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James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters at the University of Buffalo JAMES JOYCE'S MANUSCRIPTS & LETTERS at the U11iversi(vof Buffalo JAMES JOYCE'S MANUSCRIPTS & LETTERS at the UNIVERSITY of BUFFALO A CATALOGUE Compiled and with an Introduction ~Y PETER SPIELBERG Published ~Y the Universi(r of Buffalo • 1%2 Copyright © 1962 by the University of Buffalo All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part (except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission. For information, write to Uni­ versity Publishers Incorporated, 239 Park Avenue South, New York 3, N.Y., sole distributors. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-19657 Manufactured in the United States of America (an interpolation: these munchables occur only in the Bootherbrowth family of MSS., Eb-Cod IV, Pap II, Erek XI, Lun III, Dinn XVII, Sup XXX, Fullup M D C X C: the scholiast has hungrily misheard a deadman's taller as a mujfinbell) Finnegans Wake, 121.32-36 INTRODUCTION I To praise the scope of the collection of James Joyce manuscripts now part of the Lockwood Memorial Library of the University of Buffalo would certainly be redundant, since the reader need only turn to the catalogue that follows to be immediately convinced of the im­ measurable importance of this collection. Even a brief look at the table of contents will show how much there is. But although one is quickly impressed by the size of the collection, its qualitative im­ portance cannot be comprehended so readily. The import of the Buf­ falo manuscripts has still to be measured and digested to be fully appreciated-a task which Joyce scholars have been working on and will continue to concern themselves with for many years. The manuscripts which comprise the Joyce Collection of the Uni­ versity of Buffalo were acquired from three different sources. The initial acquisition, which arrived in Buffalo in the autumn of 1950, was purchased at the exposition of Joyce materials of the Librairie La Hune in Paris through the gift of Margaretta F. Wickser. to whose husband, the late Philip J. Wickser, the collection was dedicated as a memorial. The La Hune materials, 1 consisting of manuscripts, let­ ters, paintings, personal effects, and the personal library of James Joyce, were originally left by Joyce in Paris on his flight from that city in the winter of 1939 and cared for during the German occupation by Joyce's friend Paul Leon and his brother-in-law Alexander Poni­ zowski, both of whom died at the hands of the Nazis. The second major portion of the Buffalo Joyce Collection, consist­ ing of manuscripts, letters, and books, was acquired through the gen­ erosity of an anonymous benefactor and friend of the University in the winter of 1959 from Miss Sylvia Beach, the publisher of the first edition of Ulysses. A third portion of the Buffalo Joyce Collection, consisting of let­ ters, proofs, and errata, was donated in May of 1951 and December of 1959 by B. W. Huebsch, the well-known publisher now connected with the Viking Press. 1Unfortunately, three items were lost in transit from Paris to Buffalo: La Hune items 254, 305, 307, a manuscript of "The Scylla & Charybdis'· episode of Ulysses, and proofs for "From a Banned Writer to a Banned Singer" and "De Honni-soit a mal-y-chance." vii viii James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters II I have grouped the manuscripts of the Buffalo Joyce Collection (workbooks, notebooks, sketches, schemas, notes, early and late drafts, fair copies, typescripts, galley proofs, page proofs, errata, translations, and letters) into ten major categories: "Epiphanies," "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," "Exiles," "Verses," "Ulysses," "Finnegans Wake," "Criticism," "Notebooks," "Mis­ cellaneous Manuscripts," and "Letters from Joyce." In general, the items in the collection fit naturally into one of the ten categories, but a few items could be placed in more than one category, e.g., MS. VIII. A. 5., one of the "Zurich Notebooks," in which many entries occur which were eventually used in the composition of Ulysses. Although this manuscript could have been catalogued under the "Ulysses" category, I came to the conclusion that it was a closer relative to the "Zurich Notebooks" family. Such borderline cases were surprisingly few, when we consider how interwoven and interdependent all of Joyce's works are. In general, I have let common sense be my guide, and have refrained from lengthy justifications which, I feel, would only have added needless notes, footnotes, and complications to an already bulky study. I have described each manuscript by 1) giving its physical de­ scription; 2) briefly describing and identifying its contents; 3) noting its date of composition, or if no date is given (a problem in most manuscripts) basing my dating on internal evidence (addresses, marks of stationers, handwriting, or comparisons of entries with published