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102 James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters
VI. B. 4. FINNEGANS WAKE: HOLOGRAPH WORKBOOKS
Notebook, Joyce's hand in pencil and black grease pencil, a few entries
in ink (some entries not in Joyce's hand).
Title: No title.
Collation: Black cloth covers; insides of boards, cover sides of front
and back flyleaves of blue-and-white designed paper. Verso of
front flyleaf, recto of back flyleaf written on. 168 leaves of ruled
paper with red and blue vertical lines, stitched: 329 pages written
on, 7 pages blank. 21.2 x approx. 13.2 cm.
Other Markings: Many entries crossed through with orange, blue, or
green crayon. "R" on recto of back flyleaf. 18
Dating: ca. 1922-29 (probably 1923). 19
VI. B. 5. FINNEGANS WAKE: HOLOGRAPH WORKBOOKS
Tablet, Joyce's hand in pencil, a few entries in ink (a number of entries
not in Joyce's hand). 20
nifying three other issues of transition in which episodes of "Work in Progress"
were to appear. The meaning of the "t" markings seems to be the
following: Joyce, in preparing an episode for publication in transition, consulted
his workbooks for further revisions, and to avoid confusion marked the
workbooks used with the appropriate "t" symbol; e.g., in preparing Book III,
Chapter 1 (FW403-28),for publication in transition, 12 (Marchl928), Joyce consulted
a number of workbooks and indicated his use of these by the symbol
"t 12" (marked at the beginning or end of these workbooks) in order to avoid
consulting the same workbooks twice by mistake, "t 11'' indicates preparation
of a section of Book II, Chapter 2 (F\V 282-304), for publication in transition,
11 (February 1928); "t 13" indicates preparation of Book III, Chapter 2 (FW
429-73), for publication in transition, 13 (Summer 1928); "t 14" indicates
preparation of Book III, Chapter 3 (FW 474-554), for publication in transition,
15 (February 1929)—the episode was not ready in time for inclusion in transition
14, for which it had originally been intended, hence "t 14" instead of
"t 15"; "t 17" indicates preparation of Book III, Chapter 4 (FW 555-90), for
publication in transition, 18 (November 1929)—the episode was not ready in
time for inclusion in transition 17, for which it had originally been intended,
hence "t 17" instead of "t 18."
18 Probably mark of Mme. France Raphael, Joyce's amanuensis. See MS.
VI. C. 16., p. [275] to end, for a transcription of beginning to p. [11], and MS.
VI. C. 15., pp. [1-176], for a transcription of p. [11] to end by Joyce's amanuensis
of the entries in this MS. which were not crossed through with colored
crayon.
19 P. [116] of MS., "12.12.1923."
20 See MS. VI. C. 4., pp. [28-153], for a transcription by Joyce's amanuensis
of the entries in this MS. which were not crossed through with colored crayon.