The research materials include lightly annotated photocopies of Beckett's manuscript notebooks and typescripts forKennedy's initial notes on the materials are also placed here.

This small subseries contains photocopied excerpts of the Beckett materials housed at OSU and Washington U. — thegalleys, the manuscripts and typescripts ofand— and Kennedy's notes on them. Also included here are photocopies of catalogues listing Reading's and TCD's Beckett holdings.

Contained in this subseries are the notes and drafts Kennedy assigned to specific sections of the projected monograph. The sections, which are designated by a combination of roman numerals and letters, correspond to her outline (Folder 1). Notes and drafts not assigned to a specific section are located afterward. An undated draft of a scholarly article related to this project, "A Hidden Passage in the History of Samuel Beckett's Art: His Early Notebooks of" completes this grouping.

Subseries 4 includes dated notebooks, loose notes and drafts Kennedy wrote while working on theproject. The notebooks occasionally feature revealing diary-style entries on a number of topics, which range from her first meeting with Beckett in Paris (in the summer of 1973), to her attitude toward the Irish writer and toward her own scholarly work and abilities. The drafts show Kennedy's intensive revision process; she heavily annotated, rearranged and reworked passages multiple times. This group of material also contains two further drafts of a long essay version of themonograph, one dated 1982 and one submitted posthumously by Kennedy's sister, Sr. Ethne Kennedy, in 1997 (it is dated here 1996 because this is the latest version of the draft extant in Kennedy's files upon her death that year).

Placed here are the research materials Kennedy had gathered for specific sections of theproject. The folders in which these photocopies were contained, and some of the documents themselves, are labeled with section numbers. The assignments themselves are occasionally unclear — some documents have more than one section number written on them — but every effort has been made to reproduce as much of the structure of Kennedy's projected monograph as is possible based on the organization of her research materials.

This small subseries contains research materials which Kennedy had not assigned to a section of herstudy. They include newspaper clippings, photocopies taken from books — including the published German-language director's book for— and a photocopy of an untitled document which details, in English, the changes Beckett made to thescript when he directed the play in German in 1975. Also placed here are photocopies and photographs of paintings — by Caspar David Friedrich, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Bellini, James Slatney and Hieronymus Bosch — related to Kennedy'sresearch.

Subseries 1 features notes, drafts, and photocopied research material related to Kennedy's research on the connections between Beckett's writing and that of Arnold Geulincx, a seventeenth-century Flemish philosopher whose work concerned ethics and the mind-body relationship. Related articles on Erasmus also appear here. Many of these materials are annotated by Kennedy.

Subseries 2 contains notes and drafts Kennedy produced during her study of Beckett's relationship to Dante. The bulk of the grouping consists of Kennedy's research material: photocopies of literary works, scholarly articles and chapters, and occasionally encyclopedia entries, on Dante and related writers including Augustine, Aquinas, Democritus, and Peter Abelard. Many, but not all, of these photocopies are annotated by Kennedy. Most of the scholarly articles are in English, though some are in Italian.

Subseries 3 consists of research materials (including periodicals), notes, and drafts which address James Joyce, and also Beckett's relationship to his mentor. Three variously titled drafts of an article-length work on the Joyce-Beckett connection allow one to follow Kennedy's writing process.

Contained in Subseries 4 are annotated photocopies of and notes on other writings produced by Beckett between 1929 and 1983, includingthe long-unpublishedandand many of Beckett's shorter works (including reviews and poems). Of special interest is the 1962 unrevised typescript forwhich Kennedy's attached note indicates was given to her in May 1973. (It is unclear who typed this draft of Beckett's play, though the corrections to the script are not in the author's hand.)

Subseries 5 collects notes and research material on Beckett that Kennedy had not assigned to a particular scholarly project. Included are Kennedy's notecards, scholarly and newspaper articles in English and in French, and a newspaper clipping file that contains articles published from 1958-1996. Also housed here is a group of periodicals containing scholarly writing on Beckett, most of which has been annotated by Kennedy.

One conference paper abstract, for a 1979 talk, and one draft, from 1986, are featured in this small subseries.

Contained in this subseries are off-prints of six articles and a photocopy of one book review published by Kennedy. Her book, Murphy's Bed, and clippings of reviews of her publications are also featured.

This subseries consists of Beckett- and Joyce-related audio cassette tapes that Kennedy apparently used in her teaching. All but two are copies.

Included here are two LPs, one of James Joyce reading excerpts of his writing, and one of the actor Jack MacGowran reading selections from Beckett's work. Three records, which feature recordings of Irish songs and performances of early twentieth century revolutionary speeches, are Beltona gramophone discs produced sometime after 1923. "Thomas MacDonagh's Court-Martial Speech" is damaged (the disc is chipped on its outside edge).

Kennedy owned several small hand-colored woodcuts by Jack B. Yeats, including "The Shanachie," made at the Cuala Press (owned and operated by Yeats's sister, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats), two untitled illustrations of a seaside horse race, and one untitled image of a village crier. They are included in this series, as are two Japanese wood block prints by Hiroshige (the accompanying receipt, dated December 1958, guarantees that these are "at least 150 years old"), and one hand-colored card by M. Roberts depicting O'Connell Street. Three of the Yeats and both of the Hiroshige prints are oversized and are located in map case 14-O-2.

This small subseries includes a group of black-and-white photographs of a New York City production ofcredited to Alix Jeffry, a prominent photographer of the Off-Broadway theater scene from the 1950s to the 1980s. (The folder in which the photos had been housed was dated 1974, which indicates that the prints were made and/or sent then; the photos themselves may be images of the 1958 American premiere at the Cherry Lane Theater, or its 1962 revival.) A photograph of a sketch in Beckett's Trinity College notebooks served as the cover forseveral copies are included here. Two photographs of Beckett's abandoned 1963 manuscript "J.M. Mime" — written for his favorite actor Jack McGowran — also reside here.

This subseries features titles fromtoall but one of these books was published by Les Editions de Minuit.

Some of these books, many of which are Evergreen-Grove paperbacks, are very heavily annotated; Kennedy appears to have purchased second copies of several of them in order to take an additional set of marginal notes.

These are largely scholarly books, many of them classics in the now-enormous field of Beckett studies. Many are paperbacks.

This small subseries features scholarly and trade books about Beckett's friend and mentor, James Joyce.

As with the Beckett books in English, Kennedy seems to have purchased second copies of crucial Dante translations so as to add further marginalia. Featured here are several now-standard English translations of Dante's writings; most are paperbacks, though also included are a 1904 hardcover edition of D.G. Rossetti's translation of theand a 1932 hardcover copy of The Modern Library's Carlyle-Wicksteed translation of theTranslations are alphabetized by title and then by translator.

Here are scholarly books in English on Dante; also included are bound volumes ofAn edition of Vico (grouped by Beckett with Dante, Bruno and Joyce in his famous early essay) and the Loeb Classical Library's Virgil are also present.

This small subseries primarily contains books on ancient Greek and medieval Christian philosophy and literature.