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

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*IV. B. 7. VERSES: OCCASIONAL VERSES, "HUE'S HUE?"
Card, Joyce's hand in ink.
Title: "HUE'S HUE?/ OR DALTON'S DILEMMA"
Collation: Written on back of white Shakespeare and Company business
card. 13.2 x 9 cm.
Contents: 4-line jingle about Joyce's publishing troubles, with reference
to, and play on the names of Samuel Roth, editor of Two
Worlds and unauthorized publisher of Ulysses and parts of FW in
the United States (1925-27), and Crosby Gaige, who published the
authorized edition of Anna Livia Plurabelle in New York, October
20, 1928:
What colour's Jew Joyce when he's rude and grim both,
Varied virid from groening and rufous with rage
And if this allrotter's allred as a roth
Can he still blush unirish yet green as a gage?
Other Markings: Initialed "J. J."
Dating: ca. 1928.
*IV. B. 8. VERSES: OCCASIONAL VERSES, "FATHER O'FORD"
Loose Sheets, typescript (original typed with black ribbon and black
carbon copy), double-spaced.
Title: "FATHER O'FORD (Air: Father O'Flynn)"
Collation: 2 sheets of unlined paper, each sheet written on one side
only; top edges serrated. 24.7 x 20.8 cm.
Contents: 8 lines to the air of "Father O'Flynn," making fun of Ford
Madox Ford's many conquests. There are a number of variants,
mainly of punctuation, between MS. and published version.
Other Markings: Typed signature, "James Joyce." Original sheet
has penciled date "1930" not in Joyce's hand (perhaps hand of
Sylvia Beach).
Dating: 1930-31.