This series primarily consists of letters written to and from Kennedy during her scholarly career. Kennedy kept carbon copies of many of her own letters, including those she wrote to Samuel Beckett. (Kennedy had pasted her letters to Beckett in a protective binder, from which they have been removed and which left their pages striped by glue.) Other correspondents include: Mary Doll, Richard Ellman, John Fletcher, James Gilvarry, Stanley E. Gontarski, Lawrence E. Harvey, John Kelly, James Knowlson, A.J. Leventhal, Jérôme Lindon (of Les Éditions de Minuit, Beckett's French publisher), George O. Marshall, Jr., W. Kelly Morris and Richard Schechner (of the Tulane Drama Review), Eoin T. O'Brien, John Pilling, and representatives of the Columbia, Dartmouth, Ohio State, Texas, and Washington University Libraries, of the Modern Language Association, and scholarly publishers the Associated University Press, Bucknell University Press, and Princeton University Press. Of note are the letters from TDR's Morris and editor Schechner (later a professor at New York University and a major figure in the field of performance studies); they are two very harsh critiques of Kennedy's first journal article attempt. That Kennedy, then still a graduate student, kept the letters is illustrative of her character.
Also present in this series are two autograph letters from Beckett to his uncle's brother, Harry Sinclair, one written in October 1937 and one dated 2 February 1938, and one photocopy of a typed letter draft, in German, from Beckett to his friend Axel Kaun, dated 9 July 1937. The Sinclair letters were written during the time of the libel suit (eventually successful) brought against the Irish writer, politician, physician and wit Oliver St. John Gogarty for his portrayal of the Sinclair family in his 1937 memoir As I Was Going Down Sackville Street. Beckett's affidavit in the case was taken on 12 May 1937. The second letter reports on the status of Beckett's health following his hospitalization for a stab wound to his lung given to him on 7 January 1938 by a Parisian pimp, apparently for no reason. Beckett wrote the letter from the Hotel Liberia in Paris, where he was convalescing.
Box 1 Folder 1
Associated University Press, 1970-1984
Box 1 Folder 2
Beckett, Samuel to Axel Kaun (copy of draft), 1937
Box 1 Folder 3
Beckett, Samuel, to Harry Sinclair, 1937-1938
Box 1 Folder 4
Beckett, Samuel to Sighle Kennedy, 1967-1977
Box 1 Folder 5
Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1986-1995
Box 1 Folder 6
Doll, Mary, 1983
Box 1 Folder 7
Ellman, Richard, 1976-1978
Box 1 Folder 8
Fell, Cynthia (Associated/Bucknell University Press), 1973
Box 1 Folder 9
Fletcher, John, 1971
Box 1 Folder 10
Gilvarry, James, undated
Box 1 Folder 11
Gontarski, Stanley E., 1977
Box 1 Folder 12
Hall, Holly (Washington University Libraries), 1978
Box 1 Folder 13
Harvey, Lawrence E., 1974
Box 1 Folder 14
Humanities Research Center, University of Texas-Austin, 1971-1974
Box 1 Folder 15
Kelly, John,1976-1977
Box 1 Folder 16
Kennedy, Sighle to Samuel Beckett, 1967-1988
Box 1 Folder 17
Kennedy, Sighle, 1965-1976
Box 1 Folder 18
Kennedy, Sighle, 1977-1992
Box 1 Folder 19
Knowlson, James, 1974-1992
Box 1 Folder 20
Leventhal, A.J., 1976
Box 1 Folder 21
Library Chronicle of the University of Texas-Austin, 1981
Box 1 Folder 22
Lindon, Jérôme, 1983
Box 1 Folder 23
Mackesy, Eileen (Modern Language Association), 1974
Box 1 Folder 24
Marshall, George O., Jr., 1969
Box 1 Folder 25
Morris, W. Kelly (Tulane Drama Review), 1966
Box 1 Folder 26
Mortimer, Roger (Washington University Libraries), 1973
Box 1 Folder 27
O'Brien, Eoin T., 1983-1985
Box 1 Folder 28
Pilling, John, 1976
Box 1 Folder 29
Princeton University Press, 1974-1981
Box 1 Folder 30
Schechner, Richard (Tulane Drama Review), 1966
Box 1 Folder 31
Tibbetts, Robert A. (Ohio State University Libraries), 1970-1977
Box 1 Folder 32
Wright, Walter W. (Dartmouth College Library), 1975
Located here is the scholarly work that Kennedy produced while in graduate school at Columbia University, including notebooks Kennedy filled while studying for her comprehensive exams, a typed carbon copy of her dissertation proposal, a leather-bound copy of her dissertation, and early drafts and a final copy of an unpublished 1966 article entitled "An Obscure Key to Waiting for Godot" (see Box 1, Folders 25 and 30 in the Correspondence series for letters related to this article).
