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VI.I.5.
*VI.I.5 [VI.H.3]: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Emendations and Errata: Scribal Copy of Emendations For the Galley Proofs of Finnegans Wake I.3 (probably 1936):
Material Description and Collation: The manuscript is a loose sheet of unlined paper. The emendation is on the recto in Beach's hand in lead pencil.
Measurements: The manuscript measures 21.0 x 27.0 cm.
Contents: The manuscript is an extradraft sheet that contains Beach's instructions for the printers to emend a marked copy of transition 3 of the galley proofs of Finnegans Wake. See transition 3, 50.02, 50.04 as well as FW 074.13, 074.15–16.
JJA Draft Code: I.3§3.8+.
Dating: Beach prepared this emendation in 1936.
Other Markings: The manuscript is headed "p. 50" in lead pencil, which refers to transition 3, 50 (BL 47475, fs. 30v) that was repaginated, in ink, as p. "58" when the Book I transition pages were all numbered sequentially for revision for the printers of Finnegans Wake.
Publication: The manuscript has been reproduced in black and white photo-facsimile on JJA 45.300.
Notes: Neither emendation was incorporated in the text as indicated on this manuscript. A further revised version of second addition was noted, in a variant form by an amanuensis, on the marked pages of transition 3 (BL 47475, f. 31v; JJA 45.299; see FW 074.16–17) and was then retyped (BL 47475, fs. 120v and 208; JJA 45.334 and 335); the other addition does not appear in any subsequent draft or printing of the text.
