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VI.I.26.

*VI.I.26 [also XII: Beach to Crosby Gaige #3]: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Emendations and Errata: Emendations for the Second set of Galleys of Anna Livia Plurabelle (Crosby Gaige)/Finnegans Wake I.8 (1928):

Material Description and Collation

The manuscript is a loose sheet, a doubled-spaced carbon (bottom) copy, purple ink typescript, with a watermark image of a rooster and below it "Gallia".

Measurements

The manuscript measures 26.8 x 20.9 cm. and there is a 2.5 x 7.6 cm tear in the upper left corner.

 Contents

The manuscript is a letter from Beach to Crosby Gaige instructing the publisher and printers to emend the second set of galleys of the Crosby Gaige edition of "Anna Livia Plurabelle" (Yale MS 7.2). See Anna Livia Plurabelle 04.15 and 22.11 as well as FW 196.20 and 203.08.

JJA Draft Code

I.8§1.14+.

Dating

The manuscript was written on 7 June 1928.

Publication

This manuscript has not been reproduced, but its top copy (Yale 7.6, f. 1) has been reproduced in black and white photo-facsimile on JJA 48.314.

Notes

The top copy of this manuscript was mailed to Crosby Gaige in New York to verify the emendations copied on to the several sets of proofs the printers had in their possession. The top copy is part of the Slocum Joyce Collection at Yale (Series I, Box 2, Folder 47). Some of the emendations were set by the printers of Anna Livia on the third set of galleys (Yale 7.4, f. D15; JJA 48.315).