This series contains materials gathered and produced by Kennedy during the long period in which she researched and drafted what she hoped would be a monograph on Beckett's development of Watt from manuscript to publication. Photocopies of literary and scholarly writings — here called "research materials" — have been separated from Kennedy's loose notes, notebooks and drafts. Many of the research materials are annotated by Kennedy.
Subseries III.1: Watt materials at the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas-Austin
The research materials include lightly annotated photocopies of Beckett's manuscript notebooks and typescripts forWatt.Kennedy's initial notes on the materials are also placed here.
Box 3 Folder 1
Photocopy of Watt manuscript notebook I
Box 3 Folder 2
Photocopy of Watt manuscript notebook II
Box 3 Folder 3
Photocopy of Watt manuscript notebook III
Box 3 Folder 4
Photocopy of Watt manuscript notebook IV
Box 3 Folder 5
Photocopy of Watt manuscript notebook IV insert
Box 3 Folder 6
Photocopy of Watt manuscript notebook V
Box 3 Folder 7
Photocopy of Watt manuscript notebook VI
Box 3 Folder 8
Photocopy of Watt manuscript notebook, "Revision of Watt, section 1"
Box 4 Folder 1-2
Photocopy of Watt typescript, Part I, (2 Folders)
Box 4 Folder 3-4
Photocopy of Watt typescript, Part II, (2 Folders)
Box 4 Folder 5
Photocopies of Watt manuscripts and typescript
Box 4 Folder 6
Sighle Kennedy's notes on HRC Watt materials
Subseries III.2: Watt and other Beckett materials at other universities
This small subseries contains photocopied excerpts of the Beckett materials housed at OSU and Washington U. — theWattgalleys, the manuscripts and typescripts ofHappy DaysandThat Time— and Kennedy's notes on them. Also included here are photocopies of catalogues listing Reading's and TCD's Beckett holdings.
Box 4 Folder 7
Photocopies of Watt materials at Ohio State University
Box 4 Folder 8
Photocopies of Happy Days and That Time manuscripts and typescripts at OSU
Box 4 Folder 9
Sighle Kennedy's notes on OSU Beckett materials
Box 4 Folder 10
Photocopy of Watt galleys at Washington University-St. Louis
Box 4 Folder 11
Photocopies of catalogues of Beckett materials at University of Reading and Trinity College Dublin
Subseries III.3: Notes and drafts for the Watt monograph, undated
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 ofWatt," completes this grouping.
Box 5 Folder 1
Outline for Kennedy's projected monograph on Watt , undated
Box 5 Folder 2
Notes and drafts for introduction, undated
Box 5 Folder 3
Notes and drafts, Section Ib, undated
Box 5 Folder 4
Notes and drafts, Sections Ic and Ie, undated
Box 5 Folder 5
Notes and drafts, Section Id, undated
Box 5 Folder 6
Notes and drafts, Section IIa, undated
Box 5 Folder 7
Notes and drafts, Section IIb, undated
Box 5 Folder 8
Notes and drafts, Section IIc, undated
Box 5 Folder 9
Notes and drafts, Section IId, undated
Box 5 Folder 10
Notes and drafts, Section IIe, undated
Box 5 Folder 11-12
Notes and drafts, section unassigned, undated, (2 Folders)
Box 6 Folder 1
Notes and drafts, section unassigned, undated
Box 6 Folder 2
Draft of scholarly article on Watt: "A Hidden Passage in the History of Samuel Beckett's Art: His Early Notebooks of Watt," undated.
Subseries III.4: Notes and drafts for Watt monograph, 1969-1996
Subseries 4 includes dated notebooks, loose notes and drafts Kennedy wrote while working on theWattproject. 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 theWattmonograph, 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).
