A chara, - One of your correspondents declares that Samuel Beckett, if alive, would be displeased to learn that Francis Stuart had been made a Saoi. Not so. Beckett and Stuart were friendly acquaintances, and Sam found Francis less boring than most of his other Irish contemporaries.
Stuart's flight to Germany during the second World War parallels Beckett's return to France: both felt they had to be in the thick of it and even though Stuart's position was so much more passive, Beckett respected his choice. - Yours, etc.,
Letter Cottage, Schull, Co. Cork.