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VI. B. 38. FINNEGANS WAKE: HOLOGRAPH WORKBOOKS
Notebook, Joyce's hand in pencil.
Title: No title.
Collation: Black cloth covers; insides of boards, cover sides of front
and back flyleaves light grey. Verso of front flyleaf, recto of back
flyleaf white. Insides of front and back covers, verso of front flyleaf,
both sides of back flyleaf written on. 100 leaves of ruled
paper with red and blue vertical lines (half of leaf 95 torn off),
stitched: 196 pages written on, 4 pages blank. 18.8 x approx.
12.2 cm.
Pagination: Pages numbered 1-200.
Other Markings: "3902" stamped in purple on upper left corner of
inside of front cover—mark of stationer. Some entries crossed
through with red or orange crayon; a few entries crossed through
with pencil. "R" on inside of back cover. 78
Dating: ca. 1922-36 (probably a late notebook).
Notes: Most of the entries are for use in Book II, Chapter 3, "The
Tavern" episode, FW 309-82.
VI. B. 39. FINNEGANS WAKE: HOLOGRAPH WORKBOOKS
Notebook, Joyce's hand in pencil, blue ink, green ink, and red crayon.
(A number of entries not in Joyce's hand.)
Title: No title.
Collation: Spiral notebook. Blue board covers. Inside of front cover
written on. 27 leaves of graph paper (a number of leaves torn from
notebook, two leaves detached from binding; notebook in poor condition):
37 pages written on, 17 pages blank. 10.5 x approx. 6.8 cm.
Other Markings: "1330" stamped on upper left corner of inside of
front cover—mark of stationer. There are no colored crayon
markings.
Dating: ca. 1936. 79
78 See MS. VI. C. 18.,pp. 1-95, for a transcription by Joyce's amanuensis of
the entries in this MS. which were not crossed through with colored crayon.
79 Among names and addresses which appear in this notebook are "Kai
Friis-Moller"(p. [51]) and "Tom Kristensen" (p. [52]), Danish writers Joyce
met in Copenhagen in August 1936. (See Ellmann, James Joyce, p. 705.)