Samuel Beckett letter to Henry Wenning, 1961: May 18

Samuel Beckett letter to Henry Wenning, 1961: May 18

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Correspondence.

Beckett comments on the success of Waiting for Godot at Odéon Theatre in Paris and the progress on his new play [Happy Days]. As this letter shows, Wenning has become Beckett's preferred book and manuscript dealer by this time. 

Beckett, Samuel

MSS008 Box 1 Folder 6

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 1961: May 18. 

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MSS008 Series 1 Item 37: 1961: December 4 Auto letter signed, 1 page. ...Refers to German production of "Happy Days" Item 41: 1962: December Auto letter signed, 1 page. Reports on his progress on the translations of Comment c'est and "Happy Days": "Nothing but this dreary work and nothing else in sight"  

MSS008 Series 1 Item 49: 1963: September 18 Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Reports on rehearsals of "Oh Les Beaux Jours"; Item 50: 1963: September 26 Auto letter signed, 1 page. Suzanne, is in Venice for the production of "Happy Days" Item 55: 1964: May 5 Auto letter signed, 1 page. News of the tour of "Happy Days" to Canada and Rome.

To Alan Schneider, 20 May 1961: "Had a hard time here with Godot rehearsals in absence of Blin and Serreau rehearsing Raimbourg's part till a week before opening. But we made out and it is now doing very well at Odéon. I could do nothing else while it lasted, but since beginning of May have been working on the new play and hope to start typing definitive text next week and to send it out towards end of month. You could go on labouring for ever on these things, but the time comes, and I think it has come here, when you have to let them go. You won't find much difference from the script you read - got in the hubby in both acts and think the song will be the Valse duet (I love you so) from the Merry Widow." -The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957-1965, p. 411