Magee, Patrick. COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATING TO PATRICK MAGEE AND HIS ACTING CAREER, INCLUDING: i) two items inscribed by beckett: a reproduction of a drawing by Mervyn Peake ("for Pat Magee | with admiration | and gratitude | Sam Beckett | Paris March | 1958"); and a portrait photograph ("to Pat & Belle | affectionately | Sam") ii) letters: group of 19 letters to Magee, including 3 by Edna O'Brien (including a piece entitled "The Gathering" and discussing a book on love and a play: "...I am Irish and as you know that is a country where enormous passions and grave events capsize into a rather ridiculous denouement...", undated), 5 by John Bratby (about the purchase of pictures and personal matters, 1973-75) and 1 by J.B. Priestley praising Magee's acting; together with a telegram sent by Noel Coward on Magee's "brilliant performance" and a presscutting inscribed by Marlene Dietrich iii) scripts: four mimeographs of pieces by Samuel Beckett (Rough for Radio, First Love, For to End Yet Again, Dante and the Lobster, From an Abandoned Work, and extracts from Molloy, Malone Dies and Texts for Nothing), with some annotations by Magee iv) photographs: a group of c.165 photographs depicting Magee and others, the majority taken on stage and film sets, including c.41 from Marat/Sade (1967), 15 from Beckett plays including Krapp's Last Tape (2) and Endgame, various sizes, mostly c.205 x 250mm.; together with c.28 photographs inscribed to Magee by friends including Edna O'Brien, John Gielgud, Billie Whitelaw and Irene Worth, surface markings of marginal tears to several photographs iii) books: 15 volumes, including 6 works by Samuel Beckett and 4 volumes inscribed to Magee by John Bratby (Painters of Today: John Bratby, 1961), Ulick O'Connor (Life Styles, 1973), James Hanley (Plays One, 1968) and James Knowlson (bilingual edition of Happy Days, 1978)
Magee, Patrick. COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATING TO PATRICK MAGEE AND HIS ACTING CAREER, INCLUDING: i) two items inscribed by beckett: a reproduction of a drawing by Mervyn Peake ("for Pat Magee | with admiration | and gratitude | Sam Beckett | Paris March | 1958"); and a portrait photograph ("to Pat & Belle | affectionately | Sam") ii) letters: group of 19 letters to Magee, including 3 by Edna O'Brien (including a piece entitled "The Gathering" and discussing a book on love and a play: "...I am Irish and as you know that is a country where enormous passions and grave events capsize into a rather ridiculous denouement...", undated), 5 by John Bratby (about the purchase of pictures and personal matters, 1973-75) and 1 by J.B. Priestley praising Magee's acting; together with a telegram sent by Noel Coward on Magee's "brilliant performance" and a presscutting inscribed by Marlene Dietrich iii) scripts: four mimeographs of pieces by Samuel Beckett (Rough for Radio, First Love, For to End Yet Again, Dante and the Lobster, From an Abandoned Work, and extracts from Molloy, Malone Dies and Texts for Nothing), with some annotations by Magee iv) photographs: a group of c.165 photographs depicting Magee and others, the majority taken on stage and film sets, including c.41 from Marat/Sade (1967), 15 from Beckett plays including Krapp's Last Tape (2) and Endgame, various sizes, mostly c.205 x 250mm.; together with c.28 photographs inscribed to Magee by friends including Edna O'Brien, John Gielgud, Billie Whitelaw and Irene Worth, surface markings of marginal tears to several photographs iii) books: 15 volumes, including 6 works by Samuel Beckett and 4 volumes inscribed to Magee by John Bratby (Painters of Today: John Bratby, 1961), Ulick O'Connor (Life Styles, 1973), James Hanley (Plays One, 1968) and James Knowlson (bilingual edition of Happy Days, 1978)
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