In your review of George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn, and Lois More Overbeck’s The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), you express some surprise at Beckett’s funny side (“Man of Words,” September 24, 2011). Your caption under his picture spells it out: “Unlikely comic.” According to you, his “misanthropic comedy” surfaces only in some of his letters, but you do not seem to find even a glimpse of it in his seminal writings. To my mind, though, Beckett is a high master of comedy. His misanthropy only adds to it, too. In fact, the more bitter or sour he gets, the funnier he turns out. With his full knowledge of the ultimate effect, it goes without saying. In your defense, perhaps it takes a misanthrope to fully appreciate another misanthrope’s humor. As well as your review’s funny side.