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72 James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters
ner, and first sheet, which is not numbered. Many sheets also bear
old typed page numbers on top right corners; these numbers have
been superseded by the pencil numbering.
Contents: Typescript of most of the "Ithaca" episode (RH 650-722).
Profuse corrections and additions in ink, Joyce's hand, on most
rectos and on many versos.
Other Markings: A number of pencil markings and clarifications—
probably marks of printers. Some markings in blue, green, orange,
and red crayon. Printers' signatures in pencil on pp. 6, "8a", (16),
20, 25, "30", (41), 43a, 52, (67).
Dating: ca. 1921.
Notes: This MS. is a most interesting example of Joyce's method of
composition—constant additions. Joyce here has taken a typescript
of the "Ithaca" episode and made his revisions and additions first
on the rectos, then, when more space was needed, on the versos,
and finally, when the additions became too numerous, he has had
certain pages retyped. The retyped pages, because of the numerous
additions, stretch to more than one page; for example, the replacement
for the old p. 7 consists of two pages, now numbered 7
and 7a. Joyce then made further additions and once again had the
pages retyped, thus replacing 7 and 7a with two new pages also
numbered 7 and 7a. (The pages of the first typescript were typed
with a purple ribbon and have four or five perforations in the left
margin; the pages of the second typescript [intended as replacements
for pages in the first typescript] were typed with a blue ribbon
and have two perforations in the left margin; the pages of the
third typescript [intended as replacements for pages in the first
and second typescript] were typed with a purple ribbon and have
two perforations in the left margin.)
Joyce did not destroy most of the old, replaced pages and many
remain as part of this MS. For clarity, I have indicated the pages
of the first typescript by parentheses, thus: (7); the pages of the
second typescript are placed within quotation marks, thus: "7";
the page numbering of the third typescript is indicated by page
numbers without any encumbrance of parentheses or quotation
marks, thus: 7. The three typescripts were obviously combined in
one folder by Joyce, as indicated by the perforations in the left
margins of all sheets, where they were once fastened together, and
by the relation of inserts on versos to their places on the following
rectos.
I have arranged the typescript in the following order: (First
sheet not numbered, recto blank, verso Joyce's hand in ink, insert
and corrections for missing [p. (1)] of typescript), 1, (2), "2",