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VI.C.

VI.C.1–18: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Scribal NotebookS: (1933–1937)1


General Introduction

In 1933, eleven years after Joyce had started taking notes for his last work and about six years before Finnegans Wake was published, he engaged an amanuensis to transcribe in a clear and legible hand the uncrossed entries in most of the primary notebooks that he had compiled to date. Joyce wrote Madame France Raphael a note on the front flyleaf verso of MS VI.B.34, the third primary notebook she transcribed, that reads: "Dear Mrs Raphael | Many thanks | for your kind offer | of assistance and I | hope it may | lead to a good result". She worked as Joyce’s amanuensis from late 1933 through early 1937, with a hiatus from the spring of 1934 to early 1935, presumably because she had been injured in an automobile accident (see JJII 671–672).

In total she transcribed thirty-three of the Buffalo VI.B notebooks (as well as the loose sheets MSS VI.B.49.a–c and one sheet of a notebook that is now catalogued as Buffalo MS VI.B.17 but is now part of the "Joyce Papers 2002" collection at the National Library of Ireland [MS 36,639/19]). Furthermore, Mme Raphael also transcribed at least five no longer extant "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake notebooks (catalogued as Buffalo MSS VI.D.1–VI.D.3, VI.D.5, and VI.D.6), four Ulysses notebooks (catalogued as MS VI.D.4), which are now at the National Library of Ireland (MSS 36,639/03–05/A–B), and at least one further Ulysses notebook that is not known to be extant (catalogued as Buffalo MS VI.D.7). The precise number of further missing primary notebooks for which there are no scribal copies is not known. Of the fifteen primary notebooks Mme Raphael did not transcribe, eight postdate her employment (MSS VI.B.44, VI.B.42, VI.B.46, VI.B.45, VI.B.41, VI.B.47, VI.B.30, and VI.B.48).

In the same ways he used his primary notebooks, Joyce used some of the entries from most of these scribal notebooks for his work from 1934 to 1938. For an account of the evidence for the dating, ordering, as well as the draft usage of the C-series notebooks, see Danis Rose’s preface to JJA 41.xi–xx, his further work in the James Joyce Archive: An Index, pp. 165–168, and the Textual Diaries.


General Material Description and Collation

Except for MS VI.C.18, all these scribal notebooks (VI.C.1VI.C.17) have the same dimensions (18.8 x 14.5 cm.). MSS VI.C.1VI.C.5 and VI.C.10VI.C.17 are made of the same blue horizontally ruled, unpaginated paper and have 140 leaves (280 pages).

The only differences between these manuscripts are that MSS VI.C.1, VI.C.4, VI.C.11, VI.C.12, VI.C.14, VI.C.15, and VI.C.17 have maroon floral design covers, with black tape spines, and MSS VI.C.2, VI.C.3, VI.C.5, VI.C.10, VI.C.13, and VI.C.16 have dark blue floral design covers, also with black tape spines. On the other hand, MSS VI.C.6VI.C.9 are made of the same ruled and unpaginated paper as MSS VI.C.1VI.C.5 and VI.C.10VI.C.17, but only have 138 leaves (276 pages) and have black-and-white covers. MS VI.C.18 (which also contains the primary notebook MS VI.B.41) is unlike any of the scribal notebooks, but is similar to a kind of notebook Joyce used consistently but not exclusively from 1928 to 1938 (see also Finnegans Wake Buffalo MSS VI.B.21, VI.B.26, VI.B.4, VI.B.24, VI.B.29, VI.B.28, VI.B.32, VI.B.33, VI.B.31, VI.B.36, and VI.B.38).

Note that the page counts of the first and last gatherings do not include the endpapers. It is also possible that in some cases one of the shades of red colored crayons that have been identified here may actually be an orange colored crayon.


