Suzanne in Paris
1 folder 1967-1993
JEK A/2/103 Folder entitled Fontaine, Dr. Thérèse Consists of letter to James Knowlson from the documentation service of hospitals in Paris about Dr Thérèse Fontaine who treated Samuel Beckett after his stabbing in 1938
1 folder 1993
JEK A/2/104 Folder entitled Fournier, Edith Consists of letters and cards from Edith Fournier to James Knowlson, 1989-1995 and Edith Fournier, Samuel Beckett mathématicien et poète, Critique, août-septembre, 1990, inscribed to Jim Knowlson
1 folder 1989-1993
JEK A/2/105 Folder entitled Fraenkel, Michael Consists of notes by James Knowlson on Michael Fraenkel, 1896-1957 and a biographical and bibliographical sketch by Walter Lowenfels and Howard McCord, typescript from the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University
1 folder Undated
JEK A/2/106 Folder entitled Francis, Sam Consists of obituaries of Sam Francis, The Daily Telegraph, 24 Page 51 of 562
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1 folder 1994
JEK A/2/107 Folder entitled Frasca, Gabriele Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Gabriele Frasca, 1993-1995 and copies of four holograph letters from Samuel Beckett in French to Gabriele Frasca, the Italian writer and translator, dated 14 Dec 1984, 6 Nov 1986, 7 Jan 1987 and 11 Jul 1987
James Knowlson note: Gabriele Frasca translated Watt(1998), the Poems of Beckett (1999) and Murphy (2003) into Italian for Einaudi’s publishing house. He published Cascando. Tre studi su Samuel Beckett in 1988 (Napoli, Liguori) and Beckett gives him permission to call these studies Cascando in one of the above letters. The 11 July 1987 letter refers to a copy of Il fermo volere which Frasca had sent to Beckett.
1 folder 1993-1995
JEK A/2/108 Folder entitled Gasiorowski, Jacek Consists of correspondence between from Gasiorowski and James Knowlson 1993, typescript by Jacek Gasiorowski, Who speaks not I, undated, poster of Fragments de Théâtre, de Samuel Beckett, Lucernaire, Paris, directed by Gasiorowski, Apr 1983 and reviews
James Knowlson note: Theatre director in Paris
1 folder 1983-1993
JEK A/2/109 Folder entitled Georgi, Walter Consists of letters from Walter Georgi to James Knowlson, 1995-2001 and photocopies of the title pages of Beckett’s Page 52 of 562
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That Time Damals, inscribed by Samuel Beckett to Dr Georgi, and of Beckett’s Oh les beaux jours, also inscribed to him
James Knowlson note: A Berlin psychiatrist who became friendly with Beckett in the mid to late 1970s, solialising with the San Quentin group of actors in Berlin.
1 folder 1995-2001
JEK A/2/110 Folder entitled Giacometti, Alberto Consists of typescript of MA Thesis, by Jane Hamer, Chelsea College of Art, Giacometti and the Absurd, 1991, with an accompanying letter from the author David Jenkins, letter to James Knowlson, 28 Oct 2004, with James Knowlson's reply, and Jenkins introductory essay on Beckett and Giacometti preparing for a thesis at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, Manfred Milz, Eros und Erkenntnistrieb. Ästhetischer Dialog zwischen Alberto Giacometti und Samuel Beckett um 1930, with an abstract in English, offprint of an essay in Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg, 2002 and article by T.G.Rosenthal, Struggling to get out, The Listener, 29 Jul 1965
2 folders 1965-2004
JEK A/2/111 Folder entitled Gidal, Peter Consists of correspondence from Samuel Beckett to Peter Gidal, 1971-1988, correspondence between Peter Gidal and James Knowlson, 1972-2006, Peter Gidal, Politics and aesthetics in filmmaking, filmwaves, issue 7, Spring, 1999, pp. 16-20 and Peter Gidal, cinéma-vidéo, Centre Georges Pompidou, 24-26 Apr 1996
1 folder 1972-2006
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JEK A/2/112 Folder entitled Girodias, Maurice Consists of corrected typescript of John de St. Jorre’s book on Girodias, The Good Ship Venus The Erotic Voyages of Maurice Girodias and the Olympia Press, 1994, with a Sunday Times review of this book of 25 Sept 1994
2 folders 1994
JEK A/2/113 Folder entitled Glenavy, Lady Beatrice Consists of notes on Today We Will Only Gossip, and review of Today We Will Only Gossip, in The Listener, 20 Aug 1964 and quotations from the letter of Beatrice Glenavy to Mary Hutchinson in Humanities Research Center, Texas, 1955-1965
James Knowlson note: Beatrice Glenavy, a daughter of the Elvery family, who were neighbours of the Becketts in Foxrock, contain various references to Beckett and the Beckett family. It has a photo of Beckett at his mother’s knee. Beatrice Lady Glenavy was also a close friend of Beckett’s aunt, Cissie Sinclair (née Beckett) and was an art student with her. She married the peer, Gordon Campbell and was the mother of Patrick Campbell.
1 folder 1964, undated
JEK A/2/114 Folder entitled Glenville, Peter Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Peter Glenville
James Knowlson note: Peter Glenville was originally to have directed the British première of Waiting for Godot. An interesting letter about Sir Alec Guinness and Sir Ralph Richardson and the failure of efforts to get them to act in Waiting for Godot.
1 folder 1994
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JEK A/2/115 Folder entitled Gogarty, Oliver St John Consists of copies of trial papers in the Gogarty/Sinclair case, correspondence between James Knowlson and Ernest Keegan and newspaper cuttings and the Irish reports on the case
4 folders 1937, 1992
JEK A/2/116 Folder entitled Gothard, David Consists of card to James Knowlson from David Gothard
1 folder 1994
JEK A/2/117 Folder entitled Gregory, André Consists of copy of a letter to André Gregory from Samuel Beckett
James Knowlson note: Source unknown
1 folder 20 Jul 1973
JEK A/2/118 Folder entitled Guggenheim, Peggy Consists of copy of Guggenheim Jeune Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, Geer van Velde, May 1938 and Abstract and Concrete Art Exhibition, May 1939, short piece by Samuel Beckett about Geer van Velde followed by a poem by Brian Coffey, The Painter Van Velde, and a piece by George Reavey, piece on Wolfgang Paalen, by André Breton, translated by Samuel Beckett, reviews of books on Peggy Guggenheim and articles about her, obituary of Ralph Rumney, accused by Peggy Guggenheim of murdering her daughter, The Daily Telegraph, 9 Mar 2002, Françoise Ducout, L’Héritière qui s’offrit un musée, Elle, no. 2273, 31 Jul 1989, notes on Peggy Page 55 of 562
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Guggenheim, Out of this century, pp. 194-215 and letter from Dr Gottfried Büttner, 23 Nov 1996 recommending a book on Peggy Guggenheim by Laurence Tacon-Rumney, Peggy Guggenheim: l’Album d’une Collectionneuse, Flammarion, Paris, 1996
James Knowlson note: Peggy Guggenheim had an affair with Samuel Beckett in 1938. She was the heiress and founder of the Guggenheim Jeune Gallery in London.
1 folder 1939-1996
JEK A/2/119 Folder entitled Guinness, Sir Alec Consists of interview by Nicholas de Jongh, High Life, British Airways in flight magazine, Apr 1999, pp. 90-93
1 folder 1999
JEK A/2/120 Folder entitled Haerdter, Michael Consists of copy of letter from Beckett to Michael Haerdter
1 folder 25 Dec 1987
JEK A/2/121 Folder entitled Hamburger, Michael Consists of letter from Michael Hamburger to James Knowlson, 17 Apr 1990 and Knowlson’s reply, 20 Apr 1990, copies of 4 cards from Beckett to Hamburger with his notes on them and press cutting of Hamburger's obituary
1 folder 1990-1997
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JEK A/2/122 Folder entitled Harvey, Lawrence Consists of card from Lawrence Harvey to James Knowlson, 21 Dec 1976, Ex libris card of Lawrence Harvey, introduction to the Papers of Samuel Beckett in the Dartmouth College Library and a listing of the folders, typescript of Harvey’s Conversations with Samuel Beckett 1961-62 extracted from his personal notes and prepared for use in Beckett Remembering – Remembering Beckett, photographs, correspondence with Sheila Harvey and press cuttings
James Knowlson note: Lawrence E. Harvey (1925-1988) was Professor of French and Italian at Dartmouth College. He became a very good friend of Beckett in the 1960s when he was preparing his Samuel Beckett Poet and Critic, Princeton, New Jersey, 1970. He worked extensively on the poems but also envisaged writing a biography of Beckett. This was later abandoned but there is much biographical information in Harvey’s personal notes and book.
1 folder 1988-2004
JEK A/2/123 Folder entitled Havel, Vaclav Consists of copies of Václav Havel’s letter of gratitude to Samuel Beckett, Prague, 17 Apr 1983, sent to James Knowlson by his Secretary, Anna Freimanova, and copy of Beckett’s holograph reply, 29 May 1983, letter from James Knowlson to Václav Havel, 19 Feb 1997, letter from the literature officer at Southern Arts asking for James Knowlson’s help in contacting Václav Havel to invite him to an arts residency at Reading University with the letter to Havel from James Knowlson of 23 July 1999 inviting him to such a post, reply from Anna Freimanová, Havel’s secretary, 29 Nov 1999 with envelope, newspaper articles and cuttings about President Václav Havel, typescripts of an article on Samuel Beckett’s play Catastrophe written for Václav Havel, by James Knowlson, unpublished in English but entitled Blowing away the Smoke, and written for Jan Chadakowski for the Polish magazine, PULS, letter from Beckett’s Polish translator, Antoni Libera to James Knowlson, 24 Apr 1990, with a short article by Lech Kurpiewski of his production of Libera’s production of Catastrophe at the Riverside Studios in London, letter from someone unknown to James Knowlson at the New Yorker to J. D. [O’Hara] about Beckett writing to Havel two days before he [Beckett] died, Page 57 of 562
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article Saint Vaclav Newweek, 30 Apr 1990 and copy of photograph of Havel the revolutionary, Havel Na Hrad
James Knowlson note: Czech writer and later President of Czechoslovakia. A great admirer of Beckett’s writing President Havel wrote to Beckett in gratitude for the play Catastrophe which Beckett wrote to support him.
1 folder 1983-1999
JEK A/2/124 Folder entitled Hayden, Henri and Josette Consists of James Knowlson’s partial transcriptions of the letters of Samuel Beckett to Henri and Josette Hayden, notes on these letters by James Knowlson, photocopy of the typescript of Beckett’s text Henri Hayden homme peintre, with an accompanying letter from Pierre Célice to James Knowlson, 27 Jan 2004, and a reply, 3 Feb 2004, letters from Josette Hayden to James and Elizabeth Knowlson and copies of their replies to her 1990 – 2001, letter from Sean Lawlor about Henri Hayden’s painting The Chess Players and a meeting between a friend and Hayden, with a copy of the picture, photographs, and exhibition brochures for Henri Hayden
James Knowlson note: Josette Hayden would not allow copies of Beckett’s letters to be made or the originals to be borrowed. James Knowlson spent many days therefore going over the letters on the spot with Josette Hayden, in the course of which they recorded not only their readings of the letters but also Josette’s explanations of what Beckett was writing about. These transcriptions and notes are the written versions of these recorded sessions. Although there are gaps then in the texts, when neither James Knowlson nor Josette Hayden could properly read the holograph texts, once the originals become available – and they have now been sold by the Italian filmmaker, Francesca Ragusa, not as we first believed to Trinity College Dublin but to someone so far unknown – these notes (and the recordings to which they apply) will become absolutely invaluable, even more important than straight transcriptions could ever be. The amount of detail in Josette Hayden’s explanations and recollections is extraordinary. This may be one of the most worthwhile parts of the collection for scholars to pursue. ‘Henri Hayden homme peintre’ of 1952 Page 58 of 562
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which was sold, with James Knowlson acting as unpaid intermediary, to Reading University’s Beckett International Foundation by Pierre Célice together with a Hayden painting and a pen and ink sketch for (in all) 3000 pounds sterling. Much concern is expressed by Pierre Célice about the sale by Francesca Ragusa, an Italian filmmaker of Henri and Josette Hayden’s letters from Beckett. See small collection of letters and faxes from Pierre Célice, Hayden’s adopted son, who by reason of the ‘ownership belonging to the holder’ in French law, had to give way and allow her to sell this rich collection of letters – one of the most important in existence. Célice’s letters are not in order. There is an original manuscript (fair copy) by Beckett, two typescripts, a copy of a pen and ink sketch of Beckett, and a black and white copy of the painting. With other letters from Pierre Célice to James Knowlson. Originals of the manuscript and typescripts and the art works themselves are in Reading’s Beckett International Foundation Archive. But not the letters (which are all originals) to JK.
1 box 1990-2001
JEK A/2/125 Folder entitled Hayter, Stanley William Consists of letters from S. W. Hayter, 22 Jan and 11 Feb 1977 promising a piece about George Reavey for the Journal of Beckett Studies tribute volume edited by Knowlson later in 1977, letter from Désirée Hayter to James Knowlson, 9 Nov 1996, congratulating him on his biography but pointing out that Picabia did not work at Hayter’s atelier 17 and information about Stanley William Hayter from the art encyclopaedia
1 folder 1977-1996
JEK A/2/126 Folder entitled Heaney, Seamus Consists of copies of The Listener, 1968, with articles about Seamus Heaney, Sunday Times, 28 April 1996, review of Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level and University of Reading Bulletin, December 1993 about the visit of Seamus Heaney Page 59 of 562
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JEK A/2/127 Folder entitled Held, Lawrence Consists of CV and research proposal, letters from Lawrence Held and James Knowlson, 1995 and 1996, about a proposal for a book on Endgame in Berlin and photograph
1 folder
JEK A/2/128 Folder entitled Herbert, Jocelyn Consists of correspondence between Jocelyn Herbert and James Knowlson, 1973 – 2002, about the work of Samuel Beckett, transcript of James Knowlson’s interviews with Jocelyn Herbert, 3 Jul and 28 Jul 1992 and press cuttings about Jocelyn Herbert and the book by Cathy Courtney Jocelyn Herbert: A Theatre Workbook
1 folder 1973-2002
JEK A/2/129 Folder entitled Higgins, Aidan Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Higgins 1992-2000, notes on Aidan Higgins’ letters to Arland Ussher, whom Higgins refers to as ‘Voltaire’, and the replies in Trinity College Dublin’s Ussher papers, interview with Aidan Higgins for Damned to Fame (23 pp.) and various extracts from this for use in Beckett Remembering – Remembering Beckett book, Neil Murphy, Dreams, Departures, Destinations, Graph, no. ? , pp. 64-71, George O’Brien, review in The Irish Times 10 Jun 1995 of Higgins’s Donkey’s Years; Memories of a Life as Told, Secker and Warburg, 1995, Friedhelm Rathjen, Review in German of Samuel Beckett. Fotographiert von John Page 60 of 562
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Minihan, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 1996. Minihan’s photographs of Beckett with an essay by Aidan Higgins. Basler Zeitung, 14 Sept 1996, nr. 215, Phil Baker, review of Higgins’ The Whole Hog (Secker and Warburg, 2000) and Devin Johnston, Reading Aidan Higgins, Context, no. 11, Online edition. Centre for Book Culture, undated
James Knowlson note: Aidan Higgins (1927 - ) Irish writer whose first novel, Langrishe, Go Down – he had earlier published short stories − won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award. It was later filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Other works include: Balcony of Europe, runner-up for the 1972 Booker Prize, Lions of the Grunewald (1993) and the trilogy, Donkey’s Years (1995), Dog Days (1998) and The Whole Hog (2000). He is also known for his shorter fiction and his travel writing. Aidan Higgins was befriended by Beckett, corresponded with him and was helped financially by him. He also corresponded extensively with Arland Ussher discussing Beckett at times. Their original correspondence is mostly to be found in Trinity College, Dublin and in the University of Texas in Austin.
1 folder 1992-2005
JEK A/2/130 Folder entitled Higgins, F. R. Consists of copy of Beckett’s article, Recent Irish Poetry, The Lace Curtain 4, Summer 1971, pp.60-61, with references to Higgins’s books of poems and some details of his Arable Holdings: Poems, 1933
1 folder 1971, 2001
JEK A/2/131 Folder entitled Hillis, Arthur Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Arthur Hillis between 1969 and 1989, correspondence between James Knowlson and Arthur Hillis between 1992 and 1994, letter from James Knowlson to Roger Evans, Hillis’s executor, asking for permission to reproduce an extract from an Page 61 of 562
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interview with him and an obituary written by Anne Corbett, published in The Guardian, 29 Sept 1997
1 folder 1969-2004
JEK A/2/132 Folder entitled Hinchliffe, Mark Consists of copy of a letter from Samuel Beckett to Mark Hinchliffe, 13 Nov 1986, thanking him for his ‘moving poems’, poems entitled Rage by Mark Hinchliffe, sent as a gift for Samuel Beckett in his eightieth year and cards from Mark Hinchliffe to James Knowlson, 27 Oct 1996
1 folder 1986-1996
JEK A/2/133 Folder entitled Hone, Joe Consists of notes copied from Joe Hone’s Note on my acquaintance with Sam Beckett in HRC, Austin Texas, 3pp, list of Joe Hone’s letters to Arland (Percy) Ussher in the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1926- 1938 and documents about Hone and his publications
James Knowlson note: Joe Hone was a writer and a friend of Samuel Beckett from the late 1920s when Beckett used to play cricket with Hone and, later in the 1930s, with Arland Ussher visited him at his (Hone’s) house.
1 folder 1920s,1990s
JEK A/2/134 Folder entitled Hopkins, Bill Consists of letter from Nicholas Hodges to James Knowlson about the composer Bill Hopkins and the inspiration he found in Beckett’s poems and prose, 28 Apr 1997 and reply from James Knowlson, and Tempo magazine, no 186, Sept 1993 with an article on The music of Bill Hopkins by Nicholas Hodge
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1 folder 1993-1997
JEK A/2/135 Folder entitled Horovitz, Israel Consists of letter from Israel Horovitz to James Knowlson, 26 Feb 1990 and two letters from James Knowlson to Israel Horovitz, 10 May 1990, 9 May 1995, typescript by Israel Horovitz entitled, ‘A Remembrance of Samuel Beckett’ subsequently published in Theatre Week magazine, Jan 1990 Theatre Week magazine, Jan 1990, an article by Eric Bentley, ‘Samuel Beckett Our one and Only’ and some reminiscences by Barney Rossett, ‘Rosset Remembers Beckett’ and an interview by Larry S. Ledford with Olympia Dukakis about her role in Happy Days at the Whole Theater Theatre brochure about Israel Horovitz’s play, Lebensraum at the Kings Head Theatre in London
1 folder 1990-1995
JEK A/2/136 Folder entitled Horovitz, Michael Consists of notes taken at the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, from letters addressed to Michael Horovitz by Samuel Beckett, correspondence between Michael Horovitz and James Knowlson, 1992 and 2002, press releases for Wordsounds & Sightlines: New & Selected Poems, by Michael Horovitz and for The POM (Poetry Olympics Marathon) Anthology which he edited and to which he contributed, both published by New Departures, 31 and 32, 2001-2002, advertising for the launch of The Pom Anthology and Wordsounds & Sightlines: New and Selected Poems at the Kensington & Chelsea’s festival of literature, poetry & spoken word on 4 Dec 2001, advertising for readings by Michael Horovitz from the above two books at the Calder Bookshop, 6 Dec 2001, invitations for James Knowlson to attend events in London on 7 and 8 Dec 2001 also to celebrate the publication of The POM, advertisement for Michael Horovitz himself offering to do readings or talks about artists and writers he ‘befriended, worked and played with’, (including Samuel Beckett), with copies of his drawings and a card advertising Page 63 of 562
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POP The Poetry Olympics Party Anthology, New Departures 25-26, included in the contributors are Michael Horovitz and Frances Horovitz
1 folder 1992-2002
JEK A/2/137 Folder entitled Howe, Fanny Consists of information about the Fanny Howe papers, Green Library
1 folder 1998
JEK A/2/138 Folder entitled Howe, Susan Consists of listing of materials from the University of California, San Diego, register of papers 1942 – 1990, documents about Susan Howe’s writings, photograph of Susan Howe, outline of Fanny Howe’s career and a description of the Fanny Howe Papers, deposited in the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004
James Knowlson note: Susan Howe is a distinguished American poet, who was the daughter of Mary Manning Howe, who had an affair with Beckett in 1936. Her sister, Fanny is also a writer.
1 folder 1998-2004
JEK A/2/139 Folder entitled Hunsberger, David and Kendall, Linda Consists of copies of a short note from Samuel Beckett to David Hunsberger and Linda Kendall, regarding the use of the auditor (in Not I) dated 16 Nov 1986
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JEK A/2/140 Folder entitled Hutchinson, Mary Consists of notes and quotations from letters to Mary Hutchinson from Samuel Beckett, notes with quotations from letters to Mary Hutchinson from A.J. Leventhal and listings of holdings of letters to her from Marguerite Duthuit (Matisse), Dorothy Bussy and Donald McWhinnie (Texas University Library), transcripts of parts of the letters to Mary Hutchinson from George Devine, Lady Beatrice Glenavy, Josette Hayden and Joe Hone and transcriptions of Samuel Beckett's letters to Mary Hutchinson 1956-1977
2 folders 1950s-1990s
JEK A/2/141 Folder entitled Illig, Nancy Consists of copy of the title page of the typed script of He Joe for Süddeutscher Rundfunk Fernsehspiel with ‘for Nancy with love from Sam’ and other comments in his hand, copies of Samuel Beckett's letters to Illig, card from Gottfried Büttner to James Knowlson with Nancy Illig’s address in Stuttgart, correspondence between James Knowlson and Nancy Illig, 1995-1996 and copies of 3 pages of Women in Beckett, Performance & Critical Perspectives, ed. Linda Ben-Zvi, Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana & Chicago, 1990, pp.24-26 entitled Nancy Illig
1 folder 1990-2008
JEK A/2/142 Folder entitled Irwin, Bill Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Bill Irwin 1993, copies of letters between Samuel Beckett and Bill Irwin 1985-1987, playbill of Fool Moon, transcript of interview with Bill Irwin by James Knowlson, 28 May 1993 and press cuttings
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JEK A/2/143 Folder entitled Israel, Calvin Consists of copy of the inventory of Calvin Israel’s Samuel Beckett collection as published by George Robert Minkoff Inc, copy of the John J. Burns Library Inventory of Accession to the above material with a brief overview of Samuel Beckett’s live and works by Alan Schneider as it appeared in the Royal Court Theatre program on the occasion of Samuel Beckett’s 70th birthday, press-cuttings which record the acquisition of Calvin Israel’s material by Boston College copies of an article by Skip Ascheim which discusses Israel’s material, entitled ‘Research File’ in Lingua Franca: the Review of Academic Life, Vol. 2, No. 2, Dec 1991 and notes taken by James and Elizabeth Knowlson on the Calvin Israel holdings
1 folder 1990-1991
JEK A/2/144 Folder entitled Ionesco, Eugene Consists of copy of Ionesco’s brief pencilled notes for a BBC broadcast interview with James Knowlson recorded on 14 Mar 1964, typescript letters from Eugène Ionesco to James Knowlson, 18 Feb 1985 and 2 Feb 1987 relating to productions of his plays that James Knowlson was putting on in French in Reading, Theatre Programme, Inédits Ionesco, Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Theatre, London. The Jean Rougerie company, undated, theatre programme, Le Roi se meurt, Centre Dramatique National de l’Ouest, Rennes, theatre programme, Jeux de Massacre, Théâtre Montparnasse, Directed by Jorge Lavelli, theatre Programme, Le tableau, with Jean Genet, Les Bonnes, Théâtre de Gaieté Montparnasse, Paris 3 – 9 juillet 1963, The Listener, Interview with Ionesco by Carl Wildman, 24 Dec 1964 The Listener, Review of Notes and Counter-Notes by Ionesco, Donald Watson, 18 Mar 1965, L’Express, 5-11 Oct 1970. pp. 72-78, press cuttings and reviews of his playsm, article from Nottingham French Studies, Spring 1996 on Ionesco’s last play, Voyages chez les morts, Guy Dumur and interview with Eugène Ionesco, on the occasion of production of Les Chaises at the Théâtre de la Colline, published in Le nouvel Page 66 of 562
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observateur, 8-14 Apr 1988
James Knowlson note: Eugène Ionesco, the Roumanian-born French playwright, was friendly with Beckett and was often considered along with him to belong to what Esslin described as the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’. Beckett met Ionesco in Paris and went to see his plays or read them. Ionesco makes many references to and judgements of Beckett’s writing in his critical essays and notes. This is a good collection of Ionesco’s plays, journals and criticism, which Knowlson used to teach, write about and direct. J Knowlson also met Ionesco several times in Edinburgh and Paris.
1 folder 1964-1988
JEK A/2/145 Folder entitled Istomin, Eugene Consists of biographical details, copies of letters from Samuel Beckett, correspondence between Eugene Ionesco and James Knowlson and photograph
1 folder 1983-2006
JEK A/2/146 Folder entitled Janouch, Frantisek Consists of typescript of How I jumped over a wall and met Samuel Beckett by Frantisek Janouch, correspondence between Janouch and James Knowlson, photographs taken by Janouch of Beckett, copies of letters from Beckett and Havel and copy of a letter from Beckett to Janouch
1 folder 1983-2009
JEK A/2/147 Folder entitled Johns, Jaspar Consists of advertising material for Foirades/Fizzles, Echo and Allusion in the Art of Jasper Johns, the UCLA Art Council Annual Exhibition for 1987 and Jaspar Johns, Samuel Beckett Page 67 of 562
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and Music 1987 and notes made by James Knowlson
1 folder 1987
JEK A/2/148 Folder entitled Johnson, B.S. Consists of reviews of Jonathan Coe’s biography of B. S. Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, Picador, 2004, The Sunday Times and The Observer
1 folder 30 May 2004
JEK A/2/149 Folder entitled Johnston, Denis Consists of letter from Felicity O’Mahoney at Trinity College Library about Denis Johnston papers they hold including various references to Ethna MacCarthy in Johnston’s diaries, typescript of Nine Rivers including Ethna MacCarthy as Euterpe – under the name of Eithne Dunne, letters from Rory Johnston (Denis’s son) to James Knowlson, 27 Jun 1990 and 20 Aug 1990, notes of James and Elizabeth Knowlson made in Trinity College Dublin Library on Denis Johnston’s diaries and notes on Ethna’s MacCarthy’s letters to Denis Johnston and other documents
James Knowlson note: Beckett knew Denis Johnston in Dublin when both of them loved the same woman, Ethna McCarthy, the Alba in Beckett’s first novel and poems. Ethna later married Beckett’s close friend, A. J. Leventhal.
1 folder 1990
JEK A/2/150 Folder entitled Jolas, Maria and Eugene Consists of copy of a letter from James Knowlson to Maria Jolas, 9 Aug 1970 asking for the loan of materials for the Beckett Exhibition in Reading, letters from Maria Jolas to Page 68 of 562
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James Knowlson concerning the return of Beckett materials lent for the Beckett Exhibition in Reading, 1972, letter to James Knowlson from Tina Jolas enquiring about the whereabouts of the above materials, 30 Jun 1987 and a typed reply from James Knowlson assuring her that the materials were returned, letter dated 1 Aug 1987, obituary of Tina Jolas from Le Monde, 7 Sept 1999, letter from Marc Dachy to James Knowlson, 10 Oct 1992, about the Jolas archives, copy of letter from Dawn Powell to Joseph Gousham about Eugene Jolas meeting Beckett in Paris, Dawn Powell 1913-1965, ed. Tim page, Henry Holt, NY, 1999, photocopy of pages of Eugene Jolas’s copy of Echo’s Bones (1935) with two additional manuscript poems in Beckett’s handwriting – Dieppe and St Lô, Eugene Jolas’s Multilingual Poetics and its Legacies Copy of the register of Jolas Papers from Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Yale
1 folder 1970-1999
JEK A/2/151 Folder entitled Jonson, Jan Consists of copies of letters from Jan Jonson to Samuel Beckett with regard to the production of Waiting for Godot which he was working on in San Quentin, 9 Jun, 15 Aug and 22 Oct 1987, and 10 Jun and 24 Aug 1988, copies of letters from Jan Jonson to Samuel Beckett with regard to the production of Endgame at Kumla prison in Sweden and at San Quentin in California, copy of a letter from Spoon Jackson to Samuel Beckett with 11 pages of his poems included, 17 Jun 1988 Copies of two letters addressed to Samuel Beckett from two members of the cast of Endgame (which was cancelled) in Kumla prison, Sweden, both in 1989, letter to James Knowlson from Jan Jonson enclosing a project proposal by Per Wiklund entitled The personal expression and the personal freedom. A qualitative study of prisoners work with Endgame, account written by Jan Jonson of his work with prisoners on Samuel Beckett’s plays for Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett, ed. James and Elizabeth Knowlson, Bloomsbury, London, 2006, Jonson’s original typescript plus three extracts made in preparation for the book and advertising Jan Jonson’s one man show at the Södra Teatern with a photograph of Page 69 of 562
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Beckett on it, taken by Beppe Arvidsson
1 folder 1987-2008
JEK A/2/152 Folder entitled Joyce, James, and family Consists of photocopy of Continuation of Work in Progress from transition, extract from Finnegans Wake, letters from James Joyce’s grandson, Stephen Joyce to James Knowlson, Exiles by James Joyce, original theatre programme Royal Shakespeare Company production, directed by Harold Pinter, Review October 8th 1971, with a review Cat and Mouse by Irving Wardle, The Times, 8 Oct 1971, copy of Eileen Battersby’s piece in the Irish Times, 18 Jun 1992, Scholarship versus showbiz about the 13th International Joyce Symposium, The Fate of Joyce Family Letters Causes Angry Literary Debate, by Caryn James New York Times, 15 Aug 1988, article about Stephen Joyce’s destruction of Lucia Joyce’s letters, The Lost Letters of Lucia Joyce: What price family privacy? by Caryn James, Paris Herald Tribune, 17 Aug 1988, with a note from Beckett scholar, Ruby Cohn, Will anyone remember this date? by Kathryn Holmquist, on Bloomsday, Irish Times supplement, 16 Jun 1990, article, Partial Portrait of the Artist by James Woodall, The Times Saturday Review, 13 Jun 1992, John Banville, The Joyce Business, Irish Times, Supplement 12 Jun 2004, revised Ulysses set to anger James Joyce estate, article by Frank McNally, The Irish Times, 2004, Revelling in straw-hatted tradition, Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times, 17 Jun 1992, Bangers and Machinations, Sean O’Hagan on Bloomsbury 2004, The Observer, 13 Jun 2004, announcement of audio book of Ulysses reading by Jim Norton, Sunday Times, 13 Jun 2004 and review by Arminta Wallace, Bloomsday brings Joyce material to market, article about sale items associated with Joyce, Joyce put Dublin on the world literary map by Martin Mansergh, Irish Times, review of James Joyce Remembered by C. P. Curran, entitled Stephen’s Green, The Listener, 30 May 1968, letter from James Knowlson supporting the establishment of the Zurich James Joyce Stiftung, review by Peter Lennon of The Voice of Shem adaptation by Mary Manning of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, The Guardian , 10 Apr 1962 Memento for Joyce Tower in Sandycove, press cutting (Irish Times?) about Beckett’s gift to the Tower of James Joyce’s purple tapestry waistcoat, invitation to exhibition at the Page 70 of 562
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British Museum Imaging Ulysses Feb 2002, letter from Geoffrey Soar of University College London Library with a listing of the Joyce Centre’s accessions lists, F. R. Leavis on James Joyce Joyce and the Revolution of the Word, Scrutiny, The James Joyce Archive, Garland Publishing Inc, Joyce and Beckett, publications by Colin Smythe on Joyce and Beckett and letter from James Knowlson to Jane Lidderdale with questions to her, relating to Lucia Joyce 22 Feb 1991
5 folders 1962-2004
JEK A/2/153 Folder entitled Kaun, Axel Consists of copy of a photograph of Axel Kaun, copies of correspondence
1 folder 1937
JEK A/2/154 Folder entitled Kean, Marie Consists of obituary of the Irish actress, Marie Kean, The Guardian, 10 Jan 1994, with a photograph of her playing Winnie in Happy Days
1 folder 1994
JEK A/2/155 Folder entitled Kedzierski, Marek Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Marek Kedzierski, correspondence between Marek Kedzierski and James Knowlson and a list of the letters and contents of letters from Beckett
1 folder 1995-2005
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JEK A/2/156 Folder entitled Kempf, Roger Consists of correspondence between Roger Kempf and James Knowlson
1 folder 1993
JEK A/2/157 Folder entitled Kenner, Hugh Consists of letters from Hugh Kenner to James Knowlson and replies, transcripts of letters from Samuel Beckett to Hugh Kenner
1 folder 1958-1997
JEK A/2/158 Folder entitled Kernoff, Aaron or Harry Consists of information about Harry Kernoff from the Dictionary of Art and Artists
1 folder Undated
JEK A/2/159 Folder entitled Klabunde, Charles Consists of letter from Charles Klabunde to James Knowlson, 18 Mar 1993 and James Knowlson’s reply, 23 Mar 1993, and letter from Charles Klabunde to James Knowlson 29 Jun 1993 and an account of his reactions to the work of Samuel Beckett, with reply from James Knowlson, 5 Jul 1993 and copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Klabunde
1 folder 1972-1993
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Consists of copies of two letters from Samuel Beckett to Lotte Klemperer, 1983 and 1989, letters from Lotte Klemperer to James Knowlson, 7 Dec 1991 and James Knowlson’s reply 12 Dec 1991, 4 Apr 1997 with James Knowlson’s reply and 16 Apr 1997
James Knowlson note: Lotte was the daughter of Otto Klemperer
1 folder 1983-1997
JEK A/2/161 Folder entitled Knowlson, James Consists of photocopies of Knowlson’s handwritten transcripts of his interviews with Beckett Jul – Nov 1989, with additional notes of an earlier meeting on 8 Apr 1989, photocopies of questionnaires sent to Beckett by James Knowlson with his answers and copies of small manuscript cards of Beckett in his hand writing
1 folder 1971-1989
JEK A/2/162 Folder entitled Kobler, John Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to John Kobler 1966-1989, copies of two letters from John Kobler to Samuel Beckett, Sept 15 and 7 Oct 1989 both asking for permission to publish a piece about him for Atlantic Monthly, copy of a note to Madame Kobler from Samuel Beckett, card to James Knowlson from Lois Overbeck with John Kobler’s address, 25 Mar 1991, letter from John Kobler to James Knowlson, 10 Apr 1991 agreeing to assist with Beckett’s biography, typescript of a short story entitled Beckett, by John Kobler, then unpublished, intended for The Saturday Evening Post, undated, copy of an article by John Kobler entitled The Real Samuel Beckett, The Connoisseur, Jul 1990, original typescript of the article, The Real Samuel Beckett, 22pp, extract from the article, p.59 in The Connoisseur, copy of an article by Carlton Lake, Ed the Collector, Jake the Dentist and Beckett: A Tale Page 73 of 562
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That Ends in Texas, New York Times, Section 7 p.2, 6 Sept 1987, notes by Kobler and note to John Kobler from the Irish Tourist Board giving the dimensions of the statue of Cuchulain in Dublin and two photographs
1 folder 1966-2006
JEK A/2/163 Folder entitled Konstantinovic, Radomir Consists of Photocopy of Beket prijatelj, Otkrovenje, Beograd, 2000 by Radomir Konstantinovíc
1 folder 2000
JEK A/2/164 Folder entitled Krance, Charles Consists of typescript of Charles Krance’s meeting with Samuel Beckett from which an extract was taken for Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett, ed. James and Elizabeth Knowlson, Bloomsbury, London, 2006, correspondence between Charles Krance and Samuel Beckett between 2 Jan 1976 and 1 May 1989, copies of two letters from Charles Krance to Leona P. Schecter concerning his project to prepare a series of critical and bilingual editions of Beckett’s works, 29 May 1988 and 1 Jul 1988, copy of a letter from Charles Krance to Jérôme Lindon at Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris regarding his project, permissions, copies, photocopy of a Beckettian styles story entitled Em and Moy by D.C. Muecke which appeared in the Chicago Review, Vol 30, Number 4, Spring 1979 and an offprint of an article by Charles Krance entitled L’Oeuvre Paradoxale de Beckett Bilingue : Entre confluence et collatéralité, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, vol. 6 (1997): Crossroads and Borderlines L’Oeuvre carrefour L’Oeuvre limite
1 folder 1976-2006
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JEK A/2/165 Folder entitled Kuball, Michael Consists of correspondence between Michael Kuball and James Knowlson concerning mainly Kuball’s project to do a film of Murphy, script and photographs of Beckett's grave
1 folder 1993-2001
JEK A/2/166 Folder entitled Kuner, Jean-Claude Consists of copy of a letter to Samuel Beckett from Jean- Claude Kuner in which he asks for Beckett’s help in obtaining the rights for his film of Das Letzte Band to be shown on TV, 22 Feb 1989, Beckett's reply on the bottom of the letter, review of the video Das Letzte Band under the heading: 19. internationales forum des jungen films Berlin 1989, copy of a title page of the video Das Letzte Band, regie: Jean-Claude Kuner, reviews of the above in German in 1989, copy of a letter to Jean-Claude Kuner by Stuart B. Anthony inviting him to participate with his video of Das Letzte Band in a Beckett programme entitled Samuel Beckett: the Media Works to be put on in New York by Exit Art, 15 Jan-3 Feb 1990, included with this letter is a listing of the works included in the programme and copies of reviews of Exit Art’s programme in the New York Post and The New York Times, Weekend section, both 26 Jan 1990, and in Berliner Morgenpost , 16 Jan 1990
1 folder 1988-1990
JEK A/2/167 Folder entitled Labeille, Daniel Consists of copies of 11 cards from Samuel Beckett to Daniel Labeille 1979 -1983, with a letter to James Knowlson, 3 Apr 1991, enclosing explanatory notes, typed letters from Daniel Labeille to Samuel Beckett, 1979-1981 and correspondence between Daniel Labeille and James Knowlson, 1991-2005, concerning his memories of Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/2/168 Folder entitled Lawrence, D. H. Consists of Photocopies of 6 pages of Letters of Aldous Huxley, ed. Grover Smith, Chatto and Windus, London, 1969, pp 454- 459, Beckett is referred to in a letter to Frieda Lawrence, 14 Aug 1940 – see p. 457
James Knowlson note: James Knowlson is highly sceptical that this ‘Beckett’ is Samuel Beckett.
1 folder 1969
JEK A/2/169 Folder entitled Lawrence, Col. William Consists of photocopies of transcriptions of letters from Samuel Beckett to Colonel William Lawrence between 1961 and 1984 when Lawrence died, two letters, one addressed to his daughter Valerie and a second, on Col. Lawrence’s death, to his son Philip, Valerie Joynt [née Lawrence] has added a few explanatory notes e-mail sent to Valerie Joynt by James Knowlson, 25 Jul 2005, card to James Knowlson (and colleagues at the Beckett Archive) from Valerie Joynt to congratulate the Archive on achieving designated status for an outstanding collection, undated and a newspaper cutting reporting the murder of Philip Lawrence, headmaster of St. George’s, Maida Vale, London on 10 Dec 1995
1 folder 1961-2005
JEK A/2/170 Folder entitled Le Brocquy, Louis Consists of letter from James Knowlson to Louis and Anne Madden Le Brocquy, 20 Feb 1994 to congratulate Anne Madden Le Brocquy on her book about her husband, A Painter Seeing his Way, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1994 and expressing a wish to meet Louis to talk about Samuel Beckett, letter from James Knowlson to Anne Madden Le Brocquy, letter to James Page 76 of 562
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Knowlson from Anne Madden Le Brocquy about her book and also offering her and her husband’s help with his biography of Samuel Beckett, 11 Feb 1994, brochure, a prospectus for A Painter Seeing his Way by Anne Madden Le Brocquy, invitation to the launch of the above book in Dublin on 20 Jan 1994 and card with a print of Louis Le Brocquy’s painting, Isolated Being
1 folder 1994
JEK A/2/171 Folder entitled Lennon, Peter Consists of letter from Peter Lennon to James Knowlson arranging to meet, 6 Feb 1990, letter from James Knowlson to Peter Lennon with suggested corrections for his book, Foreign Correspondent. Paris in the Sixties, Picador, Pan Macmillan, London Basingstoke, 1994, newspaper article by Peter Lennon, Evenings with Sam, The Guardian, Review Section, 25 Jan 1990 and newspaper article by Peter Lennon, Heroes and Villains The Guardian, Review Section, 1 Feb 1990
1 folder 1990-1994
JEK A/2/172 Folder entitled Léon, Alexis Consists of copy of a letter to James Knowlson from Lucie Léon Noel regarding the planned exhibition at Reading University to honour Samuel Beckett in 1971, 12 Jan 1971, copy of a short newspaper article on the death of Lucie Léon, correspondence between James Knowlson and Alexis Léon 1992 -1993, newspaper interview given by Alexis Léon to John Naughton about his father Paul and the latter’s friendship with James Joyce, Arm in arm with a literary legend, The Observer, People section, 13 Jan 1991 and newspaper article, entitled Léon’s last letters, The Irish Times, Weekend: the Arts, 4 Apr 1992
1 folder 1971-1993
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JEK A/2/173 Folder entitled Levy, Jay Consists of copies of letters and cards from Samuel Beckett to Jay Levy, 1961-1989, copy of one letter from Jay Levy to Samuel Beckett, 28 Aug 1975, correspondence between James Knowlson and Jay Levy between 1991 and 2004, copy of a letter from Mrs Charles Berney, 12 Jun 1991, photocopy of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, title page dedicated to Jay Levy and with the quotations of Winnie listed in the margins in Beckett’s hand, offprint of Conversations with Samuel Beckett, by Jay Levy, The American Scholar, Winter, 1992, pp. 124-131, copy of a letter by Ruby Cohn to the Editor of The American Scholar listing errors in the Conversations with Samuel Beckett, photocopy of the Conversations with Samuel Beckett, with cuts and corrections marked, updated version of Conversations with Samuel Beckett, Bohemian Club Library Notes, Number 123, Spring 2003, together with a letter to James Knowlson, 4 Oct 2004 with one amendment, two further versions amended by James Knowlson with a view to including the piece in Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett, copies of a number of articles, which outline Dr Jay Levy’s medical work, photographs of Dr Jay Levy and his wife Sharon on the occasion of their visit to the Beckett Archive at Reading University 8 Jul 1997
1 folder 1961-2004
JEK A/2/174 Folder entitled Lewenstein, Oscar Consists of copies of two cards from Samuel Beckett to Oscar Lewenstein, 11 Dec 1970 and 10 Apr 1975 with a letter from Oscar Lewenstein to James Knowlson containing an explanatory note and letter of thanks to Oscar Lewenstein from James Knowlson
1 folder 1970-1994
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Consists of copies of cards and a letter from Samuel Beckett to Jim Lewis concerning the lighting of the TV plays which were put on in Stuttgart, with SDR 1971-1984, photocopy of a poem written especially for Jim Lewis by Samuel Beckett and on the back of it a note from Samuel Beckett dedicating it to Lewis for use in his Film Project, 26 Feb 1979, letter to James Knowlson from Jim Lewis which informs him that the Film Project referred to never materialized, letter to James Knowlson from Jim Lewis giving permission for him to have photocopies of his letters, 18 Sept 1994 and letters from James Knowlson to Jim Lewis, 1994
1 folder 1971-1994
JEK A/2/176 Folder entitled Libera, Antoni Consists of copies of Samuel Beckett’s letters to Antoni Libera and replies from Libera to Beckett, 1976-1989, transcriptions of these letters with detailed notes for Martha Fehsenfeld and Lois Overbeck’s edition of the Correspondence, 1976-1989, copy of letter from Samuel Beckett to Jerzy Kreczmar, 20 Mar 1957 who directed the first Polish production of Waiting for Godot in 1957, Antoni Libera’s letters to James Knowlson about Beckett, 1976-1996, with some additional material, typescript of interview on Directing Beckett, Antoni Libera interviewed by Lois Oppenheim. 24 pp, play by Antoni Libera entitled What’s Up in Eastern Europe? and photocopy of story in French by Jerzy Andrejewski
James Knowlson note: Antoni Libera was Samuel Beckett’s Polish translator and Beckett befriended him on many occasions, sending him food parcels and helping him financially. [See Damned to Fame, pp. 639-640 (UK edition)
3 folders 1957-1996
JEK A/2/177 Folder entitled Limes Verlag Consists of letter to James Knowlson from Michael Silverman, Manuscripts, 23 Jun 1994, offering a typed letter to Limes Page 79 of 562
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Verlag signed by Samuel Beckett for sale and reply from James Knowlson to Michael Silverman declining the purchase, 27 Jun 1994
1 folder 1994
JEK A/2/178 Folder entitled Little, Roger Consists of copies of correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Professor Roger Little 1979-1983, letter from Roger Little to James Knowlson offering to send on any useful information for his Beckett biography, Damned to Fame The Life of Samuel Beckett, 18 Jul 1991, letter of thanks from James Knowlson to Roger Little for the copies of his correspondence with Samuel Beckett, 26 Jul 1991 and card from Roger Little to James Knowlson to congratulate him on his biography of Beckett appearing in French, 14 Jan 1999
1 folder 1979-2008
JEK A/2/179 Folder entitled Lougee Bryant, Jane and Christopher Logue Consists of copy of a letter from Samuel Beckett to Alexander Trocchi, undated, from Dublin at the time of his brother’s last illness, copy of a letter to James Campbell from Jane Lougee Bryant, 26 Aug 1992, full of details about the founding and first issue of Merlin and enclosing a photocopy of that issue for him, copy of James Campbell’s reply to Jane Lougee Bryant, 2 Sept 1992 with more information on the same subject, copy of a letter from James Knowlson to Jane Lougee Bryant arranging to meet her in Boston and sending her questions about Beckett and the Merlin publication, copy of a letter from James Knowlson to Jane Lougee Bryant, 28 Jan 1994 with a long page of questions about the origins of the Merlin group, letter from Jane Lougee Bryant to James Knowlson, dated Feby, March and April 1994, in which she gives very full and detailed answers to questions sent by Knowlson with respect to Merlin and to Samuel Beckett’s connection with the group, the publication of Watt , a copy of a letter from James Knowlson to Jane Lougee Bryant, 9 May 1994, thanking her for the meeting and giving details of an evening spent with Mary Page 80 of 562
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Manning Howe, letter to James Knowlson from James Campbell, 23 October 1994, enclosing photographs to be used in the biography of Beckett, sent at the request of Jane Lougee Bryant, copy of a letter from James Knowlson to Jane Lougee Bryant, 2 Dec 1994, thanking her for asking James Campbell to send photographs for copying, photocopied pages from Deirdre Bair’s work, Samuel Beckett: a Biography, Jonathan Cape, London, 1978, pp.432-433, one copy with amendments and corrections in James Knowlson’s hand and a second copy with amendments and corrections made by Jane Lougee Bryant, photocopy of the front cover of Merlin, Number One, May 15th 1953, photocopy of a flyer announcing Editions Merlin, 1953 and listing authors whose works will be published, including Samuel Beckett, two flyers advertising Librairie Mistral (the business address of Merlin), copy of a subscription form for Wand & Quadrant, by Christopher Logue, Collection Merlin, 1953, copy of a subscription form for Watt, by Samuel Beckett, Collection Merlin, 1953, copy of an invitation issued by Merlin, the Paris literary quarterly published in English, to a reception at the home of Mr and Mrs Clements Heller, three photographs of Jane Lougee Bryant in 1994, newspaper article about Christopher Logue, by Liz Hoggard, The Observer, Books Section, 22 Jan 2006 and list of contents of first few issues of Merlin
1 folder 1953-2006
JEK A/2/180 Folder entitled Lowenfels, Walter Consists of copies of (holograph) extracts from 4 letters of Nancy Cunard to Walter Lowefels dated 20 Nov 1954, 16 Sept 1959, 15 Aug 1960 and 17 Oct 1962, photocopy of title page of Elegy in the Manner of a Requiem : in memory of D.H. Lawrence, by Walter Lowenfels, Carrefour, Paris & New York, 1932 with a further copy of the printing details page on which is a dedication to Sam Beckett, photocopy of article by Walter Lowenfels, The Paris Years, 1926-1934 Part 2, The Expatriate Review, Vol 2, [1972?] and notes by James Knowlson
1 folder 1932-1990s
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JEK A/2/181 Folder entitled Lucas, Cyril Consists of list of books and copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Cyril Lucas offered for sale in a letter to Julian Garforth, 2003
1 folder 2003
JEK A/2/182 Folder entitled McCarthy, Ethna and Leventhal, Con Consists of photocopies Leventhal’s birth certificate, marriage certificates, death certificate of Ethna MacCarthy Leventhal, extract from the Actes de décès of the death of Leventhal, A. J. Leventhal’s Carte d’identité and his student French identity card resident in Paris, press cutting relating to Leventhal, University News: Honour for Dublin Jew, personal impressions of Samuel Beckett by Anne Wolfson Leventhal, the daughter of A. J. Leventhal, 3 letters from Leventhal’s partner, Marion Leigh, 2 letters to Andrew Leigh, her son, obituaries for A. J. Leventhal and Ethna MaCarthy, letters and cards from A. J. Leventhal to James Knowlson 1972 – 1979, photo copy of the first and only issue of the periodical Klaxon 1923-4, edited by Leventhal, articles by A. J. Leventhal, catalogue of an A. J. Leventhal Scholarship Auction 1985, photocopies of Samuel Beckett’s letters to A. J. Leventhal or Ethna MacCarthy from 1934 to 1979, articles and translations by Ethna MacCarthy and negative of Seán O’Sullivan’s portrait of Ethna McCarthy
James Knowlson note: A J. ‘Con’ Leventhal was one of Samuel Beckett’s closest friends and this is an important archive of his letters and documentary information about him. It also contains James Knowlson’s correspondence with Leventhal over a period of several years. Most of this was provided for JK by his daughter, Anne Wolfson Leventhal or his partner, Marion Leigh. Copies of Beckett’s correspondence with Leventhal were given to James Knowlson while they were with Marion L., long before there was any question of selling the letters. The originals are now in the Harry Ransom Centre in the University of Texas at Austin. Ethna MacCarthy was adored by Beckett since his student days. She provided the model for the Alba in Dream of Fair to Middling Women. This came from A. J. (‘Con’) Leventhal’s daughter, Anne Wolfson Leventhal. Leventhal married Ethna McCarthy late in her life. It was his Page 82 of 562
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second marriage. Beckett, on his own admission, loved Ethna, who was the model for the character of the Alba in his first posthumously published novel and his early poems. The portrait [see negative] was used in Damned to Fame. The Life of Samuel Beckett (1996).
5 folders 1920s,1990s
JEK A/2/183 Folder entitled McGovern, Barry Consists of copies of six cards from Samuel Beckett to Barry McGovern, 1986-89, letter from Barry McGovern to James Knowlson, 13 Oct 1986, copies of 6 letters from James Knowlson to Barry McGovern 1991-1996, copy of a newspaper letter sent by Barry McGovern, theatre programme for Barry McGovern’s one-man show, I’ll Go On, 2000 and a photograph of the poster advertising Barry McGovern’s one- man show I’ll Go On, with picture of the actor
1 folder 1986-1996
JEK A/2/184 Folder entitled MacGreevy, Thomas Consists of copies of extracts from MacGreevy’s memoirs, list of contents of the Thomas MacGreevy Papers at Trinity College Library, notes on MacGreevy’s letters to his parents and others in Trinity College Dublin archive, copy of typed letter from Tom MacGreevy to Charles Prentice at Chatto and Windus received 15 July 1931 about Beckett’s visit to Le Lavandou in the south of France with his brother, with James Knowlson’s notes on MacGreevy’s letters to Charles Prentice in the Chatto and Windus files in RUL and James Knowlson’s notes on the letters from Prentice to MacGreevy to Tom MacGreevy in Trinity College Library, copy of a letter from Michael Roberts (1902-1948) poet and writer to George Reavey about Beckett’s poems Echo’s Bones, notes on Jack B. Yeats to Tom MacGreevy, Trinity College, Dublin Ms 10381, 81-182, notes on Samuel Beckett’s important letters to Thomas MacGreevy in Trinity College Dublin archive and articles by or about Thomas MacGreevy
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James Knowlson note: James Knowlson wants to stress to future scholars and biographers that there is very revealing material from Prentice and MacGreevy about Beckett in these two sets of letters, since both are very fond of him and write to each other confidentially about him and his state of mind.
5 folders 1931-1990s
JEK A/2/185 Folder entitled MacGowran, Jack Consists of notes taken by E. Knowlson from Deirdre Bair’s biography of Beckett, together with questions arising, notes made by James Knowlson from material held by the University of Texas, copy of a newspaper review of Jack MacGowran’s one-man show End of Day, copy of a photograph of MacGowran in his show, press cuttings, copy of record cover with picture and cartoon of Samuel Beckett, MacGowran speaking Beckett, produced by Claddagh Records Ltd, 1966 and copy of Jack MacGowran’s obituary 1973
1 folder 1965-1990s
JEK A/2/186 Folder entitled McKee, Simone and Lefèvre, Yvonne Consists of copies of thirteen letters and cards from Samuel Beckett to Simone McKee, between [1947] and 1950, transcript of an interview with Simone McKee, 26 Jun 1993, with notes taken by Elizabeth Knowlson at the time of the interview, correspondence between James Knowlson and to Simone McKee 1993 and correspondence between James Knowlson and Yvonne Lefevre 1995
1 folder 1947-1995
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McWhinnie 1957 – 1976, copy of the manuscript of Breath, correspondence between Pauline McWhinnie and James Knowlson, 1987 – 1999 and obituary of Donald McWhinnie
1 folder 1957-1999
JEK A/2/188 Folder entitled Magee, Patrick Consists of press cutting of a reviews 1975, a leaflet advertising the Greenwich Theatre’s Autumn Season, October/December 1975 and brief newspaper announcement of Patrick Magee’s death, The Sun, 16 Aug 1982
1 folder 1975-1982
JEK A/2/189 Folder entitled Maguinness, Stuart Consists of letter from Stuart Maguinness’s secretary to James Knowlson, 24 Mar 1972, letters from James Knowlson to Juliet Maguinness about her father’s correspondence and about an interview with her in London for his biography, offprints of W. S. Maguinness, Bentley as Man and Scholar, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical Society (Literary and Historical Section), vol. X, part III, pp. 93-103, W. S. Maguinness, The Thirteenth Book of the Aeneid, off-print of the Virgil Society, Apr 1957, copy of list of books and off-prints in Beckett’s library, including the Bentley as Man and Scholar article and other pieces referred to in the correspondence with Maguinness and copy of Beckett’s poem For future reference, with an accompanying letter to the dealer, William English
James Knowlson note: Beckett already knew Stuart Maguinness when he was a student at Trinity College, Dublin where Maguinness read Classics. He later became Professor of Classics at King’s College London and Beckett continued to meet him in London or Paris until Maguinness’s death. He was the author or editor of various books including The Grandeur that was Rome, Virgil, and an edition of Racine’s Bérénice. He also contributed to various other books including D. R. Dudley, Lucretius Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1965. There are a number of refs in Beckett’s letters to these various Page 85 of 562
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books and five items of Maguiness still in Beckett’s library on his death.
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JEK A/2/190 Folder entitled Majno, Luigi Consists of copies of the correspondence from Samuel Beckett to Luigi Majno 1970 – 1988, correspondence between Luigi Majno and James Knowlson1994 – 2006, copy of a Beckett annotated typescript of Still in Italian, English and French, with letter from Beckett 1 Aug 1973 with the writer’s corrections of Majno’s Italian translation of Beckett’s text, brochures for the illustrated edition of Samuel Beckett’s Still with illustrations by Stanley William Hayter and notes by Abraham Jacob Leventhal, published by Luidi Majno, set of announcements of the series Images and Words that included Beckett’s Still as no 12, catalogue of the Galleria M’Arte prints, sculptures and artist’s books and press cuttings from various Italian newspapers
3 folders 1970-2006
JEK A/2/191 Folder entitled Mandell, Alan Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Alan Mandell, 1981-1989, typescript in which Mandell recalls meeting Samuel Beckett and working with him on Endgame with the San Quentin Drama Workshop, correspondence between Alan Mandell and James Knowlson 1990 – 2004, copy of correspondence between Alan Mandell and Carol Sander 1970, letter to Wolfgang Emdem from Alan Mandell thanking him for sending a video copy of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, copies of newspaper articles and reviews of Alan Mandell’s work in Siberia by Felix Mitterer 29 Oct - 4 Nov 1993, article by Naomi Pfefferman, On Today, Lear Tomorrow, La Village View, Vol. 8, Number 14, Nov 5-11, 1993, newspaper review by Steven Winn of Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard’s, When the World was Green (A Chef’s Fable), at the Magic Theatre, San Francisco, 1997, copy of a biographical note on Alan Mandell taken from a theatre programme, Page 86 of 562
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biographical note on Alan Mandell by James Knowlson in support of his application for an Annenberg Fellowship and photograph of Alan Mandell returning to San Quentin prison
1 folder 1970-2006
JEK A/2/192 Folder entitled Manning, John Consists of copy of questions to John Manning and a summary of Manning’s replies, 16 Jun 1990, correspondence between John Manning and James Knowlson 1992, transcriptions of Samuel Beckett’s letters to Mary Manning and Susan Manning, 1936 – 1989 and photocopy of part of Louie Bennett: Her Life and Times (Louie Bennet was the Manning’s aunt)
James Knowlson note: John Manning was the son of Susan Manning and sister of Mary. He played tennis with Beckett, rode on his motorbike, and knew his parents and brother fairly well. His mother was very friendly with May Beckett, Sam’s mother.
1 folder 1936-1992
JEK A/2/193 Folder entitled Manning, Mary Consists of extract from a typescript of Mary Manning’s memoirs for an autobiography, script from which James Knowlson questioned Mary Manning in two interviews about her relations with Samuel Beckett and about his family, transcript of two interviews with Mary Manning Howe Rogers done by John Reilly for Global Village’s The Samuel Beckett Project film and transcripts of two interviews with Mary Manning Howe with James and Elizabeth Knowlson,12 and 13 Mar 1992
James Knowlson note: Mary Manning was a life-long friend of Samuel Beckett and had an affair with him in the summer of 1936. She wrote several novels and plays for the Gate Theatre Dublin and acted at the Abbey Theatre. She lived first in Dublin, then she married Mark Howe, an academic who became Dean of Law at Harvard, in Boston. There are letters Page 87 of 562
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from Mary Manning to James Knowlson about Beckett and about his biography, several important recorded interviews with her in her Cambridge, Massachusetts, home apartment in the collection and some copies of her many letters from Beckett.
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JEK A/2/194 Folder entitled Manning, Susan Consists of transcription of the letters from Samuel Beckett to Susan Manning, 1950-1958, with the transcription of a letter of 1981 from Beckett to her grand-daughter, Susan Howe, about the sale of his ‘private letters’ to Susan and Mary
James Knowlson note: Susan Manning was the mother of Mary and John Manning, see above, - another daughter was Christabel - and was May Beckett’s best and most faithful friend. She was an intelligent, spirited woman of intelligence and sympathy. Beckett was extremely fond of her. Her sister was Louie Bennett the famous Irish suffragette, peace campaigner and trade union leader (The Irish Women’s Workers Union of which she was secretary). There are several references to Louie whom Beckett also knew.
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JEK A/2/195 Folder entitled Marin, Maguy Consists of photocopy of Claude Bricage : photographies d’une chorégraphie: May B, Bernard Noël, Arts choréographiques : L’Auteur dans l’oeuvre, Armand Colin, 1993 and extracts from the translation by Mary Bryden
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Consists of letters to Steve Martin from James Knowlson, one asking for an interview in preparation for the biography of Samuel Beckett, Damned to Fame The Life of Samuel Beckett, 6 Apr 1994, another thanking Steve Martin for giving a telephone interview 25 May 1994, transcript of the tape recording of the telephone interview 21 May 1994, edited versions of the interview, letters and e-mails to Steve Martin from James Knowlson 2004-2005 attempting to gain permission to publish the 1994 interview, biographical information about Steve Martin, with articles and reviews about his performance in Waiting for Godot and about his play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile
1 folder 1994-2005
JEK A/2/197 Folder entitled Mask, Ahmed Kamyabi Consists of letter from Ahmed Kamyahi Mask to James Knowlson, 11 Jul 1985, copy of a letter from Ahmed Kamyahi Mask to Jack Lang as Minister of Culture to suggest that a plaque should be installed in the café of the Hotel Pullman Saint-Jacques to commemorate the fact that Beckett always had rendez-vous with people there, 17 Sept 1990, copy of letter to Ahmed Kamyahi Mask from Michel Ricard on behalf of Jack Lang suggesting that he write directly to the Hotel Pullman Saint-Jacques with his suggestion regarding Samuel Beckett, 22 Oct 1990, copy of a letter to Ahmed Kamyahi Mask from J.A. Vintousky for the Hotel Pullman Saint-Jacques explaining that the hotel café had altered considerably since Beckett went there and suggesting that they hang a black and white photograph of him there instead of a plaque, letter to James Knowlson from Ahmed Kamyahi Mask sending him a copy of his book, Dernière rencontre avec Samuel Beckett and asking him for support for a plaque on the table in the bar of the café of the Hotel Pullman Saint-Jacques 2 Feb 1991 and brochure displaying Ahmed Kamyahi Mask’s books on the cover and advertising book signing sessions at the Galerie Bernanos, Paris
1 folder 1985-1991
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JEK A/2/198 Folder entitled Matias Consists of sketches which either by Beckett’s for Oh les beaux jours set or by Matias
James Knowlson note: Matias did most of the theatre designs and costumes for Beckett’s first productions in Paris. He also travelled to Berlin to work at the Schiller-Theater with Beckett when he directed his own plays there.
