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<> Boyd Letters Boyd Estate 1977 Dec 6th Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF Boyd082 Letter O&#039;Casey, German English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd082 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd082_1.jpg LHL Archive COPY As from 28 Rosetta Avenue, Belfast 7 6th September 1977 M. Dumay, 14 Rue de Gaulle, 21240 Talant, Prance, Dear M. Dumay, My friend Eileen O'Casey kindly gave me your name when I was enquiring about a French translator for one of my plays called THE FLATS. This play has had great success throughout Ireland, has also had a successful production in Germany, and is going on at a New York off-off-Broadway theatre for the 2nd time this Autumn. Altogether it has proved to be very popular play, and has been compared to O'Casey - hence Eileen O'Casey's interest in my work. When I was lecturing at the Sorbonne about a year ago a Paris group were interested in a French production, and I began to think about a French translation. If you would be interested I would send you a copy of the play (it has been published and gone into two editions), and T would also send you some of the notices from Irish, American, and German newspapers. I understand from Eileen O'Casey that you have already translated FIGURE IN THE NIGHT and some of Sean's later plays. I don't think, therefore, that you would find my idiom particularly difficult. I would of course give you every co-operation. I am familiar enough with French, and visit Paris from time to time, but I thinght it best to write to you in English. Yours sincerely, JOHN BOYD (signed) (Copy of original letter transcribed from shorthand, due to loss of copy) Text