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VI.F.3.b.

VI.F.3.b [VI.E.3.b]: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Typescripts: Duplicate Copy of a Partial Earlier Typing of a Page for transition 27/Finnegans Wake II.3§4 (1938):


Material Description and Collation

The manuscript consists of a loose sheet of unlined, ivory paper, watermarked "VIDALON" with an image of a hot air balloon. It is a double-spaced typewritten bottom (carbon) black ink copy, with no corrections or additions; the verso is blank.


Measurements

The manuscript measures 27.0 x 21.0 cm.


Pagination

The number "– 2 –" was typed in the upper right corner of the page.


Contents

The manuscript is another discarded copy of an earlier attempt at typing a page of the typescript of the "Butt and Taff" section for transition 27 (February-March 1938). See transition 27, 59.19–20 as well as FW 338.20–22.


JJA Draft Code

II.3§4.5|-‘.


Dating

The manuscript was probably typed in early 1938.


Other Markings

There are illegible (probably stray) lead pencil markings on the verso.


Publication

This copy of the typescript has not been reproduced, but see MS VI.F.3.a on JJA 55.191. The manuscript was folded in half horizontally.