1 folder 1963-1975
JEK A/2/199 Folder entitled Mays, James Consists of letters to James Knowlson from James Mays with respect to the founding of The Journal of Beckett Studies and to promote the Irish University Review 1970s and correspondence between, with Jim May’s application for a Chair at the University of York and James Knowlson’s support for that 1991 and 1996
1 folder 1974-1996
JEK A/2/200 Folder entitled Mendel, Deryk Consists of correspondence between Deryk Mendel and James Knowlson, 1970, 1992-1996 and extracts from letters written by Samuel Beckett to a variety of correspondents all on the subject of Deryk Mendel and his work
1 folder 1971-1996
JEK A/2/201 Folder entitled Menza, Claudia Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Claudia Menza, 1981 and 1993
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1976-1993
JEK A/2/202 Folder entitled Mercier, Vivian Consists of copies of letters and cards from Samuel Beckett to Vivian Mercier, 1955- 1976, copy of a recommendation to the American Council of Learned Societies by Samuel Beckett in support of Vivian Mercier’s application for a Fellowship, Oct 1963, copies of 6 letters from Vivian Mercier to Samuel Beckett, 1963-1976, letter to James Knowlson from Vivian Mercier, 13 May 1977 and copies of two newspaper obituaries of Vivian Mercier
1 folder 1955-1989
JEK A/2/203 Folder entitled Meyers, Sidney Consists of copies of letters and cards to Sidney Meyers from Samuel Beckett, 1964-69, brochure advertising Sidney Meyers An Exhibition and Screening, arranged by the Picker Film Institute of the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts, Eisner Hall, City College to honour the work Sidney Meyers and booklet entitled Vision is my dwelling place
1 folder 1964-1974
JEK A/2/204 Folder entitled Mihalovici, Marcel Consists of copies of Beckett’s letters to Mihalovici (Chip) and Monique Haas, 1960-1983, copies of letters from Marcel Mihalovici to James Knowlson, 1970-1976 and biographical notes on Mihalovici and Monique Haas
James Knowlson note: Marcel Mihalovici (1898-1985 Born Bucharest 22 Oct. 1898) French composer of Roumanian origin. Married to the distinguished French pianist, Monique Haas. Beckett and Suzanne were close personal friends of the Mihalovicis. They used to go around to the Mihalovici’s apartment for dinner and attend Monique’s concerts. Page 91 of 562
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Monique Haas also played for the Becketts on her own piano after dinner. Beckett collaborated with Mihalovici on his opera of Krapp. (See James Knowlson, Damned to Fame, pp. 466- 468. And see 477-8 and for Mihalovici’s Cascando music, pp. 496-7.)]
1 folder 1960-1983
JEK A/2/204A Folder entitled Minghella, Anthony Consists of photographs, press cuttings, articles, correspondence and obituaries
1 folder 2006-2008
JEK A/2/205 Folder entitled Mitchell, Joan Consists of copies of two obituaries of Joan Mitchell, the artist, 1992
1 folder 1992-2007
JEK A/2/206 Folder entitled Mitchell, Pamela Consists of copies of Samuel Beckett’s letters to Pamela Mitchell 1953 – 1970), 14 of Pamela Mitchell’s letters to Samuel Beckett, 1953 – 1969, CD with full transcriptions sent by James Knowlson to Lois Overbeck and returned to James Knowlson with a few corrections made by Lois Overbeck and Martha Fehsenfeld, letters from Pamela Mitchell to James Knowlson and his replies, 1993 – 2002, cards and letters from her executors, Natalie Byrne and Susan McKibben, and an invitation and a programme to celebrate Pamela’s life on 10 Feb 2002, press cuttings relating to Samuel Beckett, mostly from the New York Times, playbill of the original first US Cherry Lane Theatre production of Endgame, directed by Alan Schneider, note for The Beckett Circle by James Knowlson recording the gift of the letters to the Beckett International Page 92 of 562
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Foundation by the late Pamela Mitchell, interviews with Pamela Mitchell and transcripts of these interviews
James Knowlson note: Pamela Mitchell had an intense love affair with Samuel Beckett in the years 1953-1955 and maintained an important correspondence with him for seventeen years. See Damned to Fame, pp.398-400, 403-406, 411, 424.
4 folders 1953-2002
JEK A/2/207 Folder entitled Mitgang, Herbert Consists of copy of an article by Herbert Mitgang, Beckett in Paris, The New York Times Book Review, Book Ends
1 folder 25 Jan 1981
JEK A/2/208 Folder entitled Montague, John Consists of photocopy of Company: a Chosen Life, London, Duckworth, 2001 about Beckett, letter of James Knowlson to John Montague, 13 Jul 1992, A Few Drinks and a Hymn. My Farewell to Samuel Beckett by John Montague, New York Review of Books,17 Apr 1994, Giorni infelica by John Montague in La Repubblica, 3 Jul 1994, an announcement of John Montague’s forthcoming volume Company, The Bookseller, 1 Oct 1999, Down and Out with Beckett in Paris by John Montague, The Sunday Times, Review, 15 Jul 2001, review by John Carey of John Montague, Company: A Chosen Life and Selected Poems, The Sunday Times, Culture, 22 Jul 2001, review by Bernard O’Donoghue of Montague’s Company, The Irish Times, with covering letter from John Heuston, dated 24 Jul 2001 and letter from Joseph Ansen, relating to Montague’s A Few Drinks and a Hymn, International Herald Tribune
1 folder 1992-2001
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JEK A/2/209 Folder entitled Mortimer, Mark Consists of obituary of Mark Mortimer by John Barber, An Irishman in Paris, The Guardian
1 folder 19 Apr 1995
JEK A/2/210 Folder entitled Müller-Freienfels, Thomas Consists of copies of correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Müller-Freienfels, 1966-1989, letter from Dr Reinhart Müller-Freienfels to James Knowlson, 18 Feb 1993, text in English of Dr Müller-Freienfels about Quadrat 1 and II, with corrections which was given as a talk in Strasbourg in Apr 1996, corrected typescript of Dr Müller-Freienfels Samuel Beckett: We do it to have fun together, reminiscences about Beckett in a letter from of Reinhart Müller-Freienfels to James Knowlson, 17 Nov 1996, letter from Dr Müller-Freienfels 9 Mar 2001, with booklet Samuel Beckett beim SDR in Stuttgart, Spuren 50, Schiller-National-Museum in Marbach, letter from James Knowlson to Thomas Müller-Freienfels, letter from Thomas Müller-Freienfels to James Knowlson 18 Mar 2001 and reply, photographs of Samuel Beckett and Slawomir Mrozek in 1977 in Stuttgart in front of the SDR studios and photograph of Samuel Beckett on the set of Quadrat, 1981
James Knowlson note: Herr Müller-Freienfels was the Süddeutscher Rundfunk producer in Stuttgart who became friendly with Beckett and encouraged him to direct TV plays there with a faithful team. It may also be that his support actually inspired Beckett to write more for television after he directed the initial Eh Joe there in 1966.
2 folders 1996-2001
JEK A/2/211 Folder entitled Murdoch, Iris Consists of newspaper review of Iris Murdoch’s An Accidental Man, by David Williams, newspaper article about Iris Murdoch’s play, The Servants and the Snow, by Ronald Page 94 of 562
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1 folder 1962-1999
JEK A/2/212 Folder entitled Nadeau, Maurice Consists of photocopy of the cover of Maurice Nadeau’s Grâces leur soient rendues : mémoires littéraires, Albin Michel, Paris, 1990 and an extract, the pages on Samuel Beckett, letter from Maurice Nadeau to James Knowlson and card from Erika Tophoven, 13 Dec 1990
1 folder 1990
JEK A/2/213 Folder entitled Naumann, Hans Consists of transcription of a letter to Samuel Beckett, 15 Feb 1954 and of Samuel Beckett to Hans Naumann, 17 Feb 1954
1 folder 1954
JEK A/2/214 Folder entitled Neumann, Fred Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Fred Neumann, Apr 1993 - May 1994, transcript of an interview with Fred Neumann by James Knowlson on 29 Apr 1994, information about Fred Neumann and his involvement with Mabou Mines from the Mabou Mines web site and pages from the Philip Glass website and two photographs of Frederick Neumann, one taken by John Quilty and a second by Thomas Victor Page 95 of 562
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1 folder 1994
JEK A/2/215 Folder entitled Nicholson, Robert Consists of copy of a card to Robert Nicholson from Samuel Beckett
1 folder 16 Jun 1981
JEK A/2/216 Folder entitled Noël, Jacques Consists of letter in French from James Knowlson to Jacques Noël, 1993, copy of a signature in Fin de partie dated Feb 1957 dedication to Jacques Noël, copy of Beckett manuscript from Jacques Noel
1 folder 1957-1993
JEK A/2/217 Folder entitled Novelli, Gastone Consists of copies of three letters from Samuel Beckett to Gastone Novelli, 12 Oct, 29 Nov and 8 Dec 1960 and catalogue of Gastone Novelli’s works, entitled Opera su carta, Le tue parole inciampano nelle mie estasi, Gabriele Mazzotta, Milan, 1983
1 folder 1960, 1983
JEK A/2/218 Folder entitled O’Casey, Eileen and Shivaun Consists of copy of a letter to James Knowlson from Victoria Partington at Sotheby’s, 14 Jun 1996, including a catalogue of Page 96 of 562
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the forthcoming sale of Shivaun O’Casey’s letters from Samuel Beckett, item 255, correspondence between James Knowlson and Shivaun O’Casey 1993-1994, 2004-2005, copy of an article written by Shivaun O’Casey entitled Fond Farewell to Beckett – Au Revoir mon Ami, 31 Dec 1989, transcript of the interview given by Shivaun O’Casey to James Knowlson, 28 Sept 1994, with an abridged version, Riverside Studios theatre programme of Krapp’s Last Tape and Catastrophe by Samuel Beckett including an article about the production by Professor Katharine Worth, Notes from Antoni Libera and a piece about Samuel Beckett by Eileen O’Casey and obituary of Eileen O’Connor by Garry O’Connor, The model of inspiration, The Guardian, 12 Apr 1995
1 folder 1993-2006
JEK A/2/219 Folder entitled O’Hara, J.D. Consists of copy of a card, with envelope, from Samuel Beckett to J.D. O’Hara, 19 Mar 1985 and copy of a letter from J.D. O’Hara to Samuel Beckett, undated [March 1985]
1 folder 1985
JEK A/2/220 Folder entitled O’Malley, Kevin Consists of copy of a card from Samuel Beckett to Kevin O’Malley thanking him for his humorous birth date computations, 17 Nov 1981 and, letter to James Knowlson from Kevin O’Malley
1 folder 1981-1990
JEK A/2/221 Folder entitled O’Mordha, Sean Consists of copy of a letter from Samuel Beckett to Sean O’Mordha, 9 Nov 1981, correspondence between Sean O’Mordha and James Knowlson, 1993-1994, an account by Page 97 of 562
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Elizabeth Knowlson of a telephone call from Sean O’Mordha, 11 Apr 1994, copies of letters between Elizabeth Knowlson to Roger Thompson at the BBC, Nov 1994, brochure describing Samuel Beckett Silence to Silence, produced and directed by Sean O’Mordha, RTE, 1984, copy of a leaflet about Samuel Beckett Silence to Silence, for the Edinburgh Festival, 1984, together with a review of the film by Ian Bell and copy of a review by Thomas Sutcliffe of Bookmark’s (BBC2) two-part programme about Samuel Beckett’s life as portrayed in Sean O’Mordha’s documentary film, The Independent, Section Two, 8 Apr 1996
1 folder 1981-1996
JEK A/2/222 Folder entitled Osborne, John Consists of copy of a letter from James Knowlson to John Osborne, 18 Oct 1991, letter to James Knowlson from John Osborne, 25 Oct 1991
1 folder 1991
JEK A/2/223 Folder entitled O’Sullivan, Seumas Consists of correspondence and a copy of a letter from Samuel Beckett to O'Sullivan
James Knowlson note: Seumas O’Sullivan (James Sharkey) was the editor of the Dublin Magazine who published Beckett in the 1930s. Beckett knew both O’Sullivan and his wife, Estella Solomons. O’Sullivan offered Beckett the editorship of the Dublin Magazine, which he turned down.
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JEK A/2/224 Folder entitled Orpen, Beatrice Consists of copy of a letter to Kit Orpen-Casey from James Page 98 of 562
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Knowlson seeking to establish whether the Beatrice referred to in Beckett’s letters could be Beatrice Orpen and asking for information about the family, 10 Dec 1992, with reply from Mrs Kit Orpen-Casey including a family tree and with further information about the Orpens, 16 Dec 1992, copy of a letter to Mrs Kit Orpen-Casey from James Knowlson thanking her for the information and expressing an interest in following through other branches of the family whom Samuel Beckett might have known, 12 Jan 1993 and newspaper cutting of an obituary of Richard Caulfield Orpen, brother of Sir William Orpen
1 folder 1992-1993
JEK A/2/225 Folder entitled Lutfi Ozkok Consists of postcards from Lutfi Ozkok to James Knowlson and copy of a poem
1 folder 1993
JEK A/2/226 Folder entitled Paalen, Wolfgang Consists of biographical details of Wolfgang Paalen
1 folder Undated
JEK A/2/227 Folder entitled Page, Sheila Consists of copies of letters of Samuel Beckett to Sheila Page, 1955-1989, with transcriptions, copies of cards to Sheila Page from Samuel Beckett, copies of letters, one in French, 1960 and one in English, undated, from Henri Hayden to Sheila Page, who used to send the painter Sanatogen tonic from England, press cutting about Beckett receiving, in his absence, a torc from Aosdana, presented by Irish prime-minister to Caroline Beckett Murphy representing Beckett and obituary of Suzanne Beckett, Daily Telegraph, 11 Aug 1989 Page 99 of 562
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James Knowlson note: Beckett’s cousin, Sheila Page Roe, and her sister Molly, lived with the Beckett family when they were young girls. Beckett calls her Eli in these letters, as well as Sheila. The interviews with her and her letters from Beckett were among the most important for the biography of Beckett. With the recorded interviews this is a major collection. The Jack often referred to was her brother (‘Velvet bunny’ as Beckett’s mother called him) who also visited them at ‘Cooldrinagh’.
1 folder 1955-1995
JEK A/2/228 Folder entitled Patten, James Consists of copy of a card from Samuel Beckett to James Patten, 5 Nov 1967, with a letter from James Patten to James Knowlson, 24 May 1999, correspondence between James Knowlson and James Patten, 1999 – 2006, copy of a testimonial from the principal of Trinity College of Music, Myers Foggin, attesting to James Patten’s good qualities as both composer and teacher, 16 Oct 1970, copy of a typed letter of appreciation of James Patten’s music, 1 Nov 1977, brochures and programme notes outlining the life and work of James Patten – some with his added notes linking his work to passages from Beckett’s work, information about James Patten and his work, together with reviews, Two scores of …..for Nothing, three Pieces for Unaccompanied Cello in memoriam Samuel Beckett, by James Patten, one with copies of passages from Samuel Beckett’s Texts for Nothing attached and newspaper cuttings
1 folder 1967-2008
JEK A/2/229 Folder entitled Paul, Elliot Consists of obituary of Elliot Paul
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JEK A/2/230 Folder entitled Paulhan, Jean Consists of obituary of Jean Paulhan
1 folder 10 Oct 1967
JEK A/2/231 Folder entitled Percival Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Percival, 1967-1986, with a photocopy of the title page of Beckett’s Collected Shorter Plays with a dedication to Percival dated 8 Aug 1987, correspondence between Percival and James Knowlson, 1993 – 2005, typescript of Not I – For Deaf Ears, adapted from Not I by Samuel Beckett by Tom Fjordefalk & Irena Kraus for the Riksteatern/ Silent Theatre, 1996, typescripts describing Percival’s published plays and his quest books, advertisement The Cathars a photographic exhibition by the author and artist Percival, 1992, leaflets about the memorial programme organized for Hans Christian Ostro, the Norwegian Theatre Director, held in New Delhi, which Percival attended, leaflets about the publication of Percival’s works, Letters to Shanti and Time Plays, CD notes about Percival’s music, Time Space Music, The Waves, For Mary Magdalene and Dreams and Ballads and extract from A World Tramp’s Outlook on Things, ed. Percival, 1998 (in Swedish), CD entitled Jungle Music, 2008 and Percival, Diciotto liriche Arton dikter Traduuzione di Giacomo Oreglia, Stockholm, 2008
2 folders 1967-2008
JEK A/2/232 Folder entitled Phillips, Siân Consists of letter from James Knowlson to Siân Phillips 24 Mar and 11 Apr 1984, text of Siân Phillips’s own account of working with Samuel Beckett on Eh Joe and theatre programme of The Lion in Winter by James Goldman at the Page 101 of 562
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James Knowlson note: Siân Phillips worked with Beckett on Eh Joe. She was married to Peter O’Toole and speaks eloquently about Beckett and O’Toole’s turbulent relationship.
1 folder 1984-1994
JEK A/2/233 Folder entitled Pinget, Robert Consists of card from Robert Pinget to James Knowlson, 15 Feb 1993 and extracts from letters from Beckett and others with references to Robert Pinget, 1956 - 1980
James Knowlson note: Robert Pinget was a good friend of Suzanne, Beckett’s wife, and also of Beckett. But he was particularly close with Suzanne. He died in 1997, aged 78. He translated Beckett’s radio play, Embers (Cendres) - see below - and Beckett translated his play, La manivelle as The Old Tune. He also helped Pierre Chabert to direct Pinget’s play, L’hypothèse, in Paris. Beckett told James Knowlson once that Pinget was a fine and much underrated writer and that he should write a book about him. James Knowlson did not take Beckett’s advice! Barbara Bray, Beckett’s lover, translated other plays of Pinget into English.
1 folder 1993
JEK A/2/234 Folder entitled Pinter, Harold Consists of letters from Harold Pinter to James Knowlson, 1973–1992, correspondence from Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser, Oct 2006 and photographs of Harold Pinter in Krapp's Last tape
3 folders 1973-2008
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JEK A/2/235 Folder entitled Pissarev, Igor Consists of copies of cards from Samuel Beckett to Igor Pissarev, 1977, 1980, letters from Igor Pissarev to James Knowlson, 26 Mar 1993 (in French) and 20 Jul 1995 (in English) and letters from James Knowlson to Igor Pissarev, 14 Apr 1993 and 21 Aug 1995
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JEK A/2/236 Folder entitled Pountney, Rosemary Consists of copy of a letter from Samuel Beckett to Rosemary Pountney, 22 Mar 1974, copies of six cards from Samuel Beckett to Rosemary Pountney 1975 and 1986, copies of 5 pages of holograph questions concerning Beckett’s work, Beckett's answers in the margins, correspondence between Rosemary Pountney and James Knowlson 1975 – 2001 and leaflet advertising Rosemary Pountney’s performance of Samuel Beckett’s Rockaby at the Studio Theatre, Royal Holloway
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JEK A/2/237 Folder entitled Powell, Tristram Consists of copies of three cards from Samuel Beckett to Tristram Powell, 29 Sept 1976, 18 Nov 1976, and 3 May 1977, copy of a letter from Samuel Beckett to Tristram Powell, 27 Nov 1976 with notes on … but the clouds.., copy of a postcard from Samuel Beckett to Tristram Powell, 18 Jul 1979, with an explanatory card from Tristram Powell to James Knowlson, copies of two letters from James Knowlson to Tristram Powell, 18 Sept 1994 and 14 Oct 2003, large photograph of Samuel Beckett with Tristram Powell, with an undated letter to James Knowlson accompanying it
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JEK A/2/238 Folder entitled Putman, Jacques Consists of copies of letters from James Knowlson to Catherine Putman, 8 Apr 1993 and 9 Jun 1993 and a letter from Catherine Putman to James Knowlson 25 May 1993
1 folder 1957-1981
JEK A/2/239 Folder entitled Putnam, Samuel Consists of Elizabeth Knowlson's notes on Putnam letters in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Morris Library collection
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JEK A/2/240 Folder entitled Ravel, Jean Consists of originals and copies of four cards from Samuel Beckett to Jean Ravel, 8 Mar 1966, 21 Mar 1966, 22 Mar 1978, 12 Dec 1982, correspondence between Madame Emma Lévin Le Chanois and James Knowlson between 12 Feb 1993 and 16 Aug 1995, photocopies taken from Arts, 19-25 Jan 1966, of Comédie with pictures of Samuel Beckett and Delphine Seyrig with Samuel Beckett, photocopy of a newspaper review of the film Comédie, by Pierre Devis, Combat, 11 Jan 1966
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JEK A/2/241 Folder entitled Rawson, Nick Consists of copies of six letters from Samuel Beckett to Nick Rawson between 1965- 1968, card thanking Nick Rawson for his contribution to Die Zeit, 13 Feb 1970, photocopy of title page of Michael Hamburger’s translation of Friedrich Page 104 of 562
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Hölderlin’s Poems and Fragments, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London with a poem from which, Rawson notes, Beckett quoted, letter from the painter, Graham Ackroyd to Nick Rawson, 19 Mar 1990, photocopy of an etching of Samuel Beckett (from a photograph) by Joslin, Nick Rawson’s daughter, in 1991, correspondence between Nick Rawson and James Knowlson, 1990-2004, documents relating to the project instigated by Francis Warner to create a Samuel Beckett Theatre under a quadrangle of St. Peter’s College, Oxford, press-cuttings about Samuel Beckett and his work, including obituaries, including a number of articles and reviews in German
5 folders 1965-2004
JEK A/2/242 Folder entitled Rea, Stephen Consists of An offprint of and interview, In Conversation with Stephen Rae, by Luke Gibbons and Kevin Whelan, The Yale Journal of Criticism, volume 15, number 1 (2002), pp. 5-21, Yale University and The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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JEK A/2/243 Folder entitled Reid, K. H. Consists of correspondence between K.H. Reid and James Knowlson, 2003-2004, with examples (copies) of four of the cards from Samuel Beckett to Reid and a press cutting relating to Reid’s work
1 folder 2003-2004
JEK A/2/244 Folder entitled Ricks, Christopher Consists of entry about A. J. Leventhal in Who Was Who
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JEK A/2/245 Folder entitled Ricono, Connie Consists of copy of a letter from Enzo Maurri from Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, to Connie Ricono, 16 May 1979, Samuel Beckett added ‘No’ to the foot of the letter, correspondence between James Knowlson and Connie Ricono between 1993 and 2001 and copies of 4 letters from Samuel Beckett in English and French to the theatrical agent representing him in Italy, Connie Ricono, dated 9 Jan 1966, 3 Jul 1967, 6 Mar 1973 and 4 Jun 1980
James Knowlson note: Born in South Africa in 1916, Connie Ricono represented some major authors: e.g. Vaclav Havel, Thomas Bernard, Arnold Wesker, Bertholt Brecht, Rainer Fassbinder, Friedrich Durenmatt. She also translated many of Agatha Christie’s work for the stage.
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JEK A/2/246 Folder entitled Rièse, Laure Consists of copy of a typed press release for Samuel Beckett’s Breath and Come and Go and Francis Warner’s Maquettes: A Trilogy of One-Act Plays at the Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto, 8 Nov 1970, copy of a review by Carole Corbeil of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the Toronto Free Theatre, The Globe and Mail, Entertainment Section, 12 Apr 1984 and correspondence between James Knowlson and Laure Rièse in 1993
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JEK A/2/247 Folder entitled Rodriguez-Gago, Antonia Consists of copies of correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Antonia Rodriguez-Gago between 1982 – 1989, Page 106 of 562
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copies of correspondence between James Knowlson and Antonia Rodriguez-Gago between 1982 and 1998, copy of the title page, acknowledgements and contents of Antonia Rodriguez-Gago’s doctoral thesis on Samuel Beckett, The Shape that Matters: Imagenes y voces en el Teatro de Beckett, 1995
1 folder 1982-1995
JEK A/2/248 Folder entitled Rosset, Barney Consists of list of material from the Barney Rosset collection sold to Boston College, Burns Library, Dec 1993 by George Robert Minkoff Rare Books, large collection of detailed pencilled notes by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson on the contents of the Grove Press files in Boston College, Burns Library and correspondence between Barney Rosset and James Knowlson 1993, documents to do with Barney Rosset’s bankruptcy in Jan 1998 and various other articles about Rosset and Grove Press, copy of correspondence between Barney Rosset to Edward Beckett, 7 May 2002, offprint of Letters to Barney Rosset Samuel Beckett, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 1990, pp. 64-72 and colour photos of Barney Rosset with Astrid, his partner, John Calder and Muriel and James Knowlson c. 1993
James Knowlson note: Barney Rosset the founder of Grove Press in New York was Beckett’s US publisher for Beckett’s entire life - or at least until he was dismissed from Grove Weidenfeld in the 1980s and then set up Blue Moon Books. He was very friendly with Beckett.
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JEK A/2/249 Folder entitled Rudman, Michael Consists of letter from Michael Rudman to James Knowlson , 9 Nov 2004, enclosing his notes for the National Theatre Staff on a meeting with Samuel Beckett, 3 Sept 1987, letter to James Knowlson from Michael Rudman’s assistant, Billie Curran, asking him to copy the above notes and return the Page 107 of 562
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original to him, correspondence from Michael Rudman to James Knowlson, 26 Jun 2005 and edited version of Michael Rudman’s notes prepared for publication in Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett, by James and Elizabeth Knowlson, Bloomsbury, London, 2006 John Haynes photograph of Michael Rudman
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JEK A/2/250 Folder entitled Rudmose-Brown, Thomas Brown See Association Items Consists of articles by Roger Little Beckett’s Mentor, Rudmose- Brown. Sketch for a Portrait, Irish University Review, 14, 1 (Spring 1984) and Echange de letters: l’Amitié franco- irlandaise de Valery Larbaud et T. B. Rudmose-Brown, Contacts, (Dublin) no 21, Spring 1982), also A French Champion of Irish Letters [Valery Larbaud] The Irish Times, 29 Jan 1982 and Valery Larbaud et les Lettres irlandaises: connaisssance de Rudmose-Brown and Revue de littérature comparée, no. 1, 1983, pp. 101-111, letters and cards from James Knowlson and Roger Little about Rudmose-Brown, photocopies of caricatures of Rudmose-Brown in Trinity College Dublin magazine and of title pages of books by Rudmose-Brown and typescript by Michael Wall of an article on Rudmose-Brown and Beckett ‘Beckett’s mentor, Rudmose- Brown, a Nietzschean link’ with accompanying letter
James Knowlson note: Thomas Brown Rudmose-Brown, Professor of Romance languages, was Beckett’s professor, friend and ardent supporter at Trinity College Dublin. A highly colourful character he became the model for the Polar Bear in Beckett’s novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women. He exercised a huge influence on Beckett as a student (on Beckett’s own admission). See transcripts of Samuel Beckett’s interviews with James Knowlson and Damned to Fame, (especially pp. 47-51) for an account of his character and p. 152 for the source of the Polar-Bear. See also his two testimonials for Beckett in the University of Cape Town file. But Rudmose-Brown was also a writer and a published poet. He was an example to Beckett then that you could be creative as well as academic at least at the beginning of his career.
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JEK A/2/251 Folder entitled Russell, Vera Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Vera Russell 1991-1992, copy of the listing of the letters from Samuel Beckett, Con Leventhal and Jasper Johns relating to Samuel Beckett’s collaboration with Jasper Johns in Fizzles, copy of a brochure about Foirades/Fizzles: Echo and Allusion in the Art of Jasper Johns, UCLA Art Council Exhibition, 1987, with photographs of Beckett and Johns and obituary of Vera Russell, by Peter Logan, From St Petersburg with love, The Guardian, 23 Jun , 1992See also JEK C/1/109
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JEK A/2/252 Folder entitled Samelson, Andra Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Andra Samelson, 1981 – 1987, correspondence between James Knowlson to Andra Samelson, 1993-2006, typescript of her memoir, Meetings with Beckett, accompanied by notes she made after these meetings on what Beckett said to her
1 folder 1981-2006
JEK A/2/253 Folder entitled Sarraute, Nathalie Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Nathalie Sarraute 1991 and abbreviated version of this transcribed and translated interview, 25 Mar 1991
James Knowlson note: Beckett and Suzanne stayed with Nathalie Sarraute and her husband, Raymond, while they were on the run from the Gestapo. See Damned to Fame, pp. 316- 318, British edition. Nathalie Sarraute died in 1999. Knowlson recorded an interview with her, also in the collection. See biographical recordings section and a reproduction of part of Page 109 of 562
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Knowlson’s interview with Sarraute in Beckett Remembering – Remembering Beckett (Bloomsbury Publishing, Arcade USA 2006.). This collection of Sarraute’s book consists of many of Sarraute’s first editions and signed copies.
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JEK A/2/254 Folder entitled Sayers, Elliseva Consists of typescript, The Irish Mavericks by Elliseva Sayers, an article about Shaw, Beckett and Joyce. 27 pp, correspondence between James Knowlson and Elliseva Sayers 26 Apr 1993 and typescript of an article by Elliseva Sayers on James Joyce with holograph card of 3 Jun 1998
James Knowlson note: Elliseva Sayers was a student of Samuel Beckett at Trinity College, Dublin in 1930-31. She met him once again in Paris in 1960 and they corresponded for a couple of years. She has also written about their meetings.
1 folder 1993-1998
JEK A/2/255 Folder entitled Schapire, Rosa Consists of information about Schapire
1 folder 2003, 2007
JEK A/2/256 Folder entitled Schneider, Alan Consists of letters from Alan Schneider to James Knowlson 1977-1983, press cuttings, letters from Jean Schneider to James Knowlson 1984-1993 and conference pack for the Alan Schneider conference 1990
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JEK A/2/257 Folder entitled Schneider, Pierre Consists of correspondence between Pierre Schneider and James Knowlson 1993, bibliographical information about Schneider and his major book on Matisse with a review of its English translation from The New York Times, An Artist who shook the Earth
James Knowlson note: Pierre Schneider was an art critic associated with the Georges Duthuit circle and known to Beckett.
1 folder 1993
JEK A/2/258 Folder entitled Schoell, Konrad Consists of letters from Konrad Schoell to James Knowlson 1988-1990, various publications by Konrad Schoell on Beckett’s Molloy, Warten auf Godot, endspiel etc, with photocopies of letters from Beckett to Schoell and essays by Konrad Schoell
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JEK A/2/259 Folder entitled Schreibman, Susan Consists of correspondence between Susan Schreibman and James Knowlson, 1990 – 2003, interview with Susan Schreibman by Maire Mhac an tSaoi about Thomas MacGreevy and various poems by Susan Schreibman
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JEK A/2/260 Folder entitled Schultze, Hans-Jürgen Consists of letter to James Knowlson from Dr Hans-Jürgen Page 111 of 562
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JEK A/2/261 Folder entitled Schwarzer-Beyer, Eva Consists of copy of a card to Eva Schwarzer-Beyer from Samuel Beckett, 12 Jul 1986, letter from Gottfried Büttner to James Knowlson, 11 Nov 1997 and reply from James Knowlson
1 folder 1986-1997
JEK A/2/262 Folder entitled Schwartz, Jake Consists of transcriptions of letters from Samuel Beckett to Jake Schwartz
1 folder 1956-1961
JEK A/2/263 Folder entitled Scott, Duncan Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Duncan Scott 1977-1986, correspondence between Duncan Scott and James Knowlson 1993 and notes of Duncan Scott's memories of Beckett
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on Not I and operated the interrogating light in Play.
1 folder 1977-2004
JEK A/2/264 Folder entitled Searle, Ronald Consists of letter from Ronald Searle to James Knowlson and copy of a cartoon by Ronald Searle of Samuel Beckett
James Knowlson note: Beckett first met Ronald Searle with Eric Keown, theatre critic of Punch, who covered theatrical firstnights with Searle. They lunched with Beckett in October 1956 and Searle did a cartoon of Beckett which is published in the biography of Ronald Searle by Russell Davies. According to Searle he and Beckett then met several times after Searle’s move to Paris in 1961.
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JEK A/2/265 Folder entitled Seaver, Dick Consists of transcribed extracts from the letters of Samuel Beckett to a number of his friends concerning Dick Seaver and his translations of Beckett’s work, transcriptions of letters to Dick Seaver from Samuel Beckett in 1963 and 1968, correspondence between James Knowlson to Dick Seaver 1993-1994, photocopied pages from Dick Seaver’s introduction to his book, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader, Grove Press Inc., NY, 1976, pages of a proof of Dick Seaver’s contribution to Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett with the photograph used in the book and page of holograph notes by James Knowlson regarding matters arising from reading Seaver’s book, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On etc., preparation for an interview
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JEK A/2/266 Folder entitled Secker & Warburg Consists of copies of correspondence between Barney Rosset, for Grove Press, and Frederic Warburg, for Secker & Warburg, Feb-Apr 1956 and two readers’ reports of Malone Dies, with holograph comments
1 folder 1956
JEK A/2/267 Folder entitled Segal, Martin Consists of list of the letters of Samuel Beckett to Martin Segal, copies of the correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Martin Segal 1964-1989 and a leaflet advertising the setting up of a Dr. A. J. (Con) Leventhal Scholarship to be administered by Trinity College, Dublin, with holograph comment on to Martin Segal from Samuel Beckett Copies of correspondence between Martin Segal and James Knowlson between 1993 – 1996 copy of a letter from Martha Fehsenfeld to Martin Segal, 18 Apr 1990, together with a four-page outline of what is proposed for The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett copy of a letter from Lois More Overbeck to Martin Segal and reply 1993 letters between Lynn Todd-Crawford Martin Segal and Bonnie Zitofsky
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JEK A/2/268 Folder entitled Shainberg, Lawrence Consists of copies of cards from Samuel Beckett to Lawrence Shainberg, 1973-1989, with explanatory notes from Lawrence Shainberg in the margin, correspondence between James Knowlson and Lawrence Shainberg and copies of an offprint of Lawrence Shainberg’s article on Beckett, Exorcising Beckett, Paris Review, 104, vol. 29, Fall, 1987
2 folders 1973-1989
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JEK A/2/269 Folder entitled Shenker, Israel Consists of copy of a newspaper article on Beckett by Israel Shenker, Samuel Beckett Ero l’opposto di Joyce, la Republica, Cultura
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JEK A/2/270 Folder entitled Sigal, Clancy Consists of copy of a newspaper magazine article on Samuel Beckett by Clancy Sigal, Is this the person to murder me?, The Sunday Times, Colour Magazine, London, pp.17-22
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JEK A/2/271 Folder entitled Silverman, O.A. Consists of page of holograph notes, with short quotes from some Beckett letters
1 folder 1958
JEK A/2/272 Folder entitled Simpson, Alan Consists of copies of correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Alan Simpson, with an inventory of letters 1953 – 1960
James Knowlson note: Alan Simpson was the director of the Pike Theatre in Dublin and put on Waiting for Godot for the first time in Ireland. He and his wife, Carolyn Swift, became fairly friendly with Samuel Beckett. The early letters are interesting for the light they show on the Pike Theatre’s early difficulties in obtaining the rights to produce Waiting for Godot in English in Dublin. In a later letter, 14 January 1957, Page 115 of 562
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Beckett describes in some detail the genesis of Act Without Words prior to a Pike production of it. In another, 15 January 1958 Beckett explains why he must refuse permission for a stage presentation of All That Fall and later (28 January 1958) gives strict instructions to accompany permission for a reading of it on stage. On 15 January 1958, Beckett writes about the English translation of Fin de Partie, (Endgame) and the censorship problems in London. Other letters relate to Beckett’s withdrawal from the Dublin Festival after ‘the revolting boycott of Joyce and O’Casey’ and the withdrawal of his permission for the Pike to do Endgame and the All That Fall reading.
2 folders 1953-1960
JEK A/2/273 Folder entitled Sinclair, William (Boss) and Cissie Consists of poem of William Sinclair, pencil and typescript copy, The Cobbled Street, obituaries of William Sinclair, one by his brother, Harry Sinclair, draft pages of a lecture by William Sinclair on Modern German Art, given to the Society of Dublin Pinters on his return from Kassel, copies of documents from the Kunstsammlung in Kassel with two inventories of Boss Sinclair’s collection of modern paintings and sculptures with their valuation – with a translation, provenance of the Museum of Modern Art’s Boccioni painting The Laugh which in the 1920s belonged to William Sinclair and which Beckett saw in Kassel before Sinclair sold it in 1932, with notes by James Knowlson, transcriptions of letters to Tom MacGreevy about Cissie and Boss Sinclair, copy of the portrait of Peggy Sinclair by Karl Leyhausen in the possession of the late Gottfried Büttner family in Kassel and copy of article on Lady Art Students in Paris by Clive Holland, The Studio, XXX, Dec 1903, including some details about the Colarossi Art Studio, where both Cissie Sinclair and Estella Solomns were students in the early years of the century
James Knowlson note: Beckett’s uncle by marriage to his favourite aunt, Cissie Beckett. An antiques/art dealer who introduced Beckett to modern German and Italian art with his own collection of Feininger, Ewald, Campendonk, Boccioni, etc in Kassel, where Beckett visited the Sinclairs to meet his cousin and first love, Peggy Sinclair, with whom there was an unofficial engagement. Page 116 of 562
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JEK A/2/274 Folder entitled Sinclair, Morris Consists of letters and cards from Beckett’s cousin, Morris Sinclair, to James Knowlson and copies of letters (c. 36) from James Knowlson to Morris Sinclair, 1989-2004 , photocopy of Morris father, Boss Sinclair’s manuscript lecture given to the Society of Dublin Painters about Modern German Art in c. 1933-4, copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Morris Sonny Sinclair, transcriptions of Samuel Beckett's letters to Morris Sinclair, letter from Samuel Beckett to his Aunt Cissie, with transcription and notes, letters from Deirdre Hamilton (nee Sinclair) to James Knowlson, including notes made by James Knowlson, extracts from articles, extracts from a Samuel Beckett biography, and possibly extracts from Samuel Beckett's diaries, notes on a telephone conversation with James Knowlson about paintings that were on the walls of the Sinclair apartment in Kassel and quoting Beckett’s comments on these
James Knowlson note: Morris Sinclair was Samuel Beckett's cousin
7 folders 1931-2007
JEK A/2/275 Folder entitled Starkie, Walter Consists of extracts from books
James Knowlson note: Walter Starkie taught Beckett Italian at Trinity College Dublin in 1923-27
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Consists of copies of cards from Samuel Beckett to Robert (Bob) Steen 1975-1976, copies of two cards sent with gifts for the wedding of Elsie Steen (Robert Steen’s sister) and Norman Smiley, one from Mrs W. F. Beckett (Samuel Beckett’s mother) and one from Mrs Evelyn J. Evatt (neighbours of the Becketts), correspondence between James Knowlson and Elizabeth Steen 1992 and correspondence between James Knowlson and Elsie Smiley, 1992-1994
1 folder 1975-1994
JEK A/2/277 Folder entitled Stockton, Elizabeth Consists of copies of letters between Elizabeth Stockton from James Knowlson 1992-1994 and newspaper review by Allan Massie of Erskine Childers, a biography by Jim Ring
James Knowlson note: It is important for the light it throws on the development of the TV plays, which were put on in Stuttgart: 1965-66 Work on Eh Joe (for which Beckett declined a fee) but was very pleased with the result. 1976-77 Tryst [Geistertrio] and . …but the clouds... [ Nur die Wolke], Beckett wants Walter Asmus as his assistant and Jim Lewis on camera. Not I (Billie Whitelaw) to be given in English to complete the programme. BBC general title Shades [Schatten]. Difficulties with BBC over Not I. 1978-9 New production of Eh Joe, SB talks of shortening the end, making changes. 1979 Proposal for new BBC production with Rich Cluchey, Billie Whitelaw – [project never completed]. 1980-82 Quadrat I and II – the difficulties of production discussed in detail. Proposal for a film of Murphy (Alfred Behrens, Michael Kuball). 1982-3 Nacht und Träume [Nachtstück] (1982-3). 1983-4 Was Wo 1983-4 – Beckett complains of writers block. 1986 Two programmes: 12.4.86 He Joe with Geistertrio, 13.4.86 Was Wo, Nur noch Gewolk, Quadrat I + II.
1 folder 1992-1994
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JEK A/2/278 Folder entitled Stuart, Francis Consists of copy of Francis Stuart’s Selections from a Berlin Diary, 1942 in Journal of Irish Literature, vol. v, no.1, Jan. 1976, Stuart has an entry dated Aug 9th 1942 in which he speaks of receiving a letter from Samuel Beckett in Paris, copy of letter from John Wheale, 2 Aug 1981, asking Samuel Beckett about that letter in 1942, copy of Samuel Beckett’s reply to John Wheale, 10 Aug 1981, letters and a card in 1981 to James Knowlson about this correspondence with Beckett and the suspicions surrounding the diary entry, copy of a letter from Deirdre Bair to John Wheale, 3 Jul 1980, regarding Samuel Beckett’s relations with Francis Stuart, review of Samuel Beckett’s Company by Francis Stuart, Hibernia, 13 Jul 1980, p. 21, copy of an article by Francis Stuart, The Back Room of Davy Byrne’s, Cara, The Inflight Magazine of Aer Lingus, Jan/Feb 1986, copy of a letter to the editor in the Irish Times, 11 Jul 1992, relating to Stuart’s wartime record - broadcasting from Berlin - on the occasion of Stuart’s 90th birthday, review of Francis Stuart’s book, Black List: Section H, Lilliput Press, Dublin. The Observer Review, 28 May 1995 draft of letter from James Knowlson to Francis Stuart, Jun 1991, asking for a meeting, letter from Francis Stuart to James Knowlson, 10 Jun 1991, copy of letter from James Knowlson to Francis Stuart with a query about Cecil Salkeld and the Tomorrow magazine they edited together, card from Francis Stuart, Jul 10 1991, replying and answering the question about Cecil Salkeld, draft of interview with Francis Stuart, 20 Jun 1991, extracted from the recording made on that date by James Knowlson, Lilliput Press announcement of The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart 1942-44, edited by Brendan Barrington, published Sept 2000 Details of the French editions published by Gallimard and short account in French of Stuart’s career, details from Southern Illinois University of the Geoffrey Elborn Collection of Francis Stuart 1902-1990, obituary of Francis Stuart, The Independent, 3 Feb 2000 and various articles and bibliographical listings about Stuart and his life
James Knowlson note: Francis Stuart (1902-2000) was an Irish writer, the author of over 30 novels. He was known to Samuel Beckett in the 1930s and they met again much later. A controversial figure who was arrested by the Allies and imprisoned by the French for his broadcasts from Berlin (where he went as a lecturer in 1940) during the war. In spite Page 119 of 562
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of this controversy, which never really abated until his death, he held the position of Saoi, the highest honour which the arts body of Ireland, Aosdana, could bestow upon an artist. Interesting material relating to the accusation that Stuart made up the existence of a letter from Beckett in Paris to Stuart in Berlin in 1942
1 folder 1976-2000
JEK A/2/279 Folder entitled Süddeutscher Rundfunk Consists of copies of correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Süddeutscher Rundfunk, 1965-1986, copy of a letter from James Knowlson to Dr Edgar Lersch, 19 Apr 1994 asking for as complete a set as possible of copies of letters to do with the Beckett productions and copy of a letter from James Knowlson to Dr. Jörg Hucklenbroich, 29 Aug 1994, thanking him for the copies and enclosing payment
1 folder 1965-1994
JEK A/2/280 Folder entitled Tabori, Georg Consists of copy of a card from Samuel Beckett to Georg Tabori, 23 Jul 1983, letter to James Knowlson from Julian Garforth, 19 Jun 1991, with reply from James Knowlson 10 Jul 1991 and photocopy of a long article on Tabori’s Kreis Theater in Vienna by Sigrid Löffler, Taboris Träume, Theater Heute 12/88
1 folder 1983-1991
JEK A/2/281 Folder entitled Tagliaferri, Aldo Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Aldo Tagliaferri between 1992 - 2005, offprint of the introduction to a new Italian translation of Beckett’s trilogy, Page 120 of 562
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Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable by Aldo Tagliaferri and copy of a newspaper article by Franco Marcoaldi, about the new translation of Samuel Beckett’s trilogy, Molloy, Malone muore and L’Innominabile, Quel magnifico pazzo d’irlandese, la Republica, 22 Mar 1996
1 folder 1968-2005
JEK A/2/282 Folder entitled Tahar Ben Jelloun Consists of extract from a website
1 folder 2007
JEK A/2/283 Folder entitled Tandy, Jessica (and Susan Cooper) Consists of copy of correspondence between James Knowlson and Susan Cooper 2004, biographical information about of Susan Cooper, biographical information about Jessica Tandy, photocopy of a newspaper article, based on an interview with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn by Mel Gussow, At Home with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, The Driven Mr and Mrs Daisy, The New York Times, 26 May 1994, photocopy of an obituary of Jessica Tandy, by David Richards, With Jessica Tandy, the Glory Was in the Details, The New York Times, 18 Sept 1994 and an obituary of Jessica Tandy by W.J. Weatherby, From Blanche to Miss Daisy, The Guardian, 12 Sept 1994
1 folder 1994-2004
JEK A/2/284 Folder entitled Targ, William Consists of pages of an uncorrected proof, A Day in the Life of … A View of Beckett, from Indecent Pleasures, by William Targ, Macmillan
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JEK A/2/285 Folder entitled Tarn, Adam Consists of extracts from Adam Tarn’s letters to Samuel Beckett and Beckett’s to Tarn, handwritten notes made by James Knowlson in the Bibliothèque Polonaise, Paris
1 folder Undated
JEK A/2/286 Folder entitled Tejera, Niveria Consists of copy of a holograph card from Samuel Beckett to the Committee of Selection, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, recommending Nivaria Tejera, 20 Oct 1973, correspondence between Niveria Tejera to James Knowlson 1994
1 folder 1973-1994
JEK A/2/287 Folder entitled Thieuloy, Jack Consists of copies of cards from Samuel Beckett to Jack Thieuloy 1976-1977, correspondence between Jack Thieuloy and James Knowlson 1992, typescript of a passage from Diogène de Tarascon, with publishing details and with passages marked which refer to Samuel Beckett and to Molloy, together with a copy of the title page and part of an offprint from the book, copy of a teaching text based on a passage from Jack Thieuloy’s L’Inde des grands chemins, photocopy of a long article about Jack Thieuloy, which reviews three of his books, Le bourlingueur visionnaire, by Alain Clerval, La Quinzaine littéraire, 331 1/15 Sept 1980 and photocopy of a newspaper article about Jack Thieuloy, Thieuloy, la fourmi volante, Libération, 31 Jan 1985
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JEK A/2/288 Folder entitled Thompson, Geoffrey Consists of notes taken by James Knowlson from a Radio Telefis Eireann recording of an interview with Geoffrey Thompson, 14 Oct 1976, notes in preparation for James Knowlson’s interview with Ursula Thompson, 15 Jun 1990, correspondence between Mima Thompson and James Knowlson 1990 and photographs of Thompson, with CD of images
James Knowlson note: Geoffrey Thompson, Beckett’s psychoanalyst friend, who was responsible for him coming to London for psychotherapy with W. R. Bion in 1933-1935 and for showing him around the Bethlehem Mental Hospital in 1935, introducing him to the patient on whom Beckett then based Mr Endon in Murphy. Beckett was Geoffrey and Ursula Thompson’s best man on 2 November 1934. Thompson was a school friend from Portora days, playing cricket with him in the school first XI and remaining friendly with him at Trinity College Dublin.
2 folders, 1 CD 1976-2009
JEK A/2/289 Folder entitled Titus, Edward Consists of notes by James Knowlson about Edward Titus, copy of biographical entry relating to Edward W Titus, by Toby Widdicombe, D.L.B., American Writers in Paris 1920-39, Gale, Detroit, 1980, photocopy of an extract from Kiki’s Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930, Billy Kluver and Julie Martin, Abrahams, New York, 1989 and George Robert Minkoff Inc Rare Books Catalogue (List 93-C), with a number of books by famous writers dedicated to Edward W. Titus
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JEK A/2/291 Folder entitled Torre, Guillermo de Consists of photocopy of the title page and contents of Guillermo De Torre’s, Literaturas Europeas de Vanguardia, Rafael Caro Raggio, Madrid
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JEK A/2/292 Folder entitled Trocchi, Alexander Consists of photocopies of a page advertising Editions Merlin, 1953 and listing the writers to be published, including Samuel Beckett, together with a photocopy of the cover of Merlin, A Collection of Contemporary Writing, Number Three, Volume One with an Editorial Statement and a page advertising Molloy, Malone Meurt, En Attendant Godot, by Samuel Beckett, published by Les Éditions de Minuit, copies of two pages describing books published by The Olympia Press, including Watt, by Samuel Beckett, Collection Merlin, Polygon book catalogue featuring Alexander Trocchi: The Making of the Monster, by Andrew Murray Scott, Polygon, Edinburgh, 1991 and notes by James Knowlson about the members of the Merlin group
1 folder 1953-1991
JEK A/2/293 Folder entitled Ussher, Arland (Percy) Consists of notes by Elizabeth S. Knowlson and extracts from Samuel Beckett’s letters to Arland Ussher and Ussher’s to Beckett, taken from the Arland Ussher papers in Trinity College Dublin, extracts from The Journal of Arland Ussher, in Arland Ussher papers, Trinity College Dublin, extracts from a typescript, A note on Beckett by Arland Ussher – in Arland Ussher papers, Trinity College Dublin, extracts from the Page 124 of 562
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correspondence of Arland Ussher with Mary Hutchinson, Leslie Daikin, Joseph Hone, Con Leventhal, Lady Beatrice Glenavy – in Arland Ussher papers, Trinity College Dublin and extracts from obituaries by Arland Ussher of Joseph Hone and Cecil Salkeld
James Knowlson note: Arland (first name formerly Percy) Ussher was a friend of Beckett’s since the early 1930s and corresponded with Beckett, sending him copies of his books. His correspondence with Beckett is in The University of Texas at Austin and his letters to and from Aidan Higgins are in Trinity College, Dublin. No original material is therefore available.
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JEK A/2/294 Folder entitled Valentin, Karl Consists of letter to James Knowlson from Peter Gidal, undated, photocopy of Michael Glasmeier’s Karl Valentin Der Komiker un die Künste, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich etc. 1987, photocopy of a catalogue of an exhibition to celebrate Karl Valentin’s centenary, produced by the Munich State Museum, and State Archive in conjunction with the Valentin Museum and the Institute of Theatre Studies at the University of Cologne, 2 Jul – 3 Oct 1982
1 folder 1982-1987
JEK A/2/295 Folder entitled van Itallie, Jean-Claude Consists of photocopy of a catalogue of an exhibition in van Itallie’s honour, entitled, Van Itallie Hurrah. The Life & Work of an American Playwright, 19 October 1992 – 15 January 1993
1 folder 1992-1993
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JEK A/2/296 Folder entitled Van Velde, Bram and Geer Consists of copies of letters and transcriptions of letters from Samuel Beckett to Bram van Velde between 1948 and 1957, copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Marthe Arnaud- Kuntz, 1940-1956, copy of a typescript of a dialogue between Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit on Bram van Velde, 2pp, copy of a typescript of Beckett’s short story Suite, 6pp, copy of a typescript of Trois Poèmes by Samuel Beckett, with a note saying ‘published in transition forty-eight, 2, 96-98’, correspondence between Lisle van Velde and James Knowlson between 1990 –1997, letter from Erik Slagter to James Knowlson, 29 Mar 1991 and James Knowlson’s reply, 11 Apr 1991, together with a photograph of a Bram van Velde painting given to Samuel Beckett, sent to James Knowlson by Slagter in 1993, pages of holograph notes by James Knowlson on Beckett’s writings about painting and especially about Bram van Velde, (the Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit, La Peinture des van Velde ou le monde et le pantalon, Les Cahiers d’Art, 1945-6, Beckett on Bram van Velde: Galerie Maeght, June 1948, copy of a catalogue cover, Bram van Velde, with an article outlining Beckett’s writings on his painting and a picture of Beckett with the painter, invitation to Geer van Velde, 1898-1977, an exhibition at the Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Hameau du Lac, 11130 Sigean, 21 Jun 1991, invitation to Geer van Velde: Dessins, an exhibition at the Salle d’Art Graphique, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 25 Jun 1991, sheet advertising Samuel Beckett en Bram van Velde (in Dutch), programmes of events organised by ABP for a Beckett-Van Velde festival, on 23 May 1993, including, among others things, an exhibition of Bram van Velde’s work and a performance of Barry McGovern’s I’ll Go On, copy of a newspaper article reprinting the text of Samuel Beckett’s text which appeared in Derrière le miroir, 11 and 12 Jun 1948, Editions Maeght Les Frères van Velde Peintres de l’Empêchement, La Libération, 10 May 1982 and copies of two newspaper reviews of the Bram van Velde Exhibition at the Pompidou Centre, 19 Oct – 31 Dec 1989, Le Monde, Arts section, 19 Oct 1989 and Bram Van Velde ou l’empire de l’oeil, Philippe Dagen, Le Monde, 20 Oct 1989
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JEK A/2/297 Folder entitled Van Velde, Jacoba Consists of transcripts of letters between Samuel Beckett and Jacoba van Velde 1940s-1970s, typescript of play by Karlijn Stoeffels, Samuel Beckett en Jacoba van Velde Jan – Mar 1991, with a card from Karlijn Stoeffels to James Knowlson and press cutting, article by Truusje van de Kamp, Weinig talent voor geluk about Beckett and Jacoba van Velde, with a letter from Marius Buning to James Knowlson and correspondence between from Jan Willem Reitsma to James Knowlson 1991
James Knowlson note: Jacoba van Velde was Beckett’s Dutch translator and a close friend. She acted as his agent in France for some time after the war. It has also been claimed by several people that they had an affair which lasted for several years. Knowlson has no evidence of this. He certainly helped her on many occasions and was always on close, warm, friendly terms. Knowlson's own conclusion is however, that this is not very likely.
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JEK A/2/298 Folder entitled Völker, Klaus Consists of copies of ALS cards from Samuel Beckett to Klaus Völker 1985-1986, letter to James Knowlson from Klaus Völker 17 Nov 1994 and reply 20 Nov 1994, photocopy of a programme of Glückliche Tage by Samuel Beckett, with Maria Wimmer as Winnie, 14 Nov 1970 together with a copy of Beckett’s holograph card, copy of a newspaper review of Glückliche Tage by Walther Karsch, 15 Nov 1970, copy of a review of Glückliche Tage by Friedrich Roemer, Die Welt, Nr.267, 16 Nov 1970 and copy of a newspaper review of Glückliche Tage in Der Abend, 14 Nov 1970
1 folder 1970-1994
JEK A/2/299 Folder entitled Waddington, Leslie Consists of newspaper article on Leslie Waddington with photographs of him by Nobby Clark, Pop goes the art market, by Catherine Bennett, The Guardian, 3 pp Page 127 of 562
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JEK A/2/300 Folder entitled Wall, Max Consists of pen and ink drawings of Max Wall, 3 signed by the artist, Helen Wilks, a gift to James Knowlson in 1998, with typescript biography of Helen Wilks and her work and note by James Knowlson distinguishes the above gift from other drawings of Max Wall by Helen Wilks which were gifted to the Beckett International Foundation
1 folder 1998
JEK A/2/301 Folder entitled Waldberg, Patrick Consists of transcription of notes from Samuel Beckett to Patrick Waldberg
1 folder 1957-1968
JEK A/2/302 Folder entitled Warrilow, David Consists of David Warrilow’s correspondence with James and Elizabeth Knowlson, 1978 - 1995, transcripts of Samuel Beckett's letters to David Warrilow 1976-1989, obituaries of Warrilow 1995, letters from Warrilow’s sister (Mary Nethery) and his brother about the gift of his letters to the Beckett Archive in Reading University, typescript An interview with David Warrilow by Eric Prince: I just play to make the space mine and reviews of some of Warrilow’s performances in France
James Knowlson note: David Warrilow was a British actor (and a friend of James and Elizabeth Knowlson at Reading University where he had been a fellow student) who specialised in roles in Beckett’s late plays and adaptations with Mabou Mines in New York – and had one, A Piece of Page 128 of 562
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Monologue, especially written for him. He became friendly with Beckett and corresponded with him regularly. After 25 years he became friendly again with Jim and Liz Knowlson.
3 folders 1978-1995
JEK A/2/303 Folder entitled Wenning, Henry Consists of typescript, Dear Henry, Dear Sam: Beckett and His Bookseller, by Kevin Ray, Washington University, St Louis, undated list of Beckett books for sale, including an A.P.S. to Henry Wenning when Beckett knew he was dying, Ulysses The Review, Miscellany Number 39, undated
1 folder Undated
JEK A/2/304 Folder entitled Whitelaw, Billie Consists of transcript of extracts of interviews with Billie Whitelaw, material relating to James Knowlson’s TV interview with Billie Whitelaw for the University of London Audio-Visual Centre, Feb 1977, review by James Knowlson of other video productions by the London Audio-Visual Centre, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 25 Feb 1977, draft of a piece by James Knowlson about Footfalls and Billie Whitelaw with a copy of a letter to Billie Whitelaw dated 22 Apr 1991, correspondence between James Knowlson and Billie Whitelaw 1977-1995, correspondence about Billie Whitelaw’s autobiography with Hodder and Stoughton and a confidentiality agreement, 19 May 1995, A Canvas who has lost her paintbrush by Barbara Lovenheim, The New York Times, 2 Sept 1990, Being a conduit for Sam, The Bookseller, 23 Jun 1995, How I became Beckett’s mouth Extract from her biography Billie Whitelaw … Who he? The Sunday Times, 20 Aug 1995, Billie, the pit-pony actress, Article about Billie Whitelaw by E. Jane Dickson on the occasion of the publication of her autobiography, Billie Whitelaw … Who he? The Daily Telegraph, 2 Sept 1995, The shadow of genius by John Walsh, The Independent on Sunday, 10 Sept 1995, Balancing Act Billie Whitelaw talks to Lesley Garner about her Page 129 of 562
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life and work Sinsbury’s The Magazine, Oct 1995, pp. 46- 48, review of Billie Whitelaw … Who he?’ entitled Beckett’s Muse by John Peter, The Sunday Times, 3 Sept 1995, Beckett’s favourite actress tells, some not all, The Times, 20 May 1996, Not I, Play it again, Sam, The New Yorker, 10 Feb 1997, Playing it again for Sam, The Observer Review, 20 Jun 1999, interview with Tim Adams, oration for the presentation of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters to Billie Whitelaw at the University of Reading, Summer 2001, I don’t dine. I don’t cook The Sunday Times, 7 Aug 2005 and obituary by Philip Purser of Robert Muller, the husband of Billie Whitelaw, May 1998
James Knowlson note: British stage and screen actress who played Beckett roles on many occasions. She was directed several times by Beckett and Footfalls was written with her in mind. He directed her in Happy Days as well as in Footfalls. She earlier did the British première of Not I.
2 folders 1977-2001
JEK A/2/305 Folder entitled Winter, Mary (& daughter) Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Mrs Betty Diamond, Jun – Nov 1994 with pages of notes of her memories of Samuel Beckett’s visits to the Pages and card from Lois Overbeck, 15 Jul 1994, concerning neighbours of the Pages at Sweetwater Cottage
James Knowlson note: Betty Diamond’s mother, Mary Winter, was housekeeper to Sheila and Don Page at Sweetwater Cottage.
