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156 James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters
Pagination: Rectos numbered 1-8,8-22 in margins, in pencil, Joyce's
hand. There is a mistake in the pagination: recto of 9th sheet is
erroneously numbered p. 8, making for two p. 8's; hence, pp. 8-22
are misnumbered.
Contents: Approximately second half of a lecture in Italian on Daniel
Defoe delivered by Joyce in 1913 before the Universita del Popolo,
Trieste. (For first half of lecture, see MS. VII. A. 1.)
Other Markings: "James Joyce" signed in ink on bottom of p. 22.
Dating: 1913.
Publication: This MS. is unpublished. 4
Notes: MS. begins, "E un compito tutt 'altro che facile il fare uno
studio adeguato ..."
MS. ends, "... e chi sa se questa non pesi pui di quella?"
*VH. A. 3. CRITICISM: DANIELE DEFOE
Notebook, Joyce's hand in ink; some corrections and insertions in
ink, Joyce's hand.
Title: No title.
Collation: No covers. 6 leaves of ruled paper, detached from a notebook
(stitch marks can be made out): 4 pages written on, 8 pages
blank. 16.4 x 20.4 cm.
Pagination: First 4 rectos numbered in ink, upper right corners, 33-
36.
Contents: Small portion of draft for Joyce's Defoe lecture; appears
to be last four pages of a 36-page draft (pp. 1-33 of this draft are
not part of the Buffalo Joyce Collection and have not been located
elsewhere). 5 Wide margins of rectos have been used for insertions.
Dating: 1913.
Publication: This MS. is unpublished. 6
Notes: MS. is part of an earlier draft than MSS. VII. A. 1. and 2.; yet
correspondence in texts can be seen by comparing p. 34 to top of
"See n. 3.
5 The Cornell Joyce Collection has a one-page typescript copy of this holograph
MS. The Cornell typescript is headed in the hand of Stanislaus Joyce,
"Lecture on Defoe 33-34-35-36." (Robert Scholes, item 44.)
6 See n. 3.