BIB_ID
414025
Accession number
MA 9771
Creator
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989, sender.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1982 February 17.
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 8 x 12.8 cm
Notes
Accompanied by a carbon copy of a typed copy of the letter from Denis Brian to Samuel Beckett, dated 8 February 1982, in which Brian asks if it is true that while Beckett was taking dictation (for Finnegans Wake) Joyce invited someone knocking on the door to "come in," that Beckett recorded "come in" in the dictation, and that Joyce retained this in the text. This item has been cataloged separately as MA 9771.1.
Provenance
The Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Summary
Saying that the story is true but that he does not know where the passage occurs.
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