Transcribed by: Magessa O'Reilly, Dirk Van Hulle & Pim Verhulst

Holding Library: Samuel Beckett Papers (MSS008), Washington University Library, Department of Special Collections (MS MSS008/3/50/1)

Abbreviated in the Manuscript Chronology as ET2-I

MOLLOY / by / SAMUEL BECKETT / Translated from the French / by PATRICK BOWLES / in collaboration with the author. Typescript (black ribon and carbon), 211 sheets typing paper and onionskin numbered according to the two divisions of the novel. Part I comprises title page, [1], 2-108, 27 x 21 cm. A complete typescript. Revisions as follows: Part I, p. [1], - 29 (black carbon), correction of typos only (black pen). Incorporates revision on ET1 but is not a carbon of it. P. 30-108 (black carbon) have moderate to extensive revisions (black ink, red ball) and are a carbon of ET1 with revisions on latter inserted by hand.

As Patrick Bowles explained to Barney Rosset on 20 January 1955: 'I am sending you a copy of Part I. Of this, the first 30 pages have been retyped and the corrections on the rest have been inked in' (SU, Grove Press Records, box 98). This explains why the changes were not all made in the same handwriting, although it is difficult to distinguish between that of Bowles and Beckett. It is safe to conclude, however, that all corrections in fuchsia-coloured ink were made by Beckett, and that all changes were authorized. Two small pencil annotations, on p. 81 and p. 82, were possibly suggested by Patrick Bowles or Barney Rosset and subsequently added to this typescript or the first edition.

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