texts in periodicals and books); 4) indicating its publication (when ap­ propriate); 5) noting other markings of importance (such as Joyce's extensive use of colored crayons). Whenever possible I have used a standard format in the description of a manuscript, presenting the pertinent facts under the following categories: title, collation,pagina­ tion, contents, other markings. dating, publication, and notes. The ab­ sence of a category from the description of a MS. item means that it is either inapplicable or that the answer is negative. Also I have not hesitated to depart from this format when a manuscript could be bet­ ter or more compactly described in another way. m Describing the manuscripts and letters, which is the task of a cat­ aloguer, has, of course, imposed certain limits on my work. There­ fore I have made no attempt to edit the Buffalo Joyce materials or to show their_ full sig~ificance, but have restricted myself to presenting ?nl~ tha~ mfori:nation about a manuscript which points to its dating, its identity, or its obvious use by Joyce. Introduction ix Because Joyce dated very few of his manuscripts, I have exercised considerable effort in attempting to date the items catalogued, a fas­ cinating task but an extremely difficult one, since concise dating would entail editing the manuscripts rather than cataloguing them. Thus, I have had to be satisfied with showing the rough boundary lines of dating, rather than going on to pinpoint the exact date of each manuscript. The most difficult of all the manuscripts to date were the "Finnegans Wake Workbooks." 2 Most of my speculation in dating these notebooks is based on internal evidence, on finding the first appearance of a phrase or word taken from a workbook in the pub­ lished portions of·"Work in Progress." In my dating of the Ulysses manuscripts, I have relied chiefly on references in Joyce's letters to the composition of the episodes of this novel. All "proposed dates" are indicated by "ca." In giving the publication of manuscripts, I have listed only com­ plete publication of an item. I have not indicated partial publication or excerpts from the Buffalo manuscripts quoted by those critics who have already made use of the Buffalo materials (e.g., although David Hayman in Joyce et Mallarme quotes two pages from MS. VIII. B., "Quaderno di James Joyce," I have considered the manuscripts as being "unpublished"). The "Notes" sections contain that information which could not conveniently be included in another place. These notes have been kept to a minimum. Usually, the first "Note" of a category is the most detailed and should be consulted when examining other items in that category (e.g., when working with one of the "Finnegans Wake Holo­ graph Workbooks," MSS. VI. B. 1.- 50., the reader is advised to con­ sult the "Notes" of MS. VI. B. 1.). The standard format adopted for the description of the manu­ scripts is greatly modified in the listing of Joyce's letters, MSS. X. A.-K., which are catalogued in the following manner: The letters to each recipient are grouped separately and arranged in chronological order. The salutation and opening of each letter are given for the pur­ pose of identification; but the opening phrase is in no way intended to summarize the letter or to indicate its subject matter. When a letter or postcard is dated, the date is given in standard form: day, month, year. A date in square brackets is based upon definite internal evi­ dence. A well-educated guess is indicated by "ca." and square brack­ ets. When a dating is based on a hunch, it is followed by a question mark and enclosed in square brackets. A few undated letters are labeled "not dated" and are filed after the dated letters. The sender's (Joyce's) address is cited in the same manner as the date whenever possible. Published letters are identified as such. 2see "Notes" of MS. VI. B. 1. for a fuller discussion of their dating. X James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters Although the title of this work indicates that what follows is a cat­ alogue of James Joyce's manuscripts and letters only, it may be use­ ful to clarify this point a little further by briefly listing the Joyce material which is not included. The James Joyce Collection of the University of Buffalo consists of much more than Joyce's manuscripts and letters; parts of the collection, not catalogued here, are letters 3 to Joyce, letters about Joyce, paintings, photographs, press clippings, Joyce's personal Paris library ,4 other books and periodicals in which Joyce's works appeared, notebooks and drawings of his daughter Lucia Joyce, and personal items and memorabilia. IV It is the purpose of this catalogue and the hope of this compiler that the present study will, by ordering and describing the manu­ scripts at Buffalo, underline the scope of the collection, make the materials more readily available, and facilitate the work of Joyce scholars.
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