Box 6 Folder 3
Notebook containing diary entries, letter drafts, and notes on Watt project, 1969-1974
Box 6 Folder 4
Notes on visit to Paris and first meeting with Beckett, 1973 June-August, 1973
Box 6 Folder 5
Notes on interview with Henry Wenning, 1973 September
Box 6 Folder 6
Note (incomplete), 1973 October
Box 6 Folder 7
Notebook containing diary entries and drafts, 1975 August-1976 March, 1975
Box 6 Folder 8
Loose notes and notebook, 1976 June-July, 1976
Box 6 Folder 9
Loose notes and notebook, 1977 January-March
Box 6 Folder 10
Loose notes, notebook, and diary entries, 1979 July-December
Box 6 Folder 11
Loose notes and notebook, 1980 February
Box 6 Folder 12
Notes and drafts, 1981
Box 6 Folder 13
Notes and drafts, 1982
Box 6 Folder 14
Typescript draft of "'Astride of a Grave and a Difficult Birth': Samuel Beckett's Watt Struggles to Life,", 1982
Box 7 Folder 1
Notebook, 1983 November
Box 7 Folder 2
Notes and drafts, 1983-1984
Box 7 Folder 3
Notes and drafts, 1984
Box 7 Folder 4
Notebook containing notes and diary entries, 1984-1986
Box 7 Folder 5
Loose notes, 1986-1987
Box 7 Folder 6
Notebook, 1988-1990 "Notes resuming on Watt notebooks", 1988-1990
Box 7 Folder 7
Full typescript of "'Astride of a Grave and a Difficult Birth': Samuel Beckett's Watt Struggles to Life,", 1996
Subseries III.5: Assigned research material for Watt monograph, undated
Placed here are the research materials Kennedy had gathered for specific sections of theWattproject. 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.
Box 7 Folder 8
Introduction
Box 7 Folder 9
Sections Ib and Ic
Box 7 Folder 10
Section II, "Game"
Box 7 Folder 11
Section IIb
Box 8 Folder 1
Section IId
Box 8 Folder 2
Section III
Subseries III.6: Unassigned research material for Watt monograph, undated
This small subseries contains research materials which Kennedy had not assigned to a section of herWattstudy. They include newspaper clippings, photocopies taken from books — including the published German-language director's book forWaiting for Godot— and a photocopy of an untitled document which details, in English, the changes Beckett made to theGodotscript 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'sWattresearch.
Box 8 Folder 3
Photocopies of articles, news clippings, and encyclopedia entries
Box 8 Folder 4
Material on Beckett's Regiebuch for Warten auf Godot
Box 8 Folder 5
Photographs and photocopies of paintings related to Watt research
Series IV houses notebooks, loose notes, note cards, drafts, and research materials on Beckett's relationships to other writers and thinkers. While these studies may have emerged from Kennedy's work on Watt — and in fact some of her Watt notes appear intermittently here — the projects seem to have eventually taken on a life of their own, and contributed to at least one of Kennedy's published articles and to another projected book (on Beckett and Dante).
Subseries IV.1: Beckett and Arnold Geulincx, 1985-1989
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.
Box 8 Folder 6
Map of the Netherlands, in pencil, undated
Box 8 Folder 7
Notes and drafts, undated
Box 8 Folder 8
Notes and drafts, 1985-1989
Box 8 Folder 9
Research material on Geulincx and Beckett, undated
Box 9 Folder 1
Research material on Geulincx and Beckett, undated
Box 9 Folder 2
Research material on Geulincx and Erasmus, undated
Subseries IV.2: Beckett and Dante, 1980-1996
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.
