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VI.I.37.

*VI.I.37: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Emendations and Errata: Scribal Copy ofanEmendation for a (Missing) Duplicate Copy of the Second Typescript of Book III/Finnegans Wake III.2 (1926):


Material Description and Collation

The manuscript is a loose sheet of Commerce stationery headed: "Commerce | 7, rue de l’odeon – paris-vie – tél. : fleurus 25-05". The emendations are on the recto and verso in Beach’s hand in lead pencil and black ink. This manuscript is on the same kind of paper as MSS VI.I.33 and I.35.


Measurements

The manuscript measures 12.6 x 8.0 cm.


 Contents

The manuscript is an extradraft sheet that contains Beach’s notes (based on Joyce’s instructions) to emend a missing copy of the second typescript of Book III. See FW 452.04, 453.22, 454.08, and 457.19.


JJA Draft Code

III§1A.7+/1D.7+//2A.7+/2B.5+/2C.7+//3A.6+/3B.6+//4.3+.


Dating

The manuscript was written in late June 1926.


Notes

Joyce had noted three of the emendations on MS VI.B.12.072 before he instructed Beach to copy them here. Joyce also made these emendations on the extant pages of a copy of the typescript in hand (see BL MS 47483, fs. 169, 174, 175, and 177; JJA 57.269, 274, 275, and 277).