General Contents

It appears either that Joyce did not give Mme Raphael the notebooks in any particular order or that she transcribed the notebooks that were given to her in a seemingly random order. The following table correlates the contents of the primary and scribal notebooks in the order in which the scribal notebooks were most likely compiled, except for VI.C.11, which is placed last because it cannot be definitively dated:

Scribal Notebook Primary Notebook(s)
MS VI.C.1, pp. [001]–[074]
MS VI.C.1, pp. [075]–[208]
MS VI.C.1, pp. [209]–[280]
MS VI.B.16, pp. [013]–[146]
MS VI.B.11, pp. [001]–[170]
MS VI.B.34, pp. [001]–[172]
MS VI.C.2, pp. [001]–[005]
MS VI.C.2, pp. [006]–[122]
MS VI.C.2, pp. [123]–[197]
MS VI.C.2, pp. [198]–[280]
MS VI.B.34, pp. [172]–[185]
MS VI.B.2, front cover verso–back cover verso
[MS VI.D.1; missing notebook(s)]
MS VI.B.6, pp. [001]–[136]
MS VI.C.3, pp. [001]–[050]
MS VI.C.3, pp. [051]–[177]
MS VI.C.3, pp. [176]–[242]
MS VI.C.3, pp. [243]–[280]
MS VI.B.6, pp. [136]–[191]
MS VI.B.1, pp. [001]–[180]
[MS VI.D.2; missing notebook(s)]
MS VI.B.20, front cover verso– p. [068]
MS VI.C.4, pp. [001]–[027]
MS VI.C.4, pp. [028]–[153]
MS VI.C.4, pp. [154]–[219]
MS VI.C.4, pp. [220]–[280]
MS VI.B.20, pp. [068]–back cover recto
MS VI.B.5, p. front cover verso–[161]
MS VI.B.9, p. [001]–back cover recto
[MS VI.D.3; missing notebook(s); first part]
MS VI.C.5, pp. [001]–[091]
MS VI.C.5, pp. [092]–[169]
MS VI.C.5, pp. [170]–[221]
MS VI.C.5, pp. [221]–[223]
MS VI.C.5, pp. [224]–[280]
[MS VI.D.3; missing notebook(s); continued]
MS VI.B.10, pp. [001]–[120]
MS VI.B.17, pp. [001]–[068]
[Probably MS VI.B.17; missing pages]
MS VI.B.7, front flyleaf recto–p. [197]
MS VI.C.7, pp. [001]–[019]
MS VI.C.7, pp. [020]–[135]
MS VI.C.7, pp. [136]–[198]
MS VI.C.7, pp. [199]–[201]
MS VI.C.7, pp. [202]–[234]
MS VI.C.7, pp. [235]–[254]
MS VI.C.7, pp. [255]–[269]
MS VI.C.7, pp. [270]–[276]
MS VI.B.7, p. [198]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.B.8, pp. [001]–[240]
NLI MS 36,639/05/A, pp. [3r]–[30r]
NLI MS 36,639/05/A, pp. [1r]–[6r]
NLI MS 36,639/05/B, pp. [1r]–[12v]
NLI MS 36,639/04, pp. [1v]–[12v]
NLI MS 36,639/03, pp. [1r]–[15v]
MS VI.B.12, front cover verso–p. [006]
MS VI.C.6, pp. [001]–[140]
MS VI.C.6, pp. [140]–[141]
MS VI.C.6, pp. [141]–[142]
MS VI.C.6, p. [142]
MS VI.C.6, pp. [142]–[149]
MS VI.C.6, pp. [150]–[239]
MS VI.C.6, p. [240]–back flyleaf verso
MS VI.B.12, p. [006]–back cover recto
[Missing page(s), possibly from MS VI.B.6]
MS VI.B.49.c [loose leaf from MS VI.B.6]
[Missing page(s), possibly from MS VI.B.16]
MS VI.B.16, pp. [001]–[012]
MS VI.B.33, p. [001]–back board recto
MS VI.B.32, front flyleaf verso–p. [130]
MS VI.C.8, pp. [001]–[047]
MS VI.C.8, pp. [048]–[216]
MS VI.C.8, p. [217]–back flyleaf verso
MS VI.B.32, p. [130]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.B.18, p. [002]–back flyleaf recto
[MS VI.D.5; missing notebook(s); first part]
MS VI.C.9, pp. [001]–[019]