Box 9 Folder 3
Notes, undated
Box 9 Folder 4
Notes, circa 1980 "Samuel Beckett's Dante 'Revelation'", 1980
Box 9 Folder 5
Notebook, 1986-1991 "Beckett, Belacqua and the Sphere of Fortune", 1986-1991
Box 9 Folder 6
Notebook, 1988-1990 "Beckett and Dante and Geulincx", 1988-1990
Box 9 Folder 7
Notebook, 1988-1993 "Beckett's moral influences; Dante", 1988-1993
Box 9 Folder 8
Notebook, 1989-1990
Box 9 Folder 9
Notebook, 1989-1992
Box 9 Folder 10
Notebook, 1989-1993 "Huguenot Fantasy; Moral Debt to James Joyce; Beckett's Dante 'Revelation'; Dante and Fortuna", 1989-1993
Box 9 Folder 11
Notebook, 1990- : "SB and Debt to Geulincx; Artist at Crossroads (Debt to Joyce); SB and Dante; SB: Beginning and End (early life in Ireland)"
Box 9 Folder 12
Loose notes and drafts, 1990- : "Beckett's Dantean Struggle for Liberty"
Box 10 Folder 1
Course notes, 1990 September-December : "Sources of the Divine Comedy," ProJoan Ferrante, 1990 September-December
Box 10 Folder 2
Notebook, 1990-1992 "Day Notes", 1990-1992
Box 10 Folder 3
Notebook, 1990-1996
Box 10 Folder 4
Notebook, 1991 "Drafts: Beckett, Belacqua and the Sphere of Fortune", 1991
Box 10 Folder 5
Notebooks and notes, 1991 Beckett and Belacqua, 1991
Box 10 Folder 6
Notebooks, 1991-1992 "Watt; Belacqua in the Sphere of Fortune", 1991-1992
Box 10 Folder 7
Notebook, 1991-1993
Box 10 Folder 8
Loose notes, drafts and notebook, 1992 "Beckett's Dante 'Revelation,'" "Beckett's Belacqua", 1992
Box 10 Folder 9
Notebook, 1992 "Belacqua and the Sphere of Fortune: Supplementary Notes", 1992
Box 10 Folder 10
Notebook and notes, 1992, 1996 On Teodolinda Barolini's The Undivine Comedy, 1992, 1996
Box 10 Folder 11
Loose notes, drafts and notebook, 1993 "Beckett's Dante 'Revelation': Belacqua in the Sphere of Fortune"; analysis of Dream of Fair to Middling Women, 1993
Box 11 Folder 1
Draft, 1993 "Belacqua and the Sphere of Fortune", 1993
Box 11 Folder 2
Notebooks, 1993-1995 "Beckett's Dante 'Revelation'", 1993-1995
Box 11 Folder 3
Loose notes, drafts, notebooks, 1994 "Beckett-Dante Relationship" (transcript of interview with Ethne Kennedy and outline for proposed monograph), 1994
Box 11 Folder 4
Loose notes, drafts, and notebooks, 1995 "Beckett's Belacqua Explores Dante's Sphere of Fortune", 1995
Box 11 Folder 5
Loose notes, drafts and notebooks, 1995 "Beckett's Belacqua Explores Dante's Sphere of Fortune"; Dante and "Fortuna", 1995
Box 11 Folder 6
Loose notes and drafts, 1996 "Beckett's Global Dante: Belacqua in the Sphere of Fortune", 1996
Box 11 Folder 7-10
Research material on Dante, undated, (4 Folders)
Box 12 Folder 1-6
Research material on Dante, undated, (6 Folders)
Box 13 Folder 1-7
Research material on Dante, undated, (7 Folders)
Box 14 Folder 1-6
Research material on Dante, undated, (6 Folders)
Box 15 Folder 1
Research material on Dante, undated
Subseries IV.3: Beckett and James Joyce, 1978-1989
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.
Box 15 Folder 2
Notes, undated
Box 15 Folder 3
Draft, undated: "Samuel Beckett's Tribute to James Joyce: A Matter of Integrity"
Box 15 Folder 4
Notes and research material for course on Joyce, 1978-1984
Box 15 Folder 5
Draft, circa 1984 "Samuel Beckett's Creative Metamorphosis: A Moral 'Bequest' from James Joyce", 1984
Box 15 Folder 6
Notebook and notes, 1987
Box 15 Folder 7
Notebook, loose notes and drafts, 1987-1989 "Samuel Beckett's Long Metamorphosis: A Moral Bequest from James Joyce", 1987-1989
Box 15 Folder 8-9
Research materials, undated, (2 Folders)
Box 15 Folder 10
Joyce centenary materials, 1982
Box 15 Folder 11
James Joyce Quarterly 10.1 (Fall 1972) and 11.2 (Winter 1974)
Subseries IV.4: Scholarly material on other writing by Beckett, 1929-1983, undated
Contained in Subseries 4 are annotated photocopies of and notes on other writings produced by Beckett between 1929 and 1983, includingWaiting for Godot,the long-unpublishedDream of Fair to Middling Womenand Eleuthéria,and many of Beckett's shorter works (including reviews and poems). Of special interest is the 1962 unrevised typescript forPlay,which 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.)
