James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters - University at Buffalo Libraries
James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters - University at Buffalo Libraries
James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters - University at Buffalo Libraries
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Finnegans Wake 103<br />
Title: No title.<br />
Coll<strong>at</strong>ion: Front cover light brown (pink hued); back board tan; black<br />
cloth spine. Inside of front cover, both sides of back cover written<br />
on. 90 leaves of graph paper; the top of each leaf is perfor<strong>at</strong>ed (<strong>at</strong><br />
least 10 leaves were torn from tablet <strong>and</strong> parts of others have<br />
been torn off); stapled. 158 pages written on, 2 pages blank, (20<br />
pages torn out). 20.9 x 13.4 cm.<br />
Contents: Entries mostly words, short phrases, <strong>and</strong> notes for possible<br />
use in FW. An early draft, possibly the first draft, of "A<br />
Prayer," the thirteenth poem of Pomes Penyeach, 21 pp. [11, 13,<br />
15]. A short note to <strong>Joyce's</strong> wife, "Dear Nora: Miss Moss 22 has<br />
called. I have gone down. Jim." p. [57]. Financial accounts appear<br />
on pp. [61, 71]; copy of a poem, p. [83]; copy of a French poem,<br />
pp. [121, 123, 125].<br />
Other Markings: "S. Malo" 23 in pencil, <strong>Joyce's</strong> h<strong>and</strong>, written upside<br />
down on back board. " 'MAG-NIS' Notes" printed in black on front<br />
cover. A small round label on the upper right corner of front<br />
cover gives the price of the tablet, "1'15." Many entries crossed<br />
through with orange, red, or green crayon.<br />
D<strong>at</strong>ing: 1924. 24<br />
VI. B. 6. FINNEGANS WAKE: HOLOGRAPH WORKBOOKS<br />
Tablet, <strong>Joyce's</strong> h<strong>and</strong> in pencil (a few entries in ink). 25<br />
Title: No title.<br />
Coll<strong>at</strong>ion: Front cover missing; back cover light brown board, black<br />
cloth spine: inside of back board white. Both sides of back board<br />
written on. 96 leaves of unruled paper (<strong>at</strong> least 3 leaves torn from<br />
tablet, 1st leaf detached from binding), stapled: 165 pages written<br />
on, 27 pages blank. Approx. 20.7 x 13.2 cm.<br />
21 "Paris 1924" is given as the d<strong>at</strong>e <strong>and</strong> place of composition of this poem<br />
in the Shakespeare <strong>and</strong> Company 1927 edition of PP.<br />
22 Mrs. Phyllis Moss Stein who visited Joyce in May 1924. See Ellmann,<br />
<strong>James</strong> Joyce, pp. 576-77.<br />
23 See <strong>Letters</strong> of <strong>James</strong> Joyce, pp. 217-19, for four letters d<strong>at</strong>ed July-August<br />
1924, "Hotel de France et Ch<strong>at</strong>eaubri<strong>and</strong>, Saint-Malo."<br />
24 See p. [39] of MS.: "today 16 of June 1924 twenty years after. Will anybody<br />
remember this d<strong>at</strong>e."<br />
25 See MS. VI. C. 2., pp. [19«-280], for a transcription of beginning to p.<br />
[136], <strong>and</strong> MS. VI. C. 3., pp. [1-50], for a transcription of p. [136] to end by<br />
<strong>Joyce's</strong> amanuensis of the entries in this MS. which were not crossed through<br />
with colored crayon.
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