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

Holding Library: Samuel Beckett Papers (MSS008), Washington University Library, Department of Special Collections (MS MSS008/3/50/2)

Abbreviated in the Manuscript Chronology as ET2-II

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 II comprises [1], 2-101 including 36a and 36b. 27 x 21 cm. A complete typescript. Part II (black carbon) has infrequent revisions (black pen).

While all corrections on this document were authorized by Beckett, they were not all made in his handwriting, as Patrick Bowles explained to Barney Rosset when he sent the typescript to the publisher on 20 January 1955: 'I have inserted his corrections, where he [SB] has not inserted them himself' (Syracuse University, Grove Press Records, box 98). Because the handwriting of Bowles and Beckett is equally neat and careful, it is often hard to distinguish between the two.

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