James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters - University at Buffalo Libraries

Notebooks 163
"almost / rocking language / Hazelhatch / incomplete words"
("almost" is crossed through with red crayon; "Hazelhatch" is
crossed through with blue crayon). 5
Dating: ca. June 1915—October 1919, during Joyce's Zurich period.
Notes: A brief summary of the contents:
French vocabulary, colloquialisms, and slang pp. [1-15]
Translation of an article on a world peace
organization, not complete 6 pp. [36-40]
Text begins in the middle of a sentence on p. [36], "this awful
war.' This whole appeal breaths is inspired with a sacred
solemnity ..."
Text ends in the middle of a sentence on p. [40], "... among
other points (p. 215) that in accordance with a general law for
the"
The following date appears in the margin:
"Hague (7-12 April 1915)" p. [36].
vm. A. 4. NOTEBOOKS: ZURICH NOTEBOOKS
Notebook, 7 Joyce's hand in ink and pencil.
Title: "b\\riviK.a" (in modern Greek, "Greek") and some doodling,
Joyce's hand in pencil on oval white paper label, scalloped edges,
pasted on front cover.
Collation: Blue paper covers. 16 leaves of graph paper, stapled: all
pages written on. Pocket-sized notebook, 17.4 x 10.9 cm.
Contents: Exercise book in modern Greek, containing vocabulary,
poems, and copies of letters.
Other Markings: None.
Dating: ca. 1915-19, during Joyce's Zurich period.
5 See "Finnegans Wake Workbooks" MS. VI. B. 8., p. [64]; see FW 201.25-
26. This suggests that Joyce may have made use of the "Zurich Notebooks"
in the composition of FW.
6 Possibly for Siegmund Feilbogen's International Review (Zurich), which
employed Joyce as a translator for a few months at the end of 1915. See Ellmann,
James Joyce, p. 410.
7 La Hune, item 72; Slocum & Cahoon, item E. 12. d. ii.