IX.A.2.

IX.A.2: Miscellaneous Manuscripts: Loose Sheets: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Reading Notes (1929)

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Material Description and Collation

The manuscript consists of 8 sheets of double-spaced typewritten black ribbon top (original) copies; the versos are blank.

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Titles

The collection of notes is headed "The History of Hitchin." on p. [1] and there is also the heading "The Manor.", the title of book’s first chapter; p. [3] is headed "The Church"; p. [4]: "The Priory."; p. [5] "The Poor."; p. [6] "The Highways and Byways."; p. [7] "Merchants of Bristol." and p. [8] is headed "Pirates.".

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Measurements

The manuscript measures 27.0 x 20.9 cm.

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Pagination

As the only continuation of notes from a previous page, p. [2] is numbered "- 2 -"; the other sheets are not numbered.

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Contents

The manuscript contains notes prepared for Joyce from Reginald L. Hine’s The History of Hitchin (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1927). The extracts are preceded by the page numbers from Hine’s book. Joyce transcribed the notes from here in Buffalo MS VI.B.29.126(f)–127(c).

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Dating

This typed extract of notes was probably prepared for Joyce in mid 1929.

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Other Markings

There are additions on pp. [3] and [4] in black ink.

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Publication

This manuscript has been reproduced in black and white photo-facsimile on JJA 3.394–401. Also see The ‘Finnegans Wake’ Notebooks at Buffalo VI.B.29, edited by Vincent Deane, Daniel Ferrer and Geert Lernout, particularly pp. 8, 125 and 126.

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Notes

There is a perforation in the upper left corners of all the sheets, where the sheets were held together by a fastener; the fastener has been removed for conservation purposes and is no longer with the manuscript. There is light foxing on all of the sheets and rust stains from a paper clip on p. [7].