VI.J.7.a.

*VI.J.7.a: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Miscellaneous Manuscript: Beach’s Holograph Copy of Joyce’s "Suggested Additions" to the Preface of the Crosby Gaige Edition of Anna Livia Plurablle (1928)

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Material Description and Collation

The manuscript consists of 3 sheets of high quality laid paper watermarked "BRITISH CROWN" under an image of a crown, in Sylvia Beach’s hand in black ink.

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Title

Page [1] is headed in black ink in Beach’s hand: "Suggested Additions".

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Contents

The manuscript is a copy of Joyce’s suggestions for Padraic Colum’s preface to Anna Livia Plurabelle (see Slocum and Cahoon A32). The document this is keyed to is not in the Buffalo Collection; some but not all of these suggested additions are evident in the published text. Beach presumably prepared this copy from Joyce’s manuscript, or from a copy of the draft of Colum’s preface that Joyce had annotated, or possibly from dictation. The manuscript is marked in Beach’s hand in black ink: "(signed initials) J.J." on p. "3".

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Measurements

The manuscript measures approximately 17.5 x 22.6 cm.

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Pagination

Pages [2] and [3] and numbered "2" and "3" in black ink; p. [1] is not numbered.

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Dating

The manuscript was prepared in 1928.

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Other Markings

Beach wrote "(copy)" in the upper left corner of p. [1].

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Publication

This manuscript has not been reproduced.