MS VI.C.9, pp. [020]–[124]
MS VI.C.9, pp. [125]–[235]
MS VI.C.9, p. [236]–back flyleaf verso
[MS VI.D.5; missing notebook(s); continued]
MS VI.B.29, front flyleaf recto–p. [221]
MS VI.B.31, front flyleaf recto–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.B.28, pp. [004]–[093]
MS VI.C.10, pp. [001]–[058]
MS VI.C.10, pp. [059]–[168]
MS VI.C.10, pp. [169]–[248]
MS VI.C.10, pp. [249]–[280]
MS VI.B.28, p. [093]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.B.26, pp. [001]–[182]
MS VI.B.23, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf recto
[MS VI.D.5; missing notebook(s); first part]
MS VI.C.16, pp. [001]–[065]
MS VI.C.16, pp. [066]–[231]
MS VI.C.16, pp. [232]–[274]
MS VI.C.16, p. [275]–back flyleaf recto
[MS VI.D.5; missing notebook(s); continued]
MS VI.B.24, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf recto
[MS VI.D.7; missing Ulysses notebook(s)]
MS VI.B.4, front flyleaf verso–p. [011]
MS VI.C.15, pp. [001]–[176]
MS VI.C.15, pp. [177]–[252]
MS VI.C.15, pp. [253]–[262]
MS VI.C.15, p. [263]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.B.4, p. [011]–back flyleaf recto
[MS VI.D.2; missing notebook(s)]
MS VI.B.20, p. [102]–back cover recto
MS VI.B.14, pp. [001]–[019]
MS VI.C.12, pp. [001]–[223]
MS VI.C.12, p. [224]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.B.14, p. [019]–back cover recto
MS VI.B.13, front cover verso–p. [188]
MS VI.C.13, pp. [001]–[026]
MS VI.C.13, pp. [027]–[155]
MS VI.C.13, pp. [156]–[264]
MS VI.C.13, p. [265]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.B.13, p. [188]–back cover recto
MS VI.B.8, p. [001]–back flyleaf verso
MS VI.B.22, p. [003]–back cover recto
MS VI.B.15, front cover verso–[018]
MS VI.C.14, pp. [001]–[161]
MS VI.C.14, pp. [162]–[255]
MS VI.C.14, pp. [256]–[257]
MS VI.C.14, pp. [257]–[260]
MS VI.C.14, p. [260]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.B.15, p. [018]–back cover recto
MS VI.B.19, front cover verso–back cover recto
MS VI.B.49.a
MS VI.B.49.b [verso–recto as reproduced in the JJA]
MS VI.B.35, front flyleaf recto–p. [039]
MS VI.C.17, pp. [001]–[063]
MS VI.C.17, pp. [064]–[150]
MS VI.C.17, pp. [151]–[237]
MS VI.C.17, pp. [238]–[280]
MS VI.B.35, pp. [040]–[144]
MS VI.B.27, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.B.37, back flyleaf verso–front cover verso
Blank
VI.C.18, pp. [001]–[095]
VI.C.18, p. [095]–back cover recto
MS VI.B.38, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf verso
NA: this is MS VI.B.41
MS VI.C.11, pp. [001]–[058]
MS VI.C.11, pp. [059]–[061]
MS VI.C.11, pp. [061]–[063]
MS VI.C.11, pp. [063]–[093]
MS VI.C.11, pp. [093]–[095]
MS VI.C.11, pp. [096]–[217]
MS VI.C.11, p. [218]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.B.17, pp. [001]–[068]
[MS VI.B.17; missing pages]
NLI MS 36,39/19, pp. [001] and [002]2
MS VI.B.17, pp. [069]–[104]
NLI MS 36,39/19, pp. [003] and [004]3
[MS VI.D.6; possibly part of MS VI.B.17 or missing notebook(s)]
MS VI.B.20, front cover verso–p. [101]

