Scope and Contents This collection's strengths are in manuscripts of works Beckett wrote during the 1960's. Among the highlights are the set of 16 drafts for the story "Bing," as well as extensive groups of drafts for short pose pieces such as "Assez," "Le Depeupler," and "Imagination morte imaginez;" the heavily revised galley proof of the Olympia Press edition of the novel Watt; and the successive drafts for ...

Scope and Contents Corrected ribbon typescript with ink and pencil annotations,150 pages. Includes envelope identifying this as made from Samuel Beckett's copy of Mercier et Camier in Raymond Federman’s hand, circa 1960.Edited typescript of Beckett’s first novel written in French, originally drafted in 1946 but unpublished until 1970 by Editions de Minuit.This appears to be an intermediate state of Beckett’s French text, with many typing errors and with manuscript corrections throughout, mostly...