In this letter to Henry Wenning, Beckett conveys a lack of enthusiasm for the task of translating the play Happy Days: “Nothing but this dreary work and nothing else in sight.”
Beckett expresses his satisfaction with Wenning selling his (Beckett's) manuscripts, and updates Wenning, as he often does, on the latest writing, publication and production activities, including How It Is and Happy Days, with some personal news…
Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett (1906- ) has been an active participant in the staging of his plays in numerous productions. Exhibited here are Beckett's own copoes of Warten auf Godot [Waiting for Godot] (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1960) and Fin de…