1 folder 1994
JEK A/2/306 Folder entitled Wisdom, John O. Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and John and Clara Wisdom between 1990 – 1993, Macran’s Treatment of the History of Modern Philosophy (I), John O. Wisdom, a photocopy of a reprint from Hermathena, No. LXV, 1945, Macran’s Treatment of the History of Modern Page 130 of 562
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Philosophy (II), John O. Wisdom, a photocopy of a reprint from Hermathena, No. LXVI, 1945, The social pathology of Great Britain, John O. Wisdom, The Listener, Vol. LXXVI No 1951, 18 Aug 1966, pp. 223-225, The social pathology of Great Britain – II, John O. Wisdom, The Listener, Vol . LXXVI No 1952, 25 Aug 1966, pp. 265-266, offprint of a book review by John O. Wisdom, of The Strategy of Ignorance: From Decision Logic to Evolutionary Epistemology, by Soren Halldén, Library of Theoria No. 17, Thales, Stockholm, 1986, in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Mar 1992, photocopy of John Oulton Wisdom an appreciation on the occasion of his death by Professor David Berman, The Irish Times, 17 Feb 1993, photocopy of J. O. Wisdom and an obituary by I.C. Jarvie, The Independent 31, 4 Mar 1993
1 folder 1945-1993
JEK A/2/307 Folder entitled Wishart, Ernest Consists of note about Wishart and Company (to whom Samuel Beckett’s Murphy was sent and who rejected it)
1 folder Undated
JEK A/2/308 Folder entitled Woodthorpe, Peter Consists of photocopy of a photograph of Peter Woodthorpe, obituaries of Peter Woodthorpe 2004 and listing of Peter Woodthorpe’s film and TV appearances
1 folder 2004
JEK A/2/309 Folder entitled Woolf, Cecil and Bagguley, John Consists of copy of a letter from Samuel Beckett to Cecil Woolf in answer for a request to complete a questionnaire for a book, Authors take sides on Vietnam (1967) 2 Jul 1966
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JEK A/2/310 Folder entitled Wongar, B. Consists of copies of cards from Samuel Beckett to B. Wongar 1976 – 1984, copy of a letter from B. Wongar to Samuel Beckett, 20 March, 1984, copy of a letter from B. Wongar to A.J. Leventhal, 22 May 1979, copies of letters from A. J. Leventhal 1976 – 1979 and copy of a letter from Marion Leigh (Leventhal) to B. Wongar, 20 Jun 1981
1 folder 1979-1984
JEK A/2/311 Folder entitled Worth, Katharine Consists of correspondence between James and Elizabeth Knowlson and Katharine Worth
1 folder 1991-2006
JEK A/2/312 Folder entitled Worth, Irene Consists of copies of cards from Samuel Beckett to Irene Worth, 2 Sept 1979 and 29 Sept, copy of a review of Happy Days (The Public Theater, New York, with Irene Worth as Winnie, directed by Andrei Serban, 1 June – 26 August 1979) by Linda Ben-Zvi, The Beckett Circle, Vol II, no 1, Summer 1979, theatre programmes for Irene Worth’s portrait of Edith Wharton, NT Cottesloe Theatre, May 1994, obituaries of Irene Worth 2002 and page of notes by James Knowlson on Irene Worth
1 folder 1979-2002
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JEK A/2/313 Folder entitled Yeats, Jack Consists of press cuttings, correspondence and some Yeats Network newsletters
James Knowlson note: Jack B. Yeats was a friend of the much younger Samuel Beckett from 1930 until Yeats’s death in 1957. Beckett admired his paintings enormously and owned two of them. See for a discussion by Beckett of Jack Yeats the section of the interview with him on Yeats in James and Elizabeth Knowlson, Beckett Remembering - Remembering Beckett as well as some pages in Damned to Fame.
1 folder 1990s
JEK A/3 Research files II - subjects
JEK A/3/1 Folder entitled Algerian War Consists of copy of essay on Les Editions de Minuit et les Editions du Seuil, Deux strategies éditoriales face à la guerre d’Algérie by Anne Simonin
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JEK A/3/2 Folder entitled Address Book Consists of copy of an address book belonging to Samuel Beckett
1 folder Undated
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JEK A/3/3 Folder entitled BBC Sound Archives, Caversham Consists of transcriptions and extracts of memoranda and letters held by the BBC archives and notes made by James Knowslon, with a list of John Beckett holdings in the BBC files of recordings
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/4 Folder entitled Badischer Staats Theatre Consists of copy of a letter from Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1960
JEK A/3/5 Folder entitled Beckett’s Reading Consists of extracts on his reading from correspondence
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/6 Folder entitled Beckett’s map of Paris Consists of map of Paris that belonged to Samuel Beckett which was given to James Knowlson by Beckett
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/7 Folder entitled Beckett Manuscript Sales Consists of press cutting of note of Sotheby's’ sale of the Tara MaGowran notebook with Endgame manuscript
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JEK A/3/8 Folder entitled Beckett: Personal Anecdotes Consists of three anecdotes
James Knowlson note: One concerns Beckett singing his own versions of hymns at Portora Royal School, a story about Tom Plewin and Beckett interviewing him for Trinity College Dublin entry, and a story by Maria Wimmer recounting the tale of the cleaning lady at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin with Beckett leaving money for her and her sick mother. When James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson published ‘Beckett Erinnerung’ in 2006 they could not find the original story which is here and it was retranslated into German for the book from the English version.
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/9 Folder entitled Bergson, Henri Consists of notes made by James Knowlson
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/10 Folder entitled Bethlem Royal Hospital Consists of copies of documents about the old Bethlem Royal Hospital, copy of an offprint by J. G. Peter Phillips, who was Physician Superintendent at the time Beckett visited, The Physical factor in Mental Disorder from The Practitioner, vol. 137, Jan 1936, pp.36-48 and an article by Brian Ryder about Beckett’s visit to the wards at Bethlem Royal
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JEK A/3/11 Folder entitled Bielefeld Consists of typescript of memories of a meeting with Samuel Beckett and his wife Suzanne in Bielefeld on the occasion of the première of Mihalovici’s opera Krapp’s Last tape based on Beckett’s play and material from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1961 with translations by Jane Walling Wefelmeyer
1 folder 1961
JEK A/3/12 Folder entitled Books in Beckett’s Library Consists of copy of a complete listing of all the books in Beckett’s own library at 38 Boulevard Saint-Jacques Paris and in his country house at Ussy sur Marne
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/13 Folder entitled Bremen (Radio) Consists of copies of a film script of the English version of the script of a film on Samuel Beckett made by Radio Bremen
1 folder 1970
JEK A/3/14 Folder entitled British Museum Application by Beckett Consists of copies of Beckett’s original application in Jul 1932 for a British Museum reading room ticket, with a copy of Beckett’s letter of application from 4 Ampton Street
James Knowlson note: Beckett gives a note on what he is intending to work on as well as Vico and Alfieri (work interrupted earlier, he says)and the letter of recommendation from Charles Prentice at Chatto and Windus. Dates of renewal of the reader’s ticket are also given in a covering letter to Matthew Feldman.
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JEK A/3/15 Folder entitled Campbell College 1928 Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Keith Haines, the historian of Campbell College, Belfast, 1992 - 2004, letter from Dr R. J. Pollock, Headmaster of Campbell College, 16 Jan 1992 to James Knowlson and reply, 17 Jan 1992, letter from Rona McAlpine, Headmaster’s secretary, 20 Jan 1992 and James Knowlson’s reply to her, letter from James Knowlson to Miles Delap and a Belfast Telegraph article about him with a photograph, 15 Mar 1990, with notes of an interview with him by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson, draft of undated letter from James Knowlson to the Librarian of Dulwich College, London about the Headmaster of Campbell College when Beckett taught there, William Duff Gibbon, and his reply dated 9 Apr 1992, with a photocopy of Gibbon’s entry in the College Record, photographs of a portrait of William Duff Gibbon, Headmaster of Campbell College, photograph of the main building of Campbell College from Keith Haines, with some notes on the College, letter from James Knowlson to the Librarian of Keble College, Oxford about Beckett’s friend at Campbell College, Belfast, Philip Arthur Tyrer Chrimes, 17 Jan 1992 and reply from Librarian, 18 Jan 1992, with a copy of the entry about Chrimes in the College Register, letter from James Knowlson to the Secretary of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, with a reply from the Applications Supervisor, 12 Feb 1992 with details of Chrimes’ education and career, letter from James Knowlson, 10 Feb 1992 to Rev. Dr. Brian McConnell with reply, 15 Feb 1992, with information about Campbell College and a few brief memories of Samuel Beckett,, with his recollections of Campbell College from his memoirs, letter from James Knowlson 6 Jan 1992 to Professor Colin Radford at Queens University Belfast seeking information on books by Jouve and Romains, with a reply from Professor Radford, 10 Jan 1992, 21 Jan 1992 and a further letter from James Knowlson, 27 Jan 1992, letter from James Knowlson dated 27 Jan 1992 to the Librarian of Queens University Belfast, Norman Russell, with a reply, photocopy of a report in The Campbellian, vol. V Apr 1923 with a report on the School 1st XV rugby match against Portora Royal School during the season 1922-1923, with a copy of the team photograph, photocopy of cricket scores in vol. VI Jul 1928 of The Campbellian recording the details of the Page 137 of 562
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match between the School 1st XI and the Staff team for which Beckett played, with this is a letter from James Knowlson dated 30 Jun 1992 to C. B. Lace, and reply from C.B. Lace , photograph of Beckett, group photographs including Samuel Beckett wearing his BA academic gown at Campbell College Belfast in 1928
2 folders 1990s
JEK A/3/16 Folder entitled Car Consists of copy of Beckett’s Citroen 2CV car registration details from Sept 1963, photos of the car and two letters from the then owner Wolfgang Fischer in Switzerland and James Knowlson’s replies
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/17 Folder entitled Catalogues, Concerts and Bibliography Consists of copies of items in Beckett's study made by James Knowlson with notes, and bibliography of Beckett's work
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/18 Folder entitled Censorship – British Theatre Consists of articles on censorship by the Lord Chamberlain including that of Endgame
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/19 Folder entitled Chess and Beckett Consists of Otto Kosters’s essay Play it again, Sam Scaken mit Page 138 of 562
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1 folder 1996
JEK A/3/20 Folder entitled Childhood Consists of letters and documents about the Elsner sisters who taught Beckett at his kindergarten at Taunus, including an account of the musical Elsner family by a direct descendent, the uncle, memories of Beckett as a tennis player and of the Beckett family and social life by the Perrin brothers, Geoffrey and Donald, information about Beckett’s father’s cars from the Royal Irish Automobile Club, letter from Noel Hughes, former occupant of Beckett’s family home, Cooldrinagh, notes and anecdotes from different sources, copy of a piece by W. H. Lyons, Backtracking Beckett about Beckett and Foxrock by a local Irishman, who became Professor of French in Sheffield University and also includes a letter from Beckett’s father’s firm, Beckett and Medcalf
2 folders Undated
JEK A/3/21 Folder entitled Cinema and Beckett Consists of James Knowlson’s notes on Beckett’s interest in the book by Rudolf Arnheim, Film, London, Faber and Faber, 1933 and Lois Overbeck, paper, Through the aperture: Film, Television and Samuel Beckett, 13 Nov 1999
1 folder 1933, 1999
JEK A/3/22 Folder entitled Claddagh Records Consists of copies letters from John Calder to Claddagh Records
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JEK A/3/23 Folder entitled Cooldrinagh Consists of copies of two letters from Samuel Beckett to owners of Cooldrinagh, photograph of Cooldrinagh and press articles about the sale of Beckett’s family home Cooldrinagh and a brochure of its sale in May 1989
1 folder 1989-1996
JEK A/3/24 Folder entitled Correspondence with Fehsenfeld and Overbeck Consists of copies of correspondence between Martha Fehsenfeld and Lois Overbeck, the editors of the Correspondence of Samuel Beckett, and James Knowlson
2 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/3/25 Folder entitled Correspondence with Faber and Faber Consists of notes made by James Knowlson
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/26 Folder entitled Craig, Edward Gordon Consists of James Knowlson's notes on Craig’s The Art of Theatre
1 folder Undated
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JEK A/3/27 Folder entitled Dante Consists of James Knowlson’s notes on Beckett’s notes on Dante and an essay by Sighle Kennedy on Beckett’s Schoolboy copy of Dante: A Handbook for Liberty, Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 19, Winter 1990
1 folder 1990
JEK A/3/28 Folder entitled Duck’s disease Consists of James Knowlson's notes on Duck’s Disease
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/29 Folder entitled Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Rue d’Ulm Consists of letters of former Normaliens with their own memories of Beckett as the Lecteur d’anglais at the Ecole Normale in 1928 and 1929
2 folders Undated
JEK A/3/30 Folder entitled Enniskillen Consists of documents on Enniskillen, the town in which Portora Royal School is built and the nearby stately homes of Florence Court and Castle Coole
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/31 Folder entitled Esquire Magazine Consists of copy Esquire Magazine, with Beckett’s Last Act, by Laurence Bergreen, May 1990, pp.87-98 Page 141 of 562
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JEK A/3/32 Folder entitled Exhibition on Samuel Beckett, Reading Consists of copy of original letter from James Knowlson to Samuel Beckett 26 Mar 1970 that started the entire Beckett Archive in Reading, copy of Beckett’s telegram, 19 May 1971 and notes
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/33 Folder entitled Fontane, Theodor Consists of article by Erika Tophoven, What’s in a name, Beckett lecteur de Fontane
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/34 Folder entitled Freud, Sigmund Consists of article The Unknown Freud by Frederick Crews, New York Review of Books, 18 Nov 1993
1 folder 1993
JEK A/3/35 Folder entitled Gate Theatre Consists of correspondence and list of holdings in Northwestern University Library and Gate Theatre leaflet
1 folder 1992
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JEK A/3/36 Folder entitled Geulincx Consists of article by Arnold Geulincx entitled Samuel Beckett's notes to his reading of the Ethics
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JEK A/3/37 Folder entitled Global Village – The Beckett Project Consists of correspondence and material relating to the project
James Knowlson note: John Reilly, Executive Director. James Knowlson was a member of the Consultancy Board of this project and an adviser. There are various letters of support for fund raising from James Knowlson. In the collection are hundreds of letters from Beckett to, among others, Chatto and Windus, and above all to Barney Rosset at Grove Press. Interviews with Hugh Kenner, with copies of various draft scripts. These copies were supplied to James Knowlson in his capacity as consultant. An important collection.
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JEK A/3/38 Folder entitled Gnosticism Consists of notes by James Knowlson on the Gnostics and Manicheanism
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JEK A/3/39 Folder entitled Gontarski, S. E. Consists of typescript of introductions to editions of Eleutheria and Grove Atlantic editions.
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JEK A/3/40 Folder entitled Grove Press Consists of press cuttings and James Knowlson's notes
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JEK A/3/41 Folder entitled Hellerau-Laxenburg school Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Monika Seidl, 1992-1996, letter to from James Knowlson to Monika Seidl, 1 Sept 1992 with Seidl’s lettering in the margin indicating what she has done and sent, five pages of Dream of Fair to Middling Women typescript with Monka Seidl’s annotations explaining with numbers the various features covered by the material she has provided, details of a Ph. D. thesis by Martina Donath in Vienna 1987 about Die Tanzschule Hellerau-Laxenburg und Rosalia Chladek, who taught dance at the school and to whom Dr Seidl also spoke. She was 87 when she spoke to Dr Seidl, photographs of the Hellerau-Laxenburg school, the Altes Schloss, the Blauer Hof and many other local features, Schule Hellerau Laxenburg Schloss Laxenburg bei Wien. Berfufsausbildung in rhythmischer Gymanstik Korpoerbildung und Tanz für Mädchen und junge Männer 1926, copy of prospectus, booklet giving information on Laxenburg which was a summer residence of the Habsburgs, map showing exact location of school, prospectuses from 1928 to 1931 of the Schule Hellerau-Laxenburg summer courses, pictures of Russian headquarters at Laxenburg (1944-1955), prospectus for the Hellerau-Laxenburg School Summer Courses 1931
James Knowlson note: This is a major collection of material. Beckett stayed in the Blauer Hof at Laxenburg near Vienna while he was visiting his cousin and love, Peggy Sinclair in 1928. For information about Peggy Sinclair, see the Sinclair file, especially deeply personal letters from her brother, Morris Sinclair to James Knowlson. An entire section of Beckett’s first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women is closely based on this visit. The school is referred to there as the ‘Schule Dunkelbrau’. (See Damned to Fame, pp. 83-86.) There is a Page 144 of 562
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large file of documents, photos and letters relating to this visit. It was brilliantly researched by a lecturer in the English Department of the University of Vienna, Dr Monika Seidl. She is very thorough and fascinating about the school itself, its staff, its ethos and its buildings. The research was done on a fee basis (receipts enclosed) and with a confidentiality clause attached to the research.
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JEK A/3/42 Folder entitled Hölderlin, F. Consists of James Knowlson’s notes on Hölderlin
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JEK A/3/43 Folder entitled Hyde Park in the 1930s Consists of letter of enquiry from James Knowlson to the Superintendent of Hyde Park and replies from the Central Royal Parks Office and Richmond Park Office in the Department of National Heritage, 1993, with a map of Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park
1 folder 1993
JEK A/3/44 Folder entitled Howth Consists of press cutting
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1 folder 1990s
JEK A/3/46 Folder entitled Irish Background Consists of notes made by James Knowlson
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JEK A/3/47 Folder entitled Italy Consists of Teatro 4 about Giorgio Strehler’s production of Giorni felici (Happy Days) and Finale de partita (Endgame) Emiglia Romagna Teatro, with a list of Beckett productions in Italy 1953 – 1980
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JEK A/3/48 Folder entitled Johnson, Dr Samuel Consists of material relating to Dr Johnson and Samuel Beckett including typescript of Frederik Smith’s chapter on Beckett’s Johnson Fantasy, booklets of the Transactions of the Johnson Society and several brochures about Lichfield
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JEK A/3/49 Folder entitled Kassel Consists of material relating to Beckett in Kassel (1927-1932)
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JEK A/3/50 Folder entitled Kleist and Beckett Consists of articles about Heinrich von Kleist
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JEK A/3/51 Folder entitled Leopardi Consists of article on his poetry
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JEK A/3/52 Folder entitled Libraries Consists of material relating to the contents of most library collections on Beckett throughout the world, including University of Texas, Washington University, University of Tulsa, De Paul University, Harvard University, University of Delaware, Dartmouth College, Ohio State University, University of New York at Buffalo, Bibliotheque Polonaise, Bibliotheque Nationale, British Library, Lilly Library, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Writers' Museum and Irish Writers' Centre, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Bibliotheque Litteraire Jacques Doucet, Boston College Library, New York Public Library, Trinity College Dublin, Syracuse, Morris Library, San Diego, London University, Kent State University, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Reading, North Western University Library and New York Public Library
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JEK A/3/53 Folder entitled Literary allusions Consists of articles
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JEK A/3/54 Folder entitled Lüttringhausen Prison Consists of letters from various people associated with the prison in the 1950s and related documents
James Knowlson note: This is perhaps one of the most exciting files in this research collection.
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JEK A/3/55 Folder entitled McCabe, Henry Consists of James Knowlson’s notes on Henry McCabe, the Malahide Murderer, who is mentioned in More Pricks than Kicks
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JEK A/3/56 Folder entitled Maeterlinck, Maurice and Beckett Consists of photocopy of Preface to Beckett’s own copy of Maeterlinck’s Théâtre with pencilled underlining
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JEK A/3/57 Folder entitled Mauthausen Concentration Camp Consists of material on the camp where Beckett’s colleagues in the Resistance, including his close friend Alfred Péron, were imprisoned
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JEK A/3/58 Folder entitled Fritz Mauthner Consists of articles about Mauthner and Beckett, typescripts and offprints and letter from the poet and friend of Beckett, Nick Rawson
1 folder 1980s-1990s
JEK A/3/59 Folder entitled Medical file for Beckett Consists of letters from the doctors and consultants who treated Beckett
James Knowlson note: Some of the doctors responded, but asked for anonymity which James Knowlson duly honoured in his biography
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JEK A/3/60 Folder entitled Minor Figures Consists of items relating to Marcel Duchamp, Mary Reynolds and Peter Hall
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JEK A/3/61 Folder entitled Murdoch, Iris Consists of Includes Reading Beckett with Irish Murdoch’s Eyes by John Fletcher and other press cuttings about Murdoch
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JEK A/3/62 Folder entitled Music and Samuel Beckett Consists of notes on conversations with Beckett's musical cousins John Beckett and Morris Sinclair about Bach, Schubert, and Mendelsohn, and material on Beckett and music
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JEK A/3/63 Folder entitled Nothing Consists of review of book
1 folder 2001
JEK A/3/64 Folder entitled Noh Theatre Consists of article by Yasunari Takahashi, The Ghost Trio: Beckett, Yeats and Noh
1 folder 1987
JEK A/3/65 Folder entitled Paintings and Beckett Consists of press cuttings, notes by James Knowlson and material relating to paintings
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JEK A/3/66 Folder entitled Pessoa Fernando Consists of review of Pessoa by John Pilling
James Knowlson note: Portuguese poet Beckett liked very much and read in Porto Santo.
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JEK A/3/67 Folder entitled Philosophers Consists of notes and articles on Nietzsche, Geulincx, William James
1 folder 1980s-2000s
JEK A/3/68 Folder entitled Poems Consists of photocopy of revised text of Whoroscope, Le Petit Sot, copy of Poems by Samuel Beckett and notes by James Knowlson.
Anotatated and corrected holograph copy taken from a book one in the possesion of Georges Belmont.
Copy of unpublished poem Spring Song, by Samuel Beckett (the incomplete Georges Belmont copy, sent by Alan Clodd)
James Knowlson note: unpublished poems in French, ‘Petit sot’, from the 1938-39 period whose authenticity has been questioned by Edith Fournier and Gerry Dukes. They, especially EF, maintain they were written by Suzanne. There is clear evidence that they were by Beckett, although probably aided by Suzanne, and both John Pilling and James Knowlson state that, on the basis of the evidence available in letters to George Reavey etc, that they would risk their mortgages on Beckett being the author!
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JEK A/3/69 Folder entitled Poland Consists of draft version of Beckett’s relations with the Liberas and the Polish struggle for freedom through Solidarity in Damned to Fame, with Libera’s changes in red and an Page 151 of 562
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important accompanying letter of 29 Sept 1994
James Knowlson note: James Knowlson sent a draft version of Beckett’s relations with the Liberas and the Polish struggle for freedom through Solidarity in Damned to Fame for Libera’s criticism and corrections. Here is the original corrected script with Libera’s changes in red and an important accompanying letter of 29 Sept 1994. Libera also encloses copies of letters from Samuel Beckett onto which he adds comments also in red. Politics – mostly this is covered in other files, e.g. Resistance, Roussillon, Havel, etc.
1 folder 1994
JEK A/3/70 Folder entitled Proust Consists of reviews of Samuel Beckett’s Proust study published by Chatto and Windus and James Knowlson's notes
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JEK A/3/71 Folder entitled Portora Royal School Consists of photocopy of Quane’s history of Portora Royal School, copy of W. Copeland Trimble's Enniskillen Royal School at Portora commonly known as Portora Royal School from its Foundation in 1618, copy of prospectuses and calendars 1867, 1872, 1876, c.1915-1916, 1918, 1943, copy of list of University Honors and other Distinctions obtained by former pupils to the end of the year 1877, copy of extracts from Reports of Commissioners of Education, copy of list of University Honors and other distinctions with Appendixes 1886, copy of report on Portora Royal School Enniskillen 1898, copy of Rules and Existing Customs, with a brief History of the School, 1937, letter from Mary Rogers, the wife of the Headmaster, with details of Beckett’s career at Portora Royal School and the reminiscences of him by his fellow pupils, General Sir Charles Jones, Sir Herbert Gamble, and of Dr. J. A. Wallace, 15 Jul 1970, letter from General Sir Charles Jones to Richard Neill who was doing a thesis on Samuel Beckett, with an account of Beckett and his contribution to school life, Nov Page 152 of 562
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1969, letter about Samuel Beckett from Dr J. A. Wallace to Mr Neill, 21 Nov 1969, letter from Sir Herbert Gamble 23 Nov 1969, typescript Samuel Beckett in Portora, article Samuel Beckett and William Scott Enniskillen associations, The Impartial Reporter and Farmers’ Journal, 4 Jan 1990, letter from James Knowlson to the Headmaster, Richard Bennett, 27 Jun 1995, copies of fixture cards of Portora Royal School Rugby Football Club 1922-23, 1923, photocopy of an article in The Illustrated London News about Portora Royal School, 19 Jul 1958, copy of aerial photograph of Portora Royal School by Norman Ashe, copy of photograph of the Headmaster, Rev E. G. Seale, in 1928 with D. L. Graham, copy of a typescript letter written by D. L. Graham after 1954 to Michevo, a columnist of the Irish Times, photocopy of a typescript letter of Samuel Beckett to Douglas Graham dated 13 Jun 1959, declining the invitation to speak at the Cheltenham Festival and to stay with Graham in Cheltenham, copy of letter to Rev D. L. Graham from Carol S. Long, asking about some entries in the school magazine and whether the references could be to Samuel Beckett, 10 Feb 1970, transcription of a letter from Samuel Beckett to Douglas Graham, 1 Nov 1986, extracts of letters from Beckett to Douglas Graham, 1989, photocopy of letter from Gerald Stewart to Douglas and Ann Graham, 4 Jan 1990, photocopy of a letter from Gerald Stewart to Douglas Graham, 13 Feb 1990, photocopy of typed letter to Douglas Graham from Edwin Fleming about Samuel Beckett, photocopy of Old Portoran Newsletters notes on Beckett in the 1920s and 1930s from the files of Douglas Graham, photocopy of letter from Samuel Beckett 20 Apr 1981 to a Mr Acheson at Portora Royal School, copy of Emendations and glosses to Eoin O’Brien’s The Beckett Country by Rev Douglas Graham former Headmaster of Portora Royal School and letters from Old Portorans to James Knowlson, 1990s
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JEK A/3/72 Folder entitled Public records Consists of guide to records in the Public Record Office [now the National Archives]
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JEK A/3/73 Folder entitled Readers’ reports on Proust, Murphy and Watt Consists of readers’ reports and letters about the manuscript submissions from Beckett to Chatto and Windus, Routledge and Secker and Warburg
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JEK A/3/74 Folder entitled Religion Consists of articles and notes on Beckett and religion, including Mary Bryden’s essay The Sacrificial Victim of Beckett’s Endgame from the Journal of Literature and Theology and copy of Beckett’s religious styled doodles
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/75 Folder entitled Renton, Andrew Consists of James Knowlson's notes on Renton's Ph. D. thesis
1 folder 1990
JEK A/3/76 Folder entitled Research information Consists of notes and correspondence relating to research facilities and services
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James Knowlson note: Abbé Alesch, the priest who betrayed the cell
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JEK A/3/77/2 Folder entitled Resistance - André Jacob Consists of transcript of an interview with Jacob, interviewed by James Knowlson, correspondence and biographical information
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JEK A/3/77/3 Folder entitled Resistance - André Jarrot Consists of biographical information, correspondence and James Knowlson's notes
James Knowlson note: Senator and Minister André Jarrot, the garage owner who adapted his cars to take escapees over the line under the floor - including on many occasions Jeannine Picabia, crossing into the unoccupied zone
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JEK A/3/77/4 Folder entitled Resistance - Anise Postel-Vinay Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Anise Postel-Vinay
James Knowlson note: Postel-Vinay is a major figure in the history of the deportation of women to camps and did some research for James Knowlson in the Palais de Justice.
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JEK A/3/77/5 Folder entitled Resistance - correspondence Consists of James Knowlson's correspondence relating to the Resistance and articles and notes on related books
James Knowlson note: This file contains much crucial information about Beckett and the Resistance, the cell itself, its central figures, the betrayal by the priest and formed the basis for James Knowlsons’s chapter on Resistance.
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JEK A/3/77/6 Folder entitled Resistance - Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia Consists of material relating to Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia, mother of Jeannine Picabia, and very active in Gloria SMH and Belgian secret service activities, including a de-briefing with her about her work with the Resistance both with Beckett’s cell and others
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JEK A/3/77/7 Folder entitled Resistance - Germaine Tillion Consists of press cuttings, correspondence, biographical information, photographs and James Knowlson's notes
James Knowlson note: Germaine Tillion was a key member of various cells in Paris including the Musée de l’Homme and Gloria SMH. See the major interview also with her about the betrayal of the cell by the Abbé Alesch.
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JEK A/3/77/9 Folder entitled Resistance - Jean Laroque Consists of notes from a phone interview with Jean Laroque and Anise Postel-Vinay
James Knowlson note: Jean Laroque, close friend of Jean Legrand, co-commandant for a time of Gloria SMH
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JEK A/3/77/10 Folder entitled Resistance - Jeannine Picabia Consists of debriefing with the SOE on 14 Mar 1943, and correspondence and notes
James Knowlson note: Jeannine Picabia was the daughter of the painter, Francis Picabia, and Gabrielle Buffet Picabia. The Commander of Beckett’s cell.
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JEK A/3/77/11 Folder entitled Resistance - Pierre Weydert Consists of correspondence between James Knowlson and Pierre Weydert and his son, Patrick, with additional documents from them both
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and from which Péron died at the end of the war. He did not know Beckett personally in the Resistance cell but his evidence is, nonetheless, vital to build up a full picture of the activities of the Resistance group. Needless to say, perhaps, these are unique documents.
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JEK A/3/77/12 Folder entitled Resistance - Roussillon Consists of photocopies of documents of Beckett’s registration in Roussillon from the Mairie, with details about dates of arrival and status, correspondence with Madame Yvonne Lob (née Deleutre), who was responsible for Beckett and Suzanne coming to hide out in Roussillon, notes on John Reilly’s interview with Elie Blanc, documents relating to Eugène Fidler (Fournier during the war), notes on James Knowlson’s interviews with Josette Hayden, documents on Roussillon including a letter from the farmer with whom Beckett worked in the fields during the war, Fernand Aude
James Knowlson note: This is one of the major collections of material about Beckett’s stay in the village in the Vaucluse. It contains unique documents.
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JEK A/3/77/13 Folder entitled Resistance - Samuel Beckett Consists of copies of papers relating to Beckett’s role in Gloria SMH and the Roussillon cell including copy of a safe-conduct pass from Vichy to Avignon 30 Sept - 1 Oct 1942, Beckett's Resistance membership card, copied with his entry date into the Resistance at Roussillon, May 1944, copy of a laissez passer for him to return to Paris, 9 Oct 1944, copies of a collection of letters and documents about his service with the Resistance, copy of a letter from Jeannine Picabia to Beckett, 24 Mar 1945
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and his related activities. The originals, which were once with Jérôme Lindon, are probably now (or should be) with Edward Beckett.
1 folder 1940s
JEK A/3/77/14 Folder entitled Resistance - Simone La Haye Consists of correspondence with Anise Postel-Vinay, with a typescript accusing Simone La Haye of talking to the Gestapo
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JEK A/3/77/15 Folder entitled Resistance - Suzanne Roussel Consists of copies of all the papers involved in the liquidation of the Gloria SMH cell of which she was the secretary
James Knowlson note: Suzanne Roussel (‘Hélène’ in the Resistance cell) a key member of the cell with Alfred Péron, who was her lover. Unlike Péron, she survived the war. It is then a vital file for any account of the activities of the group. She received the Légion d’honneur, as did posthumously Péron. Beckett is not on the list of medals as he was a foreigner and came into a different category.
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JEK A/3/77/16 Folder entitled Resistance - Vital Interviews Consists of transcripts of interviews with members of Beckett’s Resistance cell, Gloria SMH
James Knowlson note: Resistance – probably the single most important set of files currently under one umbrella.
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JEK A/3/78 Folder entitled Mary Reynolds Consists of correspondence and biographical information
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JEK A/3/79 Folder entitled Trinity College, Dublin questionnaire Consists of letters from some of the students who were in Samuel Beckett’s classes at Trinity College, Dublin in 1930-31
James Knowlson note: This is a fascinating file of important first-hand memories. It is needless to say unique.
1 folder 1980s-1990s
JEK A/3/80 Folder entitled San Quentin Drama Worksop Consists of articles on the San Quentin Drama Workshop
1 folder 2000s
JEK A/3/81 Folder entitled Schopenhauer Consists of articles on Schopenhauer and Beckett
1 folder Undated
JEK A/3/82 Folder entitled Science Consists of essay submitted to Comparative Criticism by Angela Montgomery, Watt and the Quantum Universe with a Page 160 of 562
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report on this by James Knowlson as reader in response to the editorial assistant’s letter 31 Jul 1990
1 folder 1990
JEK A/3/83 Folder entitled Shakespeare and Beckett Consists of article by Normand Berlin, Beckett and Shakespeare from The French Review, Apr 1967
1 folder 1967
JEK A/3/84 Folder entitled South Africa Consists of James Knowlson's notes on press material about arrests in South Africa
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JEK A/3/85 Folder entitled Sport Consists of letter from the golf professional at Carrickmines who played against Beckett at golf and whose father coached him there,2 Aug 1992, letter from J. D. Gwynn about Beckett’s rugby and cricket, letter from Arthur Hillis about Beckett at Trinity College Dublin and contacts still alive in 1992, letters from David Bowles about the Becketts and Foxrock Golf Club 19 Sept 1992 and 1 March 1993, Roy Clements The Alternative Wisden on Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989), letters from Trevor West about Beckett and sport at Trinity College Dublin Sept 1992, press cuttings, letters and articles on Beckett as a Cricketer including James Knowlson’s 2006 article on The Nobel Prize winning cricketer
1 folder 1990s
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JEK A/3/86 Folder entitled Stabbing of Samuel Beckett Consists of letter from Director General of Paris Hospitals office about Beckett’s stay at the Hôpital Broussais in 1938, press cuttings, copies and notes on reports of the stabbing
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JEK A/3/87 Folder entitled Stamps Consists of letters from the owner of Samuel Beckett’s stamp album 1989 – 1991, R. Welmesley-Cotham, about that album and article Amor Matris, Timor Patris: the Stamp of the Father in Molloy
1 folder 1980s-1990s
JEK A/3/88 Folder entitled St-Lô Consists of letters from Phyllis Gaffney about her father, the pathologist who went to St-Lô with Beckett, and about the Irish Red Cross Hospital there
1 folder 1990s
JEK A/3/89 Folder entitled Stendhal and Beckett Consists of article by John Pilling, Beckett and Stendhal: Nimrod of Novelists, French Studies
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Consists of article by Frederik Smith, The Epistemology of Fictional Falure: Swift’s Tale of a Tub and Beckett’s Watt, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, XV.4 (Winter 1974 and draft of his chapter Hiatus in Ms: Swift and Beckett, from his book on Beckett and the Eighteenth Century
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JEK A/3/91 Folder entitled Synge and Beckett Consists of notes on Beckett and Synge with the draft of a piece by James Knowlson
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JEK A/3/92 Folder entitled Tavistock Clinic Consists of copy of H. V. Dicks, Fifty Years of the Tavistock Clinic, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul
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JEK A/3/93 Folder entitled Trinity College Dublin Consists of letter from Samuel Beckett’s tutor at Trinity College Dublin, A. A. Luce, to James Knowlson, 24 Sept 1970, letter from Beckett’s golfing partner, Bill Cunningham, dated 12 Feb 1996 about Samuel Beckett, account passed on to James Knowlson by Sean Lawlor dated 2 Apr 1998 of Beckett’s kindness to Tom Plewman, Trinity College Dublin A College Miscellany, vol. XXXIII, no. 567, 11 Nov 1926,Trinity College Dublin A College Miscellany, vol. XXXIII, no. 572. Special Dramatic Number, 10 Feb 1927, copy of Students’ Handbook Trinity College Dublin 1931-32, University Press Dublin, lists of the books on the syllabus in the English course that Beckett followed at Trinity College Dublin from 1923 to 1924 and a copy of the examination questions in various exams, list of Samuel Beckett’s marks in Classics, English, Modern languages, Page 163 of 562
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Maths and Experimental Science in the Junior and Schools Exhibition exams in the Michaelmas Term 1923, list of Beckett’s examination results in 1924,1925 and 1926, list of students of the Junior Sophister Class and the Junior and Senior Freshman Classes and list of the set books showing the Prescribed Texts on the syllabus when Beckett was teaching French at Trinity College Dublin in 1930-1931
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JEK A/3/94 Folder entitled Trinity College Dublin Honorary D. Litt. Consists of copy of text of the oration about Beckett when he was awarded the Honorary Doctorate in 1959 and press cutting
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JEK A/3/95 Folder entitled Trinity Magazine and The College Pen Consists of photocopies of Douglas Graham’s TCD and The College Pen Magazines around the time Beckett was there
1 folder 1916-1930s
JEK A/3/96 Folder entitled Tunis Consists of photocopy, Beckett chez Gagarine in Daniel Rondeau Tanger, Quai Voltaire, Paris
1 folder 1987
JEK A/3/97 Folder entitled Ussy Consists of notes by Emily Emerson on her visit to Ussy with Page 164 of 562
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James Knowlson, essay by James Knowlson entitled In the silence of Ussy, article Samuel Beckett à Ussy by James Knowlson for Les editions Alexandrines Jan 2002, with speech and press cuttings relating to a plaque on Beckett’s cottage in Ussy, article Samuel Beckett à Ussy sur Marne by Paule Savane, 2001, correspondence between Paule Savane and James Knowlson, 2001, copy of booklet from Christian de Bartillat, commemorative of launch of his book ‘Deux amis, Beckett et Hayden’ and of the opening of a Hayden retrospective at the Musée Bossuet in Meaux, Jun 2001
1 folder 2000s
JEK A/3/98 Folder entitled Vienna Consists of postcards of paintings from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, map and leaflets relating to Vienna
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JEK A/3/99 Folder entitled Visual Arts Consists of copy of Dougald McMillan's Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts: The Embarrassment of Allegory and some notes made by James Knowlson
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JEK A/3/100 Folder entitled Waiting for Godot Books Consists of copy of catalogue of Waiting for Godot Books, with detailed descriptions of letters from Beckett to Maria Jolas, George Reavey, Eugene Jolas, Alain Bosquet, William York Tindall, Nancy Cole, Henry Wenning, and other material including paintings and theatre programmes
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JEK A/4 Research files III
JEK A/4/1 Material relating to Beckett in Touraine, 1927
JEK A/4/1/1 Folder entitled Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud Consists of photographs, postcards and extract of guide books used by Beckett
1 folder Undated [1990s]
JEK A/4/1/2 Folder entitled Azay-le-Rideau Consists of leaflets, photographs, postcards and extract of guide books used by Beckett
1 folder Undated [1920s, 1990s]
JEK A/4/1/3 Folder entitled Chateau de Sache Consists of leaflets, photographs, postcards and extract of guide books used by Beckett
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JEK A/4/1/4 Folder entitled Chinon Consists of booklets, photographs and extract of guide books used by Beckett
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JEK A/4/1/5 Folder entitled La Deviniere Consists of leaflets, photographs, postcards and extract of guide books used by Beckett
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JEK A/4/1/6 Folder entitled La Fleche Consists of leaflets, photographs, postcards and extract of guide books used by Beckett
1 folder Undated [1990s]
JEK A/4/1/7 Folder entitled Langeais Consists of leaflets, photographs, postcards and extract of guide books used by Beckett
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guide books used by Beckett
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JEK A/4/1/9 Folder entitled Loches Consists of leaflets, postcards and extract of guide books used by Beckett
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JEK A/4/1/10 Folder entitled Ronsard Consists of leaflets, photographs, postcards and extract of guide books used by Beckett
1 folder Undated [1920s, 1990s]
JEK A/4/1/11 Folder entitled Folder of miscellaneous items relating to Beckett in Touraine, 1927 Consists of notes made by James Knowlson, magazines, negatives, extract from guidebook used by Beckett and leaflet
1 folder Undated [1920s, 1990s]
JEK A/4/1/12 Folder entitled Tours Consists of leaflets, photographs, postcards and extract of guide books used by Beckett
1 folder Undated [1920s, 1990s]
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JEK A/4/1/13 Folder entitled Usse Consists of leaflets, postcards and extract of guide books used by Beckett
1 folder Undated [1920s, 1990s]
JEK A/4/1/14 Folder entitled Varia on Chateaux of the Loire Consists of leaflets and postcards
1 folder Undated [1920s, 1990s]
JEK A/4/2 Lecture notes taken by Grace West (nee McKinley) on Samuel Beckett's lectures in 1930-1931 at Trinity College Dublin
JEK A/4/2/1 Folder entitled Arnold, Coleridge and Macauley Consists of photocopies of lecture notes taken by Grace McKinley
1 folder 1931-1932
JEK A/4/2/2 Folder entitled Beckett's lectures on Balzac Consists of photocopies of lecture notes taken by Grace McKinley, with notes by James Knowlson
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JEK A/4/2/3 Folder entitled Essay by Grace McKinley on Racine marked by Samuel Beckett Consists of photocopy of essay
1 folder 1931
JEK A/4/2/4 Folder entitled Beckett's lecture notes on Racine, Moliere, Hugo, Vigny and Balzac Consists of photocopies of lecture notes taken by Grace McKinley
1 folder 1931
JEK A/4/2/5 Folder entitled Beckett's lecture on Racine Berenice Consists of photocopies of lecture notes taken by Grace McKinley
1 folder 1931
JEK A/4/2/6 Folder entitled Beckett's lectures on romantic poets Vigny and Hugo Consists of photocopies of lecture notes taken by Grace McKinley
1 folder 1931-1932
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Consists of photocopies of lecture notes taken by Grace McKinley
1 folder 1931-1932
JEK A/4/2/8 Folder entitled Folder of correspondence between Grace West and Terence West and James Knowlson Consists of correspondence
1 folder 1998-2006
JEK A/4/3 Folder entitled Beckett at the Musée Condé, Chantilly, June 1934 Consists of museum guide, notes, correspondence, postcards, slides and essay by James Knowlson
2 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/4 Folder entitled Beckett’s Summer Tour with his mother, July 1935 postcards, leaflets, notes, tourist information,
3 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/5 Beckett in Germany 1936-37
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JEK A/4/5/1 Folder entitled Hamburg Consists of article by James Knowlson, correspondence, press cuttings and tourist information
4 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/5/2 Folder entitled Hanover, Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Lüneburg Consists of article by James Knowlson, extract from Samuel Beckett's diary, James Knowlson's notes, postcards, correspondence, typescript of a talk by James Knowlson and tourist information
5 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/5/3 Folder entitled Berlin, Potsdam, Lübeck Consists of postcards, slides, tourist information, extract from Samuel Beckett's diaries, essay by James Knowlson, notes and tourist information
5 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/5/4 Folder entitled Leipzig, Halle, Weimar, Erfurt, Dresden Consists of postcards, extracts from Baedeker Guide, museum guide, essay by James Knowlson and images of Dresden
4 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/5/5 Folder entitled Nürnberg, Regensburg, München Consists of talk by James Knowlson, press cutting, notes by Page 172 of 562
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James Knowlson, tourist information, correspondence, extract from Samuel Beckett's dairies and tourist information
4 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/5/6 Folder entitled Bamberg Consists of extracts from Beckett's diaries, correspondence, tourist information, images and James Knowlson's notes
3 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/5/7 Folder entitled Würzburg Consists of images, tourist information, correspondence, essay by James Knowlson and James Knowlson's notes
2 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/6 Folder entitled Beckett’s Wedding Trip to Folkestone 1961 Consists of photographs, tourist information, correspondence and James Knowlson's notes
5 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/7 Folder entitled Beckett Directing in Berlin 1960s & 70s Consists of talks by James Knowlson on Beckett as Director, tourist information, correspondence and James Knowlson's notes
9 folders 1970s-200s
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JEK A/4/8 Folder entitled Beckett in Malta 1971 Consists of tourist information and correspondence
3 folders, 4 booklets 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/9 Folder entitled Beckett – Obituaries Consists of press cuttings from British, Irish, American and French newspapers
6 folders 1989
JEK A/4/10 Publishers’ and Agents files
JEK A/4/10/1 Folder entitled Suhrkamp Verlag Consists of copies of letters to and from Samuel Beckett, arranged by year
35 folders 1953-1989
JEK A/4/10/2 Folder entitled Curtis Brown Consists of copies of letters to and from Samuel Beckett, arranged by year
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JEK A/4/10/3 Folder entitled Fischer Verlag Consists of copies of letters to and from Samuel Beckett, arranged by year
1 folder 1956-1986
JEK A/4/11 Private Correspondences
JEK A/4/11/1 Folder entitled Georges Belmont (Pelorson) Consists of corrected typescript relating to The Kid play, press cuttings, correspondence and copies of letters between Pelorson and Beckett
5 folders 1950s-2000s
JEK A/4/11/2 Folder entitled W. R. Bion Consists of articles, correspondence and James Knowlson's notes
4 folders 1990s-2000s
JEK A/4/12 Folder entitled Alexis Péron Consists of photocopies letters from Samuel Beckett to Mania or Maya Péron, the widow of Alfred Péron 1947-1989, copies Page 175 of 562
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of letters from Alfred Péron to Andrée Jacob, transcription of interview with the son of Alfred Péron, Alexis Péron, Jul 1989, photocopy of a text by Beckett entitled Conte par Samuel Beckett, copy of a passage from Molloy, photocopy of an extract from The Licensed Vintner and Grocer, Feb 1936 with a handwritten explanation of cead mile failte in Beckett’s hand, collection of material relating to Alfred Péron from Maurice Dirou to James Knowlson including various volumes of the Cahiers des Anciens of the Lycée de la Tour d’Auvergne in Quimper where Péron taught from 1932 to 1936, letters from Maurice Dirou to James Knowlson, letters from Alexis Péron, the son of Alfred Péron, 1992–2006 to James Knowlson
James Knowlson note: Alfred Péron was the lecteur at Trinity College, Dublin, 193 and a close friend of Samuel Beckett and the poet, Lyle Donaghy. Donaghy is almost certainly the Irish poet whom Péron speaks about as a friend in a letter from Trinity College Dublin. Much later on, after a friendship that lasted throughout the thirties when they translated Joyce and also texts of Beckett himself and played tennis together, Péron introduced Beckett to the Resistance cell Gloria SMH in 1941 and was himself arrested and deported to Mauthausen concentration camp. He died at the end of the war on the way to freedom. There is important material on Péron in the Péron file from his widow, Mania, together with copies of Beckett’s letters to Mania (who helped him with his French after the war) and photographs of him – including the Gestapo photo of him taken at Fresnes prison - and Mania in the photographic files. There are also copies of parts of a typescript of Molloy that were never published in the Péron file.
5 folders, 4 booklets 1936-2006
JEK A/4/13 Folder entitled Notes on George Reavey’s Letters Consists of notes made by James Knowlson, transcripts of letters, correspondence, transcript of interview with George Reavey by James Knowlson, extract from Faust's Metamorphoses by George Reavey and other work by him
2 folders 1970s-1980s
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JEK A/4/14 James and Elizabeth Knowlson - Research Files
JEK A/4/14/1 Folder entitled Research - 1928-1959 Consists of notes made by James Knowlson, arranged by year
16 folders 1958-1959
JEK A/4/14/2 Folder entitled Research - 1960-1979 Consists of notes made by James Knowlson, arranged by year
11 folders 1960-1979
JEK A/4/14/3 Folder entitled Research - 1980-1988 Consists of notes made by James Knowlson, arranged by year
9 folders 1980-1988
JEK A/4/14/4 Folder entitled General correspondence about Samuel Beckett Consists of copies of letters from James Knowlson to various people and organisations, arranged in alphabetical order
5 folders 1990s
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JEK A/4/14/5 Folder entitled Proofs of version of Collected Poems by Samuel Beckett Consists of proofs and correspondence
James Knowlson note: These were to be published by John Calder for which Jérôme Lindon refused permission.
1 folder 1998
JEK A/4/14/6 Folder entitled Talks on Beckett by James Knowlson Consists of notes, talks and correspondence
5 boxes 1960s-2000s
JEK A/4/14/7 Folder entitled Articles and Essays by James Knowlson arranged by subject
1 folder 2000-2006
JEK A/4/15 Beckett Conferences and Festivals
JEK A/4/15/1 Folder entitled Austin, Texas Consists of correspondence and conference material
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1984
JEK A/4/15/2 Folder entitled Stirling Consists of a leaflet advertising the conference
1 folder 1986
JEK A/4/15/3 Folder entitled Amsterdam Consists of correspondence and press cutting
1 folder 1990
JEK A/4/15/4 Folder entitled Monaco Consists of correspondence and conference material
1 folder 1991
JEK A/4/15/5 Folder entitled Dublin Consists of correspondence and conference material
1 folder 1991
JEK A/4/15/6 Folder entitled The Hague Consists of conference material
2 folders 1992
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JEK A/4/15/7 Folder entitled London, Goldsmith's College Consists of a leaflet advertising the conference
1 folder 1996
JEK A/4/15/8 Folder entitled Florence Consists of correspondence and conference material
1 folder 1996
JEK A/4/15/9 Folder entitled Dublin Consists of correspondence, conference material and press cutting
1 folder 1996
JEK A/4/15/10 Folder entitled Strasbourg Consists of conference material
1 folder 1996
JEK A/4/15/11 Folder entitled Stirling Consists of a leaflet advertising the conference
1 folder 1999
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JEK A/4/15/12 Folder entitled South Bank University Consists of a leaflet advertising the conference
1 folder 1999
JEK A/4/15/13 Folder entitled Beckett in Berlin Consists of conference material
5 folders 2000
JEK A/4/15/14 Folder entitled Glasgow Consists of conference material
2 folders 2000
JEK A/4/15/15 Folder entitled Delaware leaflet relating to the Beckett collection held by the University of Delaware
1 folder 2003
JEK A/4/15/16 Folder entitled Florida conference material
1 folder 2006
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JEK A/4/16 Beckett Book Catalogues
JEK A/4/16/1 Samuel Beckett A Catalogue of Books Issued by Richard Booth (Booksellers) Ltd, Hay-on-Wye
1 folder 1973
JEK A/4/16/2 Samuel Beckett - Checklist and Index of his published works 1967- 1976 by Robin Davis Published 1979 from the Library, University of Stirling, Scotland, with various letters from Robin Davis and Knowlson about Davis’s work on the Beckett bibliography.
James Knowlson note: NB. A fuller version was eventually published by Minard in their Calepins de bibliographie series. This is present in the BIF collection.
1 folder 1979
JEK A/4/16/3 List of Beckett books in the University of Reading and bibliographical material relating to the Beckett Collection
1 folder Undated
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with some readers' reports
1 folder 1973
JEK A/4/18 Folder entitled Royal Literary Fund Consists of letters and documents relating to applications for funding for a Fellowship at the Beckett International Foundation in 2000 and 2001, the first was successful; the second was not, with James Knowlson’s personal letters asking for help are to members of the Royal Literary Fund Board
1 folder 2000-2001
JEK A/4/19 Folder entitled Beckett Discography letters and documents from and to the National Sound Archive at the British Library, with an introduction by James Knowlson, entitled Beckett in Recorded Sound, 1983 and details of Beckett videos, mostly used at the Beckett Festival, New York University, 1978 with letters from its organiser, Tom Bishop
1 folder 1978-1983
JEK A/5 Research files IV - on the works of Samuel Beckett, created by James Knowlson
JEK A/5/1 Folder entitled Act Without Words Consists of notes on productions and note Page 183 of 562
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2 folders Undated
JEK A/5/2 Folder entitled All That Fall Consists of typescript of an unpublished essay by James Knowlson on All that Fall, James Knowlson’s notes on the play and photocopy of note on 'Happy though married Hardy’ referred to in the radio play, with notes and queries
2 folders Undated
JEK A/5/3 Folder entitled Anna Livia Plurabelle Consists of photocopy of Philippe Soupault’s introduction to the translation of Anna Livia Plurabelle in La Nouvelle revue française, and notes by James Knowlson
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/4 Folder entitled Assumption Consists of photocopy of original publication of the story, Transition 16-17 Jun 1929, typescript of essay by Peter Murphy on this story and typescript of an essay by J. D. O’Hara on Assumption
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/5 Folder entitled Breath Consists of an article from The Observer about Breath and Oh Calcutta, with a letter from Barbara Bray to James Knowlson explaining the circumstances that surrounded Beckett’s contribution and a press cutting and copy of a typescript of Page 184 of 562
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the French translation, ‘Souffle’
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/6 Folder entitled… but the clouds … Consists of photograph of Klaus Herm in the SDR production
1 folder 1977
JEK A/5/7 Folder entitled Cascando Consists of notes on Cascando, made by James Knowlson
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/8 Folder entitled Catastrophe Consists of typescript of an essay by James Knowlson, unpublished in English, ‘Blowing Away the Smoke’, on Catastrophe and typescript of an essay by Maggie Rose on Pinter and Beckett’s search for a political theatre
1 folder 1990s
JEK A/5/9 Folder entitled Chamfort Texts Consists of photocopy of letters to Dr Furlong for Kottabista
1 folder 1972
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JEK A/5/10 Folder entitled Come and Go Consists of typescript of an essay by Kathleen O’Gorman on Come and Go and printed sheet from the Schiller-Theater Berlin re Kommen und Gehen
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/11 Folders entitled Company Consists of review of Company by J. D. O’Hara, New York Times, typed transcript of French Language Service broadcast ‘Les hommes et les livres’ in which Company is discussed, notes by James Knowlson on Company, Spanish review in Libros of Beckett’s Company by Antonia Rodriguez-Gago, theatre programme for British première of theatrical adaptation of Company and documents on Dutch Production of Company by Chaim Levano, 1992, programme and accompanying letter regarding Stan Gontarski’s production of his adaptation of Company in 1985
3 folders 1980s-1990s
JEK A/5/12 Folder entitled Le Concentrisme Consists of copy of typescript of Samuel Beckett’s original typescript of his Trinity College Dublin lecture in 1930, with two cards of John Pilling’s translation of extracts from it
1 folder 1930, 1980s
JEK A/5/13 Folder entitled Denis Devlin Consists of photocopy of Beckett’s review of Devlin’s Intercessions
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JEK A/5/14 Folder entitled Disjecta Consists of letters relating to a Dutch edition of Beckett’s criticism collection, Disjecta
1 folder 1997
JEK A/5/15 Folder entitled Dream of Fair to Middling Women Consists of letter from Madame Renée Evrard identifying her husband almost certainly as the source of one of characteristics of one of the characters in Beckett’s Dream of Fair to Middling Women, James Knowlson’s notes on the models for some of the characters in Dream and notes on Lupercalia in Dream, essay by John Pilling entitled Guesses and Recesses Notes on, in and towards Dream of Fair to Middling Women, photocopy of Laloy’s La musique chinoise, typescript of Seán Lawlor’s essay on ‘Chinese Music in Dream of Fair to Middling Women’ and letters associated with it and essay by John Pilling on Beckett and Beck: the troubadour connection
4 folders Undated
JEK A/5/16 Folder entitled Drunken Boat Consists of copy of Samuel Beckett’s manuscript corrections and annotations to James Knowlson’s introduction to the edition of Drunken Boat published by Whiteknights Press in 1976, letters from Beckett’s friend Mary Hutchinson to James Knowlson about the edition of Drunken Boat, 8 Jul and 17 Aug 1976
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JEK A/5/17 Folder entitled Echo’s Bones Consists of copy of two poems, Dieppe and Saint-Lô, added into Eugene Jolas’s copy of Echo’s Bones in Samuel Beckett’s hand
1 folder 1971
JEK A/5/18 Folder entitled Eh Joe Consists of programme of American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, copy of an article by Rosette Lamont on Eh Joe written for Linda Ben-Zvi, Women in Beckett, pp.228-235, copy of annotated and corrected German edition Film and He, Joe with inscription on title-page to Rick Cluchey, photocopy of German script of Eh Joe Ein Fernehstücke von Samuel Beckett and James Knowlson’s notes on Eh Joe and the draft of James Knowlson’s review for the Times Higher Educational Supplement of Beckett’s Plays on Tape
1 folder 1980s-1990s
JEK A/5/19 Folder entitled Eleutheria Consists of copy of the typescript of Eleutheria, James Knowlson’s notes and draft of essay on Eleutheria for Frescoes of the Skull, copies of correspondence between two publishers Barney Rosset and John Calder and card announcing the publication of Éleutheria in 1995
1 folder 1995
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JEK A/5/20 Folder entitled Embers Consists of offprint of Clas Zilliacus Samuel Beckett’s Embers and A matter of Fundamental Sounds, Modern Drama, XIII, no. 2, Sep 1970 and an essay on Embers by Paul Lawley, 29 pp, with notes
2 folders Undated
JEK A/5/21 Folder entitled Endgame Consists of photocopy of Rick Cluchey’s script of Endgame with Cluchey’s notes, translation from German by Beckett’s close friend, A. J. Leventhal, of Michael Haerdter’s diary and notes on working as Beckett’s assistant on Endgame, programmes and publicity leaflets, material on Pierre Chabert’s production of Fin de partie with a letter from Chabert about this production and a set of reviews, notes by James Knowlson and two unpublished lectures on the play which were given at The University of Reading, material on Joanne Akalaitis’s American Repertory Theatre production, 1984
5 folders 1990s-2003
JEK A/5/22 Folder entitled Enough Consists of offprint of article by Paul Lawley on Beckett’s Enough, Modern Fiction Studies, Samuel Beckett Number, Spring 1983, vol. 29, no. 1, with accompanying letter from Lawley
1 folder 1983
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Consists of copies of poems of Beckett from The European Caravan
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/24 Folder entitled Été 56 Consists of copy of notebook Eté 56 containing several of Beckett’s first drafts for Fin de partie, All that Fall, Krapp, Pim, and Willie-Winnie notes
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/25 Folder entitled L’Expulsé Consists of copy of Beckett’s story ‘Expulsé’ from Fontaine, Federman and Fletcher no. 254
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/26 Folder entitled La Falaise Consists of copy of English translation of the text The Cliff by Edith Fournier, published in The New Yorker
1 folder 13 May 1996
JEK A/5/27 Folder entitled Film Consists of an article by Rolf Breuer on Beckett’s Film, Germisch-Rpmanische Monatsschrift, neue Folge, Band 45, Heft 4 and notes on Beckett’s Film
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JEK A/5/28 Folder entitled Film notebook Consists of notes for Film, Ussy 5 Apr 1963, copied by James Knowlson when it was loaned by Samuel Beckett to the Beckett Exhibition in Reading in May 1971
1 folder 1963
JEK A/5/29 Folder entitled First Love Consists of documents and reviews relating to a radio programme involving a reading of First Love by Stephen Dillane, includes a script with variations
1 folder 27 Feb 2001
JEK A/5/30 Folder entitled Footfalls Consists of versions of an essay by James Knowlson on Footfalls: Samuel Beckett’s work as a director and as self translator, photocopy of a copy of ‘Footfalls’ corrected by Samuel Beckett, essay on Footfalls or the girl who had never really been born’by James Knowlson and Enoch Brater’s A Footnote to Footfalls etc
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/31 Folder entitled For Future Reference Consists of a letter from William English and a copy of a manuscript
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JEK A/5/32 From an Abandoned Work Consists of photocopy of original publication and of its next printing in the Evergreen Review, Trinity News, 7 Jan 1956 letters and documents about Aus einem aufgegebenen a Video essay by Erwin Reiss and Regine Strijbis 2000
1 folder 1956, 2000
JEK A/5/33 Folder entitled Ghost Trio Consists of an original typed letter from Spokesmen (Curtis Brown) Beckett’s dramatic agent to James Knowlson agreeing to Beckett’s suggestion that James Knowlson as editor should publish on Beckett’s suggestion the text of Ghost Trio (as it later became) in the Journal of Beckett Studies, and typescript of James Knowlson’s essay on ‘Ghost Trio/Geister Trio’ and various notes by Hans Christoph Worbs on the Beaux Arts Trio recording of Beethoven Complete Piano Trios including p. 5, ‘The Ghost’
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/34 Folder entitled Happy Days Consists of quotations of Beckett’s comments at rehearsal noted down by Martha Fehsenfeld and a typescript from her about the productions by Beckett, material relating to a production of Happy Days, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, Feb-Mar 199 by Jude Kelly including programme signed by Prunella Scales and Robin Bowerman, press cuttings, articles, essays, notes and copy of manuscript of Happy Days
9 folders Undated
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JEK A/5/35 Folder entitled How It Is Consists of an essay by Yves Thomas ‘Comment c’est et How It Is: éléments d’une etude génétique
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/36 Folder entitled Samuel Beckett on Eugene Jolas Consists of a copy of the poem and Beckett's memory of Jolas reciting Goethe’s poem Dem Geier gleich
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/37 Folder entitled The Kid Consists of copies of A College Miscellany about the production of this spoof on Corneille by Pelorson and Beckett in which Beckett acted, includes the review of 26 Feb 1931
1 folder 1931
JEK A/5/38 Folder entitled Kilcool Consists of a letter from John McCormick to James Knowlson about the contents of the Trinity College Dublin notebooks and notes by James Knowlson
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/39 Folder entitled Krapp’s Last Tape Consists of James Knowlson’s Bibliography on Krapp’s Last Page 193 of 562
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Tape 1978, transcription of interviews with director, Donald McWhinnie and actor, Patrick Magee, Krapp’s Last Tape, Royal Court Theatre London, 1958, copy of Roy Walker Love, Chess and Death article from The Twentieth Century 1958, transcription of an interview with the USA director, Alan Schneider, Krapp’s Last Tape American première Jan 1960, transcript of an interview with the director, Roger Blin, La dernière bande, French première, 1960, transcription of interview with Jean Martin, La dernière bande Théâtre Récamier, 1970, directed by Samuel Beckett, with Jean Martin, 1970, interview with Max Wall, Krapp’s Last Tape, Greenwich Theatre, 1975 production with Max Wall, letters from Max Wall to James Knowlson, Mar – Aug 1978, copyright agreement with London Audio Video Centre for a TV interview, Card of Maggi Hambling’s painting of Max Wall, letter card from John Elsom to Jim Knowlson, Samuel Beckett’s directorial notes for his production at the Schiller-Theater Werkstatt, Das letzte Band, Berlin, 1969 with Martin Held, with reviews and other articles on this production, documents relating to Beckett’s production Samuel Beckett inszeniert Krapp’s Last Tape, Künstlerhaus Bethanien 5 and combined programme plus articles for Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape, Beckett’s production plan for Krapp’s Last Tape, letter from Michael Haerdter to James Knowlson, 22 Jul 1978, typescripts of James Knowlson’s text for his Theatre Workbook on Krapp’s Last Tape, plus various critical articles and essays on the play
18 folders 1950s-1980s
JEK A/5/40 Folder entitled Lessness Consists of information from John Crombie of Association Kickshaws about their special permutable edition of ‘Lessness’
1 folder 2004
JEK A/5/41 Folder entitled Lightening Calculation Consists of a copy of a manuscript
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JEK A/5/42 Folder entitled The Lost Ones Consists of publicity material for New Overbrook Press limited edition of The Lost Ones with engraving by Charles Klabunde
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/43 Folder entitled Malone Dies Consists of notes by James Knowlson
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/44 Folder entitled Mal vu mal dit Consists of programme with a review of the production by Julie Campbell of an adaptation of Ill seen ill said by Bas Bleu Theatre with Wendy Ishii as the woman and Eric Prince as the Voice, 1988, programme sheet of a reading of Ill seen ill said by Angela Pleasance and Leonard Fenton 1 Jul 1985 and an article by Lawrence Graver on Ill seen ill said
1 folder 1980s
JEK A/5/45 Folder entitled Mercier et Camier Consists of theatre programme of a stage adaptation by Pierre Chabert of Mercier et Camier at the Maison de la Culture de Créteil, 1988 and copy of an extract from Mercier and Camier English translation in Spectrum vol. IV, Winter 1960, no. 1.
