Digital Manuscript ProjectStirrings Still / Soubresauts
Catalogue
The transcriptions of the documents in this genetic edition are identified with the numbers of the manuscripts at the Beckett Archive, University of Reading (UoR). A full bibliographical description is made by Julian Garforth, Mary Bryden, and Peter Mills in Beckett at Reading: Catalogue of the Beckett Manuscripts Collection at the University of Reading (Reading: Whiteknights Press and the Beckett International Foundation, 1998). The following survey of the Stirrings Still / Soubresauts manuscripts only mentions the main bibliographical characteristics, indicating the type of document and inscriptions (copybook, holograph manuscript, typescript, carbon copy), the number of leaves, and the date (if indicated).
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MS 2933/1Holograph manuscript (fragments in both French and English) of sections 01 and 02 3 leaves date: 27/06/1983 |
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MS 2933/2Holograph manuscript of section 01 in black ink (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2933/3Typescript of section 02 with holograph additions in black ink (French) 1 leaf |
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MS 2933/4Typescript of section 02 with holograph additions in black ink (French) 1 leaf |
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MS 2933/5Typescript of section 02 with holograph additions in red ink (French) 1 leaf |
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MS 2934Copybook (with holograph drafts in both English and French) of sections 01, 1, 2, 3 11 + 2 leaves (Beckett restarted from the back under the heading "Repeat in different order.") dates: Section 1: August 1984 (p. 1); Feb. 1985 (p. 4); June/July 1986 (p. 7; p. 5) Section 2: August/Sept. 1985 (p. 6) Section 3: June 1987 (p. 11) |
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MS 2935/1/1Holograph manuscript ('snippets' and fragments of) section 03 (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/1/2Holograph manuscript (fragments) of section 03 (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/1/3Holograph manuscript (fragments); incipits of section 1 (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/1/4Holograph manuscript of first paragraph of section 1 (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/1/5Holograph manuscript (fragments); first sentence of section 1 (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/2/1Typescript with holograph additions of section 03 (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/2/2Typescript with holograph additions of section 03 (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/2/3Typescript with holograph additions of section 03 (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/3/1Holograph manuscript of integrated first and second paragraph of section 1 (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/3/2Holograph manuscript (title "End") of integrated 1st/2nd/3rd paragraph of section 1 (English) + paragraphs 4, 5, and 6 of section 1 + two extra paragraphs 1 leaf date: 15 November 1984 |
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MS 2935/3/3Typescript with holograph additions of integrated 1st/2nd/3rd paragraph (English) 1 leaf + verso |
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MS 2935/3/4Typescript of MS 2935/3/2 (title "End"; without the two extra paragraphs) with holograph additions (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/3/5Complete typescript of MS 2935/3/2 (title "End") with one addition in pencil (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/3/6Carbon copy of MS 2935/3/5 with holograph additions in black ink and pencil (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/3/7Typescript of MS 2935/1/4 (first paragraph of section 1) with holograph additions (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/3/8Typescript of section 1 (incorporating MS 2935/3/7) with holograph additions (English) 1 leaf + verso |
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MS 2935/3/9Typescript of section 1 with holograph additions in black ink (English) Title "FRAGMENT for Barney Rosset July 1986" 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/3/10Carbon copy of MS 2935/3/9 with holograph additions in black ink (English) Title "FRAGMENT for Barney Rosset July 1986" 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/3/11Typescript of section 1 with holograph additions in black ink (English) Title "FRAGMENT" 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/3/12Carbon copy of MS 2935/3/11 with holograph additions in black ink (English) Title "FRAGMENT" 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/3/13Typescript of section 1 with holograph additions in black ink (English) Title "FRAGMENTS for Barney Rosset July 1986" 2 leaves, numbered "1" (in Beckett's hand), and "2" (typewritten) |
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MS 2859Photocopied typescript of section 1 (= 2935/3/13) with one holograph addition in black ink (English) + typescript of section 2 Title "FRAGMENT for Barney Rosset July 1986" 3 leaves |
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MS 2935/4/1Typescript of section 2 with holograph additions in black ink (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/4/2Typescript of section 2 with holograph additions in black ink (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/5/1Holograph manuscript of opening lines of section 3 (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/5/2Typescript of section 3 with holograph additions in black ink and pencil (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 2935/5/3Typescript of section 3 with holograph additions in black ink (English) 1 leaf |
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MS 3543Photocopied computer printout of typescript of "Soubresauts" (French) Title "Soubresauts" in Beckett's hand + "Final" (top right corner) 4 leaves |
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