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VI.F.8.

*VI.F.8 [VI.E.1]: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Typescripts: First Typescript of Haveth Childers Everywhere/Finnegans Wake III.3§3B (1929):


Material Description and Collation

The manuscript consists of 14 loose sheets of heavyweight paper, watermarked " Johannot et Cie | EXTRA STRONG". They are double-spaced typewritten top (original) black ink copies, with corrections, revisions, and additions in several hands, possibly including Joyce’s as well, on all the pages in black ink and on pp. 2, 5, 6, 8. 10, and 11 in blue crayon; the versos are blank.


Measurements

The typescript sheets measure 26.9 x 21.0 cm.


Pagination

The rectos of the sheets are numbered "1.", "2.", "3,", and "4"–"12", "13,", and "14" in the upper margin in black ink.


Contents

The manuscript is the first typescript version of the "Haveth Childers Everywhere" section of FW III.3 for separate publication (Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane & New York: The Fountain Press, 1930; Slocum and Cahoon A41). See FW 532.06–554.


JJA Draft Code

III.3§3B.11.


Dating

The typescript was prepared in July–August 1929.


Publication

This typescript was reproduced in black and white photo-facsimile on JJA 59.071–084.


Notes

The typescript was folded twice horizontally.