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JEK A/5/46 Folder entitled Mirlitonnades Consists of notes by James Knowlson
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/47 Folder entitled Molloy Consists of ‘Two fragments’ from Molloy, copies from Transition Federman and Fletcher 371, typescript of piece by Phil Baker on a possible source for the name of Moran in Molloy, cards for the Gare St-Lazare Players performances of Molloy with Conor Lovett, correspondence from an Austrian mathematician about maths problems in Beckett including Molloy’s sucking stones
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/48 Folder entitled More Pricks than Kicks Consists of reviews of More Pricks than Kicks from Chatto and Windus files, review of the French Bande et Sarabande and notes by James Knowlson
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/49 Folder entitled Murphy Consists of James Knowlson’s notes on a copy of royalties from Routledge for the first publication of Murphy 1938-1943, copy of letter of interest from Metro Goldwyn Mayer British Studios asking about Murphy, letter from Islington Council Central reference Library to Chris Ackerley with an enclosure Page 196 of 562
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of the pages of the 1935 Post Office Directory relating to various firms, names, premises in London’s Brewery Road and Market estate, Murphy’s Irish Stout beer mat and letter from Chris Ackerley to James Knowlson enclosing a copy of his notes on Murphy
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/50 Folder entitled Nacht und Träume Consists of a copy of Beckett’s script for Nacht und Träume with two copies of the music, with notes by James Knowlson and draft of section on the play in Damned to Fame
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/51 Folder entitled Not I Consists of theatre programme for Not I, Royal Court Theatre London 1973, theatre programmes, photographs and invitation for Pas and Pas moi by the Compagnie ABstrActs, James Knowlson’s notes, letter from Listener to James Knowlson’s broadcast on BBC Scan programme , 18 Jan 1973
1 folder 1973
JEK A/5/52 Folder entitled O’Casey review Consists of copy of Beckett’s review of Windfalls by Sean O’Casey
1 folder Undated
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JEK A/5/53 Folder entitled Ohio Impromptu Consists of copy of a script by Tom Stoppard for a film of Ohio Impromptu, essay in Make sense who may, ed. Robin J. Davis and Lance St. J. Butler Irish Literary Studies 30, typescript on A Mirror within a Mirror in Ohio Impromptu by Davis and an essay by Yoshiyuki Inoue Island in the Void: Samuel Beckett’s Ohio Impromptu
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/54 Folder entitled Ooftish Consists of a copy of Ooftish
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/55 Folder entitled Papini Dante Vivo Consists of copy of a review by Beckett of Papini Dante Vivo in The Bookman Christmas 1934
1 folder 1934
JEK A/5/56 Folder entitled A Piece of Monologue Consists of a copy of A Piece of Monologue and notes by James Knowlson
1 folder Undated
JEK A/5/57 Folder entitled Play (Comédie) Consists of a photocopy of George Devine’s notes for the British première of Play at the Old Vic (National Theatre) Apr 1964, documents about a production of Comédie, by Marin Page 198 of 562
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Karmitz, M.K. Productions, 1966, on which Beckett assisted, with a letter to James Knowlson from the director Marin Karmitz, copy of English and German texts of ‘Play’ corrected and annotated by Samuel Beckett with some addenda by Walter Asmus, photograph of production and copy of a letter to Dr Unseld in French about the Ulmer Theater production, 14 Jun 1963, leaflet of A Million Fred’s Productions of Play and The Ritual. Sept – Oct 1998, Riverside Studios, London, theatre programme Comédie, Pas Moi 25 May – 2 Jul 2000, Théâtre de l’Aquarium Cartoucherie, copy of article by Bernard Dukore Beckett’s Play, Play, educational Theatre Journal, XVII, Mar 1965, Rosemary Pountney’s article on Play and terza rima, with accompanying letter from the author to James Knowlson
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JEK A/5/58 Folder entitled Poetry is Vertical Consists of copy of ‘Poetry is Vertical’ manifesto, Federman and Fletcher 487
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JEK A/5/59 Folder entitled The Possessed Consists of copies of Beckett’s reply to the review of The Kid
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JEK A/5/60 Folder entitled Pound, Ezra Consists of a copy of a review by Beckett Ex cathedra, Make it New by Ezra Pound, The Bookman, Christmas 1934
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JEK A/5/62 Folder entitled Quad Consists of an article by Mary Bryden, Quad: dancing genders in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, No 4
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JEK A/5/63 Folder entitled Rockaby Consists of copies of manuscripts of English, and French versions of Rockaby (Berceuse) and documents associated with it including a copy of a final typescript with changes by James Knowlson on the advice of Alan Schneider and Dan Labeille who made those changes on Beckett’s orders, copy of Enoch Brater on Rockaby in Beyond Minimalism
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JEK A/5/65 Folder entitled Sounds Consists of a copy of Sounds by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/5/66 Folder entitled Still Consists of documents from Luigi Majno about Beckett’s Still and the illustrations by Stanley William Hayter and typescript of John Pilling essay on Still entitled Whispering the Turmoil Down
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JEK A/5/67 Folder entitled Stirrings Still Consists of an article by Carla Locatelli on Beckett’s Stirrings Still in the American Poetry Review, Sept-Oct 1999 and programme for reading of this text 2 Oct 1998
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JEK A/5/68 Folder entitled Texts for Nothing Consists of an essay by Magessa O’Reilly on Texte pour rien XIII
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JEK A/5/69 Folder entitled That Time Consists of typescript of essay by S. E. Gontarski on That Time and James Knowlson’s notes for his essay in Frescoes of the Skull on That Time
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JEK A/5/70 Folder entitled Theatre I Consists of Bruchstücke I und II German translations of Theatre I and II by Elmar and Erika Tophoven and notes by James Knowlson
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JEK A/5/71 Folder entitled Theatre II Consists of draft of an essay by James Knowlson on Theatre II
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JEK A/5/72 Folder entitled the Unnamable Consists of notes by James Knowlson
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JEK A/5/73 Folder entitled Trois poèmes – transition 48 Consists of copy of the three poems in French from Transition 48
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JEK A/5/74 Folder entitled Unpublished ms, Stuttgart Consists of a copy of an unpublished piece of dialogue written by Beckett for SDR producer, with accompanying e-mails from the man who discovered it
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JEK A/5/75 Folder entitled Waiting for Godot Consists of unpublished lectures by James Knowlson on Waiting for Godot and a large set of notes for seminars, lectures and publications on the play
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JEK A/5/76 Folder entitled Watt Consists of extracts from the book published in Envoy, Irish Writing, Merlin and again Irish Writing, James Knowlson's notes on the manuscripts and photocopies of pages from the Watt manuscript and copies of pages from the French translation of Watt
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JEK A/5/78 Folder entitled Whoroscope notebook Consists of articles on and notes on Beckett’s 1930s notebook called the ‘Whoroscope’ notebook
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JEK A/5/79 Folder entitled Words and Music Consists of notes
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JEK A/5/80 Folder entitled Yellow Consists of a photocopy of printing in New World Writing
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JEK A/6 Research V - Art and Artists
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JEK A/6/1/1 Folder entitled Antonello da Messina Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries
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JEK A/6/1/2 Folder entitled Baldung, Hans Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, postcards of pictures and article on Hans Baldung
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JEK A/6/1/3 Folder entitled Blake, William Consists of postcards of William Blake paintings
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JEK A/6/1/4 Folder entitled Brouwer, Adraien Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, postcards of pictures, articles, correspondence, and notes by James Knowlson
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Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries [on the back of an image], postcards of pictures, and notes by James Knowlson
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JEK A/6/1/6 Folder entitled Burgkmair, Hans the Elder Consists of article on Burgkmair, Hans the Elder
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JEK A/6/1/7 Folder entitled Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi Consists of article and postcards of paintings
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JEK A/6/1/8 Folder entitled Chinnery, George Consists of an article
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JEK A/6/1/9 Folder entitled Courbet, Gustave Consists of articles
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Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles
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JEK A/6/1/11 Folder entitled Cuyp, Aelbert Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and exhibition guide
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JEK A/6/1/12 Folder entitled Donatello Consists of a press cutting
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JEK A/6/1/13 Folder entitled Dürer, Albrecht Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles
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JEK A/6/1/14 Folder entitled Elsheimer, Adam Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles
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JEK A/6/1/15 Folder entitled Friedrich, Caspar David Consists of an article
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JEK A/6/1/16 Folder entitled Giorgione, da Castelfranco Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries and articles
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JEK A/6/1/17 Folder entitled Goya, Francesco José de Consists of an exhibition guide
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JEK A/6/1/18 Folder entitled Goyen, Jan van Consists of an article
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JEK A/6/1/19 Folder entitled Gozzoli, Benozzo Consists of articles and copies of paintings
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JEK A/6/1/20 Folder entitled Grünewald Consists of images
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JEK A/6/1/21 Folder entitled Holbein, the Elder & Holbein, the Younger Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, articles and copies of paintings
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JEK A/6/1/22 Folder entitled Kraft, Adam Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries and articles
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JEK A/6/1/23 Folder entitled Leibl, William Consists of articles and copies of paintings
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JEK A/6/1/24 Folder entitled Leonardo, da Vinci Consists of a copy of a painting
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JEK A/6/1/25 Folder entitled Leyster, Judith Consists of an article
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JEK A/6/1/26 Folder entitled Marees, Hans von Consists of an article
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JEK A/6/1/27 Folder entitled Masaccio (Thommaso Cassi) Consists of an article
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JEK A/6/1/28 Folder entitled Master Bertram Consists of an article
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JEK A/6/1/29 Folder entitled Mazo, Juan del Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles
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Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/1/31 Folder entitled Molenaer, Juan Miense Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, articles, correspondence and exhibition leaflet
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JEK A/6/1/32 Folder entitled Patinier, Joachim Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/1/33 Folder entitled Rembrandt, van Ryn Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles
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JEK A/6/1/34 Folder entitled Riemenschneider, Tilman Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings, Bulletin issued by the North Carolina Museum of Art and articles
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JEK A/6/1/35 Folder entitled Rubens, Peter Paul Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/1/36 Folder entitled Runge, Otto Consists of handwritten extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles
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JEK A/6/1/37 Folder entitled Ruysdael, Solomon von & Jacob von Consists of handwritten extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles
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JEK A/6/1/38 Folder entitled Sarto, Andrea del Consists of copies of paintings
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JEK A/6/1/39 Folder entitled Scheits, Mattias Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/1/40 Folder entitled Stoss, Veit Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles
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JEK A/6/1/41 Folder entitled Teniers, David Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles
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JEK A/6/1/42 Folder entitled Uden, Lucas van Consists of an article
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JEK A/6/1/43 Folder entitled Vermeer, Jan Consists of copies of paintings and articles
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JEK A/6/1/44 Folder entitled Vischer, Peter Consists of copies of sculptures
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JEK A/6/1/45 Folder entitled Wouwermans, Philips Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries and articles
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JEK A/6/2/1 Folder entitled Dutch Galleries Consists of handwritten notes, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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JEK A/6/2/2 Folder entitled English Galleries Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles for Dulwich Gallery, Hampton Court, Leicester New Walk Museum, National Gallery, London, Victoria and Albert Museum and Wallace Collection
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JEK A/6/2/4 Folder entitled Irish Galleries Consists of copy of a painting and notes
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JEK A/6/2/5 Folder entitled Neurenberg Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/2/6 Folder entitled Wolfenbüttel Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/2/7 Folder entitled Utrecht Painters: Masters of Light Consists of exhibition guides
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JEK A/6/2/8 Folder entitled Reproductions (various) Consists of press cutting and copies of paintings
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JEK A/6/2/9 Folder entitled Samuel Beckett : Gallery Catalogues Consists of handwritten notes
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JEK A/6/2/10 Folder entitled Samuel Beckett : Painter Friends Consists of an article
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JEK A/6/2/11 Folder entitled Dream of Fair to Middling Women : Art References Consists of copies of paintings
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JEK A/6/3 Modern Painters
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JEK A/6/3/1 Folder entitled Adler, Jankel Consists of handwritten notes and articles
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JEK A/6/3/2 Folder entitled Ahlers-Hestermann, Friedrich Consists of notes and articles
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JEK A/6/3/3 Folder entitled Antes, Adam Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/4 Folder entitled Bacon, Francis Consists of correspondence
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JEK A/6/3/5 Folder entitled Ballmer, Karl Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings, articles and correspondence
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JEK A/6/3/6 Folder entitled Bargheer, Eduard Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/7 Folder entitled Barlach, Ernst Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings, articles and notes
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JEK A/6/3/8 Folder entitled Baumeister, Willi Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries and articles
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JEK A/6/3/9 Folder entitled Beckmann, Max Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles
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JEK A/6/3/10 Folder entitled Boccioni, Umberto Consists of correspondence, copies of paintings, press cutting and handwritten notes
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JEK A/6/3/11 Folder entitled Burchartz, Max Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/12 Folder entitled Campendonk, Heinrich Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/13 Folder entitled Cusack, Ralph Consists of an article
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JEK A/6/3/14 Folder entitled Dexel, Walter Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/15 Folder entitled Dix, Otto Consists of press cuttings
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JEK A/6/3/16 Folder entitled Dülberg, Ewald Consists of articles and copies of paintings
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JEK A/6/3/17 Folder entitled Eberz, Josef Consists of articles and handwritten notes
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JEK A/6/3/18 Folder entitled Ende, Edgar Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/19 Folder entitled Ewald, Reinhold Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/20 Folder entitled Feininger, Lyonnel Consists of typed extracts from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, copies of paintings and articles
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JEK A/6/3/21 Folder entitled Freundlich, Otto Consists of typed extract from Samuel Beckett's German diaries and handwritten notes
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JEK A/6/3/22 Folder entitled Griebel, Otto Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/23 Folder entitled Grimm, Willem Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/24 Folder entitled Hamburg Painters Consists of articles, notes, booklets and copies of paintings
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JEK A/6/3/25 Folder entitled Hartmann, Erich Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/26 Folder entitled Heckel, Erich Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/28 Folder entitled Jaeckel, Willy Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/29 Folder entitled Johns, Jasper Consists of articles and press cutting
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JEK A/6/3/30 Folder entitled Kandinsky, Wassily Consists of typed extract from Samuel Beckett's German diaries
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JEK A/6/3/31 Folder entitled Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig Consists of typed extract from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, articles, copies of paintings, notes and press cutting
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Consists of typed extract from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, articles and copies of paintings
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JEK A/6/3/33 Folder entitled Klinger, Max Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/34 Folder entitled Kluth, Karl Consists of typed extract from Samuel Beckett's German diaries and articles
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JEK A/6/3/35 Folder entitled Kokoschka, Oscar Consists of articles and notes
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JEK A/6/3/36 Folder entitled Kollwitz, Käthe Consists of articles
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Consists of articles and correspondence
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JEK A/6/3/38 Folder entitled Leyhausen, Karl Consists of correspondence and articles
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JEK A/6/3/39 Folder entitled Marc, Franz Consists of typed extract from Samuel Beckett's German diaries and articles
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JEK A/6/3/40 Folder entitled Matisse, Henri Consists of press cuttings
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JEK A/6/3/41 Folder entitled Mitchell, Joan Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/43 Folder entitled Mueller, Otto Consists of typed extract from Samuel Beckett's German diaries and articles
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JEK A/6/3/44 Folder entitled Munch, Edvard Consists of typed extract from Samuel Beckett's German diaries, gallery guide and copy of painting
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JEK A/6/3/45 Folder entitled Nauman, Bruce Consists of articles, press cuttings and correspondence
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JEK A/6/3/46 Folder entitled Nesch, Rolf Consists of articles
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diaries, gallery guide, articles and notes
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JEK A/6/3/48 Folder entitled O’Conor, Roderic Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/49 Folder entitled Orpen, William Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/50 Folder entitled Paalen, Wolfgang Consists of a note
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JEK A/6/3/51 Folder entitled Pechstein, Max Consists of typed extract from Samuel Beckett's German diaries and articles
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JEK A/6/3/53 Folder entitled Pickelny, Robert Consists of a note
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JEK A/6/3/54 Folder entitled Radziwill, Franz Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/55 Folder entitled Renoir, Pierre Auguste Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/56 Folder entitled Rondinone, Ugo Consists of correspondence and articles
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JEK A/6/3/58 Folder entitled Ryman, Robert Consists of correspondence
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JEK A/6/3/59 Folder entitled Scharl, Josef Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/3/60 Folder entitled Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl Consists of articles, copies of paintings and notes
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JEK A/6/3/61 Folder entitled Schuch, Carl Consists of typed extract from Samuel Beckett's German diaries and articles
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JEK A/6/4 Collectors of Art
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JEK A/6/4/1 Folder entitled Bienert, Ida Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/4/2 Folder entitled Eichheim, Josef Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/4/4 Folder entitled Grohmann, Willi Consists of articles
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JEK A/6/4/5 Folder entitled Macgreevy on Art Consists of typed extract from Samuel Beckett's German diaries and articles
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Consists of articles, correspondence and notes
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JEK A/6/4/10 Folder entitled Schiefler, Gustave Consists of articles
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JEK A/7 Interview Transcripts
JEK A/7/1 Transcript of interview with Albee, Edward James Knowlson note: Edward Albee (1928- ) American playwright. Among his best known plays are The Zoo Story (1958), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1961-62), A Delicate Balance (1966), Three Tall Women (1991) and The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia (2000). Directed several of Beckett’s plays, especially at the Alley Theatre in Houston. A friend of Samuel Beckett, he talks on the tape about his various meetings with Samuel Beckett in London, Paris and New York and about Beckett’s importance in world theatre. An edited version of the 1993 interview with James Knowlson in New York was published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett (ed. James and Elizabeth Knowlson) in 2006. Good interview in parts only.
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JEK A/7/2 Transcript of interview with Asmus, Walter James Knowlson note: Walter Asmus. Distinguished German theatre director and close friend of Samuel Beckett. He worked with him on many occasions, first as his assistant director on the 1975 Schiller-Theater’s Warten auf Godot. He later directed the play again several times for the Gate Theatre, Dublin. He is Professor of Theatre Studies in Hamburg. He also worked with Beckett on his TV plays at SDR in Stuttgart. Extracts only of these interviews were published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett and much of what he says is completely inédit. Major set of interviews in English with incredible detail on productions by Beckett in Berlin.
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JEK A/7/3 Transcript of interview with Aude, Fernand James Knowlson note: Fernand Aude: The son of the farmer in Roussillon, who worked with Beckett in the fields on their family’s farm. A small section of this interview with Aude is used in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett, but there is much more than this distillation with fascinating details about Samuel Becketts character and his attitude to work and life. Interview in French.
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JEK A/7/4 Transcript of interview with Arikha, Avigdor James Knowlson note: Avigdor Arikha (1929- ), an internationally renowned artist whose paintings, etchings and drawings hang in galleries throughout the world. Also a distinguished scholar, who has written catalogues for exhibitions which he curated at the Louvre (Poussin) and the Frick Collection (Ingres) and articles for many art journals. He has made documentary films on Velázquez, Poussin, Vermeer, David and Caravaggio and given talks on the radio for the BBC, France-Culture, Deutsche Welle and Kol-Israel. With his wife, the poet, Anne Atik, he was a very close friend of Samuel Beckett from 1956 until the latter’s death in 1989 and his Page 233 of 562
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interviews contain many fascinating insights into Beckett’s character. These interviews are unpublished, as the short essay by Arikha on Beckett’s art erudition in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett was especially written for that volume. Important insights and many details. Arikha 2 is a brief snippet only. Arikha3 is an absolutely key Interview.
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JEK A/7/5 Transcript of interview with Auster, Paul James Knowlson note: Paul Auster: (1947- ). After attending Columbia University, Paul Auster lived in France for four years. Since returning to America in 1974, he has published poems, essays, novels, film scripts and translations. He is best known perhaps for The New York Trilogy. He wrote a brief essay about Beckett’s novel, Mercier and Camier and refers to Beckett or his work several times in his own writing. This is a telephone interview with James Knowlson. A version was heavily rewritten by Paul Auster in 2005 for the book Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett but it is worth stressing that the unpublished part of the interview is much more revealing.
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JEK A/7/6 Transcript of interview with Bakewell, Michael James Knowlson note: Michael Bakewell: British television producer. Best known for his work during the 1960s, when he was the first Head of Plays at the BBC, after Sydney Newman divided the drama department into separate series, serials and plays divisions in 1963. Later, he produced plays for BBC2’s Theatre 625 anthology strand, including John Hopkins’s acclaimed Talking to a Stranger series of linked plays. He also worked in radio drama, including adapting The Lord of the Rings into a 1981 radio series for the BBC. From 1955 until 1972 he was the husband of Joan Bakewell. This is an unpublished interview from 1994 about his work in TV with Beckett on Eh Joe etc. Good interview. Edward Beckett: The son of Frank Beckett and nephew of Samuel Beckett, his heir Page 234 of 562
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and his current literary executor. A former principal flautist of the London Symphony Orchestra, he worked primarily under Britten, Celibidache, Previn and Abbado. Edward Beckett also played guest principal flute with all of the major London symphonic and chamber orchestras in addition to pursuing an extensive solo and chamber career all over the world. He was a former pupil of the flautists, Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Rampal. In these unpublished interviews, he talks in detail about his uncle and about his own contacts with Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. Major interviews.
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JEK A/7/7 Transcript of interview with Beckett, Ann James Knowlson note: Ann Beckett (1929-2003). Her father, Dr Gerald Beckett (1884-1950), was Sam’s father’s younger brother. He was appointed Medical Officer for County Wicklow towards the end of the 1920s. The family lived in the little village of Greystones, on the coast, south of Bray, and it was there that Ann and her twin brother, John, used to see Sam and his mother in the mid-1930s. Beckett played piano duets and golf with their father. A very short extract from this frank, honest and very revealing interview about Beckett and his parents etc was published in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett but it is largely unpublished. Major interview.
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JEK A/7/8 Transcript of interview with Beckett, Edward James Knowlson note: Edward Beckett: The son of Frank Beckett and nephew of Samuel Beckett, his heir and his current literary executor. A former principal flautist of the London Symphony Orchestra, he worked primarily under Britten, Celibidache, Previn and Abbado. Edward Beckett also played guest principal flute with all of the major London symphonic and chamber orchestras in addition to pursuing an extensive solo and chamber career all over the world. He was a former pupil of the flautists, Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Page 235 of 562
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Rampal. In these unpublished interviews, he talks in detail about his uncle and about his own contacts with Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. Major interviews.
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JEK A/7/9 Transcript of interview with Beckett, John James Knowlson note: John Beckett (1929 - ). His father, Dr Gerald Beckett (1884-1950), was Samuel Beckett’s father’s younger brother. (See Ann Beckett - his twin sister - number .....) Beckett played piano duets and golf with his father. John Beckett composed the music for the original BBC recording of Words and Music. These interviews were used in Damned to Fame but otherwise they are totally unpublished. They contain much important information. Major interviews.
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JEK A/7/10 Transcript of interview with Beckett, Caroline Murphy James Knowlson note: Caroline Beckett Murphy. The niece of Samuel Beckett and an heir of the Beckett Estate (although she plays no part in its governance). She speaks in this unpublished interview about Beckett’s mother and about Beckett himself. Revealing about the family.
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JEK A/7/11 Transcript of interview with Cunningham, Bill James Knowlson note: William Cunningham: Friend of Beckett from Trinity College days. Played golf with Beckett for Trinity College, Dublin and went to the theatre with him. Rode on Samuel Beckett’s motorbike as a pillion passenger. Extracts from these interesting interviews about the young Beckett were published in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett. Major interviews on Beckett. Page 236 of 562
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JEK A/7/12 Transcript of interview with Barlog, Boleslaw James Knowlson note: Boleslaw Barlog (1906-1999): Distinguished German theatre director, later Intendant General of the Schiller- Theater in Berlin. He directed dozens of plays at the Schlossparktheatre and the Schiller-Theater in Berlin from 1945 to 1972. Author of Theaterlebenslänglich (1981). In collection. Talks of Beckett’s visits to his own home and Beckett’s work as a director of his plays at the Schiller- Theater. Interview in German with a following translation by Dr Walter Georgi. Klaus Herm: (1925- ) Distinguished German stage and film actor. Born into an acting family, Herm worked extensively in Munich and Berlin theatres. He played Lucky in both the 1965 and 1975 productions of Waiting for Godot, directed in the second production by Beckett. He also acted in Damals (That Time) and Spiel (Play). At Süddeutscher Rundfunk, he played in the television productions by Beckett of Ghost Trio and … but the clouds…. Interview in German at the Literaturhaus in Berlin with rough English translations provided by Dr Walter Georgi. Helpful on Beckett as Director.
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JEK A/7/13 Transcript of interview with Belmont, Georges James Knowlson note: Georges Belmont (Pelorson): Under his real, family name of Pelorson, Georges was a student of Samuel Beckett at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1928-29 and a friend of his at Trinity College where Pelorson was lecteur. He talks interestingly and at length about Beckett then and at later points in his life, since he remained a friend for the rest of Beckett’s life, in spite of Pelorson’s activities during the war with the Vichy regime, on account of which he changed his name. Because of the circumstances in which these recordings were made (in cafés etc) some are very difficult to hear. The transcriptions of large sections by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson are then of great importance. With the exception of a tiny extract published in Page 237 of 562
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Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett these numerous interviews are unpublished, although Pelorson has used his memories in his own memoirs entitled Souvenirs d’outremonde. In collection. Interviews in French.
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JEK A/7/14 Transcript of interview with Boyle, Kay James Knowlson note: Kay Boyle (1902-1992). USA novelist and poet. Published over thirty volumes. A friend of Samuel Beckett since 1929 when they met in Paris. Interviewed in her old people’s home in California with her good friend, the theatre critic, Ruby Cohn. Many fascinating things in this interview with a remarkable lady. Her letters from him are in the HRC in Austin, Texas. Much about her life and attitudes as well as about Beckett. Lovely story of a dinner in New York with Beckett and Buster Keaton.
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JEK A/7/15 Transcript of interview with Bollmann, Horst James Knowlson note: Horst Bollmann (1925- ). Distinguished German stage, film and television actor who was directed by Beckett at the Schiller-Theater in Berlin on several occasions in Waiting for Godot (twice) and in Endgame. Interview with questions put in English and translated into German by Walter Asmus. A very short extract from this interview is used in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett. Rough on the spot translation.
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JEK A/7/16 Transcript of interview with Bruce, Brenda James Knowlson note: Brenda Bruce (1918-1996). British stage, film and television actress. A very lively interview Page 238 of 562
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conducted in the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guilford with her, quite a part of which is reproduced in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Jocelyn Herbert (1917- 2003). Influential British theatre designer, daughter of the writer, A. P. Herbert and a very close friend of Samuel Beckett. She worked extensively at the Royal Court Theatre in London, designing all of Beckett’s productions staged there. She also worked in opera and film. After the breakdown of her marriage to Anthony Lousada, she lived with the Founder of the English Stage Company, George Devine. Important information of productions of Endgame, Not I and Happy days.
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JEK A/7/17 Transcript of interview with Büttner, Gottfried James Knowlson note: Dr Gottfried Büttner (1926-2002). Medical doctor and author of Absurdes Theater und Bewusstseinswandel (Berlin, 1968) and Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. Attended rehearsals with Beckett on several occasions at the Schiller-Theater Berlin. Interviews in English. Most important material on Beckett in these translations of his memories.
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JEK A/7/18 Transcript of interview with Calder, John James Knowlson note: John Calder: Founded Calder publishing in London in 1949. He was very friendly with Samuel Beckett during his life time, and is responsible for initially publishing 85% of the work of Beckett available today. During the 1950s, he published the translated work of Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoievsky, Goethe and Zola among others, and was the first publisher to make William S. Burroughs available in the United Kingdom. Long, fascinating major interviews with Calder about Beckett and his friendship with Beckett: transcribed. See also his memoirs Pursuit.
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JEK A/7/19 Transcript of interview with Chiarini, Alberto James Knowlson note: Alberto Chiarini: A very close friend of Suzanne Beckett. One of the most personal interviews in the collection about her. Interview in French. See also Denise Deleutre, Marthe Gautier, Edith Fournier, Jean Martin interviews. [A very poor interview by an uneasy, ill at ease interviewer, James Knowlson]
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JEK A/7/20 Transcript of interview with Cohn, Ruby James Knowlson note: Ruby Cohn (1922- ). Professor Emerita at the University of California, Davis; a friend of Beckett for almost thirty years. She has written many books on European and American theatre and several books on Beckett, including Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut, Back to Beckett, Just Play, and, most recently, A Beckett Canon. She has edited Disjecta, a collection of his critical writings, as well as two casebooks on Waiting for Godot. Interview recorded in her home in San Francisco. Used as background for Beckett in Berlin and in certain quotations in Damned to Fame.
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JEK A/7/21 Transcript of interview with Condell, Lily James Knowlson note: Lily Condell: Beckett’s mother’s parlour maid at ‘Cooldrinagh’, who then visited May Beckett frequently at her smaller house, ‘New Place’. Fascinating and important interviews about the entire Beckett family (from someone who knew them extremely well) and about the family house in Foxrock. Drawn on quite heavily for Damned to Fame but with many intriguing insights into Beckett’s character as seen from ‘below Stairs’ as it were. See Photos of Lily too. Page 240 of 562
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JEK A/7/22 Transcript of interview with Delap, Miles
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JEK A/7/23 Transcript of interview with Delavenay, Emile James Knowlson note: Emile Delavenay, former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, when Beckett was lecteur d’anglais there. A distinguished D. H. Lawrence scholar who played an important role too in the BBC’s propaganda war in Occupied France. Friend too of Thomas MacGreevy. Father of Claire Tomalin. Interviews mostly in French, although Delavenay is totally bilingual. An extract from these interviews was used in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett. The transcript is a summary of the contents only.
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JEK A/7/24 Transcript of interview with Deleutre, Denise James Knowlson note: Denise Deleutre: Close friend of Sam and Suzanne Beckett, especially Suzanne. One of these interviews is very, very difficult to hear. Interviews in French. Important material on Suzanne and music.
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JEK A/7/25 Transcript of interview with Duthuit, Claude James Knowlson note: Son of the art critic, Georges Duthuit, Page 241 of 562
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who was the son-in-law of Matisse. Friend of Samuel Beckett as was his father. Interesting interviews in French about Beckett after the war when he was translating for his father. Major interviews on Beckett and painters.
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JEK A/7/26 Transcript of interview with Esslin, Martin James Knowlson note: Martin Esslin (1918-2002). Writer and radio producer. He was appointed the Head of the Radio Drama Department at the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1963. Author of many books among which: Brecht (1959), The Theatre of the Absurd (1961), Brief Chronicles: Essays on Modern Theatre (1970) and Pinter: A Study of his Plays (1977; first published in 1970). Extract used in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Key interview on Beckett and the BBC, Barbara Bray, Donald McWhinnie, Play for radio, Lessness etc.
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JEK A/7/27 Transcript of interview with Fournier, Edith James Knowlson note: Edith Fournier. A close personal friend of Samuel Beckett who adored him and helped to look after him in his final years. She had also written about his work and had known him well for almost thirty years. Talks intimately about Beckett and Suzanne. Major interviews in French especially on Suzanne and Beckett’s infidelities. Second interview is a key one for Suzanne.
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JEK A/7/28 Transcript of interview with Gautier, Marthe James Knowlson note: Marthe Gautier. Suzanne Beckett’s closest friend. Interview in French. Wary but interesting on the Page 242 of 562
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character and interests of Beckett’s wife. Very detailed on her trips abroad with Suzanne, support at time of Algerian tortures etc
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JEK A/7/29 Transcript of interview with Gontarski, S.E. James Knowlson note: S. E.Gontarski. Sarah Herndon Professor of English at Florida State University where he teaches courses in twentieth-century Irish Studies, in British, U.S. and European Modernism, and in drama and performance theory. His theatrical work includes guest directorships at the Los Angeles Actors’ Theater, the Magic Theater in San Francisco and the Teatros del Circulo in Madrid. He is the author or editor of numerous books, most recently The Grove Press Reader, 1951-2001 (2001), and The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader’s Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought (with C. J. Ackerley) (2004). Gontarski was responsible for inviting Beckett to write his 1981 play, Ohio Impromptu and he talks about the circumstances surrounding this event. Very detailed and full interview.
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JEK A/7/30 Transcript of interview with Greub, Nicole James Knowlson note: Nicole Greub. Her mother-in-law first looked after Beckett’s house in Ussy sur Marne for him, then she, Nicole, took over those duties. Interview in French with this longstanding Ussy resident who knew another side of Beckett to that of the famous writer. Some fascinating material here about Beckett and the house which Beckett left to her and her family.
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JEK A/7/31 Transcript of interview with Guilford, James James Knowlson note: James Guilford was a neighbour of the Beckett family in Foxrock. He was befriended by Mrs Beckett and knew Frank, Sam Beckett’s brother, very well indeed. A short extract from this interview is used in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Good background material on Beckett’s family life.
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JEK A/7/32 Transcript of interview with Harvey, Sheila James Knowlson note: Sheila Harvey. The widow of Lawrence Harvey, who knew Beckett in the 1960s in particular and met him regularly while he was researching composing his book Samuel Beckett Poet and Critic. Sheila Harvey also met Beckett whom her husband interviewed informally many times. The Harvey collection is in Dartmouth College New Hampshire. But the original typescript of his book in its original state before Beckett asked him to make cuts of personal material is was given to James Knowlson and is part of this collection.
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JEK A/7/33 Transcript of interview with Hayden, Josette James Knowlson note: Josette Hayden. Wife of the painter, Henri Hayden and one of Beckett’s closest friends in Paris. They met during the war in Roussillon and continued a friendship until his death in 1959. One of the most important sources of knowledge about his life. He was a great admirer of her husband’s paintings and owned several of them. She may well also have had an affair with him. A fundamental collection of major interviews especially about their life in Roussillon. Josette appeared to have almost total recall and is quite brilliant on their life during the war. Everything she said checked out. She always denied that she had had an affair with Beckett, although that has often been alleged.
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JEK A/7/34 Transcript of interview with Herbert, Jocelyn James Knowlson note: Jocelyn Herbert (1917-2003). Influential British theatre designer, daughter of the writer, A. P. Herbert and a very close friend of Samuel Beckett. She worked extensively at the Royal Court Theatre in London, designing all of Beckett’s productions staged there. She also worked in opera and film. After the breakdown of her marriage to Anthony Lousada, she lived with the Founder of the English Stage Company,
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JEK A/7/35 Transcript of interview with Herm, Klaus James Knowlson note: Klaus Herm: (1925- ) Distinguished German stage and film actor. Born into an acting family, Herm worked extensively in Munich and Berlin theatres. He played Lucky in both the 1965 and 1975 productions of Waiting for Godot, directed in the second production by Beckett. He also acted in Damals (That Time) and Spiel (Play). At Süddeutscher Rundfunk, he played in the television productions by Beckett of Ghost Trio and … but the clouds…. Interview in German at the Literaturhaus in Berlin with rough English translations provided by Dr Walter Georgi. Helpful on Beckett as Director.
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JEK A/7/36 Transcript of interview with Higgins, Aidan James Knowlson note: Aidan Higgins: (1927- ) Irish writer whose first novel, Langrishe, Go Down, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award. It was later filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Other works include: Balcony of Europe, runner-up for the 1972 Booker Prize, Lions of the Grunewald (1993) and the trilogy, Donkey’s Years (1995), Dog Days (1998) and The Page 245 of 562
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Whole Hog (2000). He is also known for his shorter fiction and travel writing. Recording made in Kinsale County Cork. Interesting interview with some excellent anecdotes.
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JEK A/7/37 Transcript of interview with Hillis, Arthur James Knowlson note: Arthur Hillis. Friend of Samuel Beckett in the 1930s. He had known Beckett at Trinity College, Dublin when they were both students together and they met again in London in 1934. Good precise interviews recorded in his flat in London not used except for a few details of Beckett’s musical life in London in 1934-5 in Damned to Fame.
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JEK A/7/38 Transcript of interview with Hirt, Eleanor James Knowlson note: Eléanore Hirt. French actress who acted in Comédie directed by Beckett. She was also involved in the early funding of the world première of En attendant Godot. Interview in French.
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JEK A/7/39 Transcript of interview with Irwin, Bill James Knowlson note: Bill Irwin. American actor who played in Waiting for Godot at the Lincoln Centre in New York and also, under the direction of Joe Chaikin, in Texts for Nothing. Interview in the dressing room of his New York theatre.
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JEK A/7/40 Transcript of interview with Jamet, Claude James Knowlson note: Claude Jamet: A former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris who also met Beckett much later and wrote about his plays as a critic. Talks in detail about life at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and recounts the story of seeing Beckett actually hand over his coat to someone who admired it. His female companion was also present and contributes to the discussion as she was also a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
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JEK A/7/41 Transcript of interview with Jonic, Bettina James Knowlson note: Martin Esslin (1918-2002). Writer and radio producer. He was appointed the Head of the Radio Drama Department at the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1963. Author of many books among which: Brecht (1959), The Theatre of the Absurd (1961), Brief Chronicles: Essays on Modern Theatre (1970) and Pinter: A Study of his Plays (1977; first published in 1970). Extract used in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Key interview on Beckett and the BBC, Barbara Bray, Donald McWhinnie, Play for radio, Lessness etc.
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JEK A/7/42 Transcript of interview with Karagheuz, Hermine
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JEK A/7/43 Transcript of interview with Keegan, Ernest James Knowlson note: Hermine Karagueuz: Stage and film actress, friend and lover of Roger Blin. Also friendly with Page 247 of 562
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Beckett for many years. Gives, like Michèle Meunier below, a moving account of Beckett and Suzanne at Blin’s funeral. Interview in French.
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JEK A/7/44 Transcript of interview with King, Pearl James Knowlson note: Important member of the British Society of Psychoanalysts, who knew W. R. Bion, Beckett’s own therapist, and able to talk about him and as a historian of the subject about psychotherapy at the time.
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JEK A/7/45 Notes made by James Knowlson on conversations with Edith Fournier, Barbara Bray and Alexis Peron
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JEK A/7/46 Transcript of interview with Leon, Alexis James Knowlson note: Alexis Léon. The son of Paul Léon and Lucie Léon Noel. His father was James Joyce’s amanuensis. Interesting on his father’s arrest and Beckett’s many kindnesses. Fascinating material about Joyce, Léon and Lucie Léon Noel.
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JEK A/7/47 Transcript of interview with Lindon, Jerome James Knowlson note: Jérôme Lindon (1925-2001): French Page 248 of 562
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publisher of Samuel Beckett’s writings. Director and owner of the publishing house, Les Editions de Minuit. In all these interviews Lindon is remarkably honest about his debt (financial as well as personal). So much so that his daughter refused to allow extracts from the interviews to be published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. They are therefore largely unused, except as background information for Damned to Fame . Absolutely key interviews for any understanding of Beckett. Tape 25A is the best interview of all about the relations between Beckett and Suzanne.
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JEK A/7/48 Transcript of interview with Lindon, Annette James Knowlson note: Annette Lindon. The wife of Jérôme Lindon. Perhaps with Nathalie Sarraute’s, rather surprisingly, one of the most indiscreet interviews about Beckett, speaking about his personal vanity, etc. Very valuable on Suzanne too.
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JEK A/7/49 Transcript of interview with Lonsdale, Michael James Knowlson note: Michael Lonsdale: (1931-) Famous French stage and screen actor. Acted in hundred of films in French and in English. Played in Comédie directed by Jean Marie Serreau and Samuel Beckett and in the film of that name by Michel Mitrani (1966). Good detail in this interview.
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JEK A/7/50 Transcript of interview with Majno, Luigi James Knowlson note: Luigi Majno: The art publisher and Milan gallery owner talks of his relationship with Beckett and work on the illustrated edition of Still and the art work of Bill Hayter. Page 249 of 562
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JEK A/7/51 Transcript of interview with Manning, John James Knowlson note: John Manning: Brother of Mary Manning and a family friend of Beckett in Dublin. His mother, Susan Manning, was also very friendly with Beckett and he discusses them all in this interesting interview in his own home. Very helpful on Beckett’s father, mother and Beckett himself.
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JEK A/7/52 Transcript of interview with Manning, Mary James Knowlson note: Mary Manning Howe Adams: A Dublin born writer (novelist and playwright) and childhood friend of Beckett and the Beckett family. The interview contains much fascinating material on their childhood in County Dublin, her school, Beckett’s parents, their affair, etc. This represents a major set of interviews of great importance, only a tiny part of which has been used so far. (Also see the interviews with Mary Manning on the research video tapes of the Global Village Beckett Project given to James Knowlson for his biography and her novels in the Knowlson library and photos. Her books are also in the collection)
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JEK A/7/53 Transcript of interview with Martin, Jean James Knowlson note: Jean Martin. French stage and film actor. A very close long-standing friend of both Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. These are again a major set of interviews with an important figure both in the Becketts’ personal world and, as the first Lucky in En attendant Godot and Clov in Endgame in the production of his plays in French. A short Page 250 of 562
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extract from one of the interviews was published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett.
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JEK A/7/54 Transcript of interview with Martin, Steve James Knowlson note: Steve Martin. Transatlantic telephone interview with this film actor and Hollywood ‘star’ who played with Robin Williams in the Lincoln Centre production of Waiting for Godot directed by Mike Nichols. He explicitly refused permission in 2005 for the editors to use his interview in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett.
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JEK A/7/55 Transcript of interview with Matias, Henrioud James Knowlson note: Matias Henrioud: known as Matias. Set and costume designer on many of Samuel Beckett’s plays in France. Also friendly with Suzanne Beckett.
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JEK A/7/56 Transcript of interview with Mayoux, Marysette James Knowlson note: Marysette Mayoux: wife of Jean-Jacques Mayoux and a friend in her young days of Alfred Péron, who worked with Beckett in the Resistance in Paris. By this stage in her life probably unreliable interview. But interesting on Péron and Jean Paul Sartre.
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JEK A/7/57 Transcript of interview with McKee, Simone James Knowlson note: Simone McKee. Widow of Freddie McKee, the surgeon with whom Beckett worked at the Irish Red Cross Hospital at Saint-Lô. A very interesting and important interview in French about Beckett in St-Lô and later in Dublin. A short extract from this interview was published in English in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett.
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JEK A/7/58 Transcript of interview with Mendel, Deryk James Knowlson note: Deryk Mendel, British born dancer/actor/director who worked a lot as a director in Germany and lived in Paris. He acted in the world première of Act without Words I, having asked Beckett to write something for him. He also directed the world première of Play in Ulm and, with Beckett’s help imported, directed the 1965 Schiller- Theater Godot. Also knew Suzanne. Very interesting interview.
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JEK A/7/59 Transcript of interview with Meunier, Michele James Knowlson note: Michèle Meunier: French friend of Roger Blin and Samuel Beckett. Interview mainly about Blin, Beckett and Suzanne. She (Michèle) used to dine with the two of them. Moving account of Beckett at Roger Blin’s funeral.
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JEK A/7/60 Transcript of interview with Myers, Edna James Knowlson note: Edna Meyers. Ballet critic and wife (widow) of the film editor, Sidney Myers, who worked with Beckett on Film and escorted him to the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum. Used by James Knowlson in his account of Beckett in New York for the film of Page 252 of 562
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Film.
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JEK A/7/61 Transcript of interview with Mitchell, Pamela James Knowlson note: Pamela Mitchell. One of the coups of Damned to Fame was the material gleaned from these interviews with the woman who had an affair in Paris in 1954 and 1955 with Beckett. She was tracked down in the USA by James Knowlson and interviewed at her home in Newport, Rhode Island in 1993, where she gave some of the most interesting and open interviews in the collection. Her letters were left by her after her death to James Knowlson for the Beckett International Foundation and are now there. Outstanding interviews.
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JEK A/7/62 Transcript of interview with Montague, John James Knowlson note: John Montague. Irish poet who knew Beckett in the 1960s. Member of a small group of Irish expats including Leventhal, Peter Lennon, etc. Author of an autobiography entitled Company. Interview recorded in 1992 in Cork where James Knowlson and his wife visited Montague.
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JEK A/7/63 Transcript of interview with Neumann, Fred James Knowlson note: Frederick Neumann: director and actor; one of the founder members of the theatre company, Mabou Mines. Adapted and directed several of Beckett’s prose works for the stage Mercier and Camier (1979), Company (1980) – with original music by Philip Glass – and Worstward Ho (1981). He also acted in JoAnne Akalaitis’s adaptation of Cascando (1976) and with Julian Beck and George Bartenieff Page 253 of 562
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in Theatre I and Theatre II at La Mama, New York. Used to visit Beckett in Paris. Fantastic detail in rambling but invaluable interview.
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JEK A/7/64 Transcript of interview with O'Casey, Shivaun
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JEK A/7/65 Transcript of interview with Page, Sheila James Knowlson note: Sheila Page: (née Roe) was Beckett’s cousin who was very close to him. She lived with the Beckett family for several years as a child with her sister, Molly, after her mother died and while her father was working in Nyasaland. Beckett used to go to stay with her and her husband Donald at their house ‘Sweetwater Cottage’ in Surrey and many photos of him are taken there. One of the most important set of interviews in the entire collection.
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JEK A/7/66 Transcript of interview with Peron, Alexis James Knowlson note: Alexis Péron: Son of Alfred Péron, one of Beckett’s closest friends in the 1930s and very interesting on Beckett after the war when Péron’s mother, Mania, used to help Beckett with proof reading and his French. A fascinating set of interviews from someone who knew Beckett well as a teenage boy.
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JEK A/7/67 Transcript of interview with Peron, Alfred
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JEK A/7/68 Transcript of interview with Rawson, Nick James Knowlson note: Nick Rawson. British poet and prose writer. Knew Beckett and owed him a great debt because Beckett supported him for grants, etc. He also gave Rawson quite a lot of money to help him out when he was broke. Unpublished interview.
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JEK A/7/69 Transcript of interview with Rosset, Barney James Knowlson note: Barney Rosset. Beckett’s USA publisher who talks about his relations and those of Grove Press with Beckett. Unpublished interview. The interview was conducted in New York with his editor Freed Jordan also present and contributing to the discussion .
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JEK A/7/70 Transcript of interview with Schultz, Eva-Katharina James Knowlson note: Eva-Katharina Schultz: German stage and film actress. A regular member of the Schiller-Theater repertory company. She performed Winnie in Beckett’s production of Glückliche Tage (Happy Days) in 1971. See also her corrected copy given to James Knowlson.
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JEK A/7/71 Transcript of interview with Seaver, Richard James Knowlson note: Richard Seaver: editor in chief of Arcade Publishing in New York, is an old friend of Samuel Beckett’s from the 1950s. In 1952 he first brought Beckett, then virtually unknown, to the attention of the English- language public in a laudatory essay in Merlin. Seaver has been a distinguished publisher in New York for over 40 years, during which time he has translated over 50 books from the French, including works by Marguerite Duras, Françoise Sagan, André Breton, Eugène Ionesco, and Beckett himself. Interview recorded in New York with both Seaver and his wife, Jeannette who also knew Beckett well.
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JEK A/7/72 Transcript of interview with Sinclair, Morris James Knowlson note: Morris Sinclair (1918 - ), the son of William and Frances (‘Cissie’) Sinclair. Letters to James Knowlson, 1991-2, text agreed by Morris Sinclair in 2005. Morris played the violin. He gave Beckett German lessons in the mid-1930s; in exchange Beckett gave him French lessons. They became close friends, although it was very much a master/pupil relationship, with Beckett, the master, Beckett offering Morris advice on his career prospects. An important person in Beckett’s life. Major interview. See also his many letters to James Knowlson.
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JEK A/7/73 Transcript of interview with Skeffington, Andree James Knowlson note: Andrée Skeffington: widow of Owen Sheehy, lecturer in French at Trinity College, Dublin and Senator. Speraks about many of those Beckett knew at Trinity College, Dublin and about her husband’s friendship with Beckett.
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JEK A/7/74 Transcript of interview with Stuart, Francis
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JEK A/7/75 Transcript of interview with Tandy, Jessica James Knowlson note: Jessica Tandy (1909-1994): British born actress, who married the American actor, Hume Cronyn, and lived in the United States from 1942 until her death. She won critical acclaim for her creation of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and appeared in many films, earning an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her performance (at the age of 80) in Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Interview recorded at her home in Connecticut at a time when Tandy was in the final stages of her cancer illness from which she died a few weeks later. One of the two last interviews with Jessica Tandy.
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JEK A/7/78 Transcript of interview with Thorpe, Bud James Knowlson note: Bud Thorpe (1951-) acted with the San Quentin Drama Workshop and was directed several times by Samuel Beckett, twice in Endgame, then in Waiting for Godot. He was also lighting designer for the San Quentin Krapp’s Last Tape, stage and lighting designer for Endgame and lighting designer for Waiting for Godot. Interview in New York.
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JEK A/7/79 Transcript of James Knowlson's taped description of Beckett's country house at Ussy
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JEK A/7/80 Transcript of interview with Van Velde, Lisl James Knowlson note: Lisl van Velde. Widow of Geer van Velde, Beckett’s Dutch painter friend. Somewhat hostile to Beckett and his heavy macabre view of human life and its impact on others. Has interesting things to say about the relations between Beckett and the van Velde brothers and about his relationship with Peggy Guggenheim.
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JEK A/7/81 Transcript of interview with Wall, Mervyn James Knowlson note: Mervyn Wall: Irish writer who knew Beckett in the middle years of the 1930s. A fascinating insight into living in censor-ridden Ireland at that time.
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JEK A/7/82 Transcript of interview with Weydert, Pierre James Knowlson note: Pierre Weydert: was a member of Beckett’s cell though he did not know Beckett personally. He was however a close friend of Beckett’s best friend Alfred Péron and was with him after their arrest too in Mauthausen concentration camp. He gives many details on other members of the cell both on tape and in writing.
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JEK A/7/83 Transcript of interview with Williams, Eileen James Knowlson note: Eileen Williams. A student at Trinity College in the same class as Samuel Beckett 1923-27. Intriguing details on Beckett, Ethna MacCarthy and Trinity life.
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JEK A/7/84 Transcript of interview with Whitelaw, Billie James Knowlson note: Billie Whitelaw (1932- ) British actress known for a wide variety of stage and film parts but who worked on many occasions with Samuel Beckett, being directed by him in Footfalls (1976), which he wrote with Whitelaw in mind, and Happy Days (1979). She also acted in Play (1964) (when she first got to know Beckett), played Mouth in the British première of Not I, directed by Anthony Page, with much help from Samuel Beckett. Interesting interviews by this close friend of Beckett.
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JEK A/7/85 Transcript of interview with Wisdom, John O. James Knowlson note: John O. Wisdom. Fellow pupil of Beckett at Earlsfort House school and later connections with Beckett. An important figure in the world of psychoanalysis, Wisdom has some interesting things to say about Beckett’s background and his therapy. The interview was conducted by James Knowlson and his wife at Wisdom’s country house in Ireland, when he was clearly very ill indeed. He clung to his memories and shared them with his interviewers as if he were clinging to life – as indeed he was.
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JEK A/7/86 Transcript of interview with Woodthorpe, Peter James Knowlson note: Peter Woodthorpe (1931-2004): British actor who played Estragon in the British première of Waiting for Godot while he was still a student at Cambridge University. He went on to have a highly successful career in theatre, film and television. Beckett very much admired his acting. Interview at Woodthorpe’s country house. Extracts published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Also on cassette tape. Excellent interview.
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JEK A/7/87 Transcript of interview with Louis Roger James Knowlson note: Roger Louis: A leading member of the neighbouring Resistance cell to that in Roussillon. Important material on the Resistance in an interview that is not at all easy to hear.
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JEK A/7/88 Transcript of interview with Lob, Yvonne James Knowlson note: Yvonne Lob OBE: Before the war, as a well qualified Agrégée in English, she was a teacher of English in Nice where her husband held a University post. She was responsible for Beckett and Suzanne coming to stay in Roussillon. Major long interview, part of which was printed in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Elie Icard: Important member of the Resistance cell in Roussillon who talks about their activities and Beckett himself in the last few days of the war.
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JEK A/7/89 Transcript of interview with Sarraute, Nathalie James Knowlson note: Nathalie Sarraute, born in Ivanova in Russia as Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak (1900-1999). French novelist and critic. During the Nazi occupation, after she sheltered Beckett and Suzanne, she was denounced as being from a Jewish family and was forced to go into hiding under the name of Nicole Sauvage, posing as the governess of her own three daughters. Part of this recorded interview was published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Later in an unpublished part of the interview she relates in detail what happened to her and her family. Before the war, she had already published Tropismes, Paris, Denoël, 1939. She is very hostile to Beckett personally and highly critical of him as a person and as a writer in French. One of the most hostile of all those interviewed.
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JEK A/7/90 Transcript of interview with Levin Le Chanois, Emma James Knowlson note: Emma Lévin-LeChanois: Companion of Jean Ravel who worked with Michel Mitrani and Beckett on the film of Comédie. Also a member of a Resistance cell in Page 261 of 562
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Paris, she gives many details on exactly how agents worked. See also Pierre Weydert below.
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JEK A/7/91 Transcript of interview with Resistance I
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JEK A/7/92 Transcript of interview with Jacob, Andree James Knowlson note: Andrée Jacob: A friend of Alfred Péron, she worked for the same Resistance cell as he and with another cell. When this was betrayed she went into hiding living under an assumed name as the secretary of the writer Paul Fort who hid her true identity. She outlines this story on the tape, making it one of the most interesting of the set of recordings along with the recordings of Germaine Tillion. She was also the source of several early letters of Péron sent to James Knowlson. Major interview.
