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VI.I.21.

*VI.I.21 [Also X.C.88 (X.C.85)]: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Emendations and Errata: Emendations for a duplicate Copy of the Third Typescript Intended for the Calendar of Modern Letters /Finnegans Wake I.8 (1925):


Material Description and Collation

The manuscript is a loose sheet of Régina Palace Hotel, Arcachon, Gironde, stationery, watermarked "TOLOSA | Labruchefres | Toulouse" with a cross. The emendations are in Joyce’s hand in black ink.


Measurements

The manuscript measures 27.3 x 21.0 cm.


Contents

The manuscript is a letter to Beach in which Joyce instructs her to emend her (second carbon) copy of the typescript (BL 47474, fs. 186r–202r) for the printers of the Calendar of Modern Letters. Although a partial set of galley proofs was set up by the printers (BL 47474, fs. 204–206; JJA 48.153–155), "Anna Livia Plurabelle" was not published in the Calendar of Modern Letters.See FW 198.01, 198.25, 198.25, 198.26, 199.24, 199.24, 199.24, 200.19, 200.22, 201.07, 201.25–26, 201.27, 202.30, 203.01, 204.07, 204.35, 204.36, 206.26, 207.27, 207.29–30, 207.33, 207.33 and 210.05.


JJA Draft Code

I.8§1.5"+.


Dating

The manuscript was written on 22 August 1925.


Other Markings

The manuscript is headed "a" in the top right corner in Joyce’s hand in black ink. Beach wrote "(?)" beside the twentieth emendation on the recto although she subsequently managed to follow Joyce’s instructions.


Publication

The correspondence was published on JJSB62–63 (#71).