Mme Raphael did not transcribe the first-order "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake notebooks MSS VI.B.3, VI.B.21, VI.B.25, VI.B.30, VI.B.36 and VI.B.39VI.B.48 nor the loose sheets MSS VI.B.49.d–h, but she did transcribe the remaining primary notebooks as follows (note that at least five notebooks were transcribed twice, presumably by accident: MSS VI.B.8, VI.B.17, and VI.B.20, as well as the missing notebooks VI.D.2 and VI.D.5, which may have actually been comprised of more than two notebooks):

Primary Notebook
According to Spielberg’s Ordering
Scribal Notebook(s)
MS VI.B.1, pp. [001]–[180] MS VI.C.3, pp. [051]–[177]
MS VI.B.2, front cover verso–back cover verso MS VI.C.2, pp. [006]–[122]
MS VI.B.3 Not transcribed
MS VI.B.4, front flyleaf verso–p. [011]
MS VI.B.4, p. [011]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.C.16, p. [275]–back flyleaf recto; continued on
MS VI.C.15, pp. [001]–[176]
MS VI.B.5, p. front cover verso–p. [161] MS VI.C.4, pp. [028]–[153]
MS VI.B.6, pp. [001]–[136]
MS VI.B.6, pp. [136]–[191]
MS VI.C.2, pp. [198]–[280]; continued on
MS VI.C.3, pp. [001]–[050]
MS VI.B.7, front flyleaf recto–p. [197]
MS VI.B.7, p. [198]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.C.5, pp. [224]–[280]; continued on
MS VI.C.7, pp. [001]–[019]
MS VI.B.8, pp. [001]–[240]
MS VI.B.8, p. [001]–back flyleaf verso
MS VI.C.7, pp. [020]–[135]
MS VI.C.13, pp. [027]–[155]: duplicate transcription
MS VI.B.9, p. [001]–back cover recto MS VI.C.4, pp. [154]–[219]
MS VI.B.10, pp. [001]–[120] MS VI.C.5, pp. [092]–[169]
MS VI.B.11, pp. [001]–[170] MS VI.C.1, pp. [075]–[208]
MS VI.B.12, front cover verso–p. [006]
MS VI.B.12, p. [006]–back cover recto
MS VI.C.7, pp. [270]–[276]; continued on
MS VI.C.6, pp. [001]–[140]
MS VI.B.13, front cover verso–p. [188]
MS VI.B.13, p. [188]–back cover recto
MS VI.C.12, p. [224]–back flyleaf recto; continued on
MS VI.C.13, pp. [001]–[026]
MS VI.B.14, pp. [001]–[019]
MS VI.B.14, p. [019]–back cover recto
MS VI.C.15, p. [263]–back flyleaf recto; continued on
MS VI.C.12, pp. [001]–[223]
MS VI.B.15, front cover verso–[018]
MS VI.B.15, p. [018]–back cover recto
MS VI.C.13, p. [265]–back flyleaf recto; continued on
VI.C.14, pp. [001]–[161]
MS VI.B.16, pp. [001]–[012]
MS VI.B.16, pp. [013]–[146]
MS VI.C.6, pp. [142]–[149]: transcribed separately
MS VI.C.1, pp. [001]–[074]
MS VI.B.17, pp. [001]–[068]
[Missing pages of notebook]
MS VI.C.5, pp. [170]–[221]
MS VI.C.5, pp. [221]–[223]
MS VI.B.17, pp. [001]–[068]
[Missing pages of notebook]
NLI MS 36,39/19, pp. [001] and [002]
MS VI.B.17, pp. [069]–[104]
NLI MS 36,39/19, pp. [003] and [004]
MS VI.C.11, pp. [001]–[058]
MS VI.C.11, pp. [059]–[061]
MS VI.C.11, pp. [061]–[063]
MS VI.C.11, pp. [063]–[093]
MS VI.C.11, pp. [093]–[095]
MS VI.B.18, pp. [002]–back flyleaf recto MS VI.C.8, pp. [048]–[216]
MS VI.B.19, front cover verso–back cover recto MS VI.C.14, pp. [162]–[255]
MS VI.B.20, front cover verso–p. [068]
MS VI.B.20, p. [068]–back cover recto
MS VI.C.3, pp. [243]–[280]; continued on
MS VI.C.4, pp. [001]–[027]
MS VI.B.20, front cover verso–p. [101]
MS VI.B.20, p. [102]–back cover recto
MS VI.C.11, p. [218]–back flyleaf recto; continued on
MS VI.C.15, pp. [253]–[262]: duplicate transcription
MS VI.B.21 Not transcribed
MS VI.B.22, p. [003]–back cover recto MS VI.C.13, pp. [156]–[264]
MS VI.B.23, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf recto MS VI.C.10, pp. [169]–[248]
MS VI.B.24, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf recto MS VI.C.16, pp. [066]–[231]
MS VI.B.25 Not transcribed
MS VI.B.26, pp. [001]–[182] MS VI.C.10, pp. [059]–[168]
MS VI.B.27, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf recto MS VI.C.17, pp. [064]–[150]
MS VI.B.28, pp. [004]–[093]
MS VI.B.28, p. [093]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.C.9, p. [236]–back flyleaf verso; continued on
MS VI.C.10, pp. [001]–[058]
MS VI.B.29, front flyleaf recto–p. [221] MS VI.C.9, pp. [020]–[124]
MS VI.B.30 Not transcribed
MS VI.B.31, front flyleaf recto–back flyleaf recto MS VI.C.9, pp. [125]–[235]
MS VI.B.32, front flyleaf verso–p. [130]
MS VI.B.32, p. [130]–back flyleaf recto
MS VI.C.6, p. [240]–back flyleaf verso; continued on
MS VI.C.8, pp. [001]–[047]
MS VI.B.33, p. [001]–back board recto MS VI.C.6, pp. [150]–[239]
MS VI.B.34, pp. [001]–[172]
MS VI.B.34, pp. [172]–[185]
MS VI.C.1, pp. [209]–[280]; continued on
MS VI.C.2, pp. [001]–[005]
MS VI.B.35, front flyleaf recto–p. [039]
MS VI.B.35, pp. [040]–[144]
MS VI.C.14, p. [260]–back flyleaf recto; continued on
MS VI.C.17, pp. [001]–[063]
MS VI.B.36 Not transcribed
MS VI.B.37, back flyleaf verso–front cover verso MS VI.C.17, pp. [151]–[237]
MS VI.B.38, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf verso MS VI.C.18, pp. [001]–[095]
MS VI.B.39VI.B.48 Not transcribed
MS VI.B.49.a MS VI.C.14, pp. [256]–[257]
MS VI.B.49.b [verso–recto in the JJA] MS VI.C.14, pp. [257]–[260]
MS VI.B.49.c [loose leaf from VI.B.6] MS VI.C.6, pp. [141]–[142]: transcribed separately
MS VI.B.49.d–h Not transcribed