Box 16 Folder 1
Annotated photocopy of Dream of Fair to Middling Women typescript, with related materials (1932),, undated
Box 16 Folder 2
Annotated photocopy of Eleutheria (1947), with related materials,, undated
Box 16 Folder 3
Annotated photocopy, transcript and photographs of En Attendant Godot manuscript (1948), undated
Box 16 Folder 4
Notes on En Attendant Godot manuscript (1948), undated
Box 16 Folder 5
Annotated photocopy of En Attendant Godot (1952), undated
Box 16 Folder 6
Photocopies of other writing by Beckett, annotations undated, 1929-1983, undated
All Strange Away typescript (1976)
"Assumption" (1929)
Breath (1969)
Cap au Pire (1983)
"Cascando" (1936)
"A Case in a Thousand" (1934)
Catastrophe (1983)
"Che Siagura" (1929)
Company (1979)
"Le Concentrisme" (circa 1928)
"Dante and the Lobster" (1934)
"Denis Devlin" (1938)
"Les Deux Besoins" (circa 1938)
"Echo's Bones" typescript (circa 1935)
Eh Joe typescript (1965)
"The Essential and the Incidental" (1934)
"Ex Cathezra" (1934)
"The Expelled" (1946-47)
"First Love" (1946)
"For Future Reference" (1930)
"Henri Hayden" (1955)
Box 16 Folder 7
Photocopies of other writing by Beckett, continued, 1929-1983
"Humanistic Quietism" (1934)
Not I typescript (1972)
"Peintres de l'empèchement" typescript and manuscript (1947-48)
"La Peinture des Van Velde ou le monde et le pantaloon" typescript (1945)
Play typescript, unrevised version (1962)
"Poetry is Vertical" (1932)
A Piece of Monologue (1979)
"Suite" excerpt, undated
"Three Dialogues, Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit" (1949)
What Where typescript (1983)
Worstward Ho (1983)
Subseries IV.5: Notes and research material on Samuel Beckett, general, 1934-1996
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.
Box 17 Folder 1
Notes, general, undated
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Scholarly and newspaper articles in English (1934-1991), (2 Folders)
Box 17 Folder 4
Scholarly and newspaper articles in French (1961-1985)
Box 17 Folder 5
Newspaper articles in English, 1958-1996
Box 17 Folder 6
Research material (1938-1973)
Periodicals containing scholarly writing on Samuel Beckett, annotated by Kennedy,1974-1987
Box 18 Folder 1
Contemporary Literature 15.4 (Autumn 1974)
Box 18 Folder 2
Irish University Review (Autumn 1974)
Box 18 Folder 3
James Joyce Quarterly 8.4 (Summer 1971)
Box 18 Folder 4
Journal of Beckett Studies 2 (Winter 1976)
Box 18 Folder 5
Journal of Beckett Studies 3 (Summer 1978)
Box 18 Folder 6
Journal of Beckett Studies 4 (Spring 1979)
Box 18 Folder 7
Journal of Beckett Studies 5 (Autumn 1979)
Box 18 Folder 8
Journal of Beckett Studies 6 (Autumn 1980)
Box 18 Folder 9
Journal of Beckett Studies 11/12 (1989), 11/12
Box 18 Folder 10
New Theatre Magazine 11.3 (1971)
Box 18 Folder 11
The Review of Contemporary Fiction 7.2 (Summer 1987)
Box 19
Notecards, A-G, undated
Box 20
Notecards, H-Z, undated
Series V features printed programs for a number of events, including productions of plays by Beckett and other dramatists and for conferences devoted to Beckett's work. Also included here are printed materials on Padraic Colum, William Butler Yeats and A.J. (Con) Leventhal; documents gathered or produced by Kennedy for her teaching; and a few printed items (including maps) that she collected during trips to Ireland and France.
Series VI contains typed copies and off-prints of Kennedy's published scholarly work.