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JEK A/8 Press Cuttings and articles
JEK A/8/1 Press cuttings of reviews of works by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/1 Folder of press reviews relating to Act without words by Samuel Beckett From UK, USA and German publications
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JEK A/8/1/2 Folder of press reviews relating to All that fall by Samuel Beckett From UK, USA and German publications
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JEK A/8/1/3 Folder of press reviews relating to All strange away by Samuel Beckett from UK, USA and Italian publications
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JEK A/8/1/6 Folder of press reviews relating to Cascando by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/7 Folder of press reviews relating to Catastrophe by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1983-2000
JEK A/8/1/8 Folder of press reviews relating to Collected Shorter Prose by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/9 Folder of press reviews relating to Come and Go by Samuel Beckett Includes copy of a photograph by Walter Evans from 1928- 1929
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1967-2007
JEK A/8/1/10 Folder of press reviews relating to Company by Samuel Beckett Includes an original theatre programme of Compagnie with Pierre Dux, director Pierre Chabert, reviews of Frederick Neumann's version of Company in the USA, various reviews in the UK and in France of the book on its first publication, material relating to S.E. Gontarski's production with Alan Mandell
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JEK A/8/1/11 Folder of press reviews relating to Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett Contains extract from the book Jonathan Cape Publisher by Michael S. Howard relating to the submission of Dream of Fair to Middling Women for possible publication to Cape
1 folder 1971, 1992-1993
JEK A/8/1/12 Folder of press reviews relating to Drunken Boat by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/14 Folder of press reviews and articles relating to Eleutheria by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1994-1995
JEK A/8/1/15 Folder of press reviews relating to Embers by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1959-1960, 2002
JEK A/8/1/16 Folder of press reviews relating to Endgame (Fin de partie) by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/17 Folder of press reviews relating to Ends and Odds by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1977
JEK A/8/1/18 Folder of press reviews relating to First Love by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/19 Folder of press reviews relating to Fizzles by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1977
JEK A/8/1/20 Folder of press reviews relating to Footfalls by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1994, 1998
JEK A/8/1/21 Folder of press reviews relating to For to end yet again by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1993
JEK A/8/1/22 Folder of press reviews relating to For Ghost Trio by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1977
JEK A/8/1/23 Folder of press reviews relating to Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
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3 folders 1969-2008
JEK A/8/1/24 Folder of press reviews relating to How it is by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1964-1998
JEK A/8/1/25 Folder of press reviews relating to Imagination Dead Imagine (Imagination morte imaginez) and As the story was told by Samuel Beckett With an obituary of Martin Held
1 folder 1960-2002
JEK A/8/1/26 Folder of press reviews relating to Krapp's last tape by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1958-2006
JEK A/8/1/27 Folder of press reviews relating to Lessness by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1962-2002
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JEK A/8/1/29 Folder of press reviews relating to Mal vu mal dit by Samuel Beckett Ill seen Ill Said in the New Yorker 5 Oct 1981
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JEK A/8/1/30 Folder of press reviews relating to Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/31 Folder of press reviews relating to Molloy by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/32 Folder of press reviews relating to More Pricks than Kicks by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/33 Folder of press reviews relating to Murphy by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/35 Folder of press reviews relating to Nohow on by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/36 Folder of press reviews relating to No's Knife by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1967
JEK A/8/1/37 Folder of press reviews relating to Not I by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1972-1988
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JEK A/8/1/38 Folder of press reviews relating to Ohio Impromptu by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1981-1998
JEK A/8/1/39 Folder of press reviews relating to Piece of Monologue by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/40 Folder of press reviews relating to Play by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/41 Folder of press reviews relating to Poems in English and Collected Poems in English and French by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/42 Press reviews relating to Poems 1930-1989
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JEK A/8/1/43 Folder of press reviews relating to Proust by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1931, undated
JEK A/8/1/44 Folder of press reviews relating to Quad by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1982-1996
JEK A/8/1/45 Folder of press reviews relating to Rockaby by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1980-1998
JEK A/8/1/46 Folder of press reviews relating to Rough for Theatre I and II by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1977, 2007
JEK A/8/1/47 Folder of press reviews relating to Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1989
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JEK A/8/1/48 Folder of press reviews relating to That time by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1976-1998
JEK A/8/1/49 Folder of press reviews relating to Tetes mortes by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/50 Folder of press reviews relating to Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/51 Folder of press reviews relating to The Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/52 Folder of press reviews relating to Triple Bill: Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophy and What Where by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/53 Folder of press reviews relating to The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/54 Folder of press reviews relating to Visions of Beckett productions of Rough for Theatre I, Ohio Impromptu and What Where by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/55 Folder of press reviews relating to Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/1/56 Folder of press reviews relating to Watt by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1958
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JEK A/8/1/58 Folder of press reviews relating to Words and Music by Samuel Beckett
1 folder 1965, 2002
JEK A/8/1/59 Press reviews relating to the reissue of Beckett's plays and prose by Faber & Faber
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JEK A/8/2 Biographical articles
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1 folder 1925, 1961, 1989
JEK A/8/2/3 Folder entitled Irish Background consists of press articles relating to Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/2/4 Folder entitled Life and Work consists of press articles relating to Samuel Beckett including short general articles, honorary degree, Nobel prize articles and life and work of Beckett at 70, 75 and 80
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JEK A/8/2/6 Folder entitled Oxford Theatre Project consists of press articles relating to the naming of a theatre after Samuel Beckett
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1 item 1976-1999
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JEK A/8/3 Reviews of books on Beckett and his work
JEK A/8/3/1 Folder relating to Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett edited by James and Elizabeth Knowlson consists of press articles, proofs of the book cover and letters to the authors
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JEK A/8/3/2 Folder relating to Damned to Fame. The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson Consists of reviews and articles including book launch at the Royal Court Theatre, book prizes and letters relating to the publication
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JEK A/8/3/4 Folder of press reviews relating to Happy Days Oh Les Beaux Jours A bilingual edition edited by James Knowlson
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JEK A/8/3/5 Folder of press reviews relating to the Journal of Beckett Studies, issues 1 and 3, edited by James Knowlson
1 folder 1977
JEK A/8/3/6 Folder of press reviews relating to The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-1940 edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck
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JEK A/8/3/7 Press review relating to Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde, by Charles Juliet, Dalkey Archive, 2010 Page 278 of 562
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JEK A/8/3/8 Press review relating to Theatre Workbook, One: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, edited by James Knowlson
1 doc 1981
JEK A/8/3/9 Press Review relating to Samuel Beckett: an Exhibition held at Reading University Library, Catalogue by James Knowlson
1 doc 1971
JEK A/8/3/10 Folder of press articles relating to various books on Beckett
1 folder 1964-1992
JEK A/8/4 Folder entitled Cartoons Consists of press cuttings and cartoons sent by Morris Sinclair
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JEK A/8/5/2 Folders relating to Beckett Centenary Celebrations Consists of press cuttings, leaflets and programmes
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JEK A/8/5/3 Folder entitled Transcript of Symposium on Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/8/5/4 Folder relating to Beckett in Town [Hamburg, Germany] Consists of leaflets, programme and photographs and an article by Lutz Wendler
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1 folder 1984
JEK A/8/5/6 Folder entitled Film Consists of press cuttings
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JEK A/8/5/7 Folder entitled Beckett Film series Consists of programmes and press cuttings
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JEK A/8/5/8 Folder entitled Gate Theatre, Dublin Consists of programmes and press cuttings
1 folder 1996
JEK A/8/5/9 Folder entitled Lincoln Centre Beckett Festival Consists of press cuttings
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JEK A/8/5/11 Folder entitled Readings/one man shows Consists of press cuttings
1 folder 1964-1984
JEK A/8/5/12 Folder entitled Washington Beckett Festival Consists of press cuttings
1 folder 1999
JEK A/8/5/13 Folder entitled Samuel Beckett events Consists of press cuttings of miscellaneous events
1 folder 1965-1992
JEK A/8/6 Folder entitled Overviews of Beckett's Drama Consists of press cuttings
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JEK A/8/7 Folder of obituaries Consists of press cuttings of obituaries for Jean Martin and Richard Seaver Page 282 of 562
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JEK A/8/8 Folder of press cuttings about the Samuel Beckett collection at the University of Reading
1987-2006
JEK A/8/9 Folder entitled miscellaneous Consists of press cuttings relating to Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/9 Theatre Programmes
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JEK A/9/1/1 Theatre programme for Oh! Calcutta! Featuring Breath, by Samuel Beckett Eden Theatre, New York Page 283 of 562
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JEK A/9/1/2 Theatre programme for Eh Joe, by Samuel Beckett A Gate Theatre Dublin Production at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, starring Michael Gambon, directed by Atom Egoyan
1 doc 2006
JEK A/9/1/3 Theatre programme for Endgame, by Samuel Beckett Donmar Warehouse, London, starring Alun Armstrong, Stephen Dillane, Harry Jones and Eileen Nicholas, directed by Katie Mitchell
1 doc Apr 2006
JEK A/9/1/4 Theatre programme for Endgame, by Samuel Beckett Albery Theatre, London, starring Michael Gambon, Lee Evans, Liz Smith, Geoffrey Hutchings, directed by Mathew Warchus
2 docs Feb 2004
JEK A/9/1/5 Theatre programme for Endgame, by Samuel Beckett Duchess Theatre, London starring Mark Rylance, Simon McBurney, Miriam Margoyles and Tom Hickey, directed by Simon McBurney
1 doc 2009
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JEK A/9/1/6 Theatre programme for Gluckliche Tage (Happy Days), by Samuel Beckett Buhnen der Stadt Koln, starring Gret Mosheim and Hubert Mann, directed by Hanskarl Zeiser
1 doc 5 Nov 1961
JEK A/9/1/7 Theatre playbill for Oh! Les Beaux Jours (Happy Days) by Samuel Beckett Royal Court Theatre, Compagnie Renaud-Barrault, starring Madeleine Renaud
1 doc 25 Sep 1969
JEK A/9/1/8 Theatre leaflet including a production of Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett Salisbury Playhouse
1 doc Jul-Dec 1992
JEK A/9/1/9 Theatre programme for Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett Produced by the French Institute, starring Angela Pleasence and Peter Bayliss, directed by Simone Benmussa
2 docs 1994
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Progress Theatre, Reading
1 doc Oct 2004
JEK A/9/1/11 Theatre programme for Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett Arts Theatre, London, starring Felicity Kendal and Col Farrell, directed by Peter Hall
1 doc 2003
JEK A/9/1/12 Theatre leaflet for Krapp's Last Tape, by Samuel Beckett Bloomsbury Festival, starring Norman Beaton, directed by Keith Warner
1 doc 1988
JEK A/9/1/13 Theatre programme for Krapp's Last Tape, by Samuel Beckett Gate Theatre Dublin production, New Ambassadors Theatre, London, starring John Hurt, directed by Robin Lefevre
1 doc 2000
JEK A/9/1/14 Theatre programme for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett The John Golden Theatre, New York, starring Bert Lahr, E.G. Marshall, Alvin Epstein, Kurt Kasnar and Luchino de Solis
1 doc 19 Apr 1956
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JEK A/9/1/15 Theatre programme for En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot), by Samuel Beckett Le Theatre Nouveau, Paris, Firenze
1 doc 1961
JEK A/9/1/16 Theatre programme for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett Royal Court Theatre, London, starring Alfred Lynch, Niucol Williamson, Jack MacGowran, Paul Curran, Kirk Martin, directed by Anthony Page
1 doc 30 Dec 1964
JEK A/9/1/17 Theatre programme for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett Royal Court Theatre, London, production in German from the Schiller Theater, Berlin, starring Horst Bollmann, Stefan wigger, Klaus Herm, Carl Raddatz and Torsten Sense, directed by Samuel Beckett
1 doc 1976
JEK A/9/1/18 Theatre programme for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett Lyttleton Theatre of the National Theatre, London, starring John Alderton, Alec McCowen, Colin Welland, Peter Wight and Simon Privett or Simon Doe, directed by Michael Rudman With study notes, a letter from the National Theatre to James Knowlson and a typescript of the director Michael Rudman's notes on a meeting with Samuel Beckett to discuss the production
4 docs 25 Nov 1987
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JEK A/9/1/19 Theatre programme for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett Gate Theatre, Dublin starring Barry McGovern, Tom Hickey, Stephen Brennan, Alan Stanford and Eamon Young or Tom Lawlor, directed by Walter D. Asmus
1 doc 1988
JEK A/9/1/20 Theatre programme for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett Queen's Theatre, London, starring Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Philip Jackson, Christopher Ryan and Dean Gaffney or Duncan Thornley, directed by Les Blair
1 doc 1991
JEK A/9/1/21 Theatre programme for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett The Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic, London, starring Alan Howard, Ben Kingsley, Denis Quilley, Greg Hicks and Alex Russell, directed by Peter Hall
1 doc 1997
JEK A/9/1/22 Theatre programme for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett The Peter Hall Company at the Theatre Royal, Bath starring James Laurenson, Alan Dobie, Richard Dormer, Terence Rigby and Brixton Hamilton or Jack Lawrence , directed by Peter Hall
2 docs 2005
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Library Theatre Company, Manchester starring George Costigan, David Fielder, David Neilson, Russell Dixon and Lewis Potts and Daniel Shaw
1 folder 2008
JEK A/9/1/24 Theatre leaflet for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett Stables Theatre and Arts Centre, Hastings, directed by Bunmi Popoola
1 doc 2008
JEK A/9/1/25 Theatre leaflet for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett Theatre Royal, Brighton, starring Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan, directed by Sean Mathias
1 doc 2009
JEK A/9/1/26 Theatre programme for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett Studio 54, New York, starring Nathan Lane, Bill Irwin, John Goodman, John Glover and Cameron Clifford or Matthew Schechter, directed by Anthony Page
1 doc 2009
JEK A/9/1/27 Theatre programme for Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, starring Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan, directed by Sean Mathias
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JEK A/9/1/28 Theatre poster for Worstword Ho, by Samuel Beckett Inge Theatre of the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Kansas
1 doc 1993
JEK A/9/2 Theatre programmes for productions of more than one play by Samuel Beckett
JEK A/9/2/1 Theatre programme for Krapp's Last Tape and Not I, by Samuel Beckett Royal Court Theatre, London, starring Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw and Brian Miller
1 doc c.1973
JEK A/9/2/2 Theatre programme for Krapp's Last Tape and Endgame, by Samuel Beckett Goodman Theatre, Chicago presents the San Quentin Drama Workshop, Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, starring Rick Cluchey, Bud Thorpe, Alan Mandell and Teresita Garcia Suro, directed by Samuel Beckett
1 doc 1980
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JEK A/9/2/3 Theatre programme for Krapp's Last Tape and Endgame, by Samuel Beckett Oxford Playhouse
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JEK A/9/2/4 Theatre programme for Krapp's Last Tape and Endgame, by Samuel Beckett Gala Theatre, Washington, presented by the Paradise Island Express Theatre Company, starring Christopher Hurt, Dianne Couves, Leonor Chaves and Deirdre Lavrakas, directed by Kim Peter Kovac
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JEK A/9/2/6 Theatre leaflet for Beckett Novant' anni Incontri internazionali sull'opera di Samuel Beckett Theatro Studio di Scandicci/Compagnia Krypton
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JEK A/9/2/9 Theatre programme for The Beckett Festival Gate Theatre, Dublin
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JEK A/9/2/10 Theatre programme for Journey through the landscape of six plays Includes Come & Go, Footfalls and Embers, Bas-Bleu Theatre Company, Fort Collins, Colorado
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JEK A/9/2/13 Theatre programme for Reading Room Jonathan Lunn Dance Company, includes Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett
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JEK A/9/2/14 Theatre programme for Fragments, five pieces by Samuel Beckett Includes Rough for Theatre I, Rockaby, Act Without Words II, Neither and Come and go, Young Vic, London, starring Jos Houben, Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni, directed by Peter Brook
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JEK A/9/2/15 Theatre programme for Krapp's Last Tap, Not I and Rough for Theatre I Dear Conjunction Theatre Company
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JEK A/9/2/17 Booklet entitled Beckett at Eighty a celebration, compiled and edited by James Knowlson
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JEK A/9/2/18 Booklet entitled A Celebration of the life and work of Samuel Beckett Royal National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, London
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JEK A/9/2/19 Booklet entitled Samuel Beckett performed by Julian Schoenaerts
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JEK A/9/2/20 Booklet entitled Beckett in Short, compiled by Anna Cutler
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JEK A/9/3/1 Theatre programme for Richard II by William Shakespeare Queen’s Theatre, London, Peggy Ashcroft played the Queen to King Richard
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JEK A/9/3/2 Theatre programme for the Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Queen’s Theatre, London, Peggy Ashcroft played Portia
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JEK A/9/3/3 Theatre programme for the Duchess of Malfi by John Webster Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, Directed by George Rylands, Peggy Ashcroft played The Duchess
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JEK A/9/3/4 Theatre programme for Edward my Son by Robert Morley and Noel Langley Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, Peggy Ashcroft played Evelyn Holt
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JEK A/9/3/6 Theatre programme for The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan Duchess Theatre, London, Peggy Ashcroft played Hester Collyer
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JEK A/9/3/7 Theatre programme for Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Peggy Ashcroft played Cleopatra to Michael Redgrave’s Anthony
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JEK A/9/3/8 Theatre programme for Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, Peggy Ashcroft played Hedda, with three press-cuttings of reviews
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JEK A/9/3/10 Theatre Programme for Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen Royal Court Theatre, London, Peggy Ashcroft played Rebecca West, Patrick Magee played Ulric Brendel, with press cutting
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JEK A/9/3/11 Theatre Programme for the Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov Royal Shakespeare Company, Sandwich Theatre, London, Peggy Ashcroft played Madame Ravens
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JEK A/9/3/12 Theatre programme for The Wars of the Roses by William Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Peggy Ashcroft played Margaret
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JEK A/9/3/14 Theatre Programme for Ghosts by Henry Ibsen Royal Shakespeare Company at the Sandwich Theatre, London, Dame Peggy Ashcroft played Mrs Laving
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JEK A/9/3/15 Theatre programme for Henry VIII by William Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Peggy Ashcroft played Queen Katharine of Aragon
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JEK A/9/3/16 Theatre Programme for John Gabriel Bork man by Henry Ibsen The National Theatre, Old Vic, London, Dame Peggy Ashcroft played Ella Rentheim, with press cuttings
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JEK A/10/3 Auction sale catalogue, Sotheby's, London Includes sale of Samuel Beckett items, lot 244-246, with press cutting and notes
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JEK A/10/4 Letter and extract from an auction sale catalogue, Sotheby's, London Includes sale of Samuel Beckett item, lot 369
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JEK A/10/7 Auction sale catalogue, Christies, London Includes sale of Samuel Beckett item, lot 310-312
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JEK B/1 Letters from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson James Knowlson note: Personal correspondence of holograph letters from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson 1970-1989. A collection of 180 letters and cards from Beckett, mostly with their envelopes. With these are copies of a few letters from James Knowlson to Samuel Beckett, 1970-75. (This is a major collection of letters, not only because it charts the development and progress of a friendship but also because, in his letters to Knowlson, Beckett so often writes about his work and about his various writing, directing and translating activities. So far it has been consulted by no-one other than the Knowlsons.)
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JEK B/1/176 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson with envelope
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JEK B/1/177 Bank slip for cheque sent by Samuel Beckett to be paid to Beckett Foundation with envelope
2 docs 22 Feb 1988
JEK B/1/178 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson with envelope
2 docs 7 Apr 1988
JEK B/1/179 Envelope Had contained signed L'Image
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1 doc 11 Apr 1988
JEK B/1/180 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson with envelope
2 docs 25 Apr 1988
JEK B/1/181 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson with envelope
2 docs 4 May 1988
JEK B/1/182 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson with envelope
2 docs 27 May 1988
JEK B/1/183 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson
1 doc 26 Sept 1988
JEK B/1/184 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson with envelope
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JEK B/1/185 Letter forwarded from another correspondent to Samuel Beckett and forwarded to James Knowlson with envelope
2 docs 7 Mar 1989
JEK B/1/186 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson with envelope
2 docs 21 Mar 1989
JEK B/1/187 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson with envelope
2 docs 1 May 1989
JEK B/1/188 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson with envelope
2 docs 17 May 1989
JEK B/1/189 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson with envelope
2 docs 15 Jun 1989
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JEK B/1/190 Letter from Samuel Beckett to James Knowlson with envelope
2 docs 22 Jun 1989
JEK B/1/191 Envelopes in Samuel Beckett's handwriting empty
1 folder Undated
JEK B/2 Letters from James Knowlson to Samuel Beckett
JEK B/2/1 Letter from James Knowlson to Samuel Beckett
2 docs 8 Aug 1970
JEK B/2/2 Letter from James Knowlson to Samuel Beckett
2 docs 14 Jul 1971
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JEK B/2/3 Letter from James Knowlson to Samuel Beckett
2 docs 21 Dec 1971
JEK B/2/4 Letter from James Knowlson to Samuel Beckett
2 docs Undated [probably 8 Jan 1972]
JEK B/2/5 Letter from James Knowlson to Samuel Beckett
2 docs 12 Jun 1975
JEK B/2/6 Letter from James Knowlson to Samuel Beckett
1 doc 14 Apr 1975
JEK B/3 Correspondence between James Knowlson and Beckett Scholars
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JEK B/3/1 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'A' Includes H. Porter Abbott, Ben Halima Abdellatif, Taisha Abraham, Natalie Abraham, Jim Acheson, Chris Ackerley, Jake Adams, Rebecca Adams, Richard Admussen, Sedik Aghwan, Chaman Ahuja, John Aland, Sara Alexander, Allison Allend, David J. Alpaugh, Eyal Amiran, Cathleen Culotta-Andonian, Kelly Anspaugh, Claire Armitstead, Gordon S. Armstrong, Jean- Jacques Arnault, Bruce Arnold, Kateryna Arthur, Arts Council, John H. Astington, John B. Atteberry and M.R. Axelrod
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JEK B/3/2 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'B' includes Baal Films, Sara-Jane Bailes, Geoffrey Baines, Deirdre Bair, Paul B. Banham, Phil Baker, Nicolas Barachin, Steven Barfield, Laura Barge, Clive Barker, Rosalind Barker, John Barnes, Anthony Barnett, Leon Baroukh, Elizabeth Barry, Klaus Baum, Christian de Bartillat, Mark Batty, John Bayley, BBC, Carolyn Beckett, Maurice Beebe, Susan Behar, Raymond Bell, Linda Ben-Zvi, Normand Berlin, Olga Bernal, Mary Benson, Bernard Benstock, Jacques Berchtold, Robert Bernasconi, Michel Bernard, Christian Berndt, Jennifer Birkett, Maurice Blackman, David Blagborough, Stephen Boa, Gregory Bossier, Pieter Bots, Walter Bottnacker, Lauren Ariel Bon, Antonio Borriello, Robin Bowerman, Peter Boxall, Cathie Boyd, Bernard Brackett, David Bradby, Bob Braddy, Dorota Brak, Anneke Brassinga, Enoch Brater, Anthony S. Brennan, Rolf Breuer, Harvey Breverman, Susan Brienza, A.M.E. Brink, British Council, Mary Lynn Broe, Peter Broome, Terence Brown, Verna Brown, Joseph Browne, Brulin, Irene Brunel, Francois Bruzzo, Mary Bryden, Marius Buning and Katharine Burkman
19 folders 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/3 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'C' Kelly-Ann Cairns, Tony Callen, Julie Campbell, Canada Council, Page 341 of 562
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Rafael A. Cancel, Margaret Cannon, Graham Carey, Elena Capecchi, Charles A. Carpenter, Sharon Carter, Roo Carton, Conor Carville, Pascale Casanova, Annamaria Cascetta, Daniela Caselli, Pierre Celice, Laura Cerrato, Clair Chamberlain, Helen Chambers, Colin Chambers, Isabelle Chantemerle, R. Chapman, Donald Charlton, Clotilde Chauvin, Tatiana Chemi, Choice, Albert C. Chesneau, David Clark, Bruno Clement, Roy Clements, Alan Clodd, Rick Cluchey, Richard N. Coe, Professor Cohen, Rosica Colin, Christine Collins, Ray Collins, Thomas J. Cousineau, Steven Collins, Steve Connor, Roger Cook, Greg Coombes, S. Lee Coonin, Richard Cope, Gheorghita Corneliu, S. Cornford, Neil Cornwell, Olivier Corpet, Betty L. Corwin, Sean Costello, Tom Cousineau, Deborah Cottereau, Marie Noelle Craissati, John Crombie, Philip N. Cronenwett, Robert Cross, Mark Crossan, Ian Crowe, Adrienne Crowe, Hugh Culik, Valentine Cunningham, Steven Curran, Paul Curran, Julian Curry, Curtis Brown and Compass Theatre
4 folders 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/4 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'D' Alex Danchev, David Davison, Ian Donaldson, R.J. Davies, J. Dean, Basil Deane, Judith E. Dearlove, Nicholas Dennys, Gerry Dukes, Margaret Davey, Judy Dearlove, Vincent Deane, Dario Del Degan, Audre Derval, Marion Dieckman, Deutsche Gramophon Gesellschaft, Horst Dickel, Julian Doepp, Andrew Dionne, Frank Doherty, Dialog, Zoe Dominic, Maurice Domino, Amelie Dor, Toni Dorfman, Stan Douglas, Gerard Doyle, Karen G. Druliner, Dufresne, Bill Duncan, Bernard F. Dukore, Jonathan Dunsby, Richard Dutton,
2 folders 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/5 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'E' Marc Eberhardt, J.A. Edwards, Desmond Egan, Keir Elam, Marion Elliott, Charlotte Elston, Emily Emerson, Richard Ellmann, David Edney, Jean Emelina, Jack Emery, William Page 342 of 562
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English, Martina von Essen, John Elsom, Susan M. Elliott, Martin Esslin, Patrick M. Th. Everard, Francis Evers and Richard Eyre
1 folder 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/6 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'F' Faber and Faber, Graham Falconer, A. Farrell, Ronan Farren, Margaret Farrington, Martha Fehsenfeld, Richard J. Finneran, Brian Fitch, Justin Fleming, J.W.J. Fletcher, Roxanne M. Fletcher, J.W. Fletcher, J.E. Flower, Sabine Folie, Claudio Forti, Paul Foster, Jacqueline Fox, Pual Foxall, G. Forbes-Robertson, Mike Franklin, Gabriele Frasca, Simon Fraser University, Julie Frazier, Ted Freeman, Lois Friedberg-Dobry, Alan W. Friedman, Melvin J. Friedman, Brian Friel, Jack Frisch, Bernard Frouin, Dirk H. Frose, Everett Frost, Martin Froy, Bernard Frouin, John Fuller, Foxrock Foundation and Patrizia Fusella
4 folders 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/7 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'G' Romhanyi Torok Gabor, Steven H. Gale, Gennaro Galizia, Melania Terrazas Gallego, Judith Anne Gantley, Manuel Garcia Gomez, Martin Gaughan, Myrna Gatty, Philip Gaunt, G. Gehman, Stefan Germer, Robin Gibson, Daniel Gillan, Charles I. Glicksberg, Stuart Gillespie, Julei Godwin, Antonio Ballesteros Gonzales, Keith Gore, A.K. Giles, Will Gouldman, Grey Gowrie, Diana Gordon, Stephane Granado, Lawrence Graver, A.A. Gray, David Green, Trevor R. Griffiths, Jens Gross, Michael Guest, Daniel Gunn and Ignacio Rodriguez de Guzman
2 folders 1970s-2000s
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JEK B/3/8 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'H' John Hopkins, Bruce Habegger, Keith Haines, Stephanie Hale, Jane A. Hale, Ann Hall, G.K. Hall, Holly Hall, Tom Hall, Israel Halperin, M. Hanaguchi, Majeed Hameed, David Hanley, James Hansford, Maurice Harmon, Gaby Hartel, Terence Hartnett, Anthony Harwood, Carroll Hauptle, Bryn Haworth, Annette Haworth, Anna R. Hayes, David Hayman, Ronald Hayman, John Haynes, Magnus Hedlung, Wolfgang Helm, Siegfried Helm, Robert Henkels, Sylvie Henning, Kay Hepple, Christopher J. Herbert, Georgia Herlt, Graley V. Herren, Joe Herro, Rory Herron, Annelise Heuer, Mark Hewitt, Chester Higgins, Hans H. Hiebel, David Himes, Arnold P. Hinchliffe, Nicolas Hodges, Alannah Hopkin, Alfred Hornung, Ard van der Horst, Peter Hoy, Werner Huber, Marie Claude Herbert, Colin Huggett, Dirk Van Hulle, Thomas Hunkeler, Robert Hunter, Mark Hyland and John Heuston
20 folders 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/9 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'I' Rudiger Imhof, Yoshiyuki Inoe, Institute de France, Institut Francophone de Paris, Interchange Films, Corina Iordache, Goichiro Ishihara, Nico Israel and Calvin Israel
1 folder 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/10 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'K' Charles Krance, Ekkehard Kaemerling, Jonathan Kalb, David Kahn, Leslie Kane, Alice Kaplan, Paula Karelic, Ray Kass, Wojneck Kawecki, Liam Keaveney, Marek Kedzierski, Katherine Kelly, Michael Kelly, Macolm Kelsall, Tom Kempinski, Bernard Kempker, Andrew Kennedy, Angus J. Kennedy, Sighle Kennedy, Frank Kermode, Imre Kertesz, Norbert Kiefer, Jutta Kiencke- Wagner, John Kingman, Glenys Kinnock, Andrew S. King, Bruce King, Judith D. King, Kimball King, Linda Karshan, Douglas Kirsner, Tetsuo Kishi, Richard M. Klein, Martine Knol-de Clercq, Page 344 of 562
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Dorothy Knowles, E.F.K. Koerner, Martin Kopf, Masaki Kondo, Onno Kosters, W. Kowechi, Sabine Kozdon, Jeri Kroll, Elliot Krieger, Bibiana Zimmer Krug, Rolf Kruger Management Ltd, Albert Kummel, Jean-Claude Kuner, Masako Kurumisawa, Michael Kustow and Narayan Kutty
29 folders 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/11 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'L' Daniel Labeille, Dominique Labbe, Ron Laborde, Andre Lacaux, Carlton Lake, Matthew Lamb, Rosette Lamont, J.Y. Lartichaux, Philip Laubacj, Kevin Laughton, Paul Lawley, Phillip Lawrence, Sean Lawlor, Annette Lavers, Francois Lazaro, Felix Leavey, L. Lecocq, Jean Yves le Disez, F.N. Lees, Hermione Lee, P. Lefebvre, Nathalie Leger, A.G. Lehmann, Marion Leigh, L.J. Leith, Leppien, Helmut, Geert Lernout, Jill Levenson, Shimon Levy, Bill and Jean Leuchtenburg, Rob Leyshon, Nick Lezard, Mitchell Lifton, Elisabeth M. Lillie, Lidan Lin, Judith Lit, Graca Lobo, Carla Locatelli, Lombard Press, Joseph Long, A.A. Luce, Claire Luckham, Valerie Lumbrosco, Joachim Lux and Bill Lyons
25 folders 1950s-2000s
JEK B/3/12 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'M' M.H. MacAlpine, G. McCarthy, Patrick McCarthy, Jane McClellan, Craig McConnell, Bill McCormach, John McCormick, Jim McCue, Monica McCutcheon, Micahel McDonald, Margaret M. McGowan, Mair McKay, I.M. MacLeod, Gill Mackenzie, Sebastian MacKenzie-Wilson, Dougald McMillan, Joseph Mcinn, Anna McMullan, Robert McNamara, Bengt Magnusson, Michael Maier, Debbie Malina, Sue Malvern, Manchester University Press, Thomas Mansell, Olga A. Marcinkiewicz, Ileana E. Marcoulesco, Lucilla Mariani, Frederick J. Marker, Susan Marrone, Paddy Marsh, Roy Martin, George Martin, Tom Matheson, Peter Mayer, Paul Mbabgwana, Yves Mbama-Ngankoua, Mari McKay, Junko Matoba, Xeres Mehta, Bernard Meehan, Ezio Melgazzi, Stephanie Menard, J. Melina, Page 345 of 562
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Yann Meval, Jurgen Meyer, Sandrine Michoud, Drew Milne, Andrew Milne, Toby Mills, Manfred Mills, Valerie Minogue, Breon Mitchell, Naoya Mori, Angela Montgomery, Michael Mooney, David Moore, Patrick J. Moore, John Rees Moore, Brenda Moore-McCann, Sean Morgan, Angela Moorjani, E.G. Morgan, P. Morley, Edouard Morot-Sir, K. Morrison, Donald Morse, M. Mortino, Michael Moses, Andrew Motion, Lorenzo Mucci, Hans-Ulriche Mueller-Schwefe, Marie-Louise Muir- Pharaony, A.C. Mursch, Anne Marie Majtenyi, Aidan Murphy, Caitlin Murphy, Peter Murphy, Timothy D. Murray, Anna Myatt and Paul Myers
19 folders 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/13 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'N' H. Nashef, Jacques Neefs, L.P. Nasskau, National Theatre, Christopher Nicholas, Barbara Nelson, Shaun Nethercott, R. Niklaus, Maria G. Nicolosi, Chris Nixon, Peter Noble, Linda Norrie and Peter Nurse
1 folder 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/14 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'O' Eoin O'Brien, Ulick O'Connor, Robert O' Driscoll, Cristoir O'Duinn, David O'Flynn, Eileen O'Halloran, Minako Okamuro, Bernard Oldsey, Kevin O'Malley, Sean O'Mordha, Lois Oppenheim, Sarah Oram, Magessa O'Reilly, Lois Overbeck, Lutfi Ozkok, Kathleen O'Gorman and Oxfam
10 folders 1970s-2000s
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Ewan Page, Malcolm Page, Patrick Parriner, Brian and Joyce Palmer, Rose Parkinson, Ian Paterson, Suzanne Pegly, Robert Pennant-Jones, Albert Penthalion, Jean Piel, Ronald Pickup, Nigel Pigott, Adam Christopher Piette, A. Piguet, Ryan Pilling, Oudrej Pilny, Paul Pitt, P. Plamen, Michael Pointon, Bryan Podmore, Rosalie Ponter, H. Popper, Ross Posnock, Rosemary Poutney, Eric Prieto, Eric Prince, Bill Prosser, Josephine Pullein- Thompson, John Purser and Doug Pye
15 folders 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/16 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'Q' Noiren Quinn and J. Quinn
1 folder 1990s
JEK B/3/17 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'R' Rubin Rabinovitz, Colin Radford, Ewa Radomska-Kukinska, Jeffrey Ranbom, Friedhelm Rathjen, Kevin Ray, David Reason, Thomas Dillon Redshaw, Bill Rees, Jan Relf, John Renwick, Andrew Renton, John Richmond, Brigitte Riera, Jean-Christian Riff, Richard Rijnvos, P.R. Robins, Phil Robins, Adam Robinson, M.S. Robinson, Michael Robinson, Fred Miller Robinson, B. Rochot, Christine Rochet, Ian Rodger, Antonia Rodriguez - Gago, Richard Rogan, Gert Rohmann, Betty Rojtman, D. Ronco, Nigel Roper, Hugh Rorrison, Maggie Rose, Charles Rossman, Philippe Rouyer, Paul Rosenbloom, Michael Ross, Barney Rosset, Nathalie Rozot, Royal Society, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd and Daniele de Ruyter-Tognotti
12 folders 1970s-2000s
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surnames beginning with 'S' Paul St-Pierre, David Salomon, Sam Sandiford, Pascale Sardin, Will Scally, Robert Scanlan, Schiller-Theater, Leah Schmidt, Claude Schmitt, Konrad Schoell, G.R. Schor-Mencar, Claude Schumacher, Carol Schloss, Bonnie K. Scott, Desmont Scott, J.A. Scott, Rupert Scott, W.G. Sebald, Vittoria Sebastio, Therese Seidel, Fritz Senn, Genevieve Serreau, David Sexton, Rodney Sharkey, Fiona Shaw, Marjorie Shaw, Andrew Shelley, Dina Sherzer, Wilma Siccama, Jeremy Silver, S. Silverman, Michael Simpson, Brian Singleton, SLAA, Erik Slagter, Gerry Slamon, Robin Slaughter, Christopher Smith, Kathy Smith, Fred Smith, John Smith, S.D. Smith, Colin Smythe, Edmund Smyth, Stanislaw Sobolewski, Susan Sontag, Marco Sonzogni, Martin Sorrell, Sothebys, Southern Arts, Ana Helena Souza, Tom Staley, J. Stansford, A.J. Steele, Colin Stevens, Elaine Stewart, Mary Stinson, John Stokes, Bernard Stone, P.J. Stone, A. Stones, Karlijn Stoffels, Bart Stouten, Peter Straus, Ian Stuart, Stephen Stuart-Smith, Oliver Sturm, Suhrkamp Verlag, Bill Swainson, J.W. Swanson, Patrick Sulaiman (Cole) and Marie Luise Syring
22 folders 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/19 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'T' Aaron Taber, Yasunari Takada, Yasunari Takahashi, Graeme K. Talboys, Philippe Tallis, Mariko Hori Tanaka, Mary Tanguay, S. Tawfeek, Anne Taylor, Mark Taylor, Paul Taylor, Tom Taylor, George Taylor, Nivaria Tejara, C. Thacker, Yves Thomas, Peter Thomson, Mary Thompson, Kelsey Thornton, Bud Thorpe, Times Literary Supplement, Lynn Todd Crawford, Dmitri Tokarev, C. Tomlinson, David Thompson, Margaret Toarchio, Gabor Torok, Michele Touret, Jean Toyama, Trinity University Philosphical Society, Simon Trussler, Toronto University Press, James Tolson, Michael Twyman, Turret Book and Dorothy Tutin
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surnames beginning with 'U' Jane Walling Wefelmeyer, David Williams, Marshall Walker, Ian Walker, John Walsh, Geoffrey Wansell, Frederike Wappler, Caroline and Ben Walker, Francis Warner, Frank Watkins, Donald Watson, Iain Watson, Cedric Watts, D.A.Watts, Eugene Webb, J.G, Weightman, Shelly M. Weiss, Peter Weltz, Dolly West, Yvonne Whelan, Eric White, Fiona White, Anne Whiteman, Marie-Doninique Wiche, Bob Wilcher, Tom Wild, Robin Wilkinson, Helen Wilk, Roger Williams, David Williams, Steve Wilmer, Andrew Wilson, P. Winnett, Justin Wintle, Mike Winter, Katharine Worth and Barbara Wright
8 folders 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/21 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'U' Janine Ulfane, Anthony Uhlmann, Siegfried Unseld and Arthur Uphill
1 folder 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/22 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'V' Anna Vallois, Mike Vanden Heuvel, P. Varma, Carola Veit, Dawn Vander Vloed, Eckart Voigts-Virchow and Stephen Volk
1 folder 1970s-2000s
JEK B/3/23 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'Y' Tsutomu Yamazaki and Sophie Yendole
1 folder 1970s-2000s
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JEK B/3/24 Folder of James Knowlson's correspondence with scholars surnames beginning with 'X' Wolfgang Zuckermann, Clas Zilliacus, Hersh Zeifman and Nicholas Zurbrugg
4 folders 1970s-2000s
JEK B/4 Correspondence between James Knowlson and Actors and Directors
JEK B/4/1 Folder entitled Beatrice Manley Blau Consists of a transcript of letter from Beatrice Manley Blau to James Knowlson
1 folder 1970
JEK B/4/2 Folder entitled Peter Brook and Natasha Parry Consists of photographs and biographical information
1 folder 1997-1998
JEK B/4/3 Folder entitled Brenda Bruce Consists of photocopies of two letters from Brenda Bruce to James Knowlson, 18 Sept and 17 Oct 1970
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James Knowlson note: Brenda Bruce, British actress who played Winnie in Happy Days.
1 folder 1970
JEK B/4/4 Folder entitled Pierre Chabert Consists of letters and cards from Pierre Chabert to James Knowlson and a photograph
James Knowlson note: French actor who was directed by Samuel Beckett in La dernière bande and who was assisted by Beckett to direct Robert Pinget’s L’Hypothèse and advised by the author on the adaptation of the prose text Compagnie.
1 folder 1978 - 2003
JEK B/4/5 Folder entitled Rick Cluchey Consists of correspondence between Rick Cluchey and James Knowlson 1992 and 2002
James Knowlson note: Former San Quentin prisoner and a friend of Beckett, who was directed by him in Krapp’s Last Tape, Endgame and Waiting for Godot. [See Damned to Fame, pp. 611-614, Bloomsbury edition, for an account of his relationship with Beckett.]
1 folder 1992-2002
JEK B/4/6 Folder entitled Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy Consists of letter from James Knowlson to Jessica Tandy, 6 Nov 1993, letter of sympathy from James Knowlson on Jessica’s death and a card from Hume Cronyn and photographs
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this as well as Happy Days. Cronyn was born in Canada acted mostly in the USA often with his wife, Jessica Tandy. He played in Krapp’s Last Tape, Act without Words I and Happy Days. He had some critical remarks to make about Beckett and these were included in Beckett Remembering – Remembering Beckett.
1 folder 1994
JEK B/4/7 Folder entitled Alan Dobie Consists of letter from James Knowlson to Alan Dobie and reply
1 folder 1998
JEK B/4/8 Folder entitled Albert Finney Consists of a letter from Albert Finney to James Knowlson and a photograph
James Knowlson note: British stage and film actor who played in Krapp’s Last Tape directed by Anthony Page in 1973.
1 folder 1978
JEK B/4/9 Folder entitled Bill Gaskill Consists of a letter from Bill Gaskill to James Knowlson
1 folder 1998
JEK B/4/10 Folder entitled Sir Peter Hall Consists of correspondence between Sir Peter Hall and James Page 352 of 562
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Knowlson 1994, 2005-2006 and photograph
James Knowlson note: British director who directed the British première of Waiting for Godot in August 1955 and several later productions of the same play. He also directed Felicity Kendal in Happy Days at the same Arts Theatre in London.
1 folder 1994-2006
JEK B/4/11 Folder entitled Klaus Herm Consists of a letter from Klaus Herm to James Knowlson 29 Nov 1994, with copies of Herm’s letters from Samuel Beckett, 1978-1987
James Knowlson note: A German actor who was directed several times by Samuel Beckett in Warten auf Godot, Damals and the TV plays at SDR, Stuttgart.
1 folder 1978-1994
JEK B/4/12 Folder entitled Eléonore Hirt Consists of letter from Eléonore Hirt to James Knowlson
James Knowlson note: A French actress, who knew Beckett from En attendant Godot days onwards and who acted in Comédie in 1964.
1 folder undated [30 Jul 1990]
JEK B/4/13 Folder entitled Wendy Ishii Consists of material relating to productions of Samuel Beckett’s plays with which the American actress Wendy Ishii has been involved, including material relating to the two productions of Happy Days (1996 and 2008) at Bas Bleu Thetare Fort Collins Page 353 of 562
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1996-2008
JEK B/4/14 Folder entitled Jude Kelly Consists of letter from James Knowlson to Jude Kelly and reply, with photograph of Prunella Scales
James Knowlson note: Director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, directed Happy Days with Prunella Scales
1 folder 1993
JEK B/4/15 Folder entitled James Laurenson Consists of a letter from James Laurenson to James Knowlson, with a photograph
James Knowlson note: Actor who played Vladimir in Sir Peter Hall’s production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre Royal in Bath, in August 2005
1 folder 29 Aug 2005
JEK B/4/16 Folder entitled Jim Lewis Consists of a letter
James Knowlson note: Friend of Beckett and cameraman on SDR productions
1 folder 1984
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Consists of a letter from Patrick Magee to James Knowlson, 29 Mar [1972], regarding Knowlson’s visit to the BBC 2 recording of Krapp’s Last Tape, May 1972, with photograph
James Knowlson note: Actor and friend of Samuel Beckett born in Armagh, Northern Ireland, almost synonymous for some time with the work of Beckett.
1 folder 1972
JEK B/4/18 Folder entitled Jean Martin Consists of letter from Jean Martin to James Knowlson and a photograph
1 folder 1979
JEK B/4/19 Folder entitled David Leveaux Consists of a letter from David Leveaux to James Knowlson
James Knowlson note: Director of David Storey's Home and Krapp's Last Tape
1 doc 1994
JEK B/4/20 Folder entitled Barry McGovern Consists of letter from Barry McGovern to James Knowlson, with photograph
James Knowlson note: McGovern acted in many of Beckett’s plays, playing Estragon in the Gate Theatre Dublin’s Waiting for Godot, Clov in their Endgame, Willie in Happy Days, Krapp in Krapp’s Last Tape, and acting in his own one-man show, I’ll Go On.
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1 Sept 1992
JEK B/4/21 Folder entitled Donald McWhinnie Consists of letters from Donald McWhinnie to James Knowlson
1 folder 1972
JEK B/4/22 Folder entitled Katie Mitchell Consists of a letter from Katie Mitchell to James Knowlson, and copies of his letters to her
James Knowlson note: Director
1 folder 2000-2001
JEK B/4/23 Folder entitled Frederick Neumann Consists of text sent to James Knowlson on 19 Jul 2005 to be incorporated into an interview with James Knowlson, which was to appear in Beckett Remembering – Remembering Beckett in 2006 , with a photograph
James Knowlson note: American actor and director, who adapted some of the prose works of Samuel Beckett for the Mabou Mines company, and acted in stagings of the prose texts which were agreed with Beckett.
1 folder Jul 2005
JEK B/4/24 Folder entitled Siân Phillips Consists of a letter from Siân Phillips to Jim Knowlson, with photograph Page 356 of 562
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James Knowlson note: Stage and film actress, who was directed by Samuel Beckett in Eh Joe in which she played the woman’s voice with Jack MacGowran as Joe.
1 folder Undated
JEK B/4/25 Folder entitled Ronald Pickup Consists of a letter from Ronald Pickup to James Knowlson, with a photograph
1 folder 2009
JEK B/4/26 Folder entitled Rosamund Pike Consists of a card to James Knowlson from Rosamund Pike
James Knowlson note: Film and stage actress: played in the James Bond movie Die Another Day and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Read Not I and played Woman 2 in Play at Gala Evening.
1 folder Undated [2006]
JEK B/4/27 Folder entitled Anton Rodgers Consists of letters to James Knowlson from Anton Rodgers and obituaries
1 folder 1985, 2007
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James Knowlson note: American director who put on all of Beckett’s plays as USA premières.
1 folder Undated
JEK B/4/29 Folder entitled Eva-Katarina Schultz Consists of letter from Eva-Katarina Schultz to James Knowlson, transcription of an interview and photograph Schultz as Winnie in Happy Days
James Knowlson note: German actress directed by Samuel Beckett in Happy Days at the Schiller-Theater Berlin in 1971.
1 folder 1994-2005
JEK B/4/30 Folder entitled Jean-Marie Serreau Consists of copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to Jean- Marie Serreau, 6 Dec 1967 and 8 Dec 1967, copy of a signature of Beckett on title page of a text of Comédie et actes divers, Jan 1966, letters from Danielle van Bercheycke to James Knowlson, 1976 and 1993, letter from Sylvia Massias to James Knowlson and reply, 19 May 2003
James Knowlson note: French director who worked with Beckett on Comédie in 1964 but who had had links with him earlier on the occasion of the world première of En attendant Godot.
1 folder 1967-2003
JEK B/4/31 Folder entitled Andrei Serban Consists of photograph and a press cutting
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1 folder 1995
JEK B/4/32 Folder entitled Delphine Seyrig
Consists of letter to James Knowlson, 21 Jun 1984, newspaper cuttings, 1984 and 1990 and notes made by James Knowlson on an interview with Seyrig
James Knowlson note: French actress directed by Samuel Beckett in Pas (Footfalls) and by Beckett and Serreau in Comédie and involved with his work in other ways.
1 folder 1984-1990
JEK B/4/33 Folder entitled Fiona Shaw Consists of a letter from Fiona Shaw to James Knowlson
1 folder 1998
JEK B/4/34 Folder entitled Alan Simpson Consists of copies of letters from Alan Simpson to James Knowlson, 21 Jul 1970, 28 Jul 1970, 30 Aug 1970 and 7 Sept 1970, copy of letter from James Knowlson to Caroline Swift, Simpson’s wife, 30 Jul 1992
James Knowlson note: Irish director who directed the first Irish production of Waiting for Godot at the Pike Theatre, Dublin
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James Knowlson note: Hollywood film and stage actor; artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre London. Beckett admirer and Patron of the Beckett International Foundation in Reading.
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JEK B/4/36 Folder entitled Juliet Stevenson Consists of letter to James Knowlson from Juliet Stevenson
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JEK B/4/37 Folder entitled David Warrilow Consists of photographs
James Knowlson note: English actor for whom Beckett wrote A Piece of Monologue. James Knowlson and his wife Elizabeth knew David Warrilow when all three of them were students of French at the University of Reading in the 1950s.
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JEK B/4/38 Folder entitled Irene Worth Consists of letter from Irene Worth to James Knowlson, 29 Apr 1994 and two letters from James Knowlson to Ms Worth, 13 Apr and 9 May 1994
James Knowlson note: US born actress who worked extensively in Britain, the USA and Canada. She played in Andrei Serban’s production of Beckett’s Happy Days, New York, Oct 1979 and knew Samuel Beckett a little. She was also a good friend of Beckett’s lover, Barbara Bray.
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JEK B/4/39 Folder entitled Endgame, Albery Theatre, London Consists of letters from actors involved in the production, including Lee Evans, Sir Michael Gambon, Liz Smith and Geoffrey Hutchings to James Knowlson, with photographs
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JEK B/5 Copies of Samuel Beckett's Business Letters
JEK B/5/1 Folder entitled Correspondence 1946-1954 copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to various people, and some replies
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JEK B/5/2 Folder entitled Correspondence 1956-1959 copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to various people, and some replies
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JEK B/5/3 Folder entitled Correspondence 1960 copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to various people, and some replies
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JEK B/5/4 Folder entitled Correspondence 1961 copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to various people, and some replies
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JEK B/5/5 Folder entitled Correspondence 1962 copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to various people, and some replies
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JEK B/5/6 Folder entitled Correspondence 1963 copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to various people, and some replies
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JEK B/5/7 Folder entitled Correspondence 1964-1982 copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to various people, and some replies
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JEK B/5/8 Folder of miscellaneous correspondence copies of letters from Samuel Beckett to various people, and some replies and note by James Knowlson
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JEK C Audio Visual material
JEK C/1 Interviews conducted by James Knowlson about Samuel Beckett Interviews conducted mostly between 1989 and 1996 and a list of those which have been transcribed or partly transcribed (pt). Many of these interviewees are now deceased. The list also identifies who those interviewed are and what their connection with Beckett is. Extracts from a few interviews were published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett (Bloomsbury Publishing, London, Arcade Publishing, New York, 2006 and, in German, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 2006). Copyright for publication is divided between the interviewee and the interviewer.
JEK C/1/1 Interview with Georges Belmont James Knowlson note: Georges Belmont (Pelorson). Under his real, family name of Pelorson, Georges was a student of Samuel Beckett at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1928-29 and a friend of his at Trinity College where Pelorson was lecteur. He talks interestingly and at length about Beckett Page 363 of 562
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then and at later points in his life, since he remained a friend for the rest of Beckett’s life, in spite of Pelorson’s activities during the war with the Vichy regime, on account of which he changed his name. Because of the circumstances in which these recordings were made (in cafés etc) some are very difficult to hear. The transcriptions of large sections by JK and ESK are then of great importance. With the exception of a tiny extract published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett these numerous interviews are unpublished, although Pelorson has used his memories in his own memoirs entitled Sopuvenirs d’outremonde. In collection. Interviews in French.
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JEK C/1/2 Interview with Georges Belmont James Knowlson note: Georges Belmont (Pelorson). Under his real, family name of Pelorson, Georges was a student of Samuel Beckett at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1928-29 and a friend of his at Trinity College where Pelorson was lecteur. He talks interestingly and at length about Beckett then and at later points in his life, since he remained a friend for the rest of Beckett’s life, in spite of Pelorson’s activities during the war with the Vichy regime, on account of which he changed his name. Because of the circumstances in which these recordings were made (in cafés etc) some are very difficult to hear. The transcriptions of large sections by JK and ESK are then of great importance. With the exception of a tiny extract published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett these numerous interviews are unpublished, although Pelorson has used his memories in his own memoirs entitled Sopuvenirs d’outremonde. In collection. Interviews in French.
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JEK C/1/3 Interview with Georges Belmont James Knowlson note: Georges Belmont (Pelorson). Under his real, family name of Pelorson, Georges was a student of Samuel Beckett at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1928-29 and a friend of his at Trinity College where Pelorson was Page 364 of 562
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lecteur. He talks interestingly and at length about Beckett then and at later points in his life, since he remained a friend for the rest of Beckett’s life, in spite of Pelorson’s activities during the war with the Vichy regime, on account of which he changed his name. Because of the circumstances in which these recordings were made (in cafés etc) some are very difficult to hear. The transcriptions of large sections by JK and ESK are then of great importance. With the exception of a tiny extract published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett these numerous interviews are unpublished, although Pelorson has used his memories in his own memoirs entitled Sopuvenirs d’outremonde. In collection. Interviews in French.
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JEK C/1/4 Interview with Georges Belmont James Knowlson note: Georges Belmont (Pelorson). Under his real, family name of Pelorson, Georges was a student of Samuel Beckett at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1928-29 and a friend of his at Trinity College where Pelorson was lecteur. He talks interestingly and at length about Beckett then and at later points in his life, since he remained a friend for the rest of Beckett’s life, in spite of Pelorson’s activities during the war with the Vichy regime, on account of which he changed his name. Because of the circumstances in which these recordings were made (in cafés etc) some are very difficult to hear. The transcriptions of large sections by JK and ESK are then of great importance. With the exception of a tiny extract published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett these numerous interviews are unpublished, although Pelorson has used his memories in his own memoirs entitled Sopuvenirs d’outremonde. In collection. Interviews in French.
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JEK C/1/5 Interview with Ann Beckett James Knowlson note: Ann Beckett (1929-2003). Her father, Dr Gerald Beckett (1884-1950), was Sam’s father’s younger brother. He was appointed Medical Officer for County Page 365 of 562
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Wicklow towards the end of the 1920s. The family lived in the little village of Greystones, on the coast, south of Bray, and it was there that Ann and her twin brother, John, used to see Sam and his mother in the mid-1930s. Beckett played piano duets and golf with their father. A very short extract from this frank, honest and very revealing interview about Beckett and his parents etc was published in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett but it is largely unpublished. Major interview.
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JEK C/1/6 Interview with John Beckett James Knowlson note: John Beckett (1929 - ). His father, Dr Gerald Beckett (1884-1950), was Samuel Beckett’s father’s younger brother. (See Ann Beckett - his twin sister - number .....) Beckett played piano duets and golf with his father. John Beckett composed the music for the original BBC recording of Words and Music. These interviews were used in Damned to Fame but otherwise they are totally unpublished. They contain much important information. Major interviews.
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JEK C/1/7 Interview with Caroline Murphy Beckett James Knowlson note: Caroline Beckett Murphy. The niece of Samuel Beckett and an heir of the Beckett Estate (although she plays no part in its governance). She speaks in this unpublished interview about Beckett’s mother and about Beckett himself. Revealing about the family.
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JEK C/1/8 Interviews with Denise Coffey, and John Calder James Knowlson note: Denise Coffey: After training at the Page 366 of 562
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College of Dramatic Art and then the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, Coffey began her career in rep. theatre in Edinburgh at the Gateway Theatre, then moving to the Palladium Theatre there. She later worked for the BBC as a radio interviewer, before enjoying a career in West End theatre. She played Winnie in Happy Days at the Young Vic Studios and met Beckett in Berlin by chance, telling a good story about him there. John Calder: Founded Calder publishing in London in 1949. He was very friendly with Samuel Beckett during his life time, and is responsible for initially publishing 85% of the work of Beckett available today. During the 1950s, he published the translated work of Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoievsky, Goethe and Zola among others, and was the first publisher to make William S. Burroughs available in the United Kingdom. Long, fascinating major interviews with Calder about Beckett and his friendship with Beckett: transcribed. See also his memoirs Pursuit.
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JEK C/1/9 Interviews with John Calder James Knowlson note: John Calder: Founded Calder publishing in London in 1949. He was very friendly with Samuel Beckett during his life time, and is responsible for initially publishing 85% of the work of Beckett available today. During the 1950s, he published the translated work of Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoievsky, Goethe and Zola among others, and was the first publisher to make William S. Burroughs available in the United Kingdom. Long, fascinating major interviews with Calder about Beckett and his friendship with Beckett: transcribed. See also his memoirs Pursuit.
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JEK C/1/10 Interviews with John Calder, and Edward Beckett James Knowlson note: John Calder: Founded Calder publishing in London in 1949. He was very friendly with Samuel Beckett during his life time, and is responsible for initially publishing 85% of the work of Beckett available today. During the 1950s, Page 367 of 562
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he published the translated work of Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoievsky, Goethe and Zola among others, and was the first publisher to make William S. Burroughs available in the United Kingdom. Long, fascinating major interviews with Calder about Beckett and his friendship with Beckett: transcribed. See also his memoirs Pursuit. Edward Beckett: The son of Frank Beckett and nephew of Samuel Beckett, his heir and his current literary executor. A former principal flautist of the London Symphony Orchestra, he worked primarily under Britten, Celibidache, Previn and Abbado. Edward Beckett also played guest principal flute with all of the major London symphonic and chamber orchestras in addition to pursuing an extensive solo and chamber career all over the world. He was a former pupil of the flautists, Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Rampal. In these unpublished interviews, he talks in detail about his uncle and about his own contacts with Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. Major interviews.
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JEK C/1/11 Interview with John Beckett James Knowlson note: John Beckett (1929 - ). His father, Dr Gerald Beckett (1884-1950), was Samuel Beckett’s father’s younger brother. (See Ann Beckett - his twin sister - number .....) Beckett played piano duets and golf with his father. John Beckett composed the music for the original BBC recording of Words and Music. These interviews were used in Damned to Fame but otherwise they are totally unpublished. They contain much important information. Major interviews.
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JEK C/1/12 Interview with Caroline Murphy Beckett, and John Manning James Knowlson note: Caroline Beckett Murphy: The niece of Samuel Beckett and an heir of the Beckett Estate (although she plays no part in its governance). She speaks in this unpublished interview about Beckett’s mother and about Beckett himself. Revealing about the family. John Manning: Brother of Mary Manning and a family friend of Beckett in Page 368 of 562
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Dublin. His mother, Susan Manning, was also very friendly with Beckett and he discusses them all in this interesting interview in his own home. Very helpful on Beckett’s father, mother and Beckett himself.
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JEK C/1/13 Interviews with Lily Condell, and William Cunningham James Knowlson note: Lily Condell: Beckett’s mother’s parlour maid at ‘Cooldrinagh’, who then visited May Beckett frequently at her smaller house, ‘New Place’. Fascinating and important interviews about the entire Beckett family (from someone who knew them extremely well) and about the family house in Foxrock. Drawn on quite heavily for Damned to Fame but with many intriguing insights into Beckett’s character as seen from ‘below Stairs’ as it were. See Photos of Lily too. William Cunningham: Friend of Beckett from Trinity College days. Played golf with Beckett for Trinity College, Dublin and went to the theatre with him. Rode on Samuel Beckett’s motorbike as a pillion passenger. Extracts from these interesting interviews about the young Beckett were published in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett. Major interviews on Beckett.
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JEK C/1/14 Interview with Lily Condell James Knowlson note: Lily Condell: Beckett’s mother’s parlour maid at ‘Cooldrinagh’, who then visited May Beckett frequently at her smaller house, ‘New Place’. Fascinating and important interviews about the entire Beckett family (from someone who knew them extremely well) and about the family house in Foxrock. Drawn on quite heavily for Damned to Fame but with many intriguing insights into Beckett’s character as seen from ‘below Stairs’ as it were. See Photos of Lily too.
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JEK C/1/15 Interviews with Deirdre Hamilton, and William Cunningham James Knowlson note: Deirdre Hamilton. Samuel Beckett’s cousin and daughter of William and Cissie Sinclair. An important interview from someone who knew Beckett from Kassel days and can talk about him as a member of a family that Beckett loved. She, along with her brother Morris, was also the source of many photos of Beckett’s early love (and fiancée) Peggy Sinclair. William Cunningham: Friend of Beckett from Trinity College days. Played golf with Beckett for Trinity College, Dublin and went to the theatre with him. Rode on Samuel Beckett’s motorbike as a pillion passenger. Extracts from these interesting interviews about the young Beckett were published in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett. Major interviews on Beckett.
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JEK C/1/16 Interview with Claude Duthuit James Knowlson note: Son of the art critic, Georges Duthuit, who was the son-in-law of Matisse. Friend of Samuel Beckett as was his father. Interesting interviews in French about Beckett after the war when he was translating for his father. Major interviews on Beckett and painters.
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JEK C/1/17 Interview with Édith Fournier, and letters between Samuel Beckett and Henri and Josette Hayden Read by James Knowlson and annotated by Josette HaydenJames Knowlson note: Edith Fournier. A close personal friend of Samuel Beckett who adored him and helped to look after him in his final years. She had also written about his work and had known him well for almost thirty years. Talks intimately about Beckett and Suzanne. Major interviews in French especially on Suzanne and Beckett’s infidelities. Page 370 of 562
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Second interview is a key one for Suzanne.
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JEK C/1/18 Interviews with Jérôme Lindon and Matias Henrioud James Knowlson note: Jérôme Lindon (1925-2001): French publisher of Samuel Beckett’s writings. Director and owner of the publishing house, Les Editions de Minuit. In all these interviews Lindon is remarkably honest about his debt (financial as well as personal). So much so that his daughter refused to allow extracts from the interviews to be published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. They are therefore largely unused, except as background information for Damned to Fame . Absolutely key interviews for any understanding of Beckett. Tape 25A is the best interview of all about the relations between Beckett and Suzanne. Matias Henrioud: known as Matias. Set and costume designer on many of Samuel Beckett’s plays in France. Also friendly with Suzanne Beckett.
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JEK C/1/19 Interviews with Édith Fournier, and Jérôme Lindon James Knowlson note: Edith Fournier. A close personal friend of Samuel Beckett who adored him and helped to look after him in his final years. She had also written about his work and had known him well for almost thirty years. Talks intimately about Beckett and Suzanne. Major interviews in French especially on Suzanne and Beckett’s infidelities. Second interview is a key one for Suzanne. Jérôme Lindon (1925- 2001): French publisher of Samuel Beckett’s writings. Director and owner of the publishing house, Les Editions de Minuit. In all these interviews Lindon is remarkably honest about his debt (financial as well as personal). So much so that his daughter refused to allow extracts from the interviews to be published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. They are therefore largely unused, except as background information for Damned to Fame . Absolutely key interviews for any understanding of Beckett. Tape 25A is the best Page 371 of 562
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interview of all about the relations between Beckett and Suzanne.
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JEK C/1/20 Interview with Emile Delavenay James Knowlson note: Emile Delavenay, former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, when Beckett was lecteur d’anglais there. A distinguished D. H. Lawrence scholar who played an important role too in the BBC’s propaganda war in Occupied France. Friend too of Thomas MacGreevy. Father of Claire Tomalin. Interviews mostly in French, although Delavenay is totally bilingual. An extract from these interviews was used in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett. The transcript is a summary of the contents only.
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JEK C/1/21 Interview with Emile Delavenay James Knowlson note: Emile Delavenay, former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, when Beckett was lecteur d’anglais there. A distinguished D. H. Lawrence scholar who played an important role too in the BBC’s propaganda war in Occupied France. Friend too of Thomas MacGreevy. Father of Claire Tomalin. Interviews mostly in French, although Delavenay is totally bilingual. An extract from these interviews was used in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett. The transcript is a summary of the contents only.
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JEK C/1/22 Interview with James Guilford James Knowlson note: James Guilford was a neighbour of the Beckett family in Foxrock. He was befriended by Mrs Beckett and knew Frank, Sam Beckett’s brother, very well indeed. A Page 372 of 562
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short extract from this interview is used in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Good background material on Beckett’s family life.
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JEK C/1/23 Tape entitled Ecole Normale Superieure
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JEK C/1/24 Interviews with Jérôme Lindon James Knowlson note: Jérôme Lindon (1925-2001): French publisher of Samuel Beckett’s writings. Director and owner of the publishing house, Les Editions de Minuit. In all these interviews Lindon is remarkably honest about his debt (financial as well as personal). So much so that his daughter refused to allow extracts from the interviews to be published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. They are therefore largely unused, except as background information for Damned to Fame . Absolutely key interviews for any understanding of Beckett. Tape 25A is the best interview of all about the relations between Beckett and Suzanne.
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JEK C/1/25 Interviews with Jérôme Lindon and Avigdor Arikha James Knowlson note: Jérôme Lindon (1925-2001): French publisher of Samuel Beckett’s writings. Director and owner of the publishing house, Les Editions de Minuit. In all these interviews Lindon is remarkably honest about his debt (financial as well as personal). So much so that his daughter refused to allow extracts from the interviews to be published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. They are therefore largely unused, except as background information Page 373 of 562
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for Damned to Fame. Avigdor Arikha (1929- ), an internationally renowned artist whose paintings, etchings and drawings hang in galleries throughout the world. Also a distinguished scholar, who has written catalogues for exhibitions which he curated at the Louvre (Poussin) and the Frick Collection (Ingres) and articles for many art journals. He has made documentary films on Velázquez, Poussin, Vermeer, David and Caravaggio and given talks on the radio for the BBC, France-Culture, Deutsche Welle and Kol-Israel. With his wife, the poet, Anne Atik, he was a very close friend of Samuel Beckett from 1956 until the latter’s death in 1989 and his interviews contain many fascinating insights into Beckett’s character. These interviews are unpublished, as the short essay by Arikha on Beckett’s art erudition in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett was especially written for that volume. Important insights and many details. Arikha 2 is a brief snippet only. Arikha3 is an absolutely key Interview.
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JEK C/1/26 Interviews with Deirdre Hamilton and Anne Wolfson Leventhal James Knowlson note: Deirdre Hamilton: Samuel Beckett’s cousin and daughter of William and Cissie Sinclair. An important interview from someone who knew Beckett from Kassel days and can talk about him as a member of a family that Beckett loved. She, along with her brother Morris, was also the source of many photos of Beckett’s early love (and fiancée) Peggy Sinclair. Anne Wolfson Leventhal: The daughter of Con Leventhal, (died 1979) Beckett’s best friend in his later years. She is interesting on her father and mother and on Ethna MacCarthy (who was the model for the Alba in Beckett’s poems and early novel, Dream etc..
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JEK C/1/27 Interview with Jocelyn Herbert James Knowlson note: Jocelyn Herbert (1917-2003). Influential British theatre designer, daughter of the writer, A. P. Page 374 of 562
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Herbert and a very close friend of Samuel Beckett. She worked extensively at the Royal Court Theatre in London, designing all of Beckett’s productions staged there. She also worked in opera and film. After the breakdown of her marriage to Anthony Lousada, she lived with the Founder of the English Stage Company, George Devine. Important information of productions of Endgame, Not I and Happy days.
1 microcassette tape 30 Jul 1992
JEK C/1/28 Interviews with Aidan Higgins James Knowlson note: Aidan Higgins (1927- ) Irish writer whose first novel, Langrishe, Go Down, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award. It was later filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Other works include: Balcony of Europe, runner-up for the 1972 Booker Prize, Lions of the Grunewald (1993) and the trilogy, Donkey’s Years (1995), Dog Days (1998) and The Whole Hog (2000). He is also known for his shorter fiction and travel writing. Recording made in Kinsale County Cork. Interesting interview with some excellent anecdotes.
