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VI.I.7.a.

*VI.I.7.a [Also X.C.144 (X.C.138)]: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Emendations and Errata: Emendations for the Galley Proofs for transition 4/Finnegans Wake I.4 (1927):


Material Description, Collation and

The manuscript is a loose sheet of Hôtel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam,stationery. Joyce wrote on the recto and verso in black ink and further revised the emendation in lead pencil.


Measurements

The manuscript measures 25.8 x 21.6 cm.


Contents

The manuscript is a letter to Beach in which he instructs her to have the editor emend the galley proofs of transition 4 (July 1927); neither of the emendations as directed here was made on transition 4 or any subsequent version of the texts. See transition 4, 57.17 and 58.34 as well as FW 091.29–30 and 093.19–20.


JJA Draft Code

I.4§1.7.


Dating

Joyce made these emendations on 9 June 1927.


Publication

The correspondence was published on JJSB125 (#115).