Housed in four record boxes are books annotated by Sighle Kennedy. Most are paperbacks.
Subseries VIII.1: Books by Samuel Beckett in French
This subseries features titles fromMolloytoCompagnie;all but one of these books was published by Les Editions de Minuit.
Box 26
Comment c'est. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1961.
Box 26
Compagnie. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1980.
Box 26
La dernière bande. 1959. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1980.
Box 26
En attendant Godot. 1952. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970.
Box 26
En attendant Godot. 1966. Ed. Colin Duckworth. London: Harrap, 1973.
Box 26
Fin de partie suivi de Actes sans paroles. 1957. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1969.
Box 26
L'innommable. 1953. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1971.
Box 26
Malone Meurt. 1951. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1969.
Box 26
Molloy. 1951. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970.
Box 26
Murphy. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1965.
Box 26
Oh les beaux jours. 1963. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970.
Box 26
Premier amour. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970.
Subseries VIII.2: Books by Samuel Beckett in English
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.
Box 26
Collected Poems in English and French. London: John Calder, 1977.
Box 26
Company. New York: Grove, 1980.
Box 26
Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment. Ed. Ruby Cohn. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1984.
Box 26
Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Ed. Eoin O'Brien and Edith Fournier. Dublin: Black Cat, 1992.
Box 26
Endgame. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1958.
Box 26
Ends and Odds: Plays and Sketches. London: Faber and Faber, 1977.
Box 26
From an Abandoned Work. London: Faber and Faber, 1958.
Box 26
Happy Days. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1961. Two copies.
Box 26
How It Is. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1964.
Box 26
Ill Seen Ill Said. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1981.
Box 26
Krapp's Last Tape. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1960. Two copies.
Box 26
The Lost Ones. New York: Grove, 1972.
Box 26
Malone Dies. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1956. Two copies.
Box 26
Mercier and Camier. New York: Grove, 1974.
Box 26
Molloy. New York: Grove, 1955.
Box 26
Molloy. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1955.
Box 26
More Pricks than Kicks. London: Calder and Boyars, 1970.
Box 26
More Pricks than Kicks. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1972.
Box 26
Murphy. New York: Grove, 1957.
Box 26
Murphy. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1957.
Box 26
No's Knife: Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1966. London: Calder and Boyars, 1967.
Box 26
Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. CT: New Directions.
Box 26
Play. London: Faber and Faber, 1968.
Box 26
Poems in English. New York: Grove, 1963.
Box 26
Proust. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1978. Two copies.
Box 26
Rockaby and Other Short Pieces. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1981.
Box 26
Stories and Texts for Nothing. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1968.
Box 26
That Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.
Box 26
Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. New York: Evergreen-Grove Black Cat, 1965.
Box 26
The Unnamable. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1958. Two copies.
Box 26
Waiting for Godot. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1954. Two copies.
Box 26
Watt. New York: Grove and John Calder Ltd.: London, 1959. Two copies.
Box 26
Worstward Ho. New York: Grove, 1983.
Box 26
Beckett, Samuel, et. al. Signature Anthology. London: Calder and Boyars, 1975.
Subseries VIII.3: Books about Samuel Beckett
These are largely scholarly books, many of them classics in the now-enormous field of Beckett studies. Many are paperbacks.
Box 27
Admussen, Richard L. The Samuel Beckett Manuscripts: A Study. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979.
Box 27
Alvarez, A. Samuel Beckett. New York: Viking, 1973.
Box 27
Bair, Deirdre. Samuel Beckett. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
Box 27
Brater, Enoch, ed. Beckett at 80: Beckett in Context. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1986.
Box 27
Busi, Frederick. The Transformations of Godot. Lexington, KY: Kentucky UP, 1980.
Box 27
Cohn, Ruby, ed. Casebook on Waiting for Godot. New York: Grove, 1967.
Box 27
Cohn, Ruby, ed. Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Criticism. New York: McGraw-Hall, 1975.
Box 27
Cohn, Ruby. Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1962.
Box 27
Esslin, Martin. Mediations: Essays on Brecht, Beckett and the Media. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1982.
Box 27
Esslin, Martin. Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1965.
Box 27
Fletcher, John and John Spurling. Beckett: A Study of His Plays. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.
