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Appendixes 235
VI. C. (Transcriptions of Workbooks by Mme. Raphael)
16. pp. [1-65] contain transcription of VI. D. 5. a portion of
pp. [66-231]
pp. [232-74]
p. [275] to end
17. pp. [1-63]
pp. [64-150]
pp. [151-237]
pp. [238-80]
18. pp. 1-95
p. 95 to end
THE ORDER OF THE VI. C. MSS.
VI. B. 24.
VI. D. 7.
VI. B. 4. beginning to
p. [11]
VI. B. 35. p. [40] to end
VI. B. 27.
VI. B. 37. (from end to beginning)
blank
VI. B. 38.
VI. B. 41. in Joyce's hand
[not a transcription)
Joyce's numbering of the VI. C. MSS. seems inaccurate; a more useful order
would be the following: 1., 2., 3., 4., 5., 7., 6., 8., 9., 10., 16., 15., (11.),
12., 13., 14., 17., 18.
VI. C. 11. does not logically fit into the sequence. This is probably due to
the confusion caused by the fact that Joyce used the VI. B. workbooks during
the time that Mme. Raphael was transcribing them. Therefore, Mme. Raphael
was, at times, obliged to stop her transcribing in the middle of a notebook,
begin work on another transcription, and at a later date continue the interrupted
notebook. (The same situation seems to have caused Joyce's amanuensis
to copy some MSS. twice by mistake, MSS. VI. B. S., 17., 20. and VI. D.
2., 5.; Note also that the above proposed order is not quite correct either
since, for example, VI. C.I. begins in the middle of the notebook which is being
transcribed (the first portion of this notebook is found transcribed in the
middle of VI. C. 6.).