Beckett, Samuel Barclay, (1906-1989), author, playwright and poet

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Surname:	Beckett
Forenames:	Samuel Barclay
Gender:	Male
Date:	1906-1989
Places:	Dublin, County Dublin
Biography:	ODNB link for Beckett, Samuel Barclay (1906-1989), author and dramatist
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P130058 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P1993 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Samuel Barclay Beckett

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1930-1990: literary ms, corresp	University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library	TXRC00-A1
2	literary papers	Dartmouth College Library		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
3	literary papers	Ohio State University Library		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
4	1928-66: letters to Thomas McGreevy	Trinity College Dublin	TCD MS 10402	NRA 38501 McGreevy
5	1936-37: diaries	See information in published source		See The Times 9 September 1996
6	1935-1974: additional papers incl notebooks containing manuscript of 'Murphy', and corresp with Gunter Albrecht and Mira Avrech	University of Reading: Special Collections	MS 5511, 5515, 5517	See Annual Return 2013
7	c1946-67: letters, literary MSS and papers	Washington University in St Louis	WTU00008	See NUC MS 68-965
8	1953-60: corresp with Alan Simpson re Pike Theatre productions of his works	Trinity College Dublin	MS 10731	NRA 42678 Pike Theatre
9	1953-77: corresp with Percy Arland Ussher (32 items)	Trinity College Dublin	MSS 9031-41	NRA 34811 Ussher
10	1954-63: MSS of plays and prose	Trinity College Dublin	MSS 4661-64	NRA 19217 Trinity Coll Dublin
11	1955-63: letters to Herbert Martin Oliver White	Trinity College Dublin	MS 3777	NRA 22030 White
12	1956-84: ephemeral material	Trinity College Dublin	MS 10163	NRA 24842 Trinity Coll misc
13	1958-89: letters to Bettina Jonic	Trinity College Dublin	MS 11090	See Annual Return 1999
14	1947-1988: corresp with Henri and Josette Hayden	Trinity College Dublin	IE TCD MS 11487	See Annual Return 2014
15	1960-75: corresp, literary MSS and papers (c75 items)	Harvard University: Houghton Library		See NUC MS 81-424
16	1961: Manuscript draft, typescript and galley proofs of 'The North'	University of Reading: Special Collections	MS 5478	See Annual Return 2012
17	1962-76: letters and literary MSS	University of Reading: Special Collections	MS 1227	NRA 23673 Beckett
18	1968-89: letters to John and Vera Beckett, with notes by John Beckett	University of Reading: Special Collections	MS5411	See Annual Return 2010
19	1969-82: corresp with Laure Riese	Victoria University Library		See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories, suppl 1981-82
20	1968-1987: letters and postcards to Aldo Tagliaferri	University of Reading: Special Collections	MS 5555	See Annual Return 2015
21	1972-1989: letters and cards to David Warrilow	University of Reading: Special Collections	MS 5549	See Annual Return 2015
22	1960-74: letters to Miss Willard	Harvard University: Houghton Library		See Reports xxx-xxxiv
23	c1980-85: further papers	University of Reading: Special Collections		See Accessions to Repositories 1985
24	2011: corrected proofs of the 'Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett', edited by Sean Lawlor and John Pilliing, published by Faber	University of Reading: Special Collections	MS 5479	See Annual Return 2012
25	miscellaneous papers	Trinity College Dublin		See Annual Return 2011
26	20th cent: additional papers incl production design material for Waiting for Godot set by Peter Snow (1955), theatre memorabilia, corresp, notes by Katharine Worth, and recordings	University of Reading: Special Collections	MS 5531	See Annual Return 2014
27	1926-1969: corresp (7) with Ifan Kyrle Fletcherl	Columbia University Libraries: Rare Book and Manuscript Library	MS#0434
28	1960-80: letters and published works sent to Marion Leigh, theatrical ephemera and materials rel to the first production of the work Rockaby	Trinity College Dublin	IE TCD MS 11585	See Annual Return 2018
29	c1960: letters from Lütfi Özkök (c1923-2017), poet and photographer	Trinity College Dublin	IE TCD MS 11657	See Annual Return 2022
30	1970-1971: autograph letter to David Roe; incl a copy of Roe's ms entitled Concluding Sections in Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and Beckett's Trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable	University of Reading: Special Collections	Acc.MS5851	See Annual Return 2022
31	1948: typescripts of Malone Meurt and Molloy from the French publishing house Minuit; incl a letter from Beckett and one from Suzanne	University of Reading: Special Collections	Acc.MS5859	See Annual Return 2022