Sir, - On reading the articles about Samuel Beckett in your edition of January 27th I was reminded that I had attended his lectures in 1931/32 in Trinity College.
He was a junior lecturer in French and, I think, not much older than his students. My only recollection of him was that he had a sharp and sarcastic tongue and very little patience with his classes.
His most recent biographer wrote to me and several of my contemporaries, but I understand none of them remembered him vividly either.
I believe I saw what was probably the first production of Waiting for Godot in a small theatre in Dublin many years ago. - Yours, etc.,
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Hilda Simon, Anglesea Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4.