BIB_ID
414022
Accession number
MA 9770
Creator
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Display Date
Zürich, Switzerland, 1918 or 1919.
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 16.5 x 10.7 cm
Notes
Text of this manuscript varies slightly from the published version.
The manuscript has been more precisely dated to late 1918 or early 1919 in the James Joyce Collection of Alexander Neubauer.
Date and location of writing from Frank Budgen's attestation and the James Joyce Collection of Alexander Neubauer.
Frank Budgen wrote the memoir James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses (London: Grayson and Grayson, 1934).
Formerly housed in a morocco pull-off box by Bradstreet's with Alexander Neubauer's bookplate. Box retained.
The manuscript has been more precisely dated to late 1918 or early 1919 in the James Joyce Collection of Alexander Neubauer.
Date and location of writing from Frank Budgen's attestation and the James Joyce Collection of Alexander Neubauer.
Frank Budgen wrote the memoir James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses (London: Grayson and Grayson, 1934).
Formerly housed in a morocco pull-off box by Bradstreet's with Alexander Neubauer's bookplate. Box retained.
Provenance
Alexander Neubauer; the Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Summary
Six sentences, written by Joyce in pencil, from the first draft of the eleventh episode (the so-called "Sirens" episode) of Ulysses. Text begins: "By Bachelor's walk jogjingle jaunted Blazes Boylan, bachelor." and concludes: "Haw haw horn." Text is followed by an added note signed by Frank Budgen: "Zürich 1918 (or 1919?) The above words in Joyce's handwriting are from the Sirens episode of Ulysses."
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