Mme Raphael also transcribed five now missing "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wakenotebooks, catalogued by Spielberg as MSS VI.D.1–VI.D.3, VI.D.5 and VI.D.6 as follows (note that MSS VI.D.4 and VI.D.7 are transcriptions of Ulysses notebooks; see below and MSS VI.C.7, pp. [136]–[269] and VI.C.16, pp. [232]–[274] for further information):

MSS Transcription in Scribal Notebook(s)
VI.D.1: MS VI.C.2, pp. [123]–[197]
VI.D.2: MS VI.C.3, pp. [178]–[242]
MS VI.C.15, pp. [177]–[252]: duplicate transcription
VI.D.3 MS VI.C.4, pp. [220]–[280]; continued on
MS VI.C.5, pp. [001]–[091]
VI.D.5: MS VI.C.8, pp. [217]–[242]; continued on VI.C.9, pp. [001]–[019]
MS VI.C.10, pp. [249]–[280]; continued on VI.C.16, pp. [001]–[065]: duplicate transcription
VI.D.6 MS VI.C.11, pp. [096]–[217]

The following chart correlates the reproductions of the secondary and primary notebooks in the James Joyce Archive:

Scribal Notebook JJA Primary Notebook JJA
MS VI.C.1, pp. [001]–[074] 41.003–021 MS VI.B.16, pp. [013]–[146] 32.363–430
MS VI.C.1, pp. [075]–[208] 41.021–054 MS VI.B.11, pp. [001]–[170] 31.140–225
MS VI.C.1, pp. [209]–[280] 41.055–072 MS VI.B.34, pp. [001]–[172] 37.107–193
MS VI.C.2, pp. [001]–[005] 41.077–078 MS VI.B.34, pp. [172]–[185] 37.193–199
MS VI.C.2, pp. [006]–[122] 41.078–107 MS VI.B.2, front cover verso–back cover verso 29.093–179
MS VI.C.2, pp. [123]–[197] 41.107–126 [MS VI.D.1; missing notebook(s)] NA
MS VI.C.2, pp. [198]–[280] 41.126–146 MS VI.B.6, pp. [001]–[136] 30.085–140
MS VI.C.3, pp. [001]–[050] 41.151–163 MS VI.B.6, pp. [136]–[191] 30.140–167
MS VI.C.3, pp. [051]–[177] 41.163–195 MS VI.B.1, pp. [001]–[180] 29.002–092
MS VI.C.3, pp. [176]–[242] 41.194–211 [MS VI.D.2; missing notebook(s)] NA
MS VI.C.3, pp. [243]–[280] 41.211–220 MS VI.B.20, front cover verso–p. [068] 33.325–359
MS VI.C.4, pp. [001]–[027] 41.225–231 MS VI.B.20, p. [068]–back cover recto 33.359–383
MS VI.C.4, pp. [028]–[153] 41.231–263 MS VI.B.5, front cover verso–p. [161] 30.002–082
MS VI.C.4, pp. [154]–[219] 41.263–279 MS VI.B.9, p. [001]–back cover recto 31.001–078
MS VI.C.4, pp. [220]–[280] 41.279–294 [MS VI.D.3; missing notebook(s); first part] NA
MS VI.C.5, pp. [001]–[091] 41.299–321 [MS VI.D.3; missing notebook(s); continued] NA
MS VI.C.5, pp. [092]–[169] 41.321–341 MS VI.B.10, pp. [001]–[120] 31.079–139
MS VI.C.5, pp. [170]–[221] 41.341–354 MS VI.B.17, pp. [001]–[068] 33.002–036
MS VI.C.5, pp. [221]–[223] 41.354 [MS VI.B.17; missing pages]; see also MS VI.C.11, pp. [059]–[061] NA
