Add MS 89083/1/1/1

Sixteen communications from Pinter to Goldstein, most of which are accompanied by a typed transcription (of recent date) supplied by Goldstein. The transcriptions sometimes include supplementary contextual information.

• 1. Sligo. Friday [?1952]. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (1 sheet) and envelope, with Goldstein's transcription. Pinter requests a sample page from one of his letters for handwriting analysis ('for a lark').
• 2. Russell Arms Hotel, Navan, County Meath. No date [?1952]. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter fragment (1 sheet, Hotel paper, pp. 5-6). Letter refers to Pauline [Flanagan]. 'Next week - Westport, Co. Mayo.'
• 3. Kilkenny. Fri 14 Nov [1952]. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (3 sheets) and envelope, with Goldstein's transcription (in which he wrongly states that Pinter's dating is 'out by one day' - it is not). 'The Irish stay is coming to an end. I'll lie low for a while. Tonight Oedipus. Tomorrow Macbeth.'
• 4. [Ireland], No date [?1952]. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter fragment (1 sheet, p. 19), with Goldstein's transcription. 'Next & last week - Castlerea, Co. Roscommon.'
• 5. 'Latest reports from the Stock Exchange' [1953]. Pinter to Goldstein. 4 sheets autograph signed 'Ranji' (pp. 3, 3/4, 5/6, 7). The text of a short prose work as originally sent in a letter to Goldstein. The first sheet of the missive is lacking (i.e. the letter portion that precedes the work). With two transcriptions by Goldstein made on different occasions. One of Goldstein's transcriptions records that the letter was received in 1953, which agrees with the date accompanying the text's eventual publication by Pinter in Various Voices (1998). Goldstein remarks (in a transcription preamble) that 'around 1990' Pinter asked his opinion on whether he should revise the references to 'kikes' in the text. Goldstein's advice was 'not to change anything'. However, the text published in Various Voices substitutes 'Reds' for 'Yids' and for 'Kikes', and 'All quiet on Wall Street' for 'All quiet on Jewfront'.
• 6. C/o Mr. Riggs-Miller, Tullaheady, Nenagh, Co. Tipp. July 7 [1953 - postmark]. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (4 sheets) and envelope, with Goldstein's transcription. 'I've been reading Henry IV parts 1 & 2. (We may do Part 1 next tour.) [...] The prose is quite extraordinary. I think the most wonderful prose he committed.'
• 7. C/o Mrs McGinn, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Wed. July 29 [1953 - year supplied by Goldstein]. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (4 bifolia, pp. [1]-16), with Goldstein's transcription. 'For myself, I have been living in a full world of Pauline [Flanagan], a time whose rhythm is extraordinarily balanced at the moment, The Test Match, Alice in Wonderland, a preliminary examination of Measure for Measure, Franz Kafka's The Trial, a portion again of Black Spring, and my own assorted prose writings, (not Q.O.A.T.F.) the current & source of which has suddenly taken momentum, after, as you know, a considerable lay-off.'
• 8. Franked 'Baile Atha Cliath' [Dublin], 5 August 1953. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter card, with Goldstein's transcription. 'Next week Bantry Co. Cork'.
• 9. Franked 'Baile Atha Cliath' [Dublin], 6 August 1953. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter card.
• 10. Theatre Royal, Waterford. Oct. 28 [1953 - postmark]. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (5 sheets) and envelope, with Goldstein's transcription. 'We are performing As You Like It. Oedipus Rex. The Importance of Being Earnest. Macbeth. Othello.'
• 11. Carlow, Co. Carlow. Mon. [1953 - postmark]. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (3 sheets) and envelope, with Goldstein's transcription. 'We are doing a quite brilliant play called "Rope". In which I do the best work I've done in this business. It is very, very stimulating.' Pinter's schedule given at the end of the letter (Navan, followed by Mullingar - see succeeding communications) suggests this letter was written at the end of October 1953 (confirmed by Goldstein's transcription note for the next letter).
• 12. Navan. Tue. [10 November 1953 - postmark]. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (1 sheet) and envelope, with Goldstein's transcription. 'Pauline & I are not marrying. She is going to America. I shall be home in December. Next week Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.'
• 13. Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. Tue. [17 November 1953 - postmark]. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (7 sheets) and envelope, with Goldstein's transcription. 'Next week Ballina, Co. Mayo'.
• 14. Picture postcard (Harbour, Whitby, Yorkshire), postmarked 28 May 1954. Pinter to Goldstein. With Goldstein's transcription. Pinter gives his address as Spa Theatre. At the head of the card: '(D. Baron is name)'.
• 15. Ennistymon, Co. Clare. Thursday [Goldstein: 'June 1954?']. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (10 sheets), with Goldstein's transcription. 'Are you interested in God or Christ? For God is the mystery. Christ is no mystery.' Pinter will be at Kilrush, Co. Clare next week. Letter signed: 'Da Pinta'. According to Pinter's acting schedule in David T. Thompson, Pinter: The Player's Playwright (1985), a more likely month for this letter is August: in June 1954, Pinter was performing in two plays at Whitby; in August, he performed on tour in 'Dublin and Cardiff and other venues' (p. 129).
• 16. Theatre Royal, Huddersfield. Thur. [November 1954 - see Thompson, pp. 129-30]. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (4 sheets), with Goldstein's transcription. 'This young couple I've met up here are out of the best drawer. It's always good to meet relations in a foreign land. He's an English teacher & we chat the gamut with gusto. Because he's entirely out of the Hackney framework, I'm going to show him what I've written. It should be interesting. They're very nice & they're one of the boys.'