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JEK C/1/29 Interview with Arthur Hillis James Knowlson note: Arthur Hillis. Friend of Samuel Beckett in the 1930s. He had known Beckett at Trinity College, Dublin when they were both students together and they met again in London in 1934. Good precise interviews recorded in his flat in London not used except for a few details of Beckett’s musical life in London in 1934-5 in Damned to Fame.
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James Knowlson note: Arthur Hillis. Friend of Samuel Beckett in the 1930s. He had known Beckett at Trinity College, Dublin when they were both students together and they met again in London in 1934. Good precise interviews recorded in his flat in London not used except for a few details of Beckett’s musical life in London in 1934-5 in Damned to Fame.
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JEK C/1/31 Interviews with Jocelyn Herbert, and Billie Whitelaw James Knowlson note: Jocelyn Herbert (1917-2003). Influential British theatre designer, daughter of the writer, A. P. Herbert and a very close friend of Samuel Beckett. She worked extensively at the Royal Court Theatre in London, designing all of Beckett’s productions staged there. She also worked in opera and film. After the breakdown of her marriage to Anthony Lousada, she lived with the Founder of the English Stage Company, George Devine. Important information of productions of Endgame, Not I and Happy days. Billie Whitelaw: (1932- ) British actress known for a wide variety of stage and film parts but who worked on many occasions with Samuel Beckett, being directed by him in Footfalls (1976), which he wrote with Whitelaw in mind, and Happy Days (1979). She also acted in Play (1964) (when she first got to know Beckett), played Mouth in the British première of Not I, directed by Anthony Page, with much help from Samuel Beckett. Interesting interviews by this close friend of Beckett.
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JEK C/1/32 Interviews with Ernest Keegan, and Andrée Skeffington James Knowlson note: Ernest Keegan: Dublin solicitor who was very friendly with Arthur Darley, Beckett’s doctor friend and able to supply many details on people known to Beckett such as Brian Coffey as he knew the Coffey family. Delightful detail, very indiscreet and well-informed. Andrée Skeffington: widow of Owen Sheehy, lecturer in French at Trinity College, Dublin and Senator. Speraks about many of those Beckett knew at Trinity College, Dublin and about her husband’s Page 376 of 562
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friendship with Beckett.
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JEK C/1/33 Interviews with Simone McKee, and Jocelyn Herbert and Billie Whitelaw James Knowlson note: Simone McKee. Widow of Freddie McKee, the surgeon with whom Beckett worked at the Irish Red Cross Hospital at Saint-Lô. A very interesting and important interview in French about Beckett in St-Lô and later in Dublin. A short extract from this interview was published in English in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Jocelyn Herbert (1917-2003). Influential British theatre designer, daughter of the writer, A. P. Herbert and a very close friend of Samuel Beckett. She worked extensively at the Royal Court Theatre in London, designing all of Beckett’s productions staged there. She also worked in opera and film. After the breakdown of her marriage to Anthony Lousada, she lived with the Founder of the English Stage Company, George Devine. Important information of productions of Endgame, Not I and Happy days. Billie Whitelaw: (1932- ) British actress known for a wide variety of stage and film parts but who worked on many occasions with Samuel Beckett, being directed by him in Footfalls (1976), which he wrote with Whitelaw in mind, and Happy Days (1979). She also acted in Play (1964) (when she first got to know Beckett), played Mouth in the British première of Not I, directed by Anthony Page, with much help from Samuel Beckett. Interesting interviews by this close friend of Beckett.
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JEK C/1/34 Interviews with John Manning, and Duncan Scott James Knowlson note: John Manning: Brother of Mary Manning and a family friend of Beckett in Dublin. His mother, Susan Manning, was also very friendly with Beckett and he discusses them all in this interesting interview in his own home. Very helpful on Beckett’s father, mother and Beckett himself. Duncan Scott: (1940-2000), lighting engineer at the Page 377 of 562
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Royal Court Theatre, London. He became very friendly with Beckett during the productions at the Court of Footfalls, Endgame and Play (1976) and Happy Days (1979). He was also the board operator for the lights on Not I and operated the interrogating light in Play. See also his notes on his meetings with Beckett.
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JEK C/1/35 Interviews with Mary Manning Howe Adams, and Irene Worth James Knowlson note: Mary Manning Howe Adams: A Dublin born writer (novelist and playwright) and childhood friend of Beckett and the Beckett family. The interview contains much fascinating material on their childhood in County Dublin, her school, Beckett’s parents, their affair, etc. This represents a major set of interviews of great importance, only a tiny part of which has been used so far. (Also see the interviews with Mary Manning on the research video tapes of the Global Village Beckett Project given to James Knowlson for his biography and her novels in the Knowlson library and photos. Her books are also in the collection) Irene Worth: [(1916-2002), US born actress who worked extensively in Britain, the USA and Canada. She played in Andrei Serban’s production of Beckett’s Happy Days, New York, October 1979. Recording made in London during one of her visits.
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JEK C/1/36 Interviews with Edward Beckett, and Jocelyn Herbert James Knowlson note: Edward Beckett: The son of Frank Beckett and nephew of Samuel Beckett, his heir and his current literary executor. A former principal flautist of the London Symphony Orchestra, he worked primarily under Britten, Celibidache, Previn and Abbado. Edward Beckett also played guest principal flute with all of the major London symphonic and chamber orchestras in addition to pursuing an extensive solo and chamber career all over the world. He was a former pupil of the flautists, Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Rampal. In these unpublished interviews, he talks in detail Page 378 of 562
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about his uncle and about his own contacts with Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. Major interviews. Jocelyn Herbert: (1917- 2003) Influential British theatre designer, daughter of the writer, A. P. Herbert and a very close friend of Samuel Beckett. She worked extensively at the Royal Court Theatre in London, designing all of Beckett’s productions staged there. She also worked in opera and film. After the breakdown of her marriage to Anthony Lousada, she lived with the Founder of the English Stage Company, George Devine. Important information of productions of Endgame, Not I and Happy days.
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JEK C/1/37 Interview with Deryk Mendel James Knowlson note: Deryk Mendel, British born dancer/actor/director who worked a lot as a director in Germany and lived in Paris. He acted in the world première of Act without Words I, having asked Beckett to write something for him. He also directed the world première of Play in Ulm and, with Beckett’s help imported, directed the 1965 Schiller- Theater Godot. Also knew Suzanne. Very interesting interview.
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JEK C/1/38 Interview with Pamela Mitchell James Knowlson note: Pamela Mitchell. One of the coups of Damned to Fame was the material gleaned from these interviews with the woman who had an affair in Paris in 1954 and 1955 with Beckett. She was tracked down in the USA by James Knowlson and interviewed at her home in Newport, Rhode Island in 1993, where she gave some of the most interesting and open interviews in the collection. Her letters were left by her after her death to James Knowlson for the Beckett International Foundation and are now there. Outstanding interviews.
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JEK C/1/39 Interview with Jean Martin James Knowlson note: Jean Martin. French stage and film actor. A very close long-standing friend of both Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. These are again a major set of interviews with an important figure both in the Becketts’ personal world and, as the first Lucky in En attendant Godot and Clov in Endgame in the production of his plays in French. A short extract from one of the interviews was published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett.
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JEK C/1/40 Interview with Jean Martin James Knowlson note: Jean Martin. French stage and film actor. A very close long-standing friend of both Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. These are again a major set of interviews with an important figure both in the Becketts’ personal world and, as the first Lucky in En attendant Godot and Clov in Endgame in the production of his plays in French. A short extract from one of the interviews was published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett.
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JEK C/1/41 Interview with Pamela Mitchell James Knowlson note: Pamela Mitchell. One of the coups of Damned to Fame was the material gleaned from these interviews with the woman who had an affair in Paris in 1954 and 1955 with Beckett. She was tracked down in the USA by James Knowlson and interviewed at her home in Newport, Rhode Island in 1993, where she gave some of the most interesting and open interviews in the collection. Her letters were left by her after her death to James Knowlson for the Beckett International Foundation and are now there. Outstanding interviews.
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JEK C/1/42 Interview with Edna Meyers James Knowlson note: Edna Meyers. Ballet critic and wife (widow) of the film editor, Sidney Myers, who worked with Beckett on Film and escorted him to the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum. Used by James Knowlson in his account of Beckett in New York for the film of Film.
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JEK C/1/43 Interview with Sheila Page James Knowlson note: Sheila Page (née Roe) was Beckett’s cousin who was very close to him. She lived with the Beckett family for several years as a child with her sister, Molly, after her mother died and while her father was working in Nyasaland. Beckett used to go to stay with her and her husband Donald at their house ‘Sweetwater Cottage’ in Surrey and many photos of him are taken there. One of the most important set of interviews in the entire collection.
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JEK C/1/44 Interview with Sheila Page James Knowlson note: Sheila Page (née Roe) was Beckett’s cousin who was very close to him. She lived with the Beckett family for several years as a child with her sister, Molly, after her mother died and while her father was working in Nyasaland. Beckett used to go to stay with her and her husband Donald at their house ‘Sweetwater Cottage’ in Surrey and many photos of him are taken there. One of the most important set of interviews in the entire collection.
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JEK C/1/45 Interviews with William Targ, and Richard Seaver James Knowlson note: William Targ: Book publisher, writer and book collector who introduced Beckett to Saul Bellow and talks interestingly about their awkward meeting in 1978. Interview recorded at his apartment in New York. Richard Seaver: editor in chief of Arcade Publishing in New York, is an old friend of Samuel Beckett’s from the 1950s. In 1952 he first brought Beckett, then virtually unknown, to the attention of the English-language public in a laudatory essay in Merlin. Seaver has been a distinguished publisher in New York for over 40 years, during which time he has translated over 50 books from the French, including works by Marguerite Duras, Françoise Sagan, André Breton, Eugène Ionesco, and Beckett himself. Interview recorded in New York with both Seaver and his wife, Jeannette who also knew Beckett well.
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JEK C/1/46 Interviews with Nathalie Sarraute James Knowlson note: Nathalie Sarraute, born in Ivanova in Russia as Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak (1900-1999). French novelist and critic. During the Nazi occupation, after she sheltered Beckett and Suzanne, she was denounced as being from a Jewish family and was forced to go into hiding under the name of Nicole Sauvage, posing as the governess of her own three daughters. Part of this recorded interview was published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Later in an unpublished part of the interview she relates in detail what happened to her and her family. Before the war, she had already published Tropismes, Paris, Denoël, 1939. She is very hostile to Beckett personally and highly critical of him as a person and as a writer in French. One of the most hostile of all those interviewed.
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JEK C/1/47 Interviews with Alexis Péron, and Denise Deleutre James Knowlson note: Alexis Péron: Son of Alfred Péron, one of Beckett’s closest friends in the 1930s and very interesting on Beckett after the war when Péron’s mother, Mania, used to help Beckett with proof reading and his French. A fascinating set of interviews from someone who knew Beckett well as a teenage boy. Denise Deleutre: Close friend of Sam and Suzanne Beckett, especially Suzanne. One of these interviews is very, very difficult to hear. Interviews in French. Important material on Suzanne and music.
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JEK C/1/48 Interviews with Claude Jamet, and Alberto Chiarini James Knowlson note: Claude Jamet: A former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris who also met Beckett much later and wrote about his plays as a critic. Talks in detail about life at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and recounts the story of seeing Beckett actually hand over his coat to someone who admired it. His female companion was also present and contributes to the discussion as she was also a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Alberto Chiarini: A very close friend of Suzanne Beckett. One of the most personal interviews in the collection about her. Interview in French. See also Denise Deleutre, Marthe Gautier, Edith Fournier, Jean Martin interviews. [A very poor interview by an uneasy, ill at ease interviewer, James Knowlson]
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JEK C/1/49 Interview with Martin Esslin James Knowlson note: Martin Esslin (1918-2002). Writer and radio producer. He was appointed the Head of the Radio Drama Department at the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1963. Author of many books among which: Brecht (1959), The Theatre of the Absurd (1961), Brief Chronicles: Essays on Modern Theatre (1970) and Pinter: A Study of his Plays (1977; Page 383 of 562
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first published in 1970). Extract used in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Key interview on Beckett and the BBC, Barbara Bray, Donald McWhinnie, Play for radio, Lessness etc.
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JEK C/1/50 Interview with Josette Hayden James Knowlson note: Josette Hayden. Wife of the painter, Henri Hayden and one of Beckett’s closest friends in Paris. They met during the war in Roussillon and continued a friendship until his death in 1959. One of the most important sources of knowledge about his life. He was a great admirer of her husband’s paintings and owned several of them. She may well also have had an affair with him. A fundamental collection of major interviews especially about their life in Roussillon. Josette appeared to have almost total recall and is quite brilliant on their life during the war. Everything she said checked out. She always denied that she had had an affair with Beckett, although that has often been alleged.
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JEK C/1/51 Interviews with Alexis Péron, and Michèle Meunier James Knowlson note: Alexis Péron: Son of Alfred Péron, one of Beckett’s closest friends in the 1930s and very interesting on Beckett after the war when Péron’s mother, Mania, used to help Beckett with proof reading and his French. A fascinating set of interviews from someone who knew Beckett well as a teenage boy. Michèle Meunier: French friend of Roger Blin and Samuel Beckett. Interview mainly about Blin, Beckett and Suzanne. She (Michèle) used to dine with the two of them. Moving account of Beckett at Roger Blin’s funeral.
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JEK C/1/52 Interview with Morris Sinclair James Knowlson note: Morris Sinclair (1918 - ), the son of William and Frances (‘Cissie’) Sinclair. Letters to James Knowlson, 1991-2, text agreed by Morris Sinclair in 2005. Morris played the violin. He gave Beckett German lessons in the mid-1930s; in exchange Beckett gave him French lessons. They became close friends, although it was very much a master/pupil relationship, with Beckett, the master, Beckett offering Morris advice on his career prospects. An important person in Beckett’s life. Major interview. See also his many letters to James Knowlson.
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JEK C/1/53 Interviews with Josette Hayden, and Avigdor Arikha James Knowlson note: Josette Hayden. Wife of the painter, Henri Hayden and one of Beckett’s closest friends in Paris. They met during the war in Roussillon and continued a friendship until his death in 1959. One of the most important sources of knowledge about his life. He was a great admirer of her husband’s paintings and owned several of them. She may well also have had an affair with him. A fundamental collection of major interviews especially about their life in Roussillon. Josette appeared to have almost total recall and is quite brilliant on their life during the war. Everything she said checked out. She always denied that she had had an affair with Beckett, although that has often been alleged. Avigdor Arikha (1929- ), an internationally renowned artist whose paintings, etchings and drawings hang in galleries throughout the world. Also a distinguished scholar, who has written catalogues for exhibitions which he curated at the Louvre (Poussin) and the Frick Collection (Ingres) and articles for many art journals. He has made documentary films on Velázquez, Poussin, Vermeer, David and Caravaggio and given talks on the radio for the BBC, France-Culture, Deutsche Welle and Kol-Israel. With his wife, the poet, Anne Atik, he was a very close friend of Samuel Beckett from 1956 until the latter’s death in 1989 and his interviews contain many fascinating insights into Beckett’s character. These interviews are unpublished, as the short essay by Arikha on Beckett’s art erudition in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett was especially written for that volume. Important insights and many details. Arikha Page 385 of 562
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JEK C/1/54 Interview with Josette Hayden James Knowlson note: Josette Hayden. Wife of the painter, Henri Hayden and one of Beckett’s closest friends in Paris. They met during the war in Roussillon and continued a friendship until his death in 1959. One of the most important sources of knowledge about his life. He was a great admirer of her husband’s paintings and owned several of them. She may well also have had an affair with him. A fundamental collection of major interviews especially about their life in Roussillon. Josette appeared to have almost total recall and is quite brilliant on their life during the war. Everything she said checked out. She always denied that she had had an affair with Beckett, although that has often been alleged.
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JEK C/1/55 Interviews with Michael Bakewell, and Edward Beckett James Knowlson note: Michael Bakewell: British television producer. Best known for his work during the 1960s, when he was the first Head of Plays at the BBC, after Sydney Newman divided the drama department into separate series, serials and plays divisions in 1963. Later, he produced plays for BBC2’s Theatre 625 anthology strand, including John Hopkins’s acclaimed Talking to a Stranger series of linked plays. He also worked in radio drama, including adapting The Lord of the Rings into a 1981 radio series for the BBC. From 1955 until 1972 he was the husband of Joan Bakewell and they had two children together, Matthew and Harriet. This is an unpublished interview from 1994 about his work in TV with Beckett on Eh Joe etc. Good interview. Edward Beckett: The son of Frank Beckett and nephew of Samuel Beckett, his heir and his current literary executor. A former principal flautist of the London Symphony Orchestra, he worked primarily under Britten, Celibidache, Previn and Abbado. Edward Beckett also played guest principal flute with all of the major London Page 386 of 562
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symphonic and chamber orchestras in addition to pursuing an extensive solo and chamber career all over the world. He was a former pupil of the flautists, Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Rampal. In these unpublished interviews, he talks in detail about his uncle and about his own contacts with Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. Major interviews.
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JEK C/1/56 Interviews with Edward Beckett, and discussion of Annenberg Fellowship James Knowlson note: Edward Beckett: The son of Frank Beckett and nephew of Samuel Beckett, his heir and his current literary executor. A former principal flautist of the London Symphony Orchestra, he worked primarily under Britten, Celibidache, Previn and Abbado. Edward Beckett also played guest principal flute with all of the major London symphonic and chamber orchestras in addition to pursuing an extensive solo and chamber career all over the world. He was a former pupil of the flautists, Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Rampal. In these unpublished interviews, he talks in detail about his uncle and about his own contacts with Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. Major interviews.
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JEK C/1/57 Interview with Nicole Greub, and description of the house and grounds, Ussy James Knowlson note: Nicole Greub. Her mother-in-law first looked after Beckett’s house in Ussy sur Marne for him, then she, Nicole, took over those duties. Interview in French with this longstanding Ussy resident who knew another side of Beckett to that of the famous writer. Some fascinating material here about Beckett and the house which Beckett left to her and her family.
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JEK C/1/58 Interviews with Brenda Bruce, and Jocelyn Herbert James Knowlson note: Brenda Bruce (1918-1996). British stage, film and television actress. A very lively interview conducted in the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guilford with her, quite a part of which is reproduced in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Jocelyn Herbert (1917- 2003). Influential British theatre designer, daughter of the writer, A. P. Herbert and a very close friend of Samuel Beckett. She worked extensively at the Royal Court Theatre in London, designing all of Beckett’s productions staged there. She also worked in opera and film. After the breakdown of her marriage to Anthony Lousada, she lived with the Founder of the English Stage Company, George Devine. Important information of productions of Endgame, Not I and Happy days.
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JEK C/1/59 Interview with John Montague James Knowlson note: John Montague. Irish poet who knew Beckett in the 1960s. Member of a small group of Irish expats including Leventhal, Peter Lennon, etc. Author of an autobiography entitled Company. Interview recorded in 1992 in Cork where James Knowlson and his wife visited Montague.
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JEK C/1/60 Interview with Dr Gottfried Büttner James Knowlson note: Dr Gottfried Büttner (1926-2002). Medical doctor and author of Absurdes Theater und Bewusstseinswandel (Berlin, 1968) and Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. Attended rehearsals with Beckett on several occasions at the Schiller-Theater Berlin. Interviews in English. Most important material on Beckett in these translations of his memories.
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JEK C/1/61 Interviews with Dr Gottfried Büttner, and Hayden letters Between Samuel Beckett and Henri and Josette Hayden, read by James Knowlson and annotated by Josette Hayden
James Knowlson note: Dr Gottfried Büttner (1926-2002). Medical doctor and author of Absurdes Theater und Bewusstseinswandel (Berlin, 1968) and Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. Attended rehearsals with Beckett on several occasions at the Schiller-Theater Berlin. Interviews in English. Most important material on Beckett in these translations of his memories. Josette Hayden. Wife of the painter, Henri Hayden and one of Beckett’s closest friends in Paris. They met during the war in Roussillon and continued a friendship until his death in 1959. One of the most important sources of knowledge about his life. He was a great admirer of her husband’s paintings and owned several of them. She may well also have had an affair with him. A fundamental collection of major interviews especially about their life in Roussillon. Josette appeared to have almost total recall and is quite brilliant on their life during the war. Everything she said checked out. She always denied that she had had an affair with Beckett, although that has often been alleged.
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JEK C/1/62 Interview with Avigdor Arikha James Knowlson note: Avigdor Arikha (1929- ), an internationally renowned artist whose paintings, etchings and drawings hang in galleries throughout the world. Also a distinguished scholar, who has written catalogues for exhibitions which he curated at the Louvre (Poussin) and the Frick Collection (Ingres) and articles for many art journals. He has made documentary films on Velázquez, Poussin, Vermeer, David and Caravaggio and given talks on the radio for the BBC, France-Culture, Deutsche Welle and Kol-Israel. With his wife, the poet, Anne Atik, he was a very close friend of Samuel Page 389 of 562
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Beckett from 1956 until the latter’s death in 1989 and his interviews contain many fascinating insights into Beckett’s character. These interviews are unpublished, as the short essay by Arikha on Beckett’s art erudition in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett was especially written for that volume. Important insights and many details. Arikha 2 is a brief snippet only. Arikha3 is an absolutely key Interview.
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JEK C/1/63 Interviews with Alexis Péron, and Luigi Magno James Knowlson note: Alexis Péron: Son of Alfred Péron, one of Beckett’s closest friends in the 1930s and very interesting on Beckett after the war when Péron’s mother, Mania, used to help Beckett with proof reading and his French. A fascinating set of interviews from someone who knew Beckett well as a teenage boy. Luigi Majno: The art publisher and Milan gallery owner talks of his relationship with Beckett and work on the illustrated edition of Still and the art work of Bill Hayter.
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JEK C/1/64 Interview with Marthe Gautier James Knowlson note: Marthe Gautier. Suzanne Beckett’s closest friend. Interview in French. Wary but interesting on the character and interests of Beckett’s wife. Very detailed on her trips abroad with Suzanne, support at time of Algerian tortures etc
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JEK C/1/65 Interviews with Edward Albee, and Georges Belmont James Knowlson note: Edward Albee (1928- ) American playwright. Among his best known plays are The Zoo Story (1958), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1961-62), A Delicate Page 390 of 562
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Balance (1966), Three Tall Women (1991) and The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia (2000). Directed several of Beckett’s plays, especially at the Alley Theatre in Houston. A friend of Samuel Beckett, he talks on the tape about his various meetings with SB in London, Paris and New York and about Beckett’s importance in world theatre. An edited version of the 1993 interview with James Knowlson in New York was published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett (ed. James and Elizabeth Knowlson) in 2006. Good interview in parts only. Georges Belmont (Pelorson): Under his real, family name of Pelorson, Georges was a student of Samuel Beckett at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1928-29 and a friend of his at Trinity College where Pelorson was lecteur. He talks interestingly and at length about Beckett then and at later points in his life, since he remained a friend for the rest of Beckett’s life, in spite of Pelorson’s activities during the war with the Vichy regime, on account of which he changed his name. Because of the circumstances in which these recordings were made (in cafés etc) some are very difficult to hear. The transcriptions of large sections by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson are then of great importance. With the exception of a tiny extract published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett these numerous interviews are unpublished, although Pelorson has used his memories in his own memoirs entitled Sopuvenirs d’outremonde. In collection. Interviews in French.
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JEK C/1/66 Interview with Bud Thorpe James Knowlson note: Bud Thorpe (1951-) acted with the San Quentin Drama Workshop and was directed several times by Samuel Beckett, twice in Endgame, then in Waiting for Godot. He was also lighting designer for the San Quentin Krapp’s Last Tape, stage and lighting designer for Endgame and lighting designer for Waiting for Godot. Interview in New York.
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JEK C/1/67 Interviews with Michael Lonsdale, and Josette Hayden James Knowlson note: Michael Lonsdale: (1931-) Famous French stage and screen actor. Acted in hundred of films in French and in English. Played in Comédie directed by Jean Marie Serreau and Samuel Beckett and in the film of that name by Michel Mitrani (1966). Good detail in this interview. Josette Hayden: Wife of the painter, Henri Hayden and one of Beckett’s closest friends in Paris. They met during the war in Roussillon and continued a friendship until his death in 1959. One of the most important sources of knowledge about his life. He was a great admirer of her husband’s paintings and owned several of them. She may well also have had an affair with him. A fundamental collection of major interviews especially about their life in Roussillon. Josette appeared to have almost total recall and is quite brilliant on their life during the war. Everything she said checked out. She always denied that she had had an affair with Beckett, although that has often been alleged.
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JEK C/1/68 Interviews with Nick Rawson James Knowlson note: Nick Rawson. British poet and prose writer. Knew Beckett and owed him a great debt because Beckett supported him for grants, etc. He also gave Rawson quite a lot of money to help him out when he was broke. Unpublished interview.
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JEK C/1/69 Interviews with Sheila Harvey James Knowlson note: Sheila Harvey. The widow of Lawrence Harvey, who knew Beckett in the 1960s in particular and met him regularly while he was researching composing his book Samuel Beckett Poet and Critic. Sheila Harvey also met Beckett whom her husband interviewed informally many times. The Harvey collection is in Dartmouth College New Hampshire. But the original typescript of his book in its original state before Beckett asked him to make cuts of Page 392 of 562
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JEK C/1/70 Interviews with Barney Rosset James Knowlson note: Barney Rosset. Beckett’s USA publisher who talks about his relations and those of Grove Press with Beckett. Unpublished interview. The interview was conducted in New York with his editor Freed Jordan also present and contributing to the discussion .
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JEK C/1/71 Interviews with Fred Neumann, and Barbara Bray James Knowlson note: Frederick Neumann: director and actor; one of the founder members of the theatre company, Mabou Mines. Adapted and directed several of Beckett’s prose works for the stage Mercier and Camier (1979), Company (1980) – with original music by Philip Glass – and Worstward Ho (1981). He also acted in JoAnne Akalaitis’s adaptation of Cascando (1976) and with Julian Beck and George Bartenieff in Theatre I and Theatre II at La Mama, New York. Used to visit Beckett in Paris. Fantastic detail in rambling but invaluable interview. Barbara Bray: A close friend of Beckett and a lover of his for over thirty years. Script editor at the BBC in London. Moved to Paris with her two daughters in 1961 so as to be close to him. She knew Beckett almost as well as anyone and speaks interestingly about him. Her letters from him are now in Trinity College, Dublin.
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widow of Dr Geoffrey Thompson (1905-1976), the psycho- analyst, who helped Beckett to embark on a course of therapy with Wilfred R. Bion at the Tavistock Clinic in London in 1934- 35. Interviewed with her daughter.
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JEK C/1/73 Interviews with Mervyn Wall, and Professor David Webb James Knowlson note: Mervyn Wall: Irish writer who knew Beckett in the middle years of the 1930s. A fascinating insight into living in censor-ridden Ireland at that time. Professor David Webb: Talks with first-hand experience of his colleagues at Trinity College Dublin including Rudmose-Brown, Leventhal and many others. Invaluable background material as Webb is very forceful in his opinions and picturesque in his accounts of the characters of Trinity College Dublin.
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JEK C/1/74 Interviews with Eileen Williams, and Dr Johnson's House James Knowlson note: Eileen Williams. A student at Trinity College in the same class as Samuel Beckett 1923-27. Intriguing details on Beckett, Ethna MacCarthy and Trinity life.
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JEK C/1/75 Interviews with John O. Wisdom James Knowlson note: John O. Wisdom. Fellow pupil of Beckett at Earlsfort House school and later connections with Beckett. An important figure in the world of psychoanalysis, Wisdom has some interesting things to say about Beckett’s background and his therapy. The interview was conducted by James Knowlson and his wife at Wisdom’s country house in Ireland, when he was clearly very ill indeed. He clung to his memories and shared them with his interviewers as if he were Page 394 of 562
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JEK C/1/76 Interviews with Pearl King James Knowlson note: Important member of the British Society of Psychoanalysts, who knew W. R. Bion, Beckett’s own therapist, and able to talk about him and as a historian of the subject about psychotherapy at the time.
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JEK C/1/77 Interviews with S.E. Gontarski James Knowlson note: S. E.Gontarski. Sarah Herndon Professor of English at Florida State University where he teaches courses in twentieth-century Irish Studies, in British, U.S. and European Modernism, and in drama and performance theory. His theatrical work includes guest directorships at the Los Angeles Actors’ Theater, the Magic Theater in San Francisco and the Teatros del Circulo in Madrid. He is the author or editor of numerous books, most recently The Grove Press Reader, 1951-2001 (2001), and The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader’s Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought (with C. J. Ackerley) (2004). Gontarski was responsible for inviting Beckett to write his 1981 play, Ohio Impromptu and he talks about the circumstances surrounding this event. Very detailed and full interview.
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JEK C/1/78 Interviews with Avigdor Arikha James Knowlson note: Avigdor Arikha (1929- ), an internationally renowned artist whose paintings, etchings and drawings hang in galleries throughout the world. Also a distinguished scholar, who has written catalogues for Page 395 of 562
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exhibitions which he curated at the Louvre (Poussin) and the Frick Collection (Ingres) and articles for many art journals. He has made documentary films on Velázquez, Poussin, Vermeer, David and Caravaggio and given talks on the radio for the BBC, France-Culture, Deutsche Welle and Kol-Israel. With his wife, the poet, Anne Atik, he was a very close friend of Samuel Beckett from 1956 until the latter’s death in 1989 and his interviews contain many fascinating insights into Beckett’s character. These interviews are unpublished, as the short essay by Arikha on Beckett’s art erudition in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett was especially written for that volume. Important insights and many details. Arikha 2 is a brief snippet only. Arikha3 is an absolutely key Interview.
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JEK C/1/79 Interviews with Walter Asmus James Knowlson note: Walter Asmus. Distinguished German theatre director and close friend of Samuel Beckett. He worked with him on many occasions, first as his assistant director on the 1975 Schiller-Theater’s Warten auf Godot. He later directed the play again several times for the Gate Theatre, Dublin. He is Professor of Theatre Studies in Hamburg. He also worked with Beckett on his TV plays at SDR in Stuttgart. Extracts only of these interviews were published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett and much of what he says is completely inédit. Major set of interviews in English with incredible detail on productions by Beckett in Berlin.
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JEK C/1/80 Interviews with Walter Asmus James Knowlson note: Walter Asmus. Distinguished German theatre director and close friend of Samuel Beckett. He worked with him on many occasions, first as his assistant director on the 1975 Schiller-Theater’s Warten auf Godot. He later directed the play again several times for the Gate Theatre, Dublin. He is Professor of Theatre Studies in Page 396 of 562
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Hamburg. He also worked with Beckett on his TV plays at SDR in Stuttgart. Extracts only of these interviews were published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett and much of what he says is completely inédit. Major set of interviews in English with incredible detail on productions by Beckett in Berlin.
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JEK C/1/81 Interviews with Annette Lindon James Knowlson note: Annette Lindon. The wife of Jérôme Lindon. Perhaps with Nathalie Sarraute’s, rather surprisingly, one of the most indiscreet interviews about Beckett, speaking about his personal vanity, etc. Very valuable on Suzanne too.
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JEK C/1/82 Interviews with Boleslaw Barlog, and Klaus Herm James Knowlson note: Boleslaw Barlog (1906-1999): Distinguished German theatre director, later Intendant General of the Schiller- Theater in Berlin. He directed dozens of plays at the Schlossparktheatre and the Schiller-Theater in Berlin from 1945 to 1972. Author of Theaterlebenslänglich (1981). In collection. Talks of Beckett’s visits to his own home and Beckett’s work as a director of his plays at the Schiller- Theater. Interview in German with a following translation by Dr Walter Georgi. Klaus Herm: (1925- ) Distinguished German stage and film actor. Born into an acting family, Herm worked extensively in Munich and Berlin theatres. He played Lucky in both the 1965 and 1975 productions of Waiting for Godot, directed in the second production by Beckett. He also acted in Damals (That Time) and Spiel (Play). At Süddeutscher Rundfunk, he played in the television productions by Beckett of Ghost Trio and … but the clouds…. Interview in German at the Literaturhaus in Berlin with rough English translations provided by Dr Walter Georgi. Helpful on Beckett as Director.
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JEK C/1/83 Interviews with Horst Bollmann, and Rosemarie Koch James Knowlson note: Horst Bollmann (1925- ). Distinguished German stage, film and television actor who was directed by Beckett at the Schiller-Theater in Berlin on several occasions in Waiting for Godot (twice) and in Endgame. Interview with questions put in English and translated into German by Walter Asmus. A very short extract from this interview is used in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett. Rough on the spot translation. Rosemarie Koch was the Assistant Dramaturg at the Schiller Theatre for many years, advising Albert Bessler and Boleslaw Barlog. She knew Beckett personally when he was working as director at the Schiller-Theater.
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JEK C/1/84 Interviews with Josette Hayden, and Jaques Noel James Knowlson note: Josette Hayden. Wife of the painter, Henri Hayden and one of Beckett’s closest friends in Paris. They met during the war in Roussillon and continued a friendship until his death in 1959. One of the most important sources of knowledge about his life. He was a great admirer of her husband’s paintings and owned several of them. She may well also have had an affair with him. A fundamental collection of major interviews especially about their life in Roussillon. Josette appeared to have almost total recall and is quite brilliant on their life during the war. Everything she said checked out. She always denied that she had had an affair with Beckett, although that has often been alleged. Jacques Noel. French stage designer who designed the set for Beckett’s Fin de partie. He talks about this work and his relations with Samuel Beckett, Roger Blin, etc.
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LeChanois James Knowlson note: Part of a collection of interviews presenting a unique record of memories of work in the Resistance cell of which Beckett was a member. How they took place is worth recounting. Knowlson went in 1990 to the offices of the Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance to track down two members of the Resistance cell, Suzanne Roussel and Simone La Haye, only to find they were long since dead. It was suggested by the Secretariat that James Knowlson should put an advert in the Bulletin of the Association asking for members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’ to kindly contact him. Later James Knowlson received a letter from one member, Violette Rougier-Lecoq. He went to Paris to meet her at her apartment only to find that most of the surviving members were all present. The following tapes were recorded on that day with Louis-Henri Boussel, Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert and then later with Rougier-Lecoq. James Knowlson also became a good friend of Pierre Weydert who took him one day by plane to Linz to the concentration camp at Mauthausen where he, Alfred Péron and many other members of Beckett’s cell were imprisoned after their arrest. Beckett escaped only hours ?. Other interviews are with other members found by James Knowlson later, e.g. Andrée Jacob, André and Anise Postel- Vinay, Emma Lévin-Lechanois. But perhaps the most remarkable interviews of all are with the renowned ethnologist and historian of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germaine Tillion, who gives a full, honest account of the circumstances of their arrest, admitting that by accident she introduced their betrayer, the Abbé Alesch, who was working as a German agent/infiltrator in the cell, and speaks also movingly of her own work with another cell. The interviews were conducted over a period of two days by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson at her country house in Brittany and must be among the most important in existence. Jean Laroque was another key figure, a friend of the joint head of Beckett’s cell, Jacques Legrand, and he gives important information on the funding of certain escape plans. Anise Postel-Vinay is a key figure in the subsequent history of women in the Resistance and the fate of the Deportees. The set of recordings with the documentation accompanying it is invaluable not just for recording Beckett’s own place in the movement (which he talked about to James Knowlson as well on a tape recording) but for the entire history of that major cell operating in the Paris, Normandy, Brittany areas. Among documents in the collection are debriefings from Gabrielle
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Buffet-Picabia and Jeannine Picabia. Resistance group :Boussel,Louis-Henri, Rougier-Lecoq,Violette, Weydert, Pierre. Louis-Henri Boussel was head of the French Resistance cell ‘Rail’; Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert were members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’. Violette Rougier- Lecoq. A less important figure than some of the other interviewees, she knew well many of the key players in the Resistance cell like Suzanne Roussel and Simone La Haye and Germaine Tillion in Ravensbrück concentration camp.
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JEK C/1/86 Interviews with Kay Boyle James Knowlson note: Kay Boyle (1902-1992). USA novelist and poet. Published over thirty volumes. A friend of Samuel Beckett since 1929 when they met in Paris. Interviewed in her old people’s home in California with her good friend, the theatre critic, Ruby Cohn. Many fascinating things in this interview with a remarkable lady. Her letters from him are in the HRC in Austin, Texas. Much about her life and attitudes as well as about Beckett. Lovely story of a dinner in New York with Beckett and Buster Keaton.
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JEK C/1/87 Interviews with Emile Delavenay James Knowlson note: Emile Delavenay, former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, when Beckett was lecteur d’anglais there. A distinguished D. H. Lawrence scholar who played an important role too in the BBC’s propaganda war in Occupied France. Friend too of Thomas MacGreevy. Father of Claire Tomalin. Interviews mostly in French, although Delavenay is totally bilingual. An extract from these interviews was used in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett. The transcript is a summary of the contents only.
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JEK C/1/88 Interviews with Billie Whitelaw, and Paul Auster James Knowlson note: Billie Whitelaw (1932- ) British actress known for a wide variety of stage and film parts but who worked on many occasions with Samuel Beckett, being directed by him in Footfalls (1976), which he wrote with Whitelaw in mind, and Happy Days (1979). She also acted in Play (1964) (when she first got to know Beckett), played Mouth in the British première of Not I, directed by Anthony Page, with much help from Samuel Beckett. Interesting interviews by this close friend of Beckett. Paul Auster: (1947- ). After attending Columbia University, Paul Auster lived in France for four years. Since returning to America in 1974, he has published poems, essays, novels, film scripts and translations. He is best known perhaps for The New York Trilogy. He wrote a brief essay about Beckett’s novel, Mercier and Camier and refers to Beckett or his work several times in his own writing. This is a telephone interview with James Knowlson. A version was heavily rewritten by Paul Auster in 2005 for the book Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett but it is worth stressing that the unpublished part of the interview is much more revealing.
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JEK C/1/89 Interviews with Dr Gottfried Büttner (translation) James Knowlson note: Dr Gottfried Büttner (1926-2002). Medical doctor and author of Absurdes Theater und Bewusstseinswandel (Berlin, 1968) and Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. Attended rehearsals with Beckett on several occasions at the Schiller-Theater Berlin. Interviews in English. Most important material on Beckett in these translations of his memories.
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JEK C/1/90 Interviews with Sheila Brazil James Knowlson note: Mrs Sheila Brazil. 73 year’s old, when she was interviewed by Jim and Elizabeth Knowlson in 1991. Not yet transcribed. The former post-mistress in Foxrock village she talks about the Beckett family and the village itself. Very interesting with much local colour concerning the Elsner sisters at Taunus, their cook, Hannah. Gives the Becketts’ phone number: 87. Knew and describes Mr (his joviality) and Mrs (her kindness) Beckett. She describes Beckett’s mother being driven in her donkey and trap by Christy Lawlor, who later became a postman. Interesting interviews about local life in the village: e.g. the 12 cottages; McEvoys, Lynch’s, The Old Hotel, Findlaters Stores, Connollys at Cornelscourt; the station master at Foxrock, Thomas Farrell, Tully’s Dairy, a maid called ‘Ludo’ who worked for Mrs Beckett. The Elverys who were owners of a sports shop in Dublin, etc. They consult the Eoin O’Brien book The Beckett Country with her and comment on the photos.
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JEK C/1/91 Interviews with Josette Hayden (telephone queries) Doug Johnson on De Gaulle
James Knowlson note: Josette Hayden. Wife of the painter, Henri Hayden and one of Beckett’s closest friends in Paris. They met during the war in Roussillon and continued a friendship until his death in 1959. One of the most important sources of knowledge about his life. He was a great admirer of her husband’s paintings and owned several of them. She may well also have had an affair with him. A fundamental collection of major interviews especially about their life in Roussillon. Josette appeared to have almost total recall and is quite brilliant on their life during the war. Everything she said checked out. She always denied that she had had an affair with Beckett, although that has often been alleged.
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JEK C/1/92 Interviews with Robert Carlier, and Georges Belmont (Pelorson) James Knowlson note: Robert Carlier: Editor and literary agent who was well connected with publishers and editors in Paris and who helped Suzanne to find a publisher to publish Beckett’s work. Interview recorded in 1989 in Carlier’s large country house in Normandy. Interview in French. Many insights into the publishing issues surrounding Beckett’s work. Georges Belmont (Pelorson): Under his real, family name of Pelorson, Georges was a student of Samuel Beckett at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1928-29 and a friend of his at Trinity College where Pelorson was lecteur. He talks interestingly and at length about Beckett then and at later points in his life, since he remained a friend for the rest of Beckett’s life, in spite of Pelorson’s activities during the war with the Vichy regime, on account of which he changed his name. Because of the circumstances in which these recordings were made (in cafés etc) some are very difficult to hear. The transcriptions of large sections by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson are then of great importance. With the exception of a tiny extract published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett these numerous interviews are unpublished, although Pelorson has used his memories in his own memoirs entitled Sopuvenirs d’outremonde. In collection. Interviews in French.
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JEK C/1/93 Interviews with Barbara Bray James Knowlson note: Barbara Bray. A close friend of Beckett and a lover of his for over thirty years. Script editor at the BBC in London. Moved to Paris with her two daughters in 1961 so as to be close to him. She knew Beckett almost as well as anyone and speaks interestingly about him. Her letters from him are now in Trinity College, Dublin.
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James Knowlson note: Philippe Hautefeuille: Worked for Jérôme Lindon at Les Editions de Minuit and has fairly controversial views on the role played by Lindon in ‘spotting’ Beckett suggesting that it was his chief editor, Georges Lambrichs, who recognised Beckett talent as a French writer and proposed signing him up. Pierre Schneider: Leading French art critic who knew Beckett and many of the artists and members of the Duthuit circle of artists known to Beckett.
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JEK C/1/95 Interviews with Claude Lasibille, and Elsie Smiley James Knowlson note: Claude Lasibille: companion of the philosopher, Jean Beaufret, with whom Beckett was friendly at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and incorporated some of Beaufret’s characteristics into one of the characters, Lucien, in his first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Lasibille was rather guarded in his replies about his friend and lover, perhaps because of the Heidegger connections and accusations of Nazism surely denied by Beaufret’s Resistance connections. Interview in French. Note there are books annotated by Beaufret in Beckett’s library. Elsie Smiley: knew the Beckett’s family at Foxrock and many other local characters. Some details on Dublin’s middle class social life.
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JEK C/1/96 Interviews with Marysette Mayoux, and Juliette Maguinness James Knowlson note: Marysette Mayoux: wife of Jean-Jacques Mayoux and a friend in her young days of Alfred Péron, who worked with Beckett in the Resistance in Paris. By this stage in her life probably unreliable interview. But interesting on Péron and Jean Paul Sartre. Juliette Maguinness: The daughter of Beckett’s Trinity College Dublin friend, Professor Stuart Maguinness. She also knew Beckett and talks about having told him about her agrophobia and pacing up and down in her room just before he wrote the play ‘Footfalls’. A good interview.
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JEK C/1/97 Interviews with Peter Woodthorpe, and Etienne Bierry James Knowlson note: Peter Woodthorpe (1931-2004): British actor who played Estragon in the British première of Waiting for Godot while he was still a student at Cambridge University. He went on to have a highly successful career in theatre, film and television. Beckett very much admired his acting. Interview at Woodthorpe’s country house. Extracts published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Also on cassette tape. Excellent interview. Etienne Bierry: Well-known French actor who played in various Beckett productions including Godot and knew Beckett personally. Interview in French not really used by James Knowlson, even in Damned to Fame.
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JEK C/1/98 Interviews with Robbie Hendry, and Dr Gottfried Büttner James Knowlson note: Robbie Hendry: The stage manager at the Royal Court Theatre, London for several of Beckett’s productions there. Very detailed interviews on Not I, Krapp’s Last Tape and Happy Days. Dr Gottfried Büttner: (1926-2002). Medical doctor and author of Absurdes Theater und Bewusstseinswandel (Berlin, 1968) and Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. Attended rehearsals with Beckett on several occasions at the Schiller-Theater Berlin. Interviews in English. Most important material on Beckett in these translations of his memories.
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JEK C/1/100 Interviews with Steve Martin, and Jean Martin James Knowlson note: Steve Martin. Transatlantic telephone interview with this film actor and Hollywood ‘star’ who played with Robin Williams in the Lincoln Centre production of Waiting for Godot directed by Mike Nichols. He explicitly refused permission in 2005 for the editors to use his interview in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Jean Martin: French stage and film actor. A very close long-standing friend of both Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. These are again a major set of interviews with an important figure both in the Becketts’ personal world and, as the first Lucky in En attendant Godot and Clov in Endgame in the production of his plays in French. A short extract from one of the interviews was published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett.
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JEK C/1/101 Interviews with Jean Coulomb James Knowlson note: Jean Coulomb (1904-1999), Former student at the Ecole Normale. Directeur of the prestigious CNRS from 1957 to 1962. A close friend of Thomas MacGreevy, who also knew Beckett when the latter was lecteur at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Interview in French. There are also letters in the files from MacGreevy to Jean Coulomb and back.
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JEK C/1/102 Interviews with Georges Borchardt, and Alberto Chiarini James Knowlson note: Georges Borchardt: USA literary agent who worked for Beckett as his agent in New York and worked closely with Jérôme Lindon. Hardly used. Recorded in New York. Alberto Chiarini: A very close friend of Suzanne Beckett. One of the most personal interviews in the collection about her. Interview in French. See also Denise Deleutre, Marthe Gautier, Edith Fournier, Jean Martin interviews. (A very poor interview by an uneasy, ill at ease interviewer, James Knowlson)
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JEK C/1/103 Interviews with Judith Douw James Knowlson note: Judith Douw worked for Barney Rosset at Grove Press for many years and corresponded with him extensively. She talks in great detail about his visit to New York in 1964.
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JEK C/1/104 Interviews with Dr Gottfried Büttner James Knowlson note: Dr Gottfried Büttner: (1926-2002). Medical doctor and author of Absurdes Theater und Bewusstseinswandel (Berlin, 1968) and Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. Attended rehearsals with Beckett on several occasions at the Schiller-Theater Berlin. Interviews in English. Most important material on Beckett in these translations of his memories.
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JEK C/1/106 Interviews with John Kobler, and Elleseva Sayers James Knowlson note: John Kobler: (1910-2000), journalist, biographer of Al Capone and John Barrymore, among others. Author of ‘The Real Samuel Beckett: A Memoir by John Kobler’, Connoisseur, July 1990. Elleseva Sayers: A former student of Samuel Beckett in 1930-31 when he was lecturing at Trinity College Dublin. She was interviewed by James Knowlson in New York and has also corresponded with him.
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JEK C/1/107 Interviews with Ruby Cohn James Knowlson note: Ruby Cohn (1922- ). Professor Emerita at the University of California, Davis; a friend of Beckett for almost thirty years. She has written many books on European and American theatre and several books on Beckett, including Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut, Back to Beckett, Just Play, and, most recently, A Beckett Canon. She has edited Disjecta, a collection of his critical writings, as well as two casebooks on Waiting for Godot. Interview recorded in her home in San Francisco. Used as background for Beckett in Berlin and in certain quotations in Damned to Fame.
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JEK C/1/109 Interviews with Vera Russell (Lindsay), and Dorothy Tutin James Knowlson note: Vera Russell (Lindsay): A Russian émigré who knew members of the Joyce circle and was responsible for getting Beckett and Jaspar Johns together to work on the illustrated edition of Fizzles by contacting Beckett’s friend, A.J. Leventhal. An interesting interview from a quite famous social ‘facilitator’ and hostess. Dorothy Tutin: An unusual connection with someone not normally associated with Beckett’s work. She read in the presentation of Waiting for Godot for the Lord Chamberlain in London. She was also involved in recommending the play to the theatre producer, Donald Albery. An interesting and unusual insight into how the play came to be put on by Peter Hall.
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JEK C/1/110 Interviews with Maurice Nadeau, and Hermine Karagueuz James Knowlson note: Maurice Nadeau: French writer and editor of Les Nouvelles littéraires. Knew Beckett. A short interview only. But see his memoirs also in the collection. Hermine Karagueuz: Stage and film actress, friend and lover of Roger Blin. Also friendly with Beckett for many years. Gives, like Michèle Meunier below, a moving account of Beckett and Suzanne at Blin’s funeral. Interview in French.
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JEK C/1/111 Interviews with Eric Kahane, and Lisl van Velde James Knowlson note: Eric Kahane: Brother of Maurice Girodias, the director of Olympia Press who published Beckett’s novel Watt with the ‘Merlin juveniles’, as Beckett called them. Much detail on Olympia Press, Girodias and their father Jack Kahane of Obelisk Press who had asked Beckett to translate de Sade for him. Interview in French. Lisl van Velde: Widow of Geer van Velde, Beckett’s Dutch painter friend. Somewhat hostile to Beckett and his heavy macabre view of human life and its impact on others. Has interesting things to say about the relations between Beckett and the van Velde brothers and about his relationship with Peggy Guggenheim.
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JEK C/1/112 Interviews with Jessica Tandy, and Hume Cronyn James Knowlson note: Jessica Tandy (1909-1994): British born actress, who married the American actor, Hume Cronyn, and lived in the United States from 1942 until her death. She won critical acclaim for her creation of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and appeared in many films, earning an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her performance (at the age of 80) in Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Interview recorded at her home in Connecticut at a time when Tandy was in the final stages of her cancer illness from which she died a few weeks later. One of the two last interviews with Jessica Tandy. Hume Cronyn: (1911-2003). Canadian born actor who married in 1942 the British actress, Jessica Tandy. Then, after her death in 1994, he married the writer, Susan Cooper in 1996. Often teamed with Jessica Tandy, he starred on Broadway (The Four-Poster, A Delicate Balance, The Gin Game, Foxfire) in a TV series (The Marriage, 1954) and in a series of ‘old-codger’ roles in Cocoon (1985), and Batteries Not Included (1987). In 1994, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy won the first Tony Award for life- time theatrical achievement. He published what was intended to be the first part of an autobiography, A Terrible Liar: A Memoir in 1991 (New York, William Morrow and Co.) also (signed copy) in the collection. Part of this interview was Page 410 of 562
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JEK C/1/113 Interviews with Anne Cremin, and Lisl van Velde James Knowlson note: Anne Cremin: Art critic and journalist. Daughter of the Irish ambassador in Paris, Constantine Cremin, who knew Samuel Beckett. She also met Beckett. Lisl van Velde: Widow of Geer van Velde, Beckett’s Dutch painter friend. Somewhat hostile to Beckett and his heavy macabre view of human life and its impact on others. Has interesting things to say about the relations between Beckett and the van Velde brothers and about his relationship with Peggy Guggenheim.
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JEK C/1/114 Interviews with Lisl van Velde James Knowlson note: Lisl van Velde. Widow of Geer van Velde, Beckett’s Dutch painter friend. Somewhat hostile to Beckett and his heavy macabre view of human life and its impact on others. Has interesting things to say about the relations between Beckett and the van Velde brothers and about his relationship with Peggy Guggenheim.
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JEK C/1/115 Interviews with Jane Lidderdale, and Shivaun O’Casey James Knowlson note: Jane Lidderdale. Guardian of Lucia Joyce, talks about Lucia and Beckett’s relationship and about the Joyce family.
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JEK C/1/116 Interviews with Geneviève Asse, and Sergio de Castro James Knowlson note: Geneviève Asse: (1923-) French painter, born in Vannes, who has had her own retrospective at the Musée de l’Art Moderne in Paris and is well represented in galleries in France. She was friendly with Beckett and the van Veldes and illustrated the former’s prose text, Abandonné, and speaks to James Knowlson about his meetings with her at her studio to discuss this work. There are photos of Samuel Beckett with her at one of her exhibitions. The interview is used in the account of Abandonné in Damned to Fame but is essentially unpublished. Interview in French. Sergio de Castro: (1922-). Argentinian born painter whom Beckett visited in his studio in the rue Saint-Gothard in Paris. Interview in French. Shivaun O’Casey (1939- ), Irish actress and director; daughter of Seán and Eileen O’Casey. Founder of the O’Casey Theatre in Newry, she has directed plays in Ireland, England and the USA. She also directed the film ‘Seán O’Casey: Under a Coloured Cap’ (2004). An extract from this interview was published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett.
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JEK C/1/117 Interviews with Rosemarie Koch, and Eva-Katharina Schultz James Knowlson note: Rosemarie Koch: was the Assistant Dramaturg at the Schiller Theatre for many years, advising Albert Bessler and Boleslaw Barlog. She knew Beckett personally when he was working as director at the Schiller- Theater. Eva-Katharina Schultz: German stage and film actress. A regular member of the Schiller-Theater repertory company. She performed Winnie in Beckett’s production of Glückliche Tage (Happy Days) in 1971. See also her corrected copy given to James Knowlson.
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James Knowlson note: Lisl van Velde: Widow of Geer van Velde, Beckett’s Dutch painter friend. Somewhat hostile to Beckett and his heavy macabre view of human life and its impact on others. Has interesting things to say about the relations between Beckett and the van Velde brothers and about his relationship with Peggy Guggenheim. Marion Leigh: A. J. Leventhal’s companion late in life. Not interesting as an interview except that, typically, Beckett continued to pay the rental on her flat until she left and long after Leventhal died.
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JEK C/1/119 Interviews with Francis Stuart James Knowlson note: Francis Stuart (1902-2000). Irish writer; author of over 30 novels and a famous autobiographical work entitled Black List, Section H, Carnondale, Ill, Southern Illinois University Press, 1971. He held the position of Saoi, the highest honour which the arts body of Ireland, Aosdana, can bestow on an artist. But a highly controversial figure because of his broadcasts from Berlin during the war and his subsequent trial. Interview partly used in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett.
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JEK C/1/120 Interviews with Paul Daneman, and Peter Woodthorpe James Knowlson note: Paul Daneman: British actor who played Vladimir in the British première of Waiting for Godot. Good interview hardly used and not at all in Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett. Also on cassette tape and see audio-tape of programme. Peter Woodthorpe: (1931- 2004). British actor who played Estragon in the British première of Waiting for Godot while he was still a student at Cambridge University. He went on to have a highly successful career in theatre, film and television. Beckett very much admired his acting. Interview at Woodthorpe’s country house. Extracts published in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Also on cassette tape. Excellent interview.
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JEK C/1/121 Interviews with Sheila Page (née Roe), and Lady Pike James Knowlson note: Sheila Page: (née Roe) was Beckett’s cousin who was very close to him. She lived with the Beckett family for several years as a child with her sister, Molly, after her mother died and while her father was working in Nyasaland. Beckett used to go to stay with her and her husband Donald at their house ‘Sweetwater Cottage’ in Surrey and many photos of him are taken there. One of the most important set of interviews in the entire collection. Lady Pike: a close friend of Beckett’s cousin, Sheila Page, who knew many of the staff members at Trinity College Dublin.
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JEK C/1/122 Interviews with Danielle van Berchyck, and Ronald Pickup, Arthur Hillis and Juliette Maguinness James Knowlson note: Danielle van Berchyck: French actress, who played in Comédie, directed by her partner, Jean Marie Serreau and Samuel Beckett in 1964. Used in a discussion of the production of the play in Paris in Damned to Fame but otherwise unpublished. Interview in French. Ronald Pickup: British actor. Played in several of Beckett’s plays for stage and television, including Play and Ghost Trio and … but the clouds …. Arthur Hillis: Friend of Samuel Beckett in the 1930s. He had known Beckett at Trinity College, Dublin when they were both students together and they met again in London in 1934. Good precise interviews recorded in his flat in London not used except for a few details of Beckett’s musical life in London in 1934-5 in Damned to Fame. Juliette Maguinness. The daughter of Beckett’s Trinity College Dublin friend, Professor Stuart Maguinness. She also knew Beckett and talks about having told him about her agrophobia and pacing up and down in her room just before he wrote the play ‘Footfalls’. A good interview.
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JEK C/1/123 Interviews with Jack Thieuloy, and Elsie Smiley James Knowlson note: Jack Thieuloy: French anarchist writer and former prisoner at the Santé prison in Paris whom Beckett befriended with money and active support. An extraordinary story about the Nobel prize winner and the winner of the Anti-Goncourt prize. See also signed copies of his books in the collection. Elsie Smiley: knew the Beckett’s family at Foxrock and many other local characters. She rambles fairly inanely however on an interview which in the end was probably a waste of time except for some details on Dublin’s middle class social life.
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JEK C/1/124 Interviews with Jacques Deniau James Knowlson note: Jacques Deniau, psychiatrist neighbour of Samuel Beckett in his apartment block in Paris. Talks in this interview of Beckett’s state when he needed an operation for an abscess on his lung and was taken back to his childhood by Deniau in a kind of ‘waking dreams’ practice. Major interview in French not transcribed.
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JEK C/1/125 Interviews with Aidan Higgins, and Edward Beckett James Knowlson note: Aidan Higgins: (1927- ) Irish writer whose first novel, Langrishe, Go Down, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award. It was later filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Other works include: Balcony of Europe, runner-up for the 1972 Booker Prize, Lions of the Grunewald (1993) and the trilogy, Donkey’s Years (1995), Dog Days (1998) and The Whole Hog (2000). He is also known for his shorter fiction and travel writing. Recording made in Kinsale County Cork. Interesting interview with some excellent anecdotes. Edward Page 415 of 562
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Beckett: The son of Frank Beckett and nephew of Samuel Beckett, his heir and his current literary executor. A former principal flautist of the London Symphony Orchestra, he worked primarily under Britten, Celibidache, Previn and Abbado. Edward Beckett also played guest principal flute with all of the major London symphonic and chamber orchestras in addition to pursuing an extensive solo and chamber career all over the world. He was a former pupil of the flautists, Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Rampal. In these unpublished interviews, he talks in detail about his uncle and about his own contacts with Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. Major interviews - especially Edward2. Edward Beckett. The son of Frank Beckett and nephew of Samuel Beckett, his heir and his current literary executor. A former principal flautist of the London Symphony Orchestra, he worked primarily under Britten, Celibidache, Previn and Abbado. Edward Beckett also played guest principal flute with all of the major London symphonic and chamber orchestras in addition to pursuing an extensive solo and chamber career all over the world. He was a former pupil of the flautists, Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Rampal. In these unpublished interviews, he talks in detail about his uncle and about his own contacts with Beckett and his wife, Suzanne. Major interviews - especially Edward2.
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JEK C/1/126 Interviews with Roger Louis, and Eléanore Hirt James Knowlson note: Part of a collection of interviews presenting a unique record of memories of work in the Resistance cell of which Beckett was a member. How they took place is worth recounting. Knowlson went in 1990 to the offices of the Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance to track down two members of the Resistance cell, Suzanne Roussel and Simone La Haye, only to find they were long since dead. It was suggested by the Secretariat that James Knowlson should put an advert in the Bulletin of the Association asking for members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’ to kindly contact him. Later James Knowlson received a letter from one member, Violette Rougier-Lecoq. He went to Paris to meet her at her apartment only to find that most of the surviving members were all present. The following tapes were recorded on that day with Louis-Henri Boussel, Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert and then Page 416 of 562
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later with Rougier-Lecoq. James Knowlson also became a good friend of Pierre Weydert who took him one day by plane to Linz to the concentration camp at Mauthausen where he, Alfred Péron and many other members of Beckett’s cell were imprisoned after their arrest. Beckett escaped only hours ?. Other interviews are with other members found by James Knowlson later, e.g. Andrée Jacob, André and Anise Postel- Vinay, Emma Lévin-Lechanois. But perhaps the most remarkable interviews of all are with the renowned ethnologist and historian of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germaine Tillion, who gives a full, honest account of the circumstances of their arrest, admitting that by accident she introduced their betrayer, the Abbé Alesch, who was working as a German agent/infiltrator in the cell, and speaks also movingly of her own work with another cell. The interviews were conducted over a period of two days by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson at her country house in Brittany and must be among the most important in existence. Jean Laroque was another key figure, a friend of the joint head of Beckett’s cell, Jacques Legrand, and he gives important information on the funding of certain escape plans. Anise Postel-Vinay is a key figure in the subsequent history of women in the Resistance and the fate of the Deportees. The set of recordings with the documentation accompanying it is invaluable not just for recording Beckett’s own place in the movement (which he talked about to James Knowlson as well on a tape recording) but for the entire history of that major cell operating in the Paris, Normandy, Brittany areas. Among documents in the collection are debriefings from Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia and Jeannine Picabia. Resistance group :Boussel,Louis-Henri, Rougier-Lecoq,Violette, Weydert, Pierre. Louis-Henri Boussel was head of the French Resistance cell ‘Rail’; Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert were members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’. Roger Louis: A leading member of the neighbouring Resistance cell to that in Roussillon. Important material on the Resistance in an interview that is not at all easy to hear. Eléanore Hirt. French actress who acted in Comédie directed by Beckett. She was also involved in the early funding of the world première of En attendant Godot. Interview in French.