MS VI.C.5, pp. [224]–[280] 41.354–368 MS VI.B.7, front flyleaf recto–p. [197] 30.170–269
MS VI.C.6, pp. [001]–[140] 42.003–037 MS VI.B.12, p. [006]–back cover recto 31.226–322
MS VI.C.6, pp. [140]–[141] 42.037–038 [Missing page(s), possibly from VI.B.6] NA
MS VI.C.6, pp. [141]–[142] 42.038 MS VI.B.49.c [loose leaf from MS VI.B.6] 40.328–329
MS VI.C.6, p. [142] 42.038 [Missing page(s), possibly from VI.B.16] NA
MS VI.C.6, pp. [142]–[149] 42.038–040 MS VI.B.16, pp. [001]–[012] 32.357–363
MS VI.C.6, pp. [150]–[239] 42.040–062 MS VI.B.33, p. [001]–back board recto 37.003–104
MS VI.C.6, p. [240]–back flyleaf verso 42.062–072 MS VI.B.32, front flyleaf verso–p. [130] 36.314–379
MS VI.C.7, pp. [001]–[019] 41.373–377 MS VI.B.7, p. [198]–back flyleaf recto 30.170–291
MS VI.C.7, pp. [020]–[135] 41.377–406 MS VI.B.8, pp. [001]–[240] 30.294–414
MS VI.C.7, pp. [136]–[198] 41.406–422 NLI MS 36,639/05/A, pp. [3r]–[30r] NA
MS VI.C.7, pp. [199]–[201] 41.422–423 NLI MS 36,639/05/A, pp. [1r]–[6r] NA
MS VI.C.7, pp. [202]–[234] 41.423–431 NLI MS 36,639/05/B, pp. [1r]–[12v] NA
MS VI.C.7, pp. [235]–[254] 41.431–436 NLI MS 36,639/04, pp. [1v]–[12v] NA
MS VI.C.7, pp. [255]–[269] 41.436–440 NLI MS 36,639/03, pp. [1r]–[15v] NA
MS VI.C.7, pp. [270]–[276] 41.440–441 MS VI.B.12, pp. [001]–[006] NA
MS VI.C.8, pp. [001]–[047] 42.075–086 MS VI.B.32, pp. [130]–back flyleaf recto 36.313–431
MS VI.C.8, pp. [048]–[216] 42.086–128 MS VI.B.18, pp. [002]–back flyleaf recto 33.061–203
MS VI.C.8, p. [217]–back flyleaf verso 42.129–144 [MS VI.D.5; missing notebook(s); first part] NA
MS VI.C.9, pp. [001]–[019] 42.147–151 [MS VI.D.5; missing notebook(s); continued] NA
MS VI.C.9, pp. [020]–[124] 42.151–177 MS VI.B.29, front flyleaf recto–p. [221] 36.001–112
MS VI.C.9, pp. [125]–[235] 42.178–205 MS VI.B.31, front flyleaf recto–back flyleaf recto 36.173–311
MS VI.C.9, p. [236]–back flyleaf verso 42.205–216 MS VI.B.28, pp. [004]–[093] 35.189–233
MS VI.C.10, pp. [001]–[058] 42.219–233 MS VI.B.28, p. [093]–back flyleaf recto 35.233–287
MS VI.C.10, pp. [059]–[168] 42.233–260 MS VI.B.26, pp. [001]–[182] 35.027–105
MS VI.C.10, pp. [169]–[248] 42.261–280 MS VI.B.23, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf recto 34.253–331
MS VI.C.10, pp. [249]–[280] 42.281–288 [MS VI.D.5; missing notebook(s); first part] NA
MS VI.C.11, pp. [001]–[058] 43.287–301 MS VI.B.17, pp. [001]–[068] 33.002–036
MS VI.C.11, pp. [059]–[061] 43.301–302 [MS VI.B.17; missing pages] NA
MS VI.C.11, pp. [061]–[063] 43.301–302 NLI MS 36,39/19, pp. [001] and [002] NA
MS VI.C.11, pp. [063]–[093] 43.302–310 MS VI.B.17, pp. [069]–[104] 33.036–054
