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VI.I.25.

*VI.I.25 [VI.H.2]: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Emendations and Errata: Emendations Presumably for duplicate Copies of the Marked Pages transition 8/Finnegans Wake I.8 (1927–1928):


Material Description and Collation

The manuscript is the verso of an envelope. The emendation is in Joyce’s hand in lead pencil.


Measurements

The manuscript measures 23.0 x 10.3 cm.


Contents

The manuscript presumably instructs Beach to emend two copies of the marked pages of transition 8, though the text cited has not been located in any extant manuscript of "Anna Livia Plurabelle."


JJA Draft Code

JJA I.8§1.11‡.


Dating

Joyce wrote the manuscript from mid November 1927 to January 1928.


Other Markings

The recto of the envelope is addressed in an unidentified hand to "James Joyce Esq | 2. Square Robiac | 192 Rue de Grenelle VIIe | Paris". It has English postage for a registered letter (London, E.C.1 3) as well as a postmark dated "11 Nov [?1927]".


Publication

The manuscript has been reproduced in black and white photo-facsimile on JJA 48.238.