Box 27
Fletcher, John. The Novels of Samuel Beckett. London: Chatto and Windus, 1964.
Box 27
Fletcher, John. Samuel Beckett's Art. London: Chatto and Windus, 1967.
Box 27
Gontarski, S.E. The Intent of Undoing in Sanuel Beckett's Texts. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1985.
Box 27
Gontarski, S.E., ed. On Beckett: Essays and Criticism. New York: Grove, 1986.
Box 27
Graver, Lawrence and Raymond Federman. Samuel Beckett: The Critical Heritage. London, Henley and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979.
Box 27
Hamilton, Kenneth and Alice Hamilton. Condemned to Life: The World of Samuel Beckett. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdman's, 1976.
Box 27
Harvey, Lawrence. Samuel Beckett: Poet and Critic. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1970.
Box 27
Karl, Frederick R. A Reader's Guide to the Contemporary English Novel. Revised ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.
Box 27
Kenner, Hugh. A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
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Kenner, Hugh. Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1961.
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Kern, Edith. Kierkegaard, Sartre, Beckett. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1970.
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Knowlson, James. Light and Darkness in the Theatre of Samuel Beckett. London: Turret, 1972.
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Knowlson, James. Samuel Beckett: An Exhibition. London: Turret, 1971.
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Kumar, Shiv K. Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel. New York: NYU Press, 1963.
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Janvier, Ludovic. Pour Samuel Beckett. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1966.
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Juliet, Charles. Rencontres avec Bram van Velde. Paris: Fata Morgana, 1978.
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Mayoux, Jean-Jacques. Samuel Beckett. Essex: Longman, 1974.
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McMillan, Dougald. Transition 1927-38: The History of a Literary Era. New York: George Braziller, 1976.
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O'Hara, J.D. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970.
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Perloff, Marjorie. The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.
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Pilling, John. Samuel Beckett. London, Henley and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.
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Rabinovitz, Rubin. The Development of Samuel Beckett's Fiction. Urbana and Chicago: Illinois UP, 1983.
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Reid, Alec. All I Can Manage, More than I Could: An Approach to the Plays of Samuel Beckett. Revised ed. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1971.
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Scott, Nathan A. Samuel Beckett. New York: Hillary House, 1965.
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Smith, Joseph H., ed. The World of Samuel Beckett. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
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Tindall, William York. Samuel Beckett. Columbia Essays on Modern Writers, no. 4. New York: Columbia UP, 1964.
Subseries VIII.4: Books about James Joyce
This small subseries features scholarly and trade books about Beckett's friend and mentor, James Joyce.
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Budgen, Frank. James Joyce and the Makings of Ulysses. Bloomington and London: Indiana UP, 1967.
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Gilbert, Stuart. James Joyce's Ulysses. 1930. Middlesex: Penguin, 1969.
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Potts, Willard, ed. Portraits of the Artist in Exile: Recollections of James Joyce by Europeans. San Diego, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
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Power, Arthur. Conversations with James Joyce. Ed. Clive Hart. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1974.
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Reynolds, Mary T. Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981.
Subseries VIII.5: Translation of Books by Dante
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 theVita Nuovaand a 1932 hardcover copy of The Modern Library's Carlyle-Wicksteed translation of theCommedia.Translations are alphabetized by title and then by translator.
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Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy. Trans. John Aitken Carlyle, Thomas Okey and Philip H. Wicksteed. New York: Modern Library-Random House, 1932.
Inferno.
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Trans. Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam, 1982.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Revised ed. Oxford and New York: Galaxy-Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Revised ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. Charles S. Singleton. 2 vols. Revised ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.
Paradiso.
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Trans. Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam, 1986.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Oxford and New York: Galaxy-Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. Charles S. Singleton. Revised ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.
Purgatorio.
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Trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. New York: Dolphin-Doubleday, undated.
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Trans. Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam, 1984.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Revised ed. Oxford and New York: Galaxy-Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Revised ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. Charles S. Singleton. Revised ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.
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Rime. Trans. Patrick S. Diehl. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1979.
Vita Nuova.
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Trans. Mark Musa. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1973.
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Dante's New Life. Trans. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1904].
Subseries VIII.6: Books about Dante or Related to Kennedy's Dante Project
Here are scholarly books in English on Dante; also included are bound volumes ofLectura Dantis.An 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.