MS VI.C.11, pp. [093]–[095] 43.310 NLI MS 36,39/19, pp. [003] and [004] NA
MS VI.C.11, pp. [096]–[217] 43.310–341 [MS VI.D.6; missing notebook(s)] NA
MS VI.C.11, p. [218]–back flyleaf recto 43.341–357 MS VI.B.20, front cover verso–p. [101] 33.325–375
MS VI.C.12, pp. [001]–[223] 43.003–058 MS VI.B.14, p. [019]–back cover recto 32.131–239
MS VI.C.12, p. [224]–back flyleaf recto 43.058–073 MS VI.B.13, front cover verso–p. [188] 32.001–096
MS VI.C.13, pp. [001]–[026] 43.077–083 MS VI.B.13, p. [188]–back cover recto 32.096–119
MS VI.C.13, pp. [027]–[155] 43.083–115 MS VI.B.8, p. [001]–back flyleaf verso 30.294–415
MS VI.C.13, pp. [156]–[264] 43.115–142 MS VI.B.22, p. [003]–back cover recto 34.157–251
MS VI.C.13, p. [265]–back flyleaf recto 43.143–147 MS VI.B.15, front cover verso–p. [018] 32.241–251
MS VI.C.14, pp. [001]–[161] 43.151–191 MS VI.B.15, p. [018]–back cover recto 32.251–355
MS VI.C.14, pp. [162]–[255] 43.191–214 MS VI.B.19, front cover verso–back cover recto 33.207–323
MS VI.C.14, pp. [256]–[257] 43.214–215 MS VI.B.49.a 40.325
MS VI.C.14, pp. [257]–[260] 43.215 MS VI.B.49.b, [verso–recto as reproduced in the JJA] 40.326–327
MS VI.C.14, p. [260]–back flyleaf recto 43.215–221 MS VI.B.35, front flyleaf recto–p. [039] 37.204–224
MS VI.C.15, pp. [001]–[176] 42.365–408 MS VI.B.4, p. [011]–back flyleaf recto 29.263–429
MS VI.C.15, pp. [177]–[252] 42.409–427 [MS VI.D.2; missing notebook(s)] NA
MS VI.C.15, pp. [253]–[262] 42.428–430 MS VI.B.20, p. [102]–back cover recto 33.376–383
MS VI.C.15, p. [263]–back flyleaf recto 42.430–435 MS VI.B.14, pp. [001]–[019] 32.121–131
MS VI.C.16, pp. [001]–[065] 42.291–307 [MS VI.D.5; missing notebook(s); continued] NA
MS VI.C.16, pp. [066]–[231] 42.307–348 MS VI.B.24, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf recto 34.334–484
MS VI.C.16, pp. [232]–[274] 42.348–359 [MS VI.D.7; missing Ulysses notebook(s)] NA
MS VI.C.16, p. [275]–back flyleaf recto 42.359–361 MS VI.B.4, front flyleaf verso–p. [011] 29.263–268
MS VI.C.17, pp. [001]–[063] 43.225–240 MS VI.B.35, pp. [040]–[144] 37.225–277
MS VI.C.17, pp. [064]–[150] 43.240–262 MS VI.B.27, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf recto 35.107–185
MS VI.C.17, pp. [151]–[237] 43.262–284 MS VI.B.37, back flyleaf verso–front cover verso (see VI.B.37 Notes) 38.124–121
MS VI.C.17, pp. [238]–[280] See 43.284 Blank NA
MS VI.C.18, pp. [001]–[095] 43.361–384 MS VI.B.38, front flyleaf verso–back flyleaf verso 38.124–225
MS VI.C.18, p. [095]–back cover recto See 39.001–107 NA: this is MS VI.B.41 39.003–107

