Support the Beckett Letters Project

“The knowledge of what lay ahead for Beckett - the writing of the plays and the great prose fiction - makes one impatient for the further volumes of letters, almost as if Beckett were in correspondence with oneself.”   

Joseph O’Neill, The New York Times, 5 April 2009

Please consider a contribution to the Correspondence of Samuel Beckett project at Emory University. Funds support staff salaries, student stipends, and the archival research needed to complete this historic edition.

Stack of volume 1 copiesThanks to a grant from the NEH and continued funding from Emory University, the editing of Volumes II and III are already underway. However, we need your help.

The NEH grant includes Federal Matching funds that will match up to $30,000 given to the project. In the current economic climate, we cannot afford to lose this opportunity to double your gift to the project. We need to raise $30,000 to qualify for these matching funds in order to complete the four volume edition on schedule.

We are both honored and humbled by the response to Volume I (we have collected reviews here), as well as the eagerness and expectation with which the forthcoming volumes are awaited. To meet our editorial goals for Volume II and beyond we need help from friends like you.

Please partner with us to reach this fundraising goal. All gifts are tax-deductible.


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For more information, contact Katie Busch at 404-727-1521 or kbusch@emory.edu.