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Barolini, Teodolinda. The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.
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Bergin, Thomas G. Dante. Riverside Studies in Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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Ferrante, Joan M. The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984.
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Friederich, Werner P. Dante's Fame Abroad, 1350-1850. Chapel Hill: North Carolina UP, 1950.
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Gardner, Edmund. Dante and the Mystics. New York: Haskell House, 1968.
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Harrison, Robert Pogue. The Body of Beatrice. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988.
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Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993.
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McDougal, Stuart Y. Dante among the Moderns. Chapel Hill and London: North Carolina UP, 1985.
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Moore, Edward. Studies in Dante. First Series: Scripture and Classical Authors in Dante 1896. New York: Greenwood, 1968.
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Moore, Edward. Studies in Dante. Third Series: Miscellaneous Essays. 1903. New York: Greenwood, 1968.
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Toynbee, Paget. Concise Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante. New York: Phaeton, 1968.
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Vittorini, Dominico. The Age of Dante: A Concise History of Italian Culture in the Years of the Early Renaissance. New York: Citadel, 1964.
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Wicksteed, Philip H. Dante and Aquinas: Being the Substance of the Jowett Lectures of 1911. New York: Haskell House, 1971.
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Lectura Dantis 6 (Spring 1990).
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Lectura Dantis 6 Supplement: Dante's Divine Comedy: Introductory Readings: I: Inferno (Spring 1990).
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Lectura Dantis 7 (Fall 1990).
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Lectura Dantis 8 (Spring 1991).
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Lectura Dantis 9 (Fall 1991).
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Lectura Dantis 10 (Spring 1992).
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Lectura Dantis 11 (Fall 1992).
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Lectura Dantis 12 Supplement: Dante's Divine Comedy: Introductory Readings II: Purgatorio (Spring 1993).
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Lectura Dantis 12 (Spring 1993).
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Lectura Dantis 13 (Fall 1993)
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Lectura Dantis 16-17: Dante's Divine Comedy: Introductory Readings III: Paradiso (Spring-Fall 1995).
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Vico, Giambattista. On the Study Methods of Our Time. Trans. Elio Gianturco. Indianapolis and New York: Library of Liberal Arts-Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.
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Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. Rolfe Humphries. New York: Scribner, 1951.
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Virgil. Eclogues, Georgics Aeneid 1-6. Trans. H.R. Fairclough. 1938. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1986.
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Virgil. Aeneid 7-12, The Minor Poems. Trans. H.R. Fairclough. 1934. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1986.
Subseries VIII.7: Other Books
This small subseries primarily contains books on ancient Greek and medieval Christian philosophy and literature.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise. Trans. Betty Radice. New York: Penguin, 1974.
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Aristotle. Ethics. Trans. D.P. Chase. 1911. New York: E.P Dutton and London: J.M. Dent, 1937.
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Arpino, Giovanni. La suora giovane. Torino: Einaudi, 1959.
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Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis. Anchor-Doubleday, undated. Damaged.
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St. Augustine. The City of God. Trans. Marcus Dods. New York: Modern Library-Random House, 1950.
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St. Augustine. Confessions. Trans. John Pilkington. New York: Liveright, 1943.
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Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. Trans. V.E. Watts. New York: Penguin, 1969.
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Boethius. Tractates, De Consolatione Philosophiae. Trans. H.Stewart, E.K. Rand, and S.J. Tester. Cambridge MA: Loeb Classical Library-Harvard UP and London: William Heinemann, 1973.
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Aquinas, St. Thomas. The Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Trans. Etienne Gilson and Rev. G.A Erlington. Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons and St. Louis: B. Herder, 1924.
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Jonas, Hans. The Gnostic Religion. Second ed. Boston: Beacon, 1958.
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Kirk, G.S. and J.E. Raven. The Presocratic Philosophers. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1966.
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Levin, Richard. The Question of Socrates. New York and Burlingame: Harcourt-Brace, 1961.
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De Lorris, Guillaume and Jean de Meur. The Romance of the Rose. Trans. Harry W. Robbins. New York: Meridian-Penguin, 1962.
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Nilsson, Martin P. A History of Greek Religion. Second ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1964.
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West, Rebecca J. Eugenio Montale: Poet on the Edge. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard UP, 1981.