Dear Adam Tarn,

To my great distress and disappointment, I find that it a impossible for me to accept your very moving invitation. The rehearsals of my new play take up all my time, not to mention other obligations and concerns that keep me pinned here.

I am greatly touched by the friendship and generosity to which owe my being invited to see the first staging of Godot in Warsaw and to stay in your country, and I send, to you and to all those in charge of the Współczesny Theatre, my heartfelt thanks and my hope of being able one day to express them to you direct, and, better still, with a handshake, where you live.

Have you received the text of All That Fall that I had asked Curtis Brown to send you? If not, let me know and I will send it myself.

I was very glad to meet Julian Rogoziński and am only sorry that it was not for longer. Give him my regards.

Once again my thanks, my regrets, and my warmest wishes.

Samuel Beckett

The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1957 – 1965 by Samuel Beckett @ IndieBound