General Notes

Presumably it was Joyce who numbered the scribal notebooks "1"–"18" in either blue (VI.C.1, VI.C.2, and VI.C.6VI.C.18) or red crayons (VI.C.3, VI.C.4, and VI.C.5), at the back or front of the notebooks, and at times at both ends. For whatever reasons he made several errors in his numbereing; for example, VI.C.5, (numbered "5") ends with a transcription of VI.B.7, p. [197], and VI.C.7 (numbered "7") begins with a transcription of VI.B.7, also of p. [197], which indicates that they were consecutive; the duplicate transcriptions of the missing primary notebook that is catalogued as VI.D.5, which begins and ends with exactly the same entries on VI.C.8, p. [217]–back flyleaf verso and VI.C.9, pp. [001]–[019], as well as VI.C.10, pp. [249]–[280] and VI.C.16, pp. [001]–[065], suggest that these scribal notebooks were consecutive as well; similarly, the continuation of the transcription of VI.B.4 from VI.C.16 to VI.C.15, and the transcription of VI.B.35 from VI.C.14 to VI.C.17, both suggest that those scribal notebooks were also transcribed consecutively.

Therefore, as opposed to Joyce’s numeration, the internal evidence indicates that the scribal notebooks were transcribed in the following order: VI.C.1 through VI.C.4 consecutively from late 1933 to the spring of 1934 and VI.C.5VI.C.10 consecutively in early 1935; but the final batch of notebook were transcribed in 1936 through early 1937 in the following order: VI.C.16, VI.C.15, VI.C.12, VI.C.13, VI.C.14, VI.C.17, and VI.C.18. On the other hand, there is insufficient evidence to determine conclusively when VI.C.11 was transcribed.

Danis Rose has differentiated the compilation of the notebooks into four "strings," with breaks in the series between MSS VI.C.4 and VI.C.5 (strings I and II), between VI.C.17 and VI.C.11 (strings II and III), and between VI.C.11 and VI.C.18 (strings III and IV). Besides internal textual evidence, it appears that Rose also distinguishes string I from II because there was a break in Raphael’s work in the spring of 1934, though MSS VI.C.5 could be a direct continuation of the transcription of a single missing primary notebook, which is catalogued as VI.D.3 (but this is inconclusive evidence because they could each be transcriptions of more than one notebook). Furthermore, MS VI.C.11 is probably more or less contemporaneous with VI.C.15, though their precise relationship cannot be conclusively established, and VI.C.18 was the last notebook Mme Raphael prepared and it follows VI.C.17, thereby rendering the distinction between strings III and IV unnecessary.

Note that recent research has demonstrated that the loose pages of VI.B.16 (an undetermined number of missing pages as well as pp. [001]–[012]) were detached from the notebook before Joyce gave them to Mme Raphael, therefore their transcription in VI.C.6 is unrelated to the transcription of the remainder of the notebook in VI.C.1, the first notebook Mme Raphael prepared, and so the placement of VI.C.6 in the series is not problematic.


  1. La Hune, item 157, and Slocum & Cahoon, item E.7.b.
  2. Images 19-002-recto and 19-001-verso.
  3. Images 19-001-recto and 19-002-verso.