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JEK C/1/127 Interviews with Andrée Jacob, and Eléanore Hirt James Knowlson note: Part of a collection of interviews presenting a unique record of memories of work in the Resistance cell of which Beckett was a member. How they took place is worth recounting. Knowlson went in 1990 to the offices of the Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance to track down two members of the Resistance cell, Suzanne Roussel and Simone La Haye, only to find they were long since dead. It was suggested by the Secretariat that James Knowlson should put an advert in the Bulletin of the Association asking for members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’ to kindly contact him. Later James Knowlson received a letter from one member, Violette Rougier-Lecoq. He went to Paris to meet her at her apartment only to find that most of the surviving members were all present. The following tapes were recorded on that day with Louis-Henri Boussel, Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert and then later with Rougier-Lecoq. James Knowlson also became a good friend of Pierre Weydert who took him one day by plane to Linz to the concentration camp at Mauthausen where he, Alfred Péron and many other members of Beckett’s cell were imprisoned after their arrest. Beckett escaped only hours ?. Other interviews are with other members found by James Knowlson later, e.g. Andrée Jacob, André and Anise Postel- Vinay, Emma Lévin-Lechanois. But perhaps the most remarkable interviews of all are with the renowned ethnologist and historian of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germaine Tillion, who gives a full, honest account of the circumstances of their arrest, admitting that by accident she introduced their betrayer, the Abbé Alesch, who was working as a German agent/infiltrator in the cell, and speaks also movingly of her own work with another cell. The interviews were conducted over a period of two days by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson at her country house in Brittany and must be among the most important in existence. Jean Laroque was another key figure, a friend of the joint head of Beckett’s cell, Jacques Legrand, and he gives important information on the funding of certain escape plans. Anise Postel-Vinay is a key figure in the subsequent history of women in the Resistance and the fate of the Deportees. The set of recordings with the documentation accompanying it is invaluable not just for recording Beckett’s own place in the movement (which he talked about to James Knowlson as well on a tape recording) but for the entire history of that major cell operating in the Paris, Normandy, Brittany areas. Among documents in the collection are debriefings from Gabrielle
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Buffet-Picabia and Jeannine Picabia. Resistance group :Boussel,Louis-Henri, Rougier-Lecoq,Violette, Weydert, Pierre. Louis-Henri Boussel was head of the French Resistance cell ‘Rail’; Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert were members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’. Andrée Jacob: A friend of Alfred Péron, she worked for the same Resistance cell as he and with another cell. When this was betrayed she went into hiding living under an assumed name as the secretary of the writer Paul Fort who hid her true identity. She outlines this story on the tape, making it one of the most interesting of the set of recordings along with the recordings of Germaine Tillion. She was also the source of several early letters of Péron sent to James Knowlson. Major interview. Eléanore Hirt. French actress who acted in Comédie directed by Beckett. She was also involved in the early funding of the world première of En attendant Godot. Interview in French.
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JEK C/1/128 Interviews with Jean Laroque, and Emma Lévin-LeChanois James Knowlson note: Part of a collection of interviews presenting a unique record of memories of work in the Resistance cell of which Beckett was a member. How they took place is worth recounting. Knowlson went in 1990 to the offices of the Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance to track down two members of the Resistance cell, Suzanne Roussel and Simone La Haye, only to find they were long since dead. It was suggested by the Secretariat that James Knowlson should put an advert in the Bulletin of the Association asking for members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’ to kindly contact him. Later James Knowlson received a letter from one member, Violette Rougier-Lecoq. He went to Paris to meet her at her apartment only to find that most of the surviving members were all present. The following tapes were recorded on that day with Louis-Henri Boussel, Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert and then later with Rougier-Lecoq. James Knowlson also became a good friend of Pierre Weydert who took him one day by plane to Linz to the concentration camp at Mauthausen where he, Alfred Péron and many other members of Beckett’s cell were imprisoned after their arrest. Beckett escaped only hours ?. Other interviews are with other members found by James Knowlson later, e.g. Andrée Jacob, André and Anise Postel- Page 419 of 562
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Vinay, Emma Lévin-Lechanois. But perhaps the most remarkable interviews of all are with the renowned ethnologist and historian of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germaine Tillion, who gives a full, honest account of the circumstances of their arrest, admitting that by accident she introduced their betrayer, the Abbé Alesch, who was working as a German agent/infiltrator in the cell, and speaks also movingly of her own work with another cell. The interviews were conducted over a period of two days by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson at her country house in Brittany and must be among the most important in existence. Jean Laroque was another key figure, a friend of the joint head of Beckett’s cell, Jacques Legrand, and he gives important information on the funding of certain escape plans. Anise Postel-Vinay is a key figure in the subsequent history of women in the Resistance and the fate of the Deportees. The set of recordings with the documentation accompanying it is invaluable not just for recording Beckett’s own place in the movement (which he talked about to James Knowlson as well on a tape recording) but for the entire history of that major cell operating in the Paris, Normandy, Brittany areas. Among documents in the collection are debriefings from Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia and Jeannine Picabia. Resistance group :Boussel,Louis-Henri, Rougier-Lecoq,Violette, Weydert, Pierre. Louis-Henri Boussel was head of the French Resistance cell ‘Rail’; Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert were members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’. Emma Lévin- LeChanois: Companion of Jean Ravel who worked with Michel Mitrani and Beckett on the film of Comédie. Also a member of a Resistance cell in Paris, she gives many details on exactly how agents worked. See also Pierre Weydert below.
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JEK C/1/129 Interviews with Eugène Fidler James Knowlson note: Eugène Fidler (Fournier during the war). Resident of Roussillon who escaped there during the war because he was Jewish and lived under the assumed name of Fournier. Knew Beckett and Henri Hayden. Was dying when this interview in French took place. Insisted on talking to us in spite of his illness.
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JEK C/1/130 Interviews with Jean David, and Musee de la Resistance James Knowlson note: This is the only existing set of interviews with an entire group of people who either knew Beckett personally in Roussillon - when he and Suzanne were in hiding after their escape from the Gestapo in Paris in August 1942 – or who could describe the circumstances during the war in this little Vaucluse village. Some were involved with Beckett in the Resistance in Roussillon and some merely speak of the people who were exiles in the village at the time. Mayor of Roussillon in 1990. Restaurant owner who continued the family business in the very building where Beckett and Suzanne lived when they arrived. Also provided old photos of the village square etc. Good on some of the local people who had known Beckett like Monsieur Blanc, the local historian and archivist of Roussillon.
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JEK C/1/131 Interviews with André Postel-Vinay James Knowlson note: Part of a collection of interviews presenting a unique record of memories of work in the Resistance cell of which Beckett was a member. How they took place is worth recounting. Knowlson went in 1990 to the offices of the Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance to track down two members of the Resistance cell, Suzanne Roussel and Simone La Haye, only to find they were long since dead. It was suggested by the Secretariat that James Knowlson should put an advert in the Bulletin of the Association asking for members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’ to kindly contact him. Later James Knowlson received a letter from one member, Violette Rougier-Lecoq. He went to Paris to meet her at her apartment only to find that most of the surviving members were all present. The following tapes were recorded on that day with Louis-Henri Boussel, Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert and then later with Rougier-Lecoq. James Knowlson also became a good friend of Pierre Weydert who took him one day by plane to Linz to the concentration camp at Mauthausen where he, Page 421 of 562
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Alfred Péron and many other members of Beckett’s cell were imprisoned after their arrest. Beckett escaped only hours ?. Other interviews are with other members found by James Knowlson later, e.g. Andrée Jacob, André and Anise Postel- Vinay, Emma Lévin-Lechanois. But perhaps the most remarkable interviews of all are with the renowned ethnologist and historian of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germaine Tillion, who gives a full, honest account of the circumstances of their arrest, admitting that by accident she introduced their betrayer, the Abbé Alesch, who was working as a German agent/infiltrator in the cell, and speaks also movingly of her own work with another cell. The interviews were conducted over a period of two days by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson at her country house in Brittany and must be among the most important in existence. Jean Laroque was another key figure, a friend of the joint head of Beckett’s cell, Jacques Legrand, and he gives important information on the funding of certain escape plans. Anise Postel-Vinay is a key figure in the subsequent history of women in the Resistance and the fate of the Deportees. The set of recordings with the documentation accompanying it is invaluable not just for recording Beckett’s own place in the movement (which he talked about to James Knowlson as well on a tape recording) but for the entire history of that major cell operating in the Paris, Normandy, Brittany areas. Among documents in the collection are debriefings from Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia and Jeannine Picabia. Resistance group :Boussel,Louis-Henri, Rougier-Lecoq,Violette, Weydert, Pierre. Louis-Henri Boussel was head of the French Resistance cell ‘Rail’; Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert were members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’. André Postel-Vinay.:A member of the Paris Resistance cell André was arrested and managed to get himself released by throwing himself from a gallery in prison being hospitalised and then escaping. It is a tale that he tells on tape here and in a fascinating book he wrote about his wartime experiences, Un fou s’évade.
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of Fournier. Knew Beckett and Henri Hayden. Was dying when this interview in French took place. Insisted on talking to us in spite of his illness. Juliette Ferrier: Local resident in Roussillon during the war and until the 1990s. A source of detailed information about the village at the time of war and generally. Interview in French.
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JEK C/1/133 Interviews with Madame Bonnelly, and Aimé Bonhomme James Knowlson note: Madame Bonnelly: The wife of Bonnelly, the owner of the vineyard for whom Beckett picked grapes at Roussillon. Not used. Interview in French. Part of a collection of interviews presenting a unique record of memories of work in the Resistance cell of which Beckett was a member. How they took place is worth recounting. Knowlson went in 1990 to the offices of the Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance to track down two members of the Resistance cell, Suzanne Roussel and Simone La Haye, only to find they were long since dead. It was suggested by the Secretariat that James Knowlson should put an advert in the Bulletin of the Association asking for members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’ to kindly contact him. Later James Knowlson received a letter from one member, Violette Rougier-Lecoq. He went to Paris to meet her at her apartment only to find that most of the surviving members were all present. The following tapes were recorded on that day with Louis-Henri Boussel, Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert and then later with Rougier-Lecoq. James Knowlson also became a good friend of Pierre Weydert who took him one day by plane to Linz to the concentration camp at Mauthausen where he, Alfred Péron and many other members of Beckett’s cell were imprisoned after their arrest. Beckett escaped only hours ?. Other interviews are with other members found by James Knowlson later, e.g. Andrée Jacob, André and Anise Postel-Vinay, Emma Lévin-Lechanois. But perhaps the most remarkable interviews of all are with the renowned ethnologist and historian of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germaine Tillion, who gives a full, honest account of the circumstances of their arrest, admitting that by accident she introduced their betrayer, the Abbé Alesch, who was working as a German agent/infiltrator in the cell, and speaks also movingly of her own work with Page 423 of 562
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another cell. The interviews were conducted over a period of two days by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson at her country house in Brittany and must be among the most important in existence. Jean Laroque was another key figure, a friend of the joint head of Beckett’s cell, Jacques Legrand, and he gives important information on the funding of certain escape plans. Anise Postel-Vinay is a key figure in the subsequent history of women in the Resistance and the fate of the Deportees. The set of recordings with the documentation accompanying it is invaluable not just for recording Beckett’s own place in the movement (which he talked about to James Knowlson as well on a tape recording) but for the entire history of that major cell operating in the Paris, Normandy, Brittany areas. Among documents in the collection are debriefings from Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia and Jeannine Picabia. Resistance group :Boussel,Louis-Henri, Rougier- Lecoq,Violette, Weydert, Pierre. Louis-Henri Boussel was head of the French Resistance cell ‘Rail’; Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert were members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’. Aimé Bonhomme: Head of the Resistance cell of which Beckett became a member in Roussillon d’Apt. Bonhomme was beginning to become vague and his son helped with the interview, reminding him of some things. Interview in French.
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JEK C/1/134 Interviews with Claude Blondel, and Fernand Aude James Knowlson note: Part of a collection of interviews presenting a unique record of memories of work in the Resistance cell of which Beckett was a member. How they took place is worth recounting. Knowlson went in 1990 to the offices of the Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance to track down two members of the Resistance cell, Suzanne Roussel and Simone La Haye, only to find they were long since dead. It was suggested by the Secretariat that James Knowlson should put an advert in the Bulletin of the Association asking for members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’ to kindly contact him. Later James Knowlson received a letter from one member, Violette Rougier-Lecoq. He went to Paris to meet her at her apartment only to find that most of the surviving members were all present. The following tapes were recorded on that day with Louis-Henri Boussel, Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert and then Page 424 of 562
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later with Rougier-Lecoq. James Knowlson also became a good friend of Pierre Weydert who took him one day by plane to Linz to the concentration camp at Mauthausen where he, Alfred Péron and many other members of Beckett’s cell were imprisoned after their arrest. Beckett escaped only hours ?. Other interviews are with other members found by James Knowlson later, e.g. Andrée Jacob, André and Anise Postel- Vinay, Emma Lévin-Lechanois. But perhaps the most remarkable interviews of all are with the renowned ethnologist and historian of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germaine Tillion, who gives a full, honest account of the circumstances of their arrest, admitting that by accident she introduced their betrayer, the Abbé Alesch, who was working as a German agent/infiltrator in the cell, and speaks also movingly of her own work with another cell. The interviews were conducted over a period of two days by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson at her country house in Brittany and must be among the most important in existence. Jean Laroque was another key figure, a friend of the joint head of Beckett’s cell, Jacques Legrand, and he gives important information on the funding of certain escape plans. Anise Postel-Vinay is a key figure in the subsequent history of women in the Resistance and the fate of the Deportees. The set of recordings with the documentation accompanying it is invaluable not just for recording Beckett’s own place in the movement (which he talked about to James Knowlson as well on a tape recording) but for the entire history of that major cell operating in the Paris, Normandy, Brittany areas. Among documents in the collection are debriefings from Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia and Jeannine Picabia. Resistance group: Boussel,Louis-Henri, Rougier-Lecoq,Violette, Weydert, Pierre. Louis-Henri Boussel was head of the French Resistance cell ‘Rail’; Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert were members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’. Claude Blondel: A Belgian resident in the village of Roussillon in the Vaucluse. One of the prime movers in the Resistance cell in Roussillon which Beckett joined. Not in any way an easy tape to listen to but with some fascinating details on how useless Beckett was with a gun and other stories. Interview in French. Fernand Aude: The son of the farmer in Roussillon, who worked with Beckett in the fields on their family’s farm. A small section of this interview with Aude is used in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett, but there is much more than this distillation with fascinating details about Samuel Becketts’s character and his attitude to work and life. Interview in French.
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JEK C/1/135 Interviews with Yvonne Lob, and Elie Icard James Knowlson note: Yvonne Lob OBE: Before the war, as a well qualified Agrégée in English, she was a teacher of English in Nice where her husband held a University post. She was responsible for Beckett and Suzanne coming to stay in Roussillon. Major long interview, part of which was printed in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. Elie Icard: Important member of the Resistance cell in Roussillon who talks about their activities and Beckett himself in the last few days of the war.
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JEK C/1/136 Interviews with André Jarrot, and Anise Postel-Vinay James Knowlson note: Part of a collection of interviews presenting a unique record of memories of work in the Resistance cell of which Beckett was a member. How they took place is worth recounting. Knowlson went in 1990 to the offices of the Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance to track down two members of the Resistance cell, Suzanne Roussel and Simone La Haye, only to find they were long since dead. It was suggested by the Secretariat that James Knowlson should put an advert in the Bulletin of the Association asking for members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’ to kindly contact him. Later James Knowlson received a letter from one member, Violette Rougier-Lecoq. He went to Paris to meet her at her apartment only to find that most of the surviving members were all present. The following tapes were recorded on that day with Louis-Henri Boussel, Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert and then later with Rougier-Lecoq. James Knowlson also became a good friend of Pierre Weydert who took him one day by plane to Linz to the concentration camp at Mauthausen where he, Alfred Péron and many other members of Beckett’s cell were imprisoned after their arrest. Beckett escaped only hours ?. Other interviews are with other members found by James Page 426 of 562
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Knowlson later, e.g. Andrée Jacob, André and Anise Postel- Vinay, Emma Lévin-Lechanois. But perhaps the most remarkable interviews of all are with the renowned ethnologist and historian of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germaine Tillion, who gives a full, honest account of the circumstances of their arrest, admitting that by accident she introduced their betrayer, the Abbé Alesch, who was working as a German agent/infiltrator in the cell, and speaks also movingly of her own work with another cell. The interviews were conducted over a period of two days by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson at her country house in Brittany and must be among the most important in existence. Jean Laroque was another key figure, a friend of the joint head of Beckett’s cell, Jacques Legrand, and he gives important information on the funding of certain escape plans. Anise Postel-Vinay is a key figure in the subsequent history of women in the Resistance and the fate of the Deportees. The set of recordings with the documentation accompanying it is invaluable not just for recording Beckett’s own place in the movement (which he talked about to James Knowlson as well on a tape recording) but for the entire history of that major cell operating in the Paris, Normandy, Brittany areas. Among documents in the collection are debriefings from Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia and Jeannine Picabia. Resistance group: Boussel,Louis-Henri, Rougier-Lecoq,Violette, Weydert, Pierre. Louis-Henri Boussel was head of the French Resistance cell ‘Rail’; Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert were members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’. André Jarrot: was a key member of the Resistance operating as a garage owner transporting escapees across the line at Chalons sur Saune. He was later an important Senator and member of the government. He talks to James Knowlson about his role in the war and inscribed a book about his Resistance work to James Knowlson. Anise Postel-Vinay: She was a young member of the same cell as Beckett, as was her father. A major interview with a woman who has now played along with Germaine Tillion a key role in the history of those who were deported to concentration camps.
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JEK C/1/138 Interviews entitled Resistance
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JEK C/1/139 Interviews with Violette Rougier-Lecoq, and Pierre Weydert James Knowlson note: Part of a collection of interviews presenting a unique record of memories of work in the Resistance cell of which Beckett was a member. How they took place is worth recounting. Knowlson went in 1990 to the offices of the Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance to track down two members of the Resistance cell, Suzanne Roussel and Simone La Haye, only to find they were long since dead. It was suggested by the Secretariat that James Knowlson should put an advert in the Bulletin of the Association asking for members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’ to kindly contact him. Later James Knowlson received a letter from one member, Violette Rougier-Lecoq. He went to Paris to meet her at her apartment only to find that most of the surviving members were all present. The following tapes were recorded on that day with Louis-Henri Boussel, Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert and then later with Rougier-Lecoq. James Knowlson also became a good friend of Pierre Weydert who took him one day by plane to Linz to the concentration camp at Mauthausen where he, Alfred Péron and many other members of Beckett’s cell were imprisoned after their arrest. Beckett escaped only hours ?. Other interviews are with other members found by James Knowlson later, e.g. Andrée Jacob, André and Anise Postel- Vinay, Emma Lévin-Lechanois. But perhaps the most remarkable interviews of all are with the renowned ethnologist and historian of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germaine Tillion, who gives a full, honest account of the circumstances of their arrest, admitting that by accident she introduced their betrayer, the Abbé Alesch, who was working as a German agent/infiltrator in the cell, and speaks Page 428 of 562
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also movingly of her own work with another cell. The interviews were conducted over a period of two days by James Knowlson and Elizabeth S. Knowlson at her country house in Brittany and must be among the most important in existence. Jean Laroque was another key figure, a friend of the joint head of Beckett’s cell, Jacques Legrand, and he gives important information on the funding of certain escape plans. Anise Postel-Vinay is a key figure in the subsequent history of women in the Resistance and the fate of the Deportees. The set of recordings with the documentation accompanying it is invaluable not just for recording Beckett’s own place in the movement (which he talked about to James Knowlson as well on a tape recording) but for the entire history of that major cell operating in the Paris, Normandy, Brittany areas. Among documents in the collection are debriefings from Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia and Jeannine Picabia. Resistance group: Boussel,Louis-Henri, Rougier-Lecoq,Violette, Weydert, Pierre. Louis-Henri Boussel was head of the French Resistance cell ‘Rail’; Violette Rougier-Lecoq and Pierre Weydert were members of Beckett’s cell ‘Gloria SMH’. Violette Rougier- Lecoq: A less important figure than some of the previous interviewees, she knew well many of the key players in the Resistance cell like Suzanne Roussel and Simone La Haye and Germaine Tillion in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Pierre Weydert: was a member of Beckett’s cell though he did not know Beckett personally. He was however a close friend of Beckett’s best friend Alfred Péron and was with him after their arrest too in Mauthausen concentration camp. He gives many details on other members of the cell both on tape and in writing.
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JEK C/1/140 Interviews with Alexis Léon James Knowlson note: Alexis Léon. The son of Paul Léon and Lucie Léon Noel. His father was James Joyce’s amanuensis. Interesting on his father’s arrest and Beckett’s many kindnesses. Fascinating material about Joyce, Léon and Lucie Léon Noel.
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JEK C/1/141 Interviews with Denise Deleutre James Knowlson note: Denise Deleutre. Close friend of Sam and Suzanne Beckett, especially Suzanne. One of these interviews is very, very difficult to hear. Interviews in French. Important material on Suzanne and music.
1 microcassette tape 21 Sept 1990
JEK C/1/142 Interviews with Phyllis Killingley, and Richard O’Sullivan James Knowlson note: Phyllis Killingley: Former student of Modern Languages at Trinity College Dublin at same time as Samuel Beckett. Speaks about him, Ethna MacCarthy and others of his contemporaries as well as about life at Trinity College Dublin at that period. Richard O’Sullivan: A schoolboy who attended Earlsfort House Prep school with Samuel Beckett and could talk about Beckett and life at the school in those days including their boxing lessons.
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JEK C/1/143 Interviews entitled Tiergarten, and Neue Natioanlgalerie
1 microcassette tape 11 Nov 1994
JEK C/1/144 Interviews entitled Malta (Bezzina, John)
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JEK C/1/145 Interviews entitled Ussy (Books at Ussy)
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JEK C/1/146 Interviews with Bill Irwin, and Footfalls (discussion) James Knowlson note: Bill Irwin. American actor who played in Waiting for Godot at the Lincoln Centre in New York and also, under the direction of Joe Chaikin, in Texts for Nothing. Interview in the dressing room of his New York theatre.
1 microcassette tape 28 May 1993, 10 Jun 1994
JEK C/1/147 Interviews with Raymond Federman, and Ruby Cohn, Martin Esslin and Robbie Hendry James Knowlson note: Raymond Federman (1928-). A distinguished bilingual novelist, poet and translator, who is also a critic and scholar. He has written eight novels in French and English including Double or Nothing, Amer Eldorado (written in French and nominated for the Prix Médicis), Take It or Leave It, The Voice in the Closet, The Twofold Vibration, Smiles on Washington Square (Winner of the 1985 American Book Award), To Whom It May Concern and La Fourrure de ma Tante Rachel. A friend of Samuel Beckett for many years, he also wrote Journey to Chaos: Samuel Beckett’s Early Fiction and was the co-author of the bibliography, Samuel Beckett : His Works and His Critics. The piece in Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett is NOT this interview.
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including major interviews on the dying Beckett – Barbara Bray and Alfred Péron’s son, Alexis. James Knowlson note: Delphine Seyrig. French actress who worked under Beckett’s direction on Pas (Footfalls) but was also involved in the funding of the world première of En attendant Godot.
1 microcassette tape 29 Jan 1990
JEK C/1/149 Interviews entitled O’Mordha, Sean (TV film -private view BBC) and interview with Mita and Edmund Tuby James Knowlson note: Mita and Edmund Tuby. Two close friends of Suzanne Beckett from way back in the 1920s when Mita was a music student in Paris with Suzanne. A fascinating interview about the wife of Beckett about whom little is actually known. A real discovery for the biography of Beckett. They also provided unknown photos of a young Suzanne also in the collection.
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JEK C/1/150 Interviews entitled O’Mordha, Sean (TV film -private view BBC)
1 microcassette tape 24 Nov 1994
JEK C/1/151 Interviews with André Bernold, and Jan Jönson James Knowlson note: André Bernold: (1958-). French academic and former pupil at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, who got to know Samuel Beckett when he (Bernold) was a young man and wrote about his friendship with him in his book L’amitié de Beckett (1992). In collection. Interview in French recorded with James Knowlson in The Hague. Jan Jönson :(1947 - ) Swedish director, actor and writer. He Page 432 of 562
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studied at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Stockholm, performing afterwards as an actor at The Royal Dramatic Theatre. He directed Waiting for Godot at Kumla maximum security prison in Sweden, followed by a production of Godot at San Quentin State Prison in California, after consultations with Samuel Beckett. In 2002-2003, he directed Endgame at ILA maximum security prison in Oslo. He has also published a book Stunder av verklighet (Moments of reality), also in the collection, about his experiences working with prison inmates and performed a stage monologue based on this book more than 300 times in theatres, universities and prisons around the world.
1 microcassette tape 11 Apr 1992, 13 Apr 1992
JEK C/1/152 Interviews entitled Calder, J, Rosset, B and an interview with Robert Scanlan James Knowlson note: Robert Scanlan (1948-) Professor of the Practice of Theatre at Harvard University. He has specialized throughout his directing career in the work of Samuel Beckett. In 1995, he won the Boston Theatre Award for Outstanding Director for his production of three Beckett plays at the American Repertory Theatre, where for many years he was the Literary Director and where he headed the Dramaturgy and the Playwriting Programs for the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. He is a past president of both the Samuel Beckett Society and the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a current member of its board of directors. Knew Beckett in the last ten years of Samuel Beckett’s life
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JEK C/1/153 Interviews entitled Mauthausen
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JEK C/1/154 Interviews entitled Mauthausen (debate)
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JEK C/1/155 Interviews entitled Hayden letters between Samuel Beckett and Henri and Josette Hayden. Read by James Knowlson and annotated by Josette Hayden
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JEK C/1/156 Interviews entitled Hayden letters between Samuel Beckett and Henri and Josette Hayden. Read by James Knowlson and annotated by Josette Hayden
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JEK C/1/157 Interviews entitled Hayden letters between Samuel Beckett and Henri and Josette Hayden. Read by James Knowlson and annotated by Josette Hayden
1 microcassette tape 27 Oct 1989
JEK C/1/158 Interviews entitled Hayden letters between Samuel Beckett and Henri and Josette Hayden. Read by James Knowlson and annotated by Josette Hayden
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JEK C/1/159 Interviews entitled Hayden letters between Samuel Beckett and Henri and Josette Hayden. Read by James Knowlson and annotated by Josette Hayden
1 microcassette tape 24 Jan 1990
JEK C/1/160 Interviews entitled Hayden letters between Samuel Beckett and Henri and Josette Hayden. Read by James Knowlson and annotated by Josette Hayden
1 microcassette tape 24 Feb 1990
JEK C/1/161 Interviews entitled Hayden letters between Samuel Beckett and Henri and Josette Hayden. Read by James Knowlson and annotated by Josette Hayden
1 microcassette tape 27 Jan 1990
JEK C/1/162 Index cards to the interviews conducted by James Knowlson Please note this uses the former reference numbers used by James Knowlson
1 folder 1980s-1990s
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JEK C/2/1 Recordings of Samuel Beckett’s own voice
JEK C/2/1/1 Cassette tape of Samuel Beckett reads Lessness James Knowlson note: There are, to James Knowlson's knowledge, out in the world only three or four copies of this recording in which Beckett punctuates his text by tapping on the café table (two taps registering the end of a sentence, four taps denoting the end of a paragraph). This copy was made directly from Martin Esslin’s original tape and the provenance is the BBC producer himself who sent it to James Knowlson. Another copy is already placed in the Archive of the Beckett International Foundation in the University of Reading. It was played to the public at the Macmillan Cancer Relief Gala Evening in Reading Town Hall on April 2nd 2006. Note that there are significant variants in the text as read by Beckett compared with that which is printed in The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989 volume (Grove Atlantic, New York, 1995). This private recording was made by Martin Esslin, then Head of Radio Drama with the BBC in a Paris café as part of the preparation for the recording of his prose text for the BBC. The programme was first broadcast on 25 February 1971.
1 cassette tape 1971
JEK C/2/1/2 Cassette tape of Lessness: BBC radio programme James Knowlson note: This BBC recording based on suggestions made at the meeting referred to in JEK C/2/1/1 was first broadcast on 25 February 1972. It has six different actors (Nicol Williamson, Denis Hawthorne, Leonard Fenton, Page 436 of 562
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Harold Pinter, Patrick Magee, and Donal Donnelly) each reading different groups of statements or images. The programme is introduced and produced by Martin Esslin.
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JEK C/2/1/3 Cassette tape of Eh Joe Samuel Beckett rehearsing the actress, Siân Phillips (with Jack MacGowran) in Eh Joe
James Knowlson note: This rare, although very brief, extract of Beckett speaking an extract from his own text was clearly recorded secretly by the sound engineer. The recording was made in the sound studios of the BBC in January 1966 for the BBC television programme. The other voices heard in addition to that of Beckett, who does the initial reading himself, are those of Siân Phillips, the sound engineer and the producer, Alan Gibson. Jack MacGowran is also clearly present at the rehearsal. This recording was presented to the Beckett International Foundation by Martha Fehsenfeld in April 1994. There are two audio copies of this recording, one of which is superior in quality to the other. And there is the original reel to reel recording of it.
2 cassette tapes, 1 reel to reel tape 1966
JEK C/2/1/4 Cassette tape of Samuel Beckett in conversation with Barney Rosset and John Reilly from Global Village, New York James Knowlson note: This recording of a private conversation with John Reilly in a Paris hotel room was recorded unknown to Beckett in 1987. They discuss a choice of plays that might be part of a film, including a new version of Eh Joe. Reilly and Beckett talk about Billie Whitelaw, David Warrilow, Ronald Pickup, Barry McGovern, Jack MacGowran, Michael Colgan and Tom Hickey. Rosset takes a photograph of Beckett with John Reilly in the course of the meeting. They discuss Hugh Kenner’s work on Beckett. There is discussion of Rick Cluchey, his performance in Krapp’s Last Tape and a film which was based on Cluchey’s life. They also talk of an interview for the Page 437 of 562
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film done with Joe Coffey, the cameraman on the film with Buster Keaton. Mention is made of Walter Asmus and of the help that he is giving to Michael Rudman on his production at the National Theatre in London. They refer to the producer, Jack Garfein and a meeting that Reilly was having that night with him. They discuss Godeau, the racing cyclist who took part in the Tour de France. The tape originated with Barney Rosset, Beckett’s American publisher. Needless to say perhaps this recording is very rare indeed. It was, James Knowlson seems to recall, made available to him privately by S. E. Gontarski.
1 cassette tape c.1987
JEK C/2/2 Samuel Beckett’s plays for radio, recordings of his stage plays and readings of his work
JEK C/2/2/1 Cassette tape of All that Fall Directed by Donald McWhinnie, J. G. Devlin as Mr Rooney, Mary O’Farrell as Mrs Rooney, Patrick Magee as Mr. Slocum, Jack MacGowran also played parts
James Knowlson note: The original BBC Third Programme recording of Beckett’s radio play, All that Fall, first broadcast on 13 January 1957. It was repeated on 29 September 1996, when this recording was made. Landmark production.
1 cassette tape 1996
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RIAS-Berlin, cast includes David Warrilow as Dan Rooney and Billie Whitelaw as Maddy Rooney, Alvin Epstein plays Mr. Slocum, two copies, one of which is a preview copy, 89 mins, the radio production was released via American Public Radio
James Knowlson note: Premièred on Samuel Beckett’s 80th birthday 13 April 1986
2 cassette tapes 1986
JEK C/2/2/3 Cassette tape of All that Fall Directed and produced by Everett Frost, a production of Voices International, cast includes David Warrilow as Dan Rooney and Billie Whitelaw as Maddy Rooney, 90 minute play and a documentary about the production
2 cassette tapes 1986
JEK C/2/2/4 Cassette tape of Embers Directed and produced by Everett Frost, The Beckett Festival of Radio Plays, featuring Barry McGovern and Billie Whitelaw, radio play and a documentary about the production, a production of Voices International, first broadcast in April 1989
1 cassette tape 1989
JEK C/2/2/5 Cassette tape of Cascando Directed and produced by Everett Frost, the Beckett Festival of Radio Plays, featuring Alvin Epstein and Frederick Neumann with original music by William Kraft, a radio play and a documentary about the production, first broadcast in April 1989
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JEK C/2/2/6 Cassette tape of Rough for Radio II Directed and produced by Everett Frost, the Beckett Festival of Radio Plays, featuring Amanda Plummer, W. Dennis Hunt and Barry McGovern, a radio play and a documentary about the production, first broadcast in April 1989
1 cassette tape 1989
JEK C/2/2/7 Cassette tape of Words and Music Directed and produced by Everett Frost, The Beckett Festival of Radio Plays, featuring David Warrilow and Alvin Epstein with original music by Morton Feldman, a radio play and a documentary about the production, first broadcast in April 1989
1 cassette tape 1989
JEK C/2/2/8 Cassette tape of Rough for Radio [I] World première production of a text which was written in French in 1961, BBC Radio 3, 13 April 1976, with Harold Pinter, Billie Whitelaw and Patrick Magee, directed by Martin Esslin
1 cassette tape 1976
JEK C/2/2/9 Cassette tape of Rough for Radio [I] Samuel Beckett – Richard Rijnvos, with Michael Gough as He, Joan Plowright as She, John Cage as Voice and music composed by Richard Rijnvos with the Ives Ensemble as Music, Radio Netherlands, length 22 mins Page 440 of 562
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James Knowlson note: Gift of Richard Rijnvos to James Knowlson.
1 cassette tape 1990-1991
JEK C/2/2/10 Cassette tape of En attendant Godot French language recording of Beckett’s play featuring the original cast in a historic production recorded at the Théâtre de Babylone shortly after the play received its Paris première on 5 January 1953, broadcast on the BBC as part of French Challenge on 3 September 1994, directed by Roger Blin. With Lucien Raimbourg as Vladimir, Pierre Latour as Estragon, Roger Blin as Pozzo, Jean Martin as Lucky and Serge Lecointe as the Boy. With a cutting and cast list from the BBC’s Radio Times, 3-9 September 1994.
1 cassette tape 1994
JEK C/2/2/11 Cassette tape of Godot was here BBC Radio 3 programme recalling the extraordinary events which surrounded the opening of the English première of Waiting for Godot at the Arts Theatre in London in August 1955, Timothy Bateson, Peter Hall and Paul Daneman recall these events and discuss the subsequent influence of this 20th century masterpiece, producer, Martin Jenkins, BBC Radio 3, Sept 3rd 1994, features the voices of Peter Bull, Hugh Burden, Leonard Cracknell and Peter Woodthorpe, as well as those of Bateson, Hall and Daneman
1 cassette tape 1994
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conducted by John Beckett, produced by Michael Bakewell first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, 13 November 1962, duration 27.45
1 cassette tape 1962
JEK C/2/2/13 Cassette tape of Cascando A play for radio by Samuel Beckett, with music by Marcel Mihalovici, Voice - Patrick Magee, Opener - Denys Hawthorne, produced by Donald McWhinnie, first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, 6 October 1964, duration: 20.45, Rebroadcast on 7 Sept 1999 on BBC Radio 3
1 cassette tape 1999
JEK C/2/2/14 Cassette tape of First Love Readings and discussion, BBC Radio 4, 27 Feb 2001, reader Stephen Dillane, contributors to the discussion are Billie Whitelaw, John Calder, Declan Kibberd, James Knowlson
1 cassette tape 2001
JEK C/2/2/15 Cassette tape of Waiting for Godot New York production 1956 recorded on Colombia Records, directed by Herbert Berghof, with Bert Lahr, E.G. Marshall, Kurt Kasznar, and Alvin Epstein, reissued in 1972
James Knowlson note: For discussion of Beckett’s own reaction to this recording, see his letter to Barney Rosset discussed on pp. 422-423 of Damned to Fame (UK edition), p. 31 (USA edition)
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JEK C/2/2/16 Cassette tape of Waiting for Godot San Quentin Drama Workshop, directed by Walter Asmus and supervised by Samuel Beckett, private recording of an actual performance of this production in Melbourne, 1984-5?, Estragon is played by Larry Held, Vladimir by Bud Thorpe, Pozzo by Rick Cluchey and Lucky by John Jenkins or J. Pat Miller
James Knowlson note: The source of this private recording was Colin Duckworth. 2 recordings (4 tapes) probably made on two different nights
4 cassette tapes c.1984-1985
JEK C/2/2/17 Cassette tape of Waiting for Godot BBC 1994 radio production, directed by Peter Wood, Alan Howard as Vladimir, Michael Maloney as Estragon, Stratford Johns as Pozzo, Simon Russell-Beale as Lucky, Tristram Moriarty as Boy, narrator, who reads Beckett’s stage directions is Geraldine McEwan, BBC radio 3, Sunday Play, 4 Sept 1994, 9.50 p.m. A Catherine Bailey production, with Radio Times cutting, 3-9 Sept 1994, with a photograph of Beckett
James Knowlson note: This production used the revised production text which was published in Dougald McMillan and James Knowlson’s edition of The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, vol. I, (Faber and Faber, London).
2 cassette tapes 1994
JEK C/2/2/18 Cassette tape of That Time A copy of the sound tape of the recording made by Patrick Magee for the Royal Court Theatre production in London in May 1976
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1 cassette tape 1976
JEK C/2/2/19 Cassette tape of That Time A copy of the sound tape of the recording made by James Duke for Quiet Theatre, April 1986, Reading Arts Theatre, directed by Andrew Renton. James Duke went on to perform the role of Lucky in Machester Royal Exchange Theatre’s Waiting for Godot with Richard Wilson
James Knowlson note: This is a preliminary recording not used in the performance, then the tape was rerecorded for the production 4 April 1986 in the ‘Beckett at Eighty’ celebrations in Reading
2 cassette tapes 1986
JEK C/2/3 Readings of Beckett’s prose texts and poetry
JEK C/2/3/1 Cassette tape of Texts for Nothing Read by Patrick Magee, BBC Radio 3
1 cassette tape Undated
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lavatory, recorded for James Knowlson
James Knowlson note: Absolutely unique recording. It is delivered by Beckett’s friend, the actor, Magee, from memory, is very faint but is audible and needs amplification. This same poem is printed in Gerald Pakenham Stewart’s book, The Rough and the Smooth, also in the collection confirming Beckett’s authorship. It is of course not published in Beckett’s oeuvre.
1 cassette tape Undated
JEK C/2/3/3 Cassette tape of Company Reading of Beckett’s prose text by Patrick Magee, BBC Radio 3
1 cassette tape 14 Jul 1980
JEK C/2/3/4 Cassette tape of Poems Read by the late Jack McGowran who died in 1973, recorded in Jan and Feb 1966, repeated on BBC Radio 3, 14 Apr 1976 as part of the BBC’s 70th birthday tribute to Samuel Beckett
James Knowlson note: Some of the poems have textual changes that were introduced by Beckett who was present during the recording and rehearsed McGowran in the recording studio
1 cassette tape 1976
JEK C/2/3/5 Cassette tape of Poèmes suivis de Mirlitonnades With Imagination morte imaginez and Bing, read by Michael Lonsdale, private recording
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recording of the poems.
1 cassette tape Undated
JEK C/2/3/6 Cassette tape of Poèmes suivis de Mirlitonnades With Imagination morte imaginez and Bing, read by Michael Lonsdale, commercial recording
1 cassette tape 1984
JEK C/2/3/7 Cassette tape of Stirrings Still and A Piece of Monologue Stirrings Still read by Barry McGovern, BBC Radio 3, 1989 and A Piece of Monologue read by Ronald Pickup, BBC Radio 3, 1986
1 cassette tape 1986, 1989
JEK C/2/3/8 Cassette tape of A Tribute to Beckett Dante and the Lobster and From an Abandoned Work read by Barry McGovern, the Abbey Reads, Paycock Publications, director Kathleen Barrington
1 cassette tape 1986
JEK C/2/3/9 Cassette tape of Drunken Boat Translation by Beckett of Rimbaud’s Le bateau ivre, read by Ronald Pickup, BBC Radio 3, 1976, introduced by James Knowlson, produced by Martin Esslin
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JEK C/2/3/10 Cassette tape of Beckett at Eighty Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Ronald Pickup read from Beckett’s prose and poetry at the University of Reading, 11 May 1986, private recording
1 cassette tape 1986
JEK C/2/4 Broadcast Tapes – mostly interviews and discussions
JEK C/2/4/1 Cassette tape of From Godot to Footfalls and Krapp’s Last Tape From Godot to Footfalls, BBC broadcast talk by James Knowlson on Beckett, BBC Radio 3, May 1976, repeated, July 1976 and Krapp’s Last Tape, translation from the German of a piece by Rick Cluchey of the Bethanian Krapp’s Last Tape booklet
1 cassette tape 1976, undated
JEK C/2/4/2 Cassette tape of BBC Overseas Service Meridian arts programme Interviews with Billie Whitelaw and James Knowlson about Footfalls and Rockaby
1 cassette tape 2 Feb 1986
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JEK C/2/4/3 Cassette tape of Nightwaves A reassessment of Beckett focusing on discussion of James Knowlson and Anthony Cronin’s biographies of Beckett, Richard Coles and interviews with both Knowlson and Cronin, BBC Radio 3, 24 Sept 1996, 45 minute programme including another item. One copy has a ‘Nightwaves’ programme about theatre director, Peter Brook, 27 Nov 1997
3 cassette tapes 1996-1997
JEK C/2/4/4 Cassette tape of Nightwaves Discussion including an item on John Haynes and James Knowlson, Images of Beckett, Cambridge University Press, 26 Sept 2003, includes an interview with James Knowlson
1 cassette tape 2003
JEK C/2/4/5 Cassette tape of Interview Writers and Company, James Knowlson on Samuel Beckett, host Eleanor Wachtel, producer Mary Stinson, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, original broadcast date 28 Sept 1997, rebroadcast on RTE, April 2006
1 cassette tape 1997
JEK C/2/4/6 Cassette tape of But what will Germany be, for 6 ? Months … Discussion programme about Samuel Beckett’s 1936-37 trip to Germany based upon his German Diaries and discussions with Walter Asmus, Gaby Hartel, James Knowlson, Hans-Ulrich Müller Schwefe and Erika Tophoven, 3 Sept 2000, programme broadcast on occasion of ‘Beckett in Berlin’ Festival
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JEK C/2/4/7 Cassette tape of Beckett in Bayern, 1937 by James Knowlson, translated into German by Gaby Hartel, Bayerischer Rundfunk.
2 cassette tapes 2001
JEK C/2/4/8 Cassette tape of Interview met Prof James Knowlson – Reading Universiteit Interview by Bart Stouten, for a programme about Beckett on Belgian radio
1 cassette tape 25 Jan 1993
JEK C/2/4/9 Cassette tape of Beckett Op Drie Radio 3 Brussels, programme in Dutch, includes an interview with James Knowlson
2 cassette tapes Undated
JEK C/2/4/10 Cassette tape of Off the Shelf James Knowlson talks to Séamus Hosey about his biography of Beckett Damned to Fame, RTE
1 cassette tape 1996
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BBC Radio2, Arts Review, interview by Sheridan Morley with James Knowlson about Damned to Fame The Life of Samuel Beckett
1 cassette tape 1996
JEK C/2/4/12 Cassette tape of interview with James Knowlson, London Live Discussion of Channel 4 season ‘Beckett on Film’ 19 plays filmed, interviewer Tom Watt, interviewees John Redmond and James Knowlson
1 cassette tape 24 Jun 2001
JEK C/2/4/13 Cassette tape of interview with James Knowlson, Les jeudis littéraires, France Culture The interviewer is by Pascale Casanova – the author of the book Beckett l’abstracteur, the interview is preceded by some brief news items, gift of France Culture
1 cassette tape 5 Apr 1999
JEK C/2/4/14 Cassette tape of various interviews Including short but combative discussion of the Samuel Beckett season of the Gate Theatre, Dublin at the Barbican Centre London James Knowlson and Michael Billington, interviewed by John Humphrey, Today programme 28 August 1999 , Declan Kibberd, BBC 4, ‘Front Row’, 1 Sep 1999 on Waiting for Godot Gate Theatre, Dublin Beckett Festival at the Barbican Centre, London, interviewed by Mark Lawson, ‘Centurions: Waiting for Godot’, Discussion with James Knowlson, Barry McGovern and Michèle Roberts, BBC Radio 3, 5 Sep 1999, ‘Beckett and Music’, Discussion with Edward Beckett, Mary Bryden, Michael Billington, John Calder, James Knowlson, BBC Radio 3, 5 Sep 1999
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JEK C/2/4/15 Cassette tape of interview with James Knowlson Interviewer Vincent Josse, France Inter
1 cassette tape 16 Apr 1999
JEK C/2/4/16 Cassette tape of BBC Overseas Service, Meridian Billie Whitelaw and James Knowlson talk about Footfalls and Rockaby
1 cassette tape 2 Feb 1986
JEK C/2/4/17 Cassette tape of BBC Kaleidoscope Fiona Shaw on her performance in Deborah Warner’s controversial production of Footfalls at the Garrick Theatre London, 1994
1 cassette tape 17 Mar 1994
JEK C/2/4/18 Cassette tape of source tape for Beckett Programmes An interview with Beckett’s good friend, Dr Geoffrey Thompson
1 cassette tape 14 Oct 1976
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Producer Kieran Sheedy, presented by Andy O’Mahoney, a four-part documentary on the Life and Work of Samuel Beckett
2 cassette tapes 1976
JEK C/2/4/20 Cassette tape of The Life and Work of Samuel Beckett Part IV of RTE programme, plus Jack Magowran talking about Samuel Beckett
1 cassette tape 1976
JEK C/2/4/21 Cassette tape of Ausgeträumt träumen Samuel Beckett zum 90 by Oliver Sturm, 68’20 mins long, broadcast Samuel Beckett - Die weniger bekannte Geschichte seines Lebens und Arbeitens Von Oliver Sturm,produktion: SFB / BR / WDR
1 cassette tape 1996
JEK C/2/4/22 Cassette tape of The Other Beckett and Embers The Other Beckett,Christopher Ricks introduces and reads from the early Fiction, BBC Radio 3 and Embers with Jack Magowran from 1958
James Knowlson note: an imperfect recording of the original production, a couple of lines are missed at the change of sides on the tape
1 cassette tape 6 Sept 1999
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JEK C/2/4/23 Cassette tape of The Other Beckett and Krapp or the Last Tape The Other Beckett, Christopher Ricks, BBC Radio 3 and Krapp or the Last Tape, opera by Marcel Mihalovici, based on Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, sung by the British baritone, David Barrel with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, followed by a short discussion of Richard Barrett’s music for ‘Ne songe plus à fuir’ by Katherine Laws
1 cassette tape undated
JEK C/2/4/24 Cassette tape of Nightwaves, on Samuel Beckett Gate Theatre Festival, BBC Radio 3, contributors are John Banville, Billie Whitelaw, James Knowlson, Michael Colgan, readers Stephen Brennan, Alan Stanford, Barry McGovern, John Hurt
1 cassette tape 9 Sept 1999
JEK C/2/4/25 Cassette tape of Beckett in Hamburg … 1936 Radio Bremen, script by James Knowlson, producer Hans Helge Ott, 25.06 minutes long, tape from Radio Bremen
1 cassette tape 10 Jun 2001
JEK C/2/4/26 Cassette tape of Discussion of Beckett on Film Including Fiona Shaw and Esther Freud, BBC Radio 4
1 cassette tape 29 Jun 2001
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Ed Thomasson, with Billie Whitelaw, Sir Peter Hall, John Calder, Barney Rosset, James Knowlson, Deirdre Bair, John Banville
2 cassette tapes 1990
JEK C/2/4/28 Cassette tape of Remembering Sam Trinity College Dublin, reminiscences of Georges Belmont, John Calder and Francis Stuart
1 cassette tape 15 Oct 1991
JEK C/2/4/29 Cassette tape of Review of Oh les beaux jours (Happy Days) the production by Peter Brook with Natasha Parry as Winnie, BBC Radio 4, Kaleidoscope
1 cassette tape 1 Dec 1997
JEK C/2/4/30 Cassette tape of Review of Mary Bryden’s Samuel Beckett and Music BBC Radio 3
1 cassette tape 31 Mar 1998
JEK C/2/4/31 Cassette tape of BBC Radio Berkshire Henry Kelly interviews James Knowlson about Samuel Beckett Centenary following the Beckett Gala Evening (for Macmillan Cancer Relief) at Reading Town Hall on 2 April 2006
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JEK C/2/4/32 Cassette tape of Interview with John Alderton relating to the National Theatre production by Michael Rudman of Waiting for Godot at the Lyttleton Theatre in London, 1988. BBC Radio 4
1 cassette tape 1988
JEK C/2/4/33 Cassette tape of interview by James Knowlson with Billie Whitelaw and with Leonard Fenton Interviewing Billie Whitelaw who played Winnie, about the production of Happy Days in 1979 when Whitelaw was directed by Beckett at the Royal Court Theatre, London and Interview with Leonard Fenton, who played Willie
James Knowlson note: There is much discussion of the details of the costume, the props, the make-up, the mound, the voices adopted, the song based on Beckett’s own rendering of the Waltz from the Merry Widow, etc. Recorded sometime in 1984 at Billie Whitelaw’s house as an aid to the Faber and Faber edition of the Beckett Production Notebook that James Knowlson was editing. Leonard Fenton interviewed on the telephone, checking a few details arising from the interview above with Billie Whitelaw, 1984 and putting a few queries to him as to what occurred in Beckett’s production
1 cassette tape 1984, undated
JEK C/2/4/34 Cassette tape of What? Who? No She, interview with Billie Whitelaw Interviewer was James Knowlson, London Audio-Visual Centre, audio tape of a video recording
1 cassette tape 1 Feb 1977
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JEK C/2/4/35 Cassette tape of in the Psychiatrist’s Chair, Anthony Clare talks to Billie Whitelaw BBC Radio 4
1 cassette tape Undated
JEK C/2/4/36 Cassette tape of Krapp’s Last Tape interviews
JEK C/2/4/37 Cassette tape of interview with Patrick Magee about Krapp’s Last Tape James Knowlson note: Partially used in Theatre Workbook no. 1 Brutus Books, London
1 cassette tape 8 Jan 1979
JEK C/2/4/38 Cassette tape of interview with Donald McWhinnie about Krapp’s Last Tape James Knowlson note: Partially used in Theatre Workbook no. 1 Brutus Books, London
1 cassette tape 24 Apr 1979
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JEK C/2/4/40 Cassette tape of interview with Alan Schneider Talking about Schneider’s US première of Krapp’s Last Tape, interview at the Lincoln Centre, New York
1 cassette tape 27 Oct 1978
JEK C/2/4/41 Cassette tape of interview with Donald Davis Donald Davis who played Krapp in the USA production of Krapp’s Last Tape directed by Alan Schneider
James Knowlson note: The Canadian actor recorded his memories of playing this part in response to questions sent to him by James Knowlson. He posted these answers to James Knowlson.
1 cassette tape 17 March 1979
JEK C/2/4/42 Cassette tape of Martin Held talks to Ronald Hayman about his performance under Beckett’s direction in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Schiller-Theater, Berlin, oral translation from Hayman’s German script by Helen Watanabe
1 cassette tape Oct 1969
JEK C/2/4/43 Cassette tape of interview with Max Wall who played Krapp in Krapp’s Last Tape University of London Audio-Visual Centre
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JEK C/2/4/44 Cassette tape of A Tribute to Max Wall Record of the Memorial Service
James Knowlson note: Rare item in that the provenance is the producer of the TV film about the career of Max Wall, Paul Fox
1 cassette tape Undated [May 1990]
JEK C/2/5 Additional performances, interviews, discussions
JEK C/2/5/1 Cassette tape of Embers with Michael Gambon as Henry, directed by Stephen Rea, BBC Radio 3
1 cassette tape 9 Apr 2006
JEK C/2/5/2 Cassette tape of Not I, with Juliet Stevenson as Mouth BBC Radio 3
1 cassette tape 9 Apr 2006
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BBC Radio 3, including discussion of Beckett and Music, interview with Professor Mary Bryden of Cardiff University, musical quotations from Beethoven’s Ghost Trio, Berio, and Mark-Anthony Turnage, Kurtág (‘What is the Word’), discussion also of links with Stravinsky and the influence of Beckett on Berio, Morton Feldman (‘For Samuel Beckett’) and two short interviews with Beckett’s publisher, John Calder and the USA radio producer, Everett Frost and Krapp’s Last Tape, Corin Redgrave plays Krapp in a radio production, BBC Radio 3
1 cassette tape 9 April 2006
JEK C/2/5/4 Cassette tape of Discussion of Beckett with Paul Auster and James Knowlson Today programme, on the occasion of the publication of Beckett Remembering – Beckett Remembering
1 cassette tape 11 Mar 2006
JEK C/2/5/5 Cassette tape of Nightwaves BBC Radio 3, Landmark series, discussion of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, contributors Sebastian Barry, Sir Peter Hall and Mary Bryden
1 cassette tape 6 Apr 2006
JEK C/2/5/6 Cassette tape of Sam O’Bedlam A play about Samuel Beckett by Mark Burgess, BBC Radio 4
1 cassette tape 13 Apr 2006
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JEK C/2/5/7 Cassette tape of interview with Leonard Fenton on Beckett Bath Festival, BBC Radio or Classic Fm
1 cassette tape 1996
JEK C/2/5/8 Cassette tape of The Luttringhausen prisoner who played in Warten auf Godot, letters about him and his fate, for example letters from Pastor Mahker,translated into English for James Knowlson by Wolfgang van Emden
James Knowlson note: [see Damned to Fame, pp. 409-411]
1 cassette tape undated
JEK C/2/5/9 Cassette tape of Launch of James Knowlson’s Damned to Fame at the Royal Court Theatre London A Programme of Readings from Beckett’s work with Jean Martin and some poems, performers including Len Fenton, Barry McGovern, Alan Stanford, and the voice of the Dame Peggy Ashcroft
James Knowlson note: This is almost certainly a unique recording
1 cassette tape 1996
JEK C/2/5/10 Cassette tape of Translations 1. Siegfried Unseld’s obituary of Samuel Beckett Die Zeit, 5 Jan 1990, 2. An interview with Dr Joachim Klaiber about the Mihalovici opera of Krapp’s Last Tape at Bielefeld, 3. Klaiber’s article from Basler Nachrichten, nr. 96 of 4-5 Feb 1961, 4. Letter from the Director of Kassel’s art gallery Dr Marianne Heinz, 5. Extracts from the catalogue of Peter Duülberg the son of painter/stage designer Evard Dülberg and 6. Melchior article on Eh Joe Page 460 of 562
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JEK C/2/5/11 Cassette tape of Desmond Egan Poet’s Choice Selected and read by the poet, Kavanagh Cassettes, Ireland, includes a poem entitled ‘Echo’s Bones’ and Beckett’s comment ‘moving poems’ on Egan’s work
James Knowlson note: Beckett knew Desmond Egan
1 cassette tape undated
JEK C/2/5/12 Cassette tape of interview with Josette Hayden Josette Hayden, the wife of painter Henri Hayden and friend of Beckett is interviewed in the painter’s studio by Emily Emerson, begins with a discussion of a Hayden painting.
1 cassette tape undated
JEK C/3 Reel to reel magnetic sound tape
JEK C/3/1 Tape of Beckett Poem Sequence 9 mins, 30 secs, in English
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JEK C/3/2 Tape of Endgame by Beckett approx 80 mins, copied 22 Jan 1971
1 reel to reel tape Undated [c.1971]
JEK C/3/3 Tape of From an Abandoned work - A Meditation spoken by Patrick Magee 23 mins 33 secs, tape speed, 7½ i.p.s. (Tape copy from BBC Sound Archive Disc LP. 24982.)
1 reel to reel tape Undated
JEK C/3/4 Tape of How it is by Samuel Beckett read by Patrick Magee
1 reel to reel tape Undated
JEK C/3/5 Tape of Donald Davis as Krapp in Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett Directed by Alan Schneider, Spoken Arts Recording, S. A. 788, presented by Arthur Luce Klein, Ampex magnetic tape
1 reel to reel tape Undated
JEK C/3/6 Tape of Krapp's Last Tape Patrick Magee, BBC2 30 min theatre, directed by Donald McWhinnie, sound version of this production on Ampex tape
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JEK C/3/7 Tape of Oh Les Beaux Jours by Samuel Beckett Production by Roger Blin with Madeleine Renaud and Jean- Louis Barrault
1 reel to reel tape Undated
JEK C/3/8 Tape of Macgowran speaking Beckett Claddach records
2 reel to reel tapes Undated
JEK C/3/9 Tape of Becketts Exhibition James Knowlson, TV piece, late night line up
1 reel to reel tape Undated [May 1971]
JEK C/3/10 Tape of Opening of Samuel Beckett exhibition by Harold Pinter Pinter is introduced by the Vice-Chancellor of Reading University, Dr Harry Pitt. This was subsequently printed in New Theatre Magazine, XI, no. 3, 1971
1 reel to reel tape 19 May 1971
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JEK C/3/12 Tape of George Reavey, interview with James Knowlson
1 reel to reel tape 6 Aug 1971
JEK C/4 LP records
JEK C/4/1 Recording of Samuel Beckett, Endgame Directed by Alan Schneider. Hamm - Lester Rawlins, Clov - Gerald Hiken, Nagg - P. J. Kelly, Nell - Nydia Westerman, photographic sleeve, Evergreen Records EVR 003 (Stero) Grove press, double album, complete text
1 LP Undated
JEK C/4/2 Recording of Samuel Beckett, Damals/Tritte Zwei Einakter Eine Inszenierung des Schiller Theaters (Werkstatt), Berlin, Damals: Klaus Herm. Tritte May: Hildegard Schmahl; Stimme der Mutter: Charlotte Joeres. Directed by Samuel Beckett assisted by Walter Asmus. Deutsche Grammophon. Stereo 2570011. Photographic sleeve. Some damage to sleeve.
1 LP c. 1977
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JEK C/4/3 Recording of Samuel Beckett, Oh Les Beaux Jours with Madeleine Renaud as Winnie and Jean-Louis Barrault as Willie. Disques Adès 8003. Collection ‘Théâtre’ 3
1 LP Feb 1964
JEK C/4/4 Recording of Bettina Jonic, The Bitter Mirror Songs by Bertolt Brecht and Bob Dylan, with a covering letter from Bettina Jonic, gifting the record made in 1975 to James Knowlson and speaking of her friendship with Beckett
1 LP 1975
JEK C/4/5 Recording of Jean Cocteau La Voix Humaine with Simone Signoret Presented by Jacques Canetti, 48802
1 LP Feb 1964
JEK C/4/6 Recording of How it is by Samuel Beckett read by Patrick Magee, J & B recordings
1 LP Undated
JEK C/5 CD's & DVD's
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JEK C/5/1 CD entitled Samuel Beckett Consists of 1. Introduction, Ben Barnes – Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre Dublin 2. Cascando, Frank O’Dwyer – Voice, Bosco Hoga - Opener, Gerard Victory - Music 2. Words and Music, Garvin McGrath – Words, Patrick Dawson – Croak, Morton Feldman – Music
1 CD Undated
JEK C/5/2 CD entitled Samuel Beckett Consists of 1. Embers- Barry McGovern as Henry, Geraldine Plunkett as Ada, Claire Dawson as Addie, Patrick Dawson as Music and the Riding Master 2. Beckett as a Young Man - Mary Manning, Prof R. E. Stern, Andrew Ganly, Rev. D. Graham, Tom Cox, Geoffrey Thompson, A. A. Luce, Bill Cunningham
1 CD Undated
JEK C/5/3 CD entitled Samuel Beckett Consists of 1. from Molloy 2. from Malone Dies 3. from The Unnamable [Cyril Cusack – Narrator, Howard Sackler - Director, 4.-7. Company, Philip Glass - composer, London Chamber Orchestra
1 CD Undated
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1 CD Undated
JEK C/5/5 CD entitled Samuel Beckett Consists of 1. Company - Conor Farrington – Narrator, William Stiles – Producer
1 CD Undated
JEK C/5/6 CD entitled Samuel Beckett Consists of The Belacquiad compiled and presented by Luke Verling with Barry McGovern, Tony Kirby and Daniel Riordan Readers and John Banville and Gerry Dukes Contributors, Peter Mooney – Producer
1 CD Undated
JEK C/5/7 DVD entitled Das Letzte Band Consists of film by Jean-Claude Kuner and Peter Henning, Berlin, 1988, Berliner Filmfestspieler, Feb 1989
1 DVD 1988
JEK C/5/8 DVD entitled Curt Bois Vom Heinerle zum Krapp Eine Schauspieler-Karriere des 20, Jahrhunderts, Hörstück von Jean-Claude Kuner, Deutschlandradio/NDR.
