The University of Reading spends nearly £1m on Samuel Beckett manuscript - Reading has become the new owner of 'almost certainly the most important English language manuscript still in private hands'.
Release Date 16 July 2013
The University of Reading is delighted to have acquired the working manuscript of Samuel Beckett's first major work, Murphy, at the cost of £962,500, at a recent auction at Sotherby's
The hand-written manuscript, which has been in private hands for the last half century, will now become accessible to Beckett scholars around the world as part of the Beckett Collection, the world's largest Beckett archive, based at the University of Reading.
The news was widely covered in both the national and international media, including The Daily Telegraph, BBC Online, Washington Post and Asian Age