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JEK C/5/9 CD entitled "...the whole thing’s coming out of the dark" Samuel Beckett- words/sounds & moving images, with Klaus Buhlert, Uwe Dierksen, Raymond Federman, Barry McGovern, Natasha Parry, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Deutschland Radio, Kunsthalle Wien
1 CD 2000
JEK C/5/10 CD entitled MacGowran speaking Beckett A CD version of the Claddagh LP record recorded in February 1966
1 CD 1966
JEK C/5/11 CD entitled Extraordinary. Stille. Ce soir. By Jean-Claude Kuner and Andrea Marggraf, 2 CD version, SWR/WDR/ABC 2006, 88 minutes long, speakers are Fritz Lichtenhahn, Regina Lemnitz, Klaus Herm, Friedhelm Ptok, Tonio Arrango, Cl. Stephan Rehfeld Am Klavier: Thomas Bächli, Interviewees are Anne Atik, Avigdor Arikha, James Knowlson, Barbara Bray, Jean Martiun, Billie Whitelaw, Edward Beckett, Walter Asmus, Pierre Chabert
2 CDs 2006
JEK C/5/12 CD entitled Extraordinary. Stille. Ce soir. A 59 minute version of NUMBER ... for WDR broadcast on WDR 3 on 11 April 2006, By Jean-Claude Kuner and Andrea Marggraf, speakers are Fritz Lichtenhahn, Regina Lemnitz, Klaus Herm, Friedhelm Ptok, Tonio Arrango, Cl. Stephan Rehfeld Am Klavier: Thomas Bächli, Interviewees are Anne Page 468 of 562
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Atik, Avigdor Arikha, James Knowlson, Barbara Bray, Jean Martiun, Billie Whitelaw, Edward Beckett, Walter Asmus, Pierre Chabert
1 CD 2006
JEK C/5/13 CD entitled Gaby Hartel in Gespräch mit James Knowlson Deutschlandfunk
1 CD 15 Apr 2006
JEK C/5/14 CD entitles Der irischer Europäer Consists of Walter Bohnacker interviewing James Knowlson and Julian Garforth, broadcast on WDR 3, 9 mins long, with a note
1 CD 38820
JEK C/5/15 CD interviews with James Knowlson Interviewer Jean-Claude Kuner, these interviews were incorporated into Kuner’s WDR programmes
2 CDs 2006
JEK C/5/16 CD entitled Becketts Text ist Musik für mich Feature audio CD by Jean-Claude Kuner, with Edward Beckett, Anne Atik, Avigdor Arikha, James Knowlson, Barbara Bray, Billie Whitelaw and Walter Asmus, 43.06 minutes long
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JEK C/5/17 CD entitled Now and In Time to be, A Musical celebration of the Works of W. B. Yeats With various artists including Richard Harris, Van Morrison and W. B. Yeats himself
1 CD 1997
JEK C/5/18 CD entitled Percival, Time Space Music Swedish artist strongly inspired in his own work by Samuel Beckett
1 CD 2000
JEK C/5/19 CD entitled Percival, Time Plays Music Swedish artist strongly inspired in his own work by Samuel Beckett
1 CD 2000-2002
JEK C/5/20 DVD entitled Beckett in Blue A Centenary series of paintings by Donegal artist, Colette Herron, with music accompanying the images
1 CD 2006
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JEK C/5/22 CDs entitled Murphy by Samuel Beckett San Quentin Drama Workshop, narrated by Fionnula Flanagan, Colm Meany as Murphy, Viper Records, NY
2 copies 2000
JEK C/5/23 CD entitled Molloy by Samuel Beckett Performed by Conor Lovett, Belfast
2 copies 1998
JEK C/5/24 CD entitled Beckett and Painting, , Sept. 2000. James Knowlson interviewed by Bernd Kempker, with photograph of James Knowlson
1 CD Sept 2000
JEK C/5/25 CD entitled The blue celeste of poesy Radio feature on Beckett and Painting by Bernd Kempker and Jim Knowlson, broadcast 29 May 2001
1 CD 2001
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Monique Haas joue Bartók, Debussy, Ravel 1. Claude Debussy’s Préludes (livre I et II) c. Polydor International, Hamburg, 1963 and 2. Maurice Ravel’s Concerto ‘pour la main gauche’ pour piano et orchestre en ré majeur and Concerto pour piano et orchestre en soi majeur with Orchestre national de l’ORTF Paris, Direction Paul Paray, Béla Bartók’s Concerto no. 3 pour piano et orchestre with the RAIS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Direction Ferenc Fricsay and Sonatine sur des thèmes paysans de Transylvanie, Polydor International, Hamburg 1953-1954
James Knowlson note: Beckett was a close personal friend of the Roumanian-French composer, Marcel Mihalovici and his wife, concert pianist and recording artist, Monique Haas. Suzanne knew her well and she and Beckett used to go around to the Mihalovici’s apartment for dinner and to her concerts. Monique Haas also played especially for the Becketts. Beckett was a particular admirer of her playing of the Bartók Third Piano Concerto which is recorded on the second of these CDs. See Miron Grindea ‘Beckett’s Involvement With Music’, pp. 183-184 in Mary Bryden ed. Samuel Beckett and Music, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998. See also Mihalovici’s correspondence from Beckett in the ‘Books and Manuscripts’ section of the Knowlson archive.
2 CDs 1993
JEK C/5/27 CD entitled Music by Paul Rhys Not I, Piano Trio, Five Preludes, Dialogue, the fruits of one tree
1 CD Undated
JEK C/5/28 CD entitled Compositions by James Patten Volume 2 Chamber music, includes no. 5 ‘… for Nothing’, In memoriam, Samuel Beckett, Solo ‘cello
3 copies 1998
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JEK C/5/29 DVD entitled He, Joe, Quadrat I and II, Nachet und Traume, Geister Trio SDR film
1 DVD 2008
JEK C/5/30 CD of Jonathan Farwell’s performance as Krapp in Krapp’s Last Tape in the USA with some notes about Farwell
2 CDs, 1 folder Undated
JEK C/5/31 CD entitled The Impossible Itself: Godot, Prisons, and Beckett film by Jake Adams, with a promotional note by James Knowlson
1 CD, 1 folder Undated
JEK C/5/32 CD entitled What's so Great About …Samuel Beckett Presented by Lenny Henry, Produced by Simon Elmes, BBC Radio 4
1 CD Jan 2010
JEK C/6 Films
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JEK C/6/1 Beckett on film James Knowlson note: There are several different moments of Beckett caught on film in a short programme related to the German edition of James Knowlson’s biography, Samuel Beckett Eine Biographie (Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt, 2001). The opening shows Beckett as an old man walking across the street. It was probably filmed from a window close to the old people’s home, Le Tiers Temps, where Beckett stayed for the last year or so of his life; Beckett is extremely unsteady on his feet. The second extract is taken from footage of him in October 1969 in a hotel room, saying nothing, with closely cropped hair, at the time of the announcement of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in Nabeul. (This particular occasion was described at some length by Jérôme Lindon in one of his three interviews with JK also in the collection. See Transcripts of Interviews.) The third extract is of Beckett on the set in a television studio at Süddeutscher Rundfunk when he was directing his television plays there. The also features photographs of Beckett and his family and extracts from Sean O’Mordha’s film, Silence to Silence and contains an interview with James Knowlson recorded in Dr Siegfried Unseld’s office at Suhrkamp Haus in Frankfurt on May 18th 2001. The programme was broadcast on SWR’s “Nachtkultur” programme on June 1st 2001.
1 VHS video tape 2001
JEK C/6/1/1 Film entitled Samuel Beckett Ein Portrait James Knowlson note: ARTE and Südwestdeutscherrundfunk. Literary documentary by Goggo Gensch. 2005. Contributors include Werner Spies, Sir Peter Hall, Michael Colgan, James Knowlson, and Walter Asmus,. But there is also archival footage of A. J. Leventhal, Alec Reid, Roger Blin and others from Beckett’s past. Also broadcast in French as Les lèvres se taisent. Most interestingly, however, there is material of Beckett both directing at the Schiller-Theater in Berlin and at Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart and wandering in the street. Two parts. Part I, 44’23; Part II, 43’45.
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1 VHS video tape 2006
JEK C/6/1/2 Film entitled Beckett - Lippen schweigen James Knowlson note: This rare research collection of personal interviews about Beckett was given to James Knowlson either by John Reilly or by Barney Rosset [think the first] to assist him with his Beckett biography.
JEK C/6/2 Research video-tapes Eugène Fidler: (Fournier during the war), Roussillon, 1989; Mary Manning Howe:, Part I, 1987, recorded by John Reilly for Global Village, The Beckett Project
1 VHS video tape 1987, 1989
JEK C/6/2/1 Film of interview with Eugène Fidler, and Mary Manning Howe Elie Blanc: Roussillon, 1989; Emile Bonhomme: the leader of the Roussillon Resistance cell, Roussillon, 1989, recorded by John Reilly for Global Village, The Beckett Project
1 VHS video tape 1989
JEK C/6/2/2 Film of interview with Elie Blanc, and Emile Bonhomme Mary Manning Howe: Part II, 1987; Barney Rosset: of Grove Press, Beckett’s USA publisher, 1991. Recorded by John Reilly for Global Village, The Beckett Project
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JEK C/6/2/3 Film of interview with Mary Manning Howe, Part II, and Barney Rosset Recorded by John Reilly for Global Village, The Beckett Project, first interview
1 VHS video tape 1988
JEK C/6/2/4 Film of interview with John Calder Recorded by John Reilly for Global Village, The Beckett Project, second interview
1 VHS video tape 1990
JEK C/6/2/5 Film of interview with John Calder Recorded by John Reilly for Global Village, The Beckett Project
1 VHS video tape 1991
JEK C/6/2/6 Film of interview with Raymond Federman Parts of the production, tape 2 is followed by the prisoner, Spoon Jackson (who played Pozzo) reciting some of his own poetry
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JEK C/6/2/7 Film of prison production of Waiting for Godot by Jan Jönson with Spoon Jackson and Twin James
JEK C/6/3 Productions of Beckett plays on video tape Recording of Schiller Theater Berlin production, Première 7 March 1975, directed by Samuel Beckett, cast: Stefan Wigger; Horst Bollmann; Karl Raddatz; Klaus Herm, 137.00 mins, broadcast on ZDF Sommer Festival
1 VHS video tape 1975
JEK C/6/3/1 Film entitled Warten auf Godot (Waiting for Godot) by Samuel Beckett directed by Walter Asmus, with Rick Cluchey, Alan Mandel, Bud Thorpe and Larry HeldJames Knowlson note: Based upon Beckett’s own mise en scène.
1 VHS video tape Undated
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2 VHS video tapes Undated
JEK C/6/3/3 Film entitled Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, heavily based on Walter Asmus’s production at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, with Barry McGovern, Johnny Murphy, Stephen Brennan, Alan Stanford and Sam McGovern, broadcast, Channel 4
1 VHS video tape 30 Jun 2001
JEK C/6/3/4 Film entitled Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, in the Beckett on Film series Open University production for BBC2, with Max Wall and Leo McKern
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/3/5 Film entitled Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Act II Open University Production, producer Tony Coe, with Norman Beaton as Hamm, Stephen Rea as Clov, Charlie Drake as Nagg and Kate Binchy as Nell
2 VHS video tapes 1989
JEK C/6/3/6 Film entitled Endgame by Samuel Beckett
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JEK C/6/3/7 Film entitled Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett With Martin Held playing the part of Krapp, directed by Samuel Beckett at the Schiller-Theater Werkstatt
James Knowlson note: 28 Apr 1984 was printed on the tape when it was bought by James Knowlson. But the actual recording was done at the end of October 1969 by Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk. It is a SWDR film of Beckett’s own production.
1 VHS video tape 1969
JEK C/6/3/8 Film entitled Das Letzte Band (Krapp's Last Tape) by Samuel Beckett Catastrophe - recording of David Warrilow playing the Director in the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester Production of this play dedicated to Václav Havel; Krapp’s Last Tape - Jack MacGowran in Alan Schneider’s production of this play for USA TV
James Knowlson note: Both rare
1 VHS video tape 8 Feb 1990, 1971
JEK C/6/3/9 Film entitled Catastrophe by Samuel Beckett, and Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett Happy Days with Billie Whitelaw and Leonard Fenton, BBC TV, directed by Samuel Beckett at the Royal Court Theatre, London, TV direction for BBC 2 was by Tristram Powell; Eh Joe with Jack MacGowran as Joe and Sian Phillips as the Voice
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JEK C/6/3/10 Film entitled Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, and Eh Joe by Samuel Beckett Happy Days with Billie Whitelaw and Leonard Fenton, BBC TV, directed by Samuel Beckett at the Royal Court Theatre, London, TV direction for BBC 2 was by Tristram Powell
1 VHS video tape 1979
JEK C/6/3/11 Film entitled Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, and A Wake for Sam, Not I (with Billie Whitelaw), Harold Pinter and Malone Dies Happy Days with Billie Whitelaw and Leonard Fenton, BBC TV, directed by Samuel Beckett at the Royal Court Theatre, London, TV direction for BBC 2 was by Tristram Powell
1 VHS video tape 1979
JEK C/6/3/12 Film entitled Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, and Eh Joe and the film by Don Pennebaker of Billie Whitelaw and Alan Schneider rehearsing Rockaby, as broadcast on TV Happy Days with Billie Whitelaw and Leonard Fenton, BBC TV, directed by Samuel Beckett at the Royal Court Theatre, London, TV direction for BBC 2 was by Tristram Powell
1 VHS video tape 1979
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JEK C/6/3/14 Film entitled Quadrat I and II Süddeutscherrundfunk, and Krapp’s Last Tape Ghost Trio, … but the clouds … and Not I, The Lively Arts, BBC TV
1 VHS video tape Apr 1976
JEK C/6/3/15 Film entitled Shades Beckett’s German TV plays Süddeutscherrundfunk, includes Was Wo, Geistertrio, … nur noch Gewölk …, Quadrat I & II and Nacht und Traüme, introduced by Georg Hausel
1 VHS video tape 1977
JEK C/6/3/16 Film entitled Schatten (Shades) Beckett’s German TV plays Süddeutscherrundfunk, includes Geistertrio, … nur noch Gewölk …,, Nicht ich, He Joe, Quadrat, and Nacht und Traüme
1 VHS video tape 1977
JEK C/6/3/17 Film entitled Schatten (Shades) Television productions for the University of London Audio- Visual Centre, distributed by the British Film Institute
1 VHS video tape Undated
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JEK C/6/3/18 Eh Joe (with Patrick Magee), film directed by David Clarke, ‘What … Who … No … She’ interview with Billie Whitelaw, interviewer - James Knowlson, Thirty Nine Today interview with Max Wall, interviewer - James Knowlson Channel 4 TV
1 VHS video tape Feb 1990
JEK C/6/3/19 Footfalls and Rockaby A tape of various Beckett productions in both Portuguese and French, recorded in Lisbon
James Knowlson note: Tape given to James Knowlson by Portuguese Director and actress Gracia Lobo. One of the most extraordinary tapes in this collection as the productions take place deliberately on a flooded stage! Quite unbelievable.
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/3/20 Beckett in Portugal James Knowlson note: These four tapes were supplied to James Knowlson privately by the Channel 4 television company. They are not, it would seem, the commercial tapes which are currently on sale, although the contents are very much the same.
JEK C/6/4 Beckett on Film
Undated
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JEK C/6/4/1 Film entitled Check the Gate, Putting Beckett on Film and Waiting for Godot
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/4/2 Film entitled Endgame, Act without Words 1, Act without Words II, Rough for Theatre I and Rough for Theatre II
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/4/3 Film entitled Krapp’s Last Tape and Happy Days
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/4/4 Film entitled Play, Come and Go, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe and What Where UK Channel 4 TV
1 VHS video tape Jun 2001
JEK C/6/4/5 Film entitled Catastrophe
1 VHS video tape
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JEK C/6/5 French Productions directed by Walter Asmus, with Roman Polanski, Rufus, Jean- François Balmer, Jean-Pierre Jorris, Camera Continentales, Visual Press, Seuil Vision
James Knowlson note: based upon Beckett’s own mise en scène
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/5/1 Film entitled En attendant Godot by Samuel Beckett with Roland Bertin as Krapp, directed by Walter Asmus, Camera Continentales, Visual Press, Seuil Vision
James Knowlson note: based upon Beckett’s own mise en scène
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/5/2 Film entitled La dernière bande by Samuel Beckett Compagnie François Lazaro, Actor Pierre Alanic, Director François Lazaro,
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/5/3 Film entitled Pour finir encore, d’après les textes de Samuel Beckett de Pour finir encore et autres foirades
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JEK C/6/6 Programmes about Samuel Beckett BBC TVJames Knowlson note: This is a tape sent to James Knowlson from the BBC and so is an excellent quality tape
1 VHS video tape 27 Jan 1990
JEK C/6/6/1 Film entitled A Wake for Sam BBC TV
1 VHS video tape Jan 1990
JEK C/6/6/2 Film entitled A Wake for Sam Produziert von ERREvision
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/6/3 Film entitled Aus eunem Ausgegeben Werk. Ein Videoessay von Erwin Reiss and Regine Strijbis nach einer Erzühlung von Samuel Beckett. BBC TV
James Knowlson note: Beckett in 2006 events at the Barbican Centre London and in Reading (Samuel Beckett: The Irish European’ exhibition and the Gala Evening, April 2nd 2006)
1 VHS video tape 24 Mar 2006
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JEK C/6/6/4 Film entitled Newsnight Review Documentary film on Samuel Beckett by Séan O’Mordha, BBC 2 TV
1 VHS video tape Apr 1996
JEK C/6/6/5 Film entitled As the Story was Told Film realized by Valérie Lumbroso, Palette Production Paris, 47 mins 23 secs
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/6/6 Film entitled Samuel Beckett Un siècle d’écrivains Un film de Cornel Ghiorgita, based on La dernière bande (Krapp’s Last Tape)
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/6/7 Film entitled Adieu à l’amour Austrian TV (ORF), Frankfurt
James Knowlson note: recorded in Dr Siegfried Unseld’s office on the occasion of the launch of the German edition of Samuel Beckett. Ein Biographie.
1 VHS video tape May 2001
JEK C/6/6/8 Film entitled Interview with James Knowlson Bulmershe Court
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JEK C/6/6/9 Film entitled Billie Whitelaw Reads Beckett in Reading A Special Occasion inaugurating the acquisition by the Burns Library of the Samuel Beckett/Alan Schneider correspondence, first Speaker is Robert O’Neill, curator, followed by Billie Whitelaw
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/6/10 Film entitled Boston College, The Burns Library Presented by Fréderic Ferney, among a number of items is a discussion with James Knowlson of his biography of Beckett (Editions Solin/Actes Sud, 1999), La Cinquième channel
1 VHS video tape 25 Apr 1999
JEK C/6/6/11 Film entitled Droits d’auteurs no 31
1 VHS video tape Dec 1989
JEK C/6/6/12 Film entitled A BBC news programme which relates the Death of Samuel Beckett Exhibition of his photos at the University of Reading
1 VHS video tape 1998
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JEK C/6/6/13 Film entitled Meridian TV item on exhibition of photographs of John Haynes of Beckett’s Plays BBC 1
1 VHS video tape 2 Feb 2001
JEK C/6/6/14 Film entitled A brief news item about the opening of the ‘Beckett on Film’ series in Dublin BBC 2 TV
James Knowlson note: Related to the Würzburg collection of material of Mss, books and photographs. In 1937, Beckett visited the town which was then heavily bombed, even devastated in 1945.
1 VHS video tape 23 Aug 2001
JEK C/6/7 Miscellaneous Tapes
JEK C/6/7/1 Film entitled Bombing German Cities, Dresden and Würzburg programme in a series by stage and film director, Sir Richard Eyre, BBC 2 TV
1 VHS video tape 3 Dec 2000
JEK C/6/7/2 Film entitled Changing Stages: Beckett and Brecht Programme about her with Michael Billington, Channel 4 TV, 1 hour 45 minutes long Page 488 of 562
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JEK C/6/7/3 Film entitled Dame Peggy Ashcroft Programme about her after her death, various obituaries of her
1 VHS video tape undated c. 1986
JEK C/6/7/4 Film entitled Dame Peggy Ashcroft Artistic Life after the War in Paris, with Melvyn Bragg and Steven Berkoff, Channel 4 TV
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/7/5 Film entitled After the Deluge Roundtable Productions Film in association with Radio elefis Eireann, director Ian Graham, produced, scripted and presented by Bruce Arnold
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/7/6 Film entitled The Scandal of Ulysses BBC2, Canvas
James Knowlson note: Jack B. Yeats was a friend of Samuel Beckett and Samuel Beckett wrote about him.
1 VHS video tape 4 Aug 1994
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JEK C/6/8 Irish Subjects
JEK C/6/8/1 Film entitled Jack B. Yeats Thomas MacGreevy, produced by Cianco Films for the Tarbert Bracewell Group in association with RTE, script by Susan Schreibman, narrator Barry McGovern, among the contributors are Francis Stuart, Jean Coulomb, the nieces of Thomas MacGreevy, Elizabeth Ryan and Margaret Farrington, James Knowlson, Raymond Keaveney
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/8/2 Film entitled Rivers of Words About Oliver St-John Gogarty
James Knowlson note: Gift of Ulick O’Connor.
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/8/3 Film entitled An Offering of Swans A film by Seán O’Mordha, BBC2
1 VHS video tape 25 Jan 1988
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JEK C/6/9 Films
JEK C/6/9/1 Film entitled Film with Buster Keeton Directed by Alan Schneider, and The Goad by Paul Joyce with Freddie Jones
James Knowlson note: On a large U-matic system that James Knowlson no longer recognize are two reels of films.
1 U-matic cassette Undated
JEK C/6/9/2 Film entitled Waiting for Godot USA version, with Bert Lahr and E.G. Marshall
1 U-matic cassette Undated
JEK C/6/10 Italian Productions
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JEK C/6/10/1 Film entitled L’Ultimo nastro de Krapp, by Samuel Beckett Teatro del Arcipelago, with Gianlorenzo Brambilla as Krapp, directed by Yosuke Taki
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/10/2 Film entitled Non Io, by Samuel Beckett James Knowlson note: Probably Teatro del Arcipelago but no information on tape.
1 VHS video tape Undated
JEK C/6/11 Norwegian Productions
JEK C/6/11/1 Film entitled Endgame, by Samuel Beckett ILA Prison, Norway, directed by Jan Jonson, performance no 9
1 VHS video tape 13 Jun 2006
JEK C/6/11/2 Film entitled Endgame, by Samuel Beckett a documentary of the production at ILA Prison, Norway, directed by Jan Jonson
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JEK D/1 Photographs
JEK D/1/1 Photographs of Samuel Beckett - Early Childhood and Youth
JEK D/1/1/1 Photograph of the Beckett family Samuel Beckett’s paternal grandfather and grandmother with their children, Samuel Beckett’s father, his sister Cissie and four younger brothers
James Knowlson note: Provided by John Beckett
1 doc c. 1896
JEK D/1/1/2 Photograph of The Roe family Samuel Beckett and his brother Frank, with their mother and maternal grandmother and other family members Page 493 of 562
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James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
3 copies c. 1910
JEK D/1/1/3 Photograph of The Roe family Samuel Beckett and his brother Frank, with their aunt Rubina Roe, maternal grandmother and cousins Sheila and Molly, with close up of Samuel Beckett
James Knowlson note: Provided by Edward Beckett
2 copies, 1 doc c. 1910
JEK D/1/1/4 Photograph of Frank and Samuel Beckett as children James Knowlson note: Courtesy of Caroline Beckett Murphy
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/1/5 Photograph of Samuel Beckett's Kerry Blue dog James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/1/6 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with school cricket eleven Beckett is sitting, third from right, with a cropped version
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JEK D/1/1/7 Photograph of Samuel Beckett James Knowlson note: Provided by Edward Beckett
2 docs Undated [c.1924]
JEK D/1/1/8 Photograph of Samuel Beckett James Knowlson note: Provided by Morris Sinclair
5 docs Undated [c.1926]
JEK D/1/1/9 Photograph of Samuel Beckett in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy with copy of the description by Beckett's mother from the back of the photograph
James Knowlson note: Provided by Edward Beckett
2 docs 1927
JEK D/1/1/10 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with golfing friends with a cropped version
James Knowlson note: Provided by William Cunningham
4 docs 1927
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James Knowlson note: Provided by Edward Beckett
4 docs Undated [early 1930s]
JEK D/1/1/12 Photograph of Samuel Beckett James Knowlson note: Provided by Edward Beckett
2 docs Undated [1930s]
JEK D/1/1/13 Photograph of Samuel Beckett, Campbell College Belfast with a cropped version
James Knowlson note: Keith Haines and Campbell College
2 docs Undated
JEK D/1/1/14 Photograph of Samuel Beckett James Knowlson note: Provided by Caroline Murphy
2 docs Undated [1930s]
JEK D/1/1/15 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Tom MacGreevy in London James Knowlson note: Provided by Margaret Farrington and Elizabeth Ryan
1 doc Undated [c. 1934-1935]
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JEK D/1/1/16 Photograph of Samuel and Frank Beckett on a beach in Donegal
James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc 1937
JEK D/1/1/17 Photographs of a wedding party possibly the wedding of Geoff and Ursula Thompson
3 docs 1937
JEK D/1/1/18 Photograph of Samuel Beckett and Geer van Velde at Yew Tree Cottage
James Knowlson note: Beckett International Foundation
1 doc 1938
JEK D/1/1/19 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with George and Gwynned Reavey, Geer and Elisabeth van Velde and Pegeen, daughter of Peggy Guggenheim. at Yew Tree Cottage
James Knowlson note: Provided by George Reavey
1 doc 1938
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JEK D/1/2 Photographs of Samuel Beckett: Middle Age
JEK D/1/2/1 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with Simone McKee and the Barrett family taken in Dublin, with negatives
James Knowlson note: Provided by Simone McKee
9 docs Aug 1948
JEK D/1/2/2 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Edward and Caroline Beckett's nephew and niece
James Knowlson note: Provided by Caroline Murphy
1 doc c.1950
JEK D/1/2/3 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with wheelbarrow in the garden at Ussy with negatives
4 docs Undated [early 1950s]
JEK D/1/2/4 Photograph of Samuel Beckett, Frank Beckett and Suzanne Ussy
James Knowlson note: Provided by Caroline Murphy
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1 doc Undated c.1953
JEK D/1/2/5 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Frank Beckett taken shortly before the death of Frank Beckett
1 doc 1954
JEK D/1/2/6 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Stephen and Solange Joyce Beckett was Stephen’s witness at his wedding
James Knowlson note: Provided by Stephen Joyce
1 doc Apr 1955
JEK D/1/2/7 Photographs of Samuel Beckett in the Jardins du Luxembourg, Paris James Knowlson note: Provided by University of New York, Syracuse, USA
2 docs c. 1956
JEK D/1/2/8 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with Barney Rosset seated at the foot of the statue of Auguste Comte, Place de la Sorbonne, Paris
James Knowlson note: Provided by University of New York, Syracuse, USA
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JEK D/1/2/9 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with Alan Schneider seated at the foot of the statue of Auguste Comte, Place de la Sorbonne, Paris
James Knowlson note: Provided by University of New York, Syracuse, USA
2 docs 1956
JEK D/1/2/10 Photograph of Samuel Beckett seated at a café table in Paris James Knowlson note: Provided by University of New York, Syracuse, USA
1 doc c.1956
JEK D/1/2/11 Photograph of Samuel Beckett at Trinity College, Dublin on the occasion of his Honorary D. Litt.
James Knowlson note: Provided by The Irish Times
1 doc Jul 1959
JEK D/1/2/12 Folder entitled Summers at Sweetwater Cottage with Beckett’s cousin Sheila Page and her husband, Donald Includes photographs of Samuel Beckett in the boat he and Donald Page made, Samuel Beckett leaning on a fence by the pond at Sweetwater Cottage, Samuel Beckett by the pond at Sweetwater Cottage, Samuel Beckett on bench with Donald Page, Samuel Beckett on bench with Sheila Page, Samuel Beckett with Donald Page by the pond at Sweetwater Cottage, Samuel Beckett in the garden at Sweetwater Cottage, Samuel Page 500 of 562
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Beckett sunbathing in the garden at Sweetwater Cottage, Samuel Beckett in the garden at Sweetwater Cottage, one standing, one walking, in colour, Samuel Beckett with Sheila Page and Molly Roe at Sweetwater Cottage, Samuel Beckett and Sheila Page playing croquet at Sweetwater Cottage, Samuel Beckett and Donald Page playing croquet at Sweetwater Cottage, Samuel Beckett seated in the garden at Sweetwater Cottage and Samuel Beckett in the doorway with Molly Roe
1 folder 1959
JEK D/1/2/13 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with Henri Hayden at Suillerot Gallery in Paris
James Knowlson note: Provided by Josette Hayden
5 docs Undated [early 1960s]
JEK D/1/2/14 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Anne Arikha and baby Alba at Ussy James Knowlson note: Provided by Avigdor Arikha
1 doc Aug 1960
JEK D/1/2/15 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with Avigdor Arikha in Alberto Giacometti’s studio Photograph by Georges Pierre
James Knowlson note: Provided by Avigdor Arikha
2 docs 1961
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JEK D/1/2/16 Transparencies Including Beckett at Arikha opening, Beckett with Arikha, Beckett with Anne Arikha and Alba and Arikha's Beckett Leaning
6 docs 1961-1970
JEK D/1/2/17 Photograph of Samuel Beckett on the balcony of the Odéon theatre in Paris James Knowlson note: Provided by Photo Pic
1 doc 1963
JEK D/1/2/18 Photographs of Samuel Beckett directing Antony Page and Alfred Lynch rehearsing Waiting for Godot
James Knowlson note: Provided by Zoe Dominic
3 docs 1964
JEK D/1/2/19 Postcard of Samuel Beckett photograph by Gisèle Freund
1 doc 1964
JEK D/1/2/20 Postcard of Samuel Beckett photograph by John Gruen
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JEK D/1/2/21 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Michael Lonsdale, photograph by Rosine Nusimovici
James Knowlson note: Provided by Michael Lonsdale
1 doc 1964
JEK D/1/2/22 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Jack MacGowran and Patrick Garland for BBC Beginning to End
James Knowlson note: Provided by BBC Photograph
1 doc 1965
JEK D/1/2/23 Photograph of Samuel Beckett at his dining table at Ussy James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc 1965
JEK D/1/2/24 Photograph of Samuel Beckett leaning on his desk at Ussy James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc 1965
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JEK D/1/2/25 Photograph of Samuel Beckett by his bookshelves in Ussy James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc 1965
JEK D/1/2/26 Photograph of Samuel Beckett on a bed at Ussy James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc 1965
JEK D/1/2/27 Photograph of Samuel Beckett outside his house at Ussy James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc Undated [1965]
JEK D/1/2/28 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Jack MacGowran at the recording of Claddagh Records
James Knowlson note: Provided by Claddagh Records
1 doc Feb 1966
JEK D/1/2/29 Photograph of Samuel Beckett head and shoulders, photograph by Barbara Jackson
James Knowlson note: Provided by Emma Lévin-Le Chanoin
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JEK D/1/2/30 Photograph of Samuel Beckett standing, photograph by Barbara Jackson
James Knowlson note: Provided by Emma Lévin-Le Chanoin
1 doc 1966
JEK D/1/2/31 Photograph of Samuel Beckett photograph by Lüfti Ozkök
1 doc 1966
JEK D/1/2/32 Photographs of Samuel Beckett photographs by Barbara Jackson
James Knowlson note: Provided by Emma Lévin-Le Chanois
2 docs 1966
JEK D/1/2/33 Photograph of Samuel Beckett
1 doc 1966
JEK D/1/2/34 Photograph of Photographs of Avigdor Arikha’s Samuel Page 505 of 562
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Beckett Leaning brush and india ink on paper
James Knowlson note: Provided by Avigdor Arikha
1 doc 1967
JEK D/1/2/35 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Suzanne and Andor Foldes in Paris
James Knowlson note: Provided by Lily Foldes
1 doc 1967
JEK D/1/2/36 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Gottfried Büttner in Berlin
James Knowlson note: Provided by Gottfried Büttner
1 doc 1967
JEK D/1/2/37 Photograph of Ernst Schroeder, Samuel Beckett and Horst Bollmann during a rehearsal of Endspiel at the Schiller Theater Berlin
1 doc 1967
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1 doc 1968
JEK D/1/2/39 Photograph of Samuel Beckett photograph by Lüfti Ozkök
1 doc 1969
JEK D/1/2/40 Photograph of Samuel Beckett and Martin Held during rehearsals for Das Letzte Band at the Schiller-Theater Berlin
1 doc 1969
JEK D/1/2/41 Photographs of Samuel Beckett at Avigdor Arikha’s exhibition CNAC opening
6 docs Dec 1970
JEK D/1/2/42 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with the painter Geneviève Asse at an exhibition of her work
James Knowlson note: Provided by Geneviève Asse
2 docs Undated [c.1970]
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JEK D/1/2/43 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Eva Katharina Schultz on the occasion of Happy Days at the Schiller-Theater, Berlin
1 doc 1971
JEK D/1/2/44 Photograph of Samuel Beckett directing Warten auf Godot at the Schiller-Theater Berlin
1 doc 1975
JEK D/1/2/45 Photograph of Samuel Beckett Beckett on set of Geistev Trio, Stuttgart
1 doc 1977
JEK D/1/2/46 Photograph of Samuel Beckett postcard, photograph by Peter Keen
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/2/47 Photograph of Samuel Beckett, with Josette Hayden at Ussy
1 doc Undated
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JEK D/1/2/48 Photographs of Samuel Beckett, with Henri Hayden at Reuil
2 docs Undated
JEK D/1/2/49 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with a baby Possibly Sorley, baby of Grace Bouton
4 docs Undated
JEK D/1/2/50 Photograph of Samuel Beckett by Heinz Koster
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/3 Samuel Beckett: Old Age
JEK D/1/3/1 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with Jocelyn Herbert Photograph by John Haynes
James Knowlson note: Provided by John Haynes
2 docs 1973
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JEK D/1/3/2 Postcard of Samuel Beckett portrait photograph by Jane Bown, with press cutting
4 docs 1976
JEK D/1/3/3 Postcard of Samuel Beckett in Paris photograph by Roger Pic
1 doc 1977
JEK D/1/3/4 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with Slawomir Mrozek in Stuttgart, photograph by Hugo Jehle
2 docs 1977
JEK D/1/3/5 Photograph of Photograph of Samuel Beckett with Rick Cluchey in Berlin, photograph by Ingeborg Lammatzsch
James Knowlson note: Provided by Rick Cluchey
1 doc 1977
JEK D/1/3/6 Photographs of Samuel Beckett with Molly Roe and Betty Dimond James Knowlson note: Provided by Betty Dimond
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JEK D/1/3/7 Postcard of Samuel Beckett photograph by Paul Joyce
2 docs 1979
JEK D/1/3/8 Postcard of Samuel Beckett with K.D. Codish, René Gonzalez and David Warrilow Boulevard de Montparnasse, Paris
1 doc 1983
JEK D/1/3/9 Photographs of Samuel Beckett taken by Beppe Arvidsson
James Knowlson note: Provided by Beppe Arvidsson
4 docs 1988
JEK D/1/3/10 Photograph of Samuel Beckett postcard, taken by John Minihan
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/3/11 Photograph of Samuel Beckett by Louis Monnier, on a Librairie Compagnie bookmark
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JEK D/1/3/12 Photograph of Samuel Beckett by Guy Suignard
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/4 Frank and Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett's brother
JEK D/1/4/1 Photograph of Samuel Beckett and Frank Beckett at the beach with Frank’s car
James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc Undated [c. 1936-7]
JEK D/1/4/2 Photograph of Samuel Beckett and Frank Beckett playing cards at Shottery
James Knowlson note: Provided by Caroline Murphy
1 doc Undated [late 1940s]
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1 doc Undated [late 1940s]
JEK D/1/4/4 Photograph of Samuel Beckett and Frank Beckett in the garden at Shottery
James Knowlson note: Provided by Caroline Murphy
1 doc Undated [late 1940s]
JEK D/1/4/5 Photograph of Frank Beckett James Knowlson note: Provided by Caroline Murphy
1 doc Undated [c. 1950]
JEK D/1/4/6 Photograph of Frank Beckett with his wife Jean, Molly Roe and a friend James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc Undated [c. 1950]
JEK D/1/4/7 Photograph of Frank Beckett, with his wife, Jean at Shottery James Knowlson note: Provided by Caroline Murphy
1 doc Undated [c. 1950]
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JEK D/1/4/8 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with brother Frank in the garden at Ussy James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc Undated [c.1953]
JEK D/1/4/9 Photograph of Frank Beckett with his daughter, Caroline and son Edward James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc Undated [c. 1952]
JEK D/1/4/10 Photograph of Samuel Beckett with brother Frank and dog at Shottery, Killiney James Knowlson note: Provided by Caroline Murphy
1 doc Undated [early 1950s]
JEK D/1/4/11 Photograph of Frank Beckett as a boy James Knowlson note: Provided by Caroline Murphy
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/5 Bill and May Beckett Samuel Beckett's mother and father
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JEK D/1/5/1 Photographs of May Beckett on the window seat at Cooldrinagh James Knowlson note: Provided by Edward Beckett and Caroline Murphy
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JEK D/1/5/2 Photographs of Bill Beckett Portrait photograph by Chancellor of Dublin
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3 docs Undated [late 1920s]
JEK D/1/5/3 Photographs of Bill Beckett James Knowlson note: Provided by Edward Beckett
2 docs Undated [c. 1922]
JEK D/1/5/4 Photographs of Bill Beckett and May Beckett with Sheila Page and her children in the garden at Cooldrinagh, with enlargement of Bill Beckett and 2 enlargements of May Beckett
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JEK D/1/5/5 Photograph of May Beckett with Sheila Page in her pony and trap, with a gardener
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JEK D/1/5/6 Photograph of Bill Beckett
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JEK D/1/5/7 Photographs of May Beckett chatting to a neighbour , with enlargements of May Beckett
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JEK D/1/5/8 Photograph of May Beckett seated in garden with a neighbour James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
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JEK D/1/5/10 Photograph of May Beckett with Frank in the garden James Knowlson note: Provided by Caroline Murphy
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JEK D/1/5/11 Photograph of May Beckett with Molly Roe James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
1 doc Undated [c. 1947]
JEK D/1/5/12 Photograph of May Beckett portrait photograph by Thomas Brown of Dublin
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JEK D/1/5/13 Photograph of May Beckett at a show holding 5 dogs on leashes
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JEK D/1/5/14 Photograph of May Beckett seated on the ground with her dog James Knowlson note: Provided by Edward Beckett and Caroline Murphy
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JEK D/1/6 Suzanne Beckett (née Deschevaux Dumesnil) Samuel Beckett's wife
JEK D/1/6/1 Photographs of Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil with an enlargement of Suzanne James Knowlson note: Provided by Caroline Murphy
4 docs Undated [c.1952]
JEK D/1/6/2 Photograph of Suzanne Beckett, Tom MacGreevy and Matias in a Venice restaurant on occasion of a Gala performance
James Knowlson note: Provided by Margaret Farrington and Elizabeth Ryan
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JEK D/1/6/3 Photograph of Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnilat school seated in front row, fourth from right
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JEK D/1/6/6 Photograph of Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil on the beach with Mita and Edmund Tuby James Knowlson note: Provided by Mita and Edmund Tuby
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JEK D/1/6/7 Photographs of Suzanne as a young woman on the beach Deschevaux-Dumesnil James Knowlson note: Provided by Mita and Edmund Tuby
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JEK D/1/6/10 Photographs of Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil at the beach with dog James Knowlson note: Provided by Mita and Edmund Tuby
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JEK D/1/6/11 Photographs of Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil with a group of students when at the Ecole Normale de Musique with an enlargement of Suzanne
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JEK D/1/6/12 Photographs of Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil and a dog
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JEK D/1/6/13 Folder of negatives All of the images are available as prints
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JEK D/1/7 The Sinclair Family Samuel Beckett's uncle, Boss and cousin Peggy Sinclair
JEK D/1/7/1 Photographs of Boss Sinclair Beckett’s uncle, with explanatory card from his son, Morris, 23 Jul 1992
James Knowlson note: Provided Morris Sinclair
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JEK D/1/7/2 Photographs of Peggy Sinclair Samuel Beckett’s cousin and first love
James Knowlson note: Provided Morris Sinclair
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JEK D/1/7/3 Photographs of Peggy Sinclair James Knowlson note: Provided Morris Sinclair
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JEK D/1/7/4 Photograph of Cissie Sinclair Samuel Beckett’s aunt, with the son of a neighbour in South Africa
James Knowlson note: Provided Morris Sinclair
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JEK D/1/7/5 Photographs of Peggy Sinclair seated on a bench James Knowlson note: Provided Deirdre Hamilton
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JEK D/1/7/6 Photographs of Peggy Sinclair seated on a parapet James Knowlson note: Provided Deirdre Hamilton
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JEK D/1/7/7 Photograph of Peggy Sinclair with her sister[?] James Knowlson note: Provided Deirdre Hamilton
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JEK D/1/7/11 Copies of a portrait of Peggy Sinclair
2 docs Undated
JEK D/1/8 Miss Beamish Anna O’Meara de Vic Beamish
JEK D/1/8/1 Folder of photographs of Miss Beamish Beckett’s neighbour in Roussillon, in the Vaucluse, and of her friends Suzanne Allévy and Louis Marshall and others
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JEK D/1/9 James Joyce and family
JEK D/1/9/1 Photograph of Lucia Joyce, reading in a hammock James Knowlson note: Provided University College, London, Library
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JEK D/1/9/2 Photograph of James Joyce James Knowlson note: Provided Hutton Deutsch
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JEK D/1/9/3 Photograph of a postcard from James Joyce to Francis [Frank] Beckett with view of the Sacré Coeur in Paris
James Knowlson note: Provided Edward Beckett
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JEK D/1/9/4 Postcards featuring James Joyce
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JEK D/1/9/5 Postcard featuring a former home of James Joyce
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JEK D/1/9/6 Photograph of Lucia Joyce
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JEK D/1/9/7 Photograph of James Joyce
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JEK D/1/9/8 Photograph of Paul Leon
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/9/9 Photograph of James Joyce and Paul Leon
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JEK D/1/9/10 Photograph of an unidentified group of people
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JEK D/1/9/11 Photographs of Lucia Joyce in garden by a bird-bath James Knowlson note: Provided University College, London, Library
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JEK D/1/9/12 Photograph of Lucia Joyce in hammock with Harriet Shaw Weaver James Knowlson note: Provided University College, London, Library
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JEK D/1/9/13 Photographs of James Joyce and family James Knowlson note: Bienecke Library
2 folders Undated
JEK D/1/10 A. J. ‘Con’ Leventhal
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JEK D/1/10/1 Photograph of Con Leventhal portrait photograph by Charles Howell of Dublin
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JEK D/1/10/2 Photograph of Con Leventhal portrait photograph as a young man in evening dress by N. Green
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JEK D/1/10/3 Photograph of Con Leventhal in the garden James Knowlson note: Provided by Anne Wolfson Leventhal
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JEK D/1/10/4 Photograph of Con Leventhal photograph by R. Kahan for the Dublin Correspondent
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JEK D/1/10/6 Photograph of Folder of negatives Prints are available
James Knowlson note: Provided by Anne Wolfson Leventhal
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JEK D/1/11 Ethna MacCarthy
JEK D/1/11/1 Photograph of a portrait of Ethna MacCarthy by Sean O'Sullivan James Knowlson note: Provided by Anne Wolfson Leventhal
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/12 Thomas MacGreevy
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JEK D/1/12/2 Photograph of Tom MacGreevy standing James Knowlson note: Provided by Margaret Farrington and Elizabeth Ryan
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JEK D/1/12/3 Photographs of Tom MacGreevy and Samuel Beckett
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JEK D/1/13 Merlin group
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JEK D/1/13/2 Photograph of Alexander Trocchi, editor of Merlin with Richard Seaver, Associate Editor Copyright H. Riemens
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JEK D/1/13/3 Photographs of Alexander Trocchi , the editor of Merlin, with Jane Lougee, the publisher Copyright H. Riemens
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JEK D/1/13/4 Photograph of Alexander Trocchi, and Richard Seaver with George Plimpton, editor of The Paris Review Copyright H. Riemens
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JEK D/1/13/5 Photograph of Alexander Trocchi with Eugène Ionesco Copyright H. Riemens
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JEK D/1/13/7 Photograph of the Merlin Group in Paris Copyright H. Riemens
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JEK D/1/14 Pamela Mitchell
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2 docs Undated [late 1950s]
JEK D/1/14/2 Photograph of Pamela Mitchell standing in snow James Knowlson note: Provided by Pamela Mitchell
2 docs Undated [late 1950s]
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JEK D/1/14/4 Photographs of James Knowlson on his first visit to the house of Pamela Mitchell in Newport, Rhode Island
1 folder 24 May 1993
JEK D/1/15 Alfred and Mania Péron
JEK D/1/15/1 Photograph of Alfred Péron standing, 2nd from left, with the Modern Languages Society at Trinity College, Dublin
James Knowlson note: Provided by Alexis Péron
1 doc Undated [c. 1926]
JEK D/1/15/2 Photograph of Alfred Péron
1 doc 1933
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JEK D/1/15/3 Photograph of Alfred Péron with his class of the Lycée La Tour d’Auvergne, Quimper plus enlargement
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1 doc 1934
JEK D/1/15/4 Photograph of Alfred Péron in 1935, enlargement of class photograph of the Lycée La Tour d’Auvergne, Quimper
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JEK D/1/15/5 Photograph of Alfred Péron with Maya, his wife in military uniform
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2 docs 1939
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JEK D/1/15/8 Photograph of Alfred Péron
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JEK D/1/15/9 Photograph of Alfred Péron, with children
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JEK D/1/15/10 Negatives of photographs of Alfred Péron Available as photographs
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JEK D/1/16 Thomas Brown Rudmose-Brown
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with enlargement of Rudmose-Brown
James Knowlson note: Provided by Phyllis Ffrench Killingley
2 docs Undated [c.1925]
JEK D/1/16/2 Photograph of Rudmose-Brown, with the Modern Language Society of Trinity College, Dublin standing in the centre, with enlargement of Rudmose-Brown
James Knowlson note: Provided by Alexis Péron
Undated [c. 1926]
JEK D/1/16/3 Photographs of Rudmose-Brown portrait photograph
James Knowlson note: Provided by Professor Roger Little
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JEK D/1/16/4 Photograph of Negatives of photographs of Rudmose-Brown Available as photographs
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/17 Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris: Jean Beaufret, Georges Pelorson
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JEK D/1/17/1 Photograph of Ecole Normale, Paris, Rue d’Ulm Front façade and entrance
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JEK D/1/17/2 Photograph of Ecole Normale, Paris with negative
James Knowlson note: Provided by J. Knowlson
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JEK D/1/17/3 Photograph of Jean Beaufret, friend of Samuel Beckett, at the Ecole Normale James Knowlson note: Provided by Ecole Normale Library
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JEK D/1/17/4 Photograph of Georges Pelorson, friend of Samuel Beckett, at the Ecole Normale James Knowlson note: Provided by Ecole Normale Library
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JEK D/1/18 Samuel Beckett’s Houses
JEK D/1/18/1 Photograph Restaurant Café de la Poste James Knowlson note: Photograph by Jean David
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JEK D/1/18/2 Photograph of Madame Escoffier's hotel James Knowlson note: Photograph by Jean David
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JEK D/1/18/3 Photographs of Samuel Beckett’s cottage at Ussy James Knowlson note: Provided Sheila Page
4 docs Undated [late 1950s]
JEK D/1/18/4 Photographs of Samuel Beckett's house at Ussy and his Citroen 2CV car
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photograph taken when the house was up for rent in 1997, with letter from Gray
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JEK D/1/18/6 Photograph of the house where Samuel and Suzanne Beckett stayed in Roussillon Photograph by Theresa Seidel
5 docs 2001
JEK D/1/18/7 Photograph of the Hotel Riad in Nabeul, Tunisia where the Becketts were staying when Beckett received news of his Nobel Prize in 1969
James Knowlson note: Provided Oliver Sturm
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JEK D/1/18/8 Photograph of the house where Samuel and Suzanne Beckett stayed in Roussillon James Knowlson note: Photograph by Annie Joly
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JEK D/1/18/9 Photograph of the house where Samuel and Suzanne Beckett stayed in Roussillon James Knowlson note: Photograph by Annie Joly
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JEK D/1/18/10 Photographs of the village of Roussillon where Samuel and Suzanne Beckett stayed from 1942-1945. James Knowlson note: Provided by Gottfried Büttner
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JEK D/1/18/11 Photographs of the house where Samuel and Suzanne Beckett stayed in Roussillon, 1942-1945 James Knowlson note: Provided by Mary Bryden
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JEK D/1/18/12 Photograph of Cooldrinagh, Foxrock, County Dublin, where Samuel Beckett was born Photograph by Michael Jacob
James Knowlson note: Provided by Alec Reid
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JEK D/1/18/13 Photograph of Cooldrinagh, Foxrock, County Dublin, where Samuel Beckett was born Photograph by Mary Bryden
James Knowlson note: Provided by Mary Bryden
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JEK D/1/18/14 Photographs of Samuel Beckett’s cottage at Ussy taken by Emily Emerson
James Knowlson note: Provided by Emily Emerson
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JEK D/1/18/15 Photograph of Samuel Beckett’s cottage at Ussy taken by Dr Hans H. Hiebel
James Knowlson note: Provided by Dr Hans H Hiebel
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JEK D/1/18/16 Photograph of Samuel Beckett’s flat on the 7th floor, 38 Boulevard St. Jacques, Paris taken by Dr Hans H. Hiebel
James Knowlson note: Provided by Dr Hans H Hiebel
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JEK D/1/18/17 Photograph of Samuel Beckett’s cottage at Ussy James Knowlson note: Provided by James Knowlson
1 doc Undated
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JEK D/1/18/19 Photograph of the bow window of the room in Cooldrinagh where Samuel Beckett was born James Knowlson note: Provided by James Knowlson
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/18/20 Photograph of Cooldrinagh House at Leixlip the home of Samuel Beckett’s maternal grandparents, Samuel and Annie Roe
James Knowlson note: Provided by James Knowlson
9 docs 1995
JEK D/1/18/21 Photograph of The Toll House, Leixlip owned by Samuel Roe, and view from its garden
James Knowlson note: Provided by James Knowlson
2 docs 1995
JEK D/1/18/22 Photograph of the house where Samuel and Suzanne Beckett lived in Arcachon, France from July - September, 1940 Photograph in colour by Jean Bourdier
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JEK D/1/18/23 Photograph of the house where Samuel and Suzanne Beckett stayed in Roussillon Photograph by Dolly West
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JEK D/1/18/24 Photographs of Roussillon Photographs by James Knowlson
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JEK D/1/18/25 Photograph of Samuel Beckett's Gertrude Street lodging with letter from Sean Lawlor
2 docs Undated
JEK D/1/18/26 Negatives of photographs Available as photographs
1 docs Undated
JEK D/1/18/27 Folder of postcards with tourist information booklet
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JEK D/1/18/28 Card of Beckett's House in Roussillon
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/19 Paris
JEK D/1/19/1 Photograph of the restaurant, La Bastide Odéon formerly Le Cochon de Lait where Beckett and MacGreevy used to dine in the late 1920s
James Knowlson note: Provided by James Knowlson
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/19/2 Photographs of the Roman Amphitheatre in Paris, Les Arènes de Lutèce formerly Le Cochon de Lait where Beckett and MacGreevy used to dine in the late 1920s
James Knowlson note: Provided by James Knowlson
1 doc Undated
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JEK D/1/19/3 Photograph of the Monument to the paleologist, Gabriel de Mortillet mentioned by Beckett in his poem Arènes de Lutèce
James Knowlson note: Provided by James Knowlson
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/19/4 Postcard of Le Fouquet's vers 1930
1 doc 1989
JEK D/1/20 Portora Royal School
JEK D/1/20/1 Photographs of Portora Royal School sports teams
7 docs 1920s
JEK D/1/20/2 Photographs of Samuel Beckett at Portora Royal School
7 docs 1920s
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JEK D/1/20/3 Photographs of Portora Royal School taken by James Knowlson
7 docs 1995
JEK D/1/20/4 Photographs of Portora Royal School, taken from school magazines James Knowlson note: Provided by Portora Royal School
3 docs Undated
JEK D/1/21 Beckett’s Nursery School: Taunus
JEK D/1/21/1 Photograph of school group
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/21/2 Photograph of exterior of school James Knowlson note: Provided by Isabella Stewart
1 doc Undated
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JEK D/1/22 Gabrielle Buffet Picabia and Jeannine Picabia
JEK D/1/22/1 Photographs of Jeannine Picabia
6 docs Undated [late 1939 or 1940]-1943
JEK D/1/22/2 Photograph of Gabrielle Buffet Picabia
3 docs 1943
JEK D/1/22/3 Booklet for .60
1 folder 2005
JEK D/1/23 Saint-Lô
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JEK D/1/23/1 Photograph of Irish Red Cross Hospital group, Samuel Beckett standing on right James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
2 docs 1945
JEK D/1/23/2 Photograph of Irish Red Cross Hospital group with lorry, Beckett is fourth from the left James Knowlson note: Provided by Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
2 docs 1945
JEK D/1/23/3 Photograph of Irish Red Cross Hospital group on steps outside the hospital, Beckett standing on right James Knowlson note: Provided by Simone McKee [?]
2 docs Undated
JEK D/1/23/4 Extract of an article about Beckett in Saint-Lô
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/24 Portraits of Beckett
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JEK D/1/24/1 Postcard of Beckett by Tom Phillips
1 doc 1984
JEK D/1/24/2 Photographs of portraits of Samuel Beckett by Sheila Beckett wife of John Beckett, Harry Beckett's son
2 docs Undated
JEK D/1/24/3 Photograph of a line drawing of Samuel Beckett by Hayden, 1957
1 doc Undated
JEK D/1/24/4 Photographs of portraits of Samuel Beckett by Sean O'Sullivan, 1937
2 docs Undated
JEK D/1/25 Exhibition at the University of Reading, 1971
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JEK D/1/25/1 Photographs of book covers of Whoroscope, Molloy and Malone Meurt by Samuel Beckett with negatives
4 docs Undated
JEK D/1/26 Production Photographs
JEK D/1/26/1 Folder of photographs of productions of Samuel Beckett's works
1 folder 1950s-1990s
JEK D/1/27 Folder entitled Beckett Family
JEK D/1/27/1 Folder of photographs of Samuel Beckett and family Many are indentified on the reverse of the photograph
2 folders Undated
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JEK D/1/27/2 Folder of photographs of Samuel Beckett's friends
1 folder Undated
JEK D/1/28 Slides of paintings related Samuel Beckett and productions of Beckett's work
1 box Undated
JEK D/1/29 Folder of copies of paintings relating to Samuel Beckett with some extracts from Samuel Beckett's diary
1 folder Undated
JEK D/1/30 Photographs of the exhibition Beckett on Stage photographs by John Haynes at Barbican Gallery, The Barbican Centre with an accompanying card and a note from by John Haynes
1 folder 2000
JEK D/1/31 Photographs - loose and miscellaneous
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JEK D/1/31/1 Photographs of Beckett rehearsing Waiting for Godot at the Riverside Studios in London Framed
James Knowlson note: Photographer not known although the name may be on the reverse of the photographs under the taped back panels.
5 photographs 1984
JEK D/1/31/2 Negatives of Beckett family photographs from Samuel Beckett’s niece, Caroline Beckett Murphy Including May Beckett, Frank Beckett and Samuel Beckett
James Knowlson note: These negatives were made from the originals of Caroline Murphy which were then returned to her. Any other prints in the Knowlson collection were made from these negatives or from scans of the originals.
13 negatives Undated
JEK D/1/31/3 Photographs of a bust of Samuel Beckett James Knowlson note: Sent from Ireland by a sculptor, the name of which is unknown at present to James Knowlson. It may be that a letter from the sculptor has become separated from the photos and the authorship may be resolved in the future.
1 folder Undated
JEK D/1/31/4 Photographs of an unidentified man in a vineyard
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JEK D/1/31/5 Folder of over head projector slides of images relating to Samuel Beckett
1 folder Undated
JEK D/1/31/6 Photographs Consists of Beckett's wine grocery store, Beckett's local train station, Rousillon, interiors of Beckett's house at Ussy and Suzanne's grave
1 folder 1989
JEK D/1/32 Albums
JEK D/1/32/1 Photographs Including Beckett's house at Ussy, Beckett's flat in Paris, Beckett's house in Rousillon, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Horst Bolman and Walter Asmus, Berlin, Cooldrinagh, Portree, Dalkey Lodge, Professor John O. Wisdom's house, Lily Condell, Greystones, Foxrock, Tullow Parish Church, Bay of Killiney, William and May Beckett's grave and Sandycove
17 folders 1989-1994
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JEK D/1/33 Photographs on CD
JEK D/1/33/1 CD entitled Beckett solo pictures and Beckett and family
1 CD Undated
JEK D/1/33/2 CD entitled Friends of Beckett
1 CD Undated
JEK D/1/33/3 CD entitled Friends of Beckett
1 CD Undated
JEK D/1/33/4 CD entitled Friends of Beckett
1 CD Undated
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JEK D/1/33/5 CD entitled Beckett's flat and house and Sinclair family
1 CD Undated
JEK D/1/33/6 CD entitled Hamburg, Germany
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JEK D/1/33/7 CD entitled Germany
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JEK D/1/33/8 CD entitled German towns
1CD Undated
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JEK D/1/33/12 CD entitled Flemish masters
1 CD Undated
JEK D/1/33/13 CD entitled German paintings
1 CD Undated
JEK D/1/33/14 CD entitled Paintings modern
1 CD Undated
JEK D/1/33/15 CD entitled Irish art and sculptors
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JEK D/1/33/16 CD entitled Italian paintings and Spanish paintings
1 CD Undated
JEK D/1/33/17 CD entitled miscellaneous
1 CD Undated
JEK D/1/33/18 CD entitled writers, actors, directors and artists
1 CD Undated
JEK D/1/33/19 CD entitled production photographs
1 CD Undated
JEK D/2 Proofs
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JEK D/2/1 Proofs of pages of images probably from Damned to Fame, by James Knowlson with some notes by James Knowlson
1 folder 1990s
JEK D/2/2 Draft cover of Frescoes of the Skull, by James Knowlson and John Pilling Grove Press edition, in colours not ultimately used in the published edition, and with different title
1 doc Undated
JEK D/2/3 Draft cover of Samuel Beckett’s Production Notebook : Krapps Last Tape, edited by James Knowlson James Knowlson note: later totally changed and whole series given a new title, The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett.
1 folder Undated
JEK D/2/4 Corrected proof of the cover of Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett Bloomsbury, London, 2006, with one change of name and the rough print of Özkök’s photograph on the cover
1 doc Undated
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JEK D/2/5 Proofs of book jackets for Krapp's Last Tape, edited by James Knowlson
1 folder 1992
JEK D/3 Artwork
JEK D/3/1 Portrait of Samuel Beckett with wine glass, by the Israeli- French artist and Beckett’s close friend, Avigdor Arikha Framed etching
James Knowlson note: This has an inscription from Arikha: ‘Pour James Knowlson dans le passage de l’impression’ and the etching is dated ‘Reading 19. v. 71’. Such an inscribed artist’s proof is extremely rare.
1 doc 1971
JEK D/3/2 Advertising booklet for A Beckett Metamorphosis : A Set of Six Original Drypoint Portraits of the Dramatist and Novelist Samuel Beckett by Alan Flood
1 doc 1992
JEK D/4 Posters
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JEK D/4/1 Poster for Spelplats San Quentin Riksutställningar with an inscribed quote from Waiting for Godot from the Swedish director, Jan Jönson
1 doc Undated [1988]
JEK D/4/2 Poster of image of Samuel Beckett by Louis Le Brocquy
1 doc 1989
JEK D/4/3 Poster of Henri Hayden exhibition at Galerie Marwan Hoss, . Colour reproduction. See equivalent catalogues in Hayden file
1 doc May- Jul 1991
JEK D/4/4 Poster for a Henri Hayden Rétrospective Musée d' Art Thomas Henry
1 doc Jun – Oct 1997
JEK D/4/5 Poster for Deutschland Radio Beckett Festival Berlin, Beckett Page 559 of 562
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1 doc 2000
JEK D/4/6 Poster for Beckett on Film Irish Film Centre
1 doc Feb 2001
JEK D/4/7 Poster for Henri Hayden at Musée de Pontoise
1 doc Oct 2001 – Jan 2002
JEK D/4/8 Poster and leaflet for To be Beckett (Essere Beckett) Theatre show in Rome, Cineteatro 33 Rome
2 docs Nov 2006
JEK D/4/9 Poster for Frei Akademie der Künste in Hamburg Beckett in Hamburg Eine dokumentarische Austellung von Roswitha Quadflieg signed by Roswitha Quadflieg to James Knowlson
2 docs Undated
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JEK D/4/10 Poster for Beckett Festival Dublin, The Gate Theatre, RTE, Trinity College Dublin Poster with photograph of Beckett by Richard Avedon
1 doc Undated
JEK D/4/11 Poster of Prieure de Saint-Cosme
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JEK D/5 Postcards
JEK D/5/1 Collection of postcards of German scenes some with extracts from Beckett's Dairies attached
1 bundle Undated
JEK D/6 Projects
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JEK D/6/1 Art Slide project by Colin Richards consists of correspondence and slides
1 folder 1985
JEK E Objects
JEK E/1 Book mark featuring Samuel Beckett Produced by the Shamrock Gift Company, Dublin, Ireland
1 object Undated
JEK E/2 Brandy bottle Petite Champagne Cognac that once belonged to Samuel Beckett
James Knowlson note: The bottle was given by Samuel Beckett to Ruby Cohn, who then passed it on with a little brandy in it to Jim Knowlson. The potential interest of this item is that it was produced by a company called ‘Godet frères’ . In Waiting for Godot, Pozzo is mistaken for ‘Godot, Godet, Godin’. Limited edition no. 000211. [A bottle of 1852 Godet frères brandy (a full one) was sold recently for over £250, although the present company was not set up until 1955.]
1 object Undated
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