11 August 1918, Letters II (Harriet Weaver to Ben Huebsch): After nine weeks' illness Joyce is better — for the time being — and able to read and write again … In the third episode, published in the March issue, a few sentences had also been excised and these should be restored too. I have not succeeded so far in finding a printer to set up the text for The Egoist

20 August 1918, Pound Letters (Ezra Pound to LR): New sub. Mrs E. McCormick Hotel Bauer au Lac Zurich (begin with first chap. Ulysses)

25 August 1918, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I sent the eight episode of Ulysses (Eolus) to Mr Pound some days [ago] and hope you have it now.

28 August 1918, Yale (JJ to Ezra Pound): Thanks for your card and good opinion of the Hades episode. I sent you some days ago express the Eolus episode … I have not seen any issue of the Little Review since the June issue … I shall send you as quickly as I can the Lestrygonians and after that the Hamlet chapter (Scylla and Charybdis). I received your M.O. (£10) and thank you very much. If you need a collective receipt for the £30 I shall send it on demand … I am house-hunting … I was quite comfortable in these rooms till the adjoining hospital bought the house … Lewis … sent me a copy of Tarr.

26 October 1918, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I have had no letter from Mr Pound for a long time and I hope he is not ill. I am surprised that you have not received from him the seventh episode (Eolus) which I sent a long time ago. I sent yesterday the eight episode (Lestrygonians) so perhaps you can ask him to send you both together … I must also apologise for the slow rate at which I deliver the chapters. But I hope they will be dispatched some day. I am writing now the Hamlet episode (Scylla and Charybdis).

31 October 1918, Letters I (Ben Huebsch to Harriet Weaver): Miss Anderson says that the excisions in Ulysses had been made in pencil in the copy that she received and she is under the impression that they represent Mr Pound's ideas. She says that she made absolutely no changes herself. Her manuscript appears to be mislaid and she will search for it, but you know that missing manuscripts are never found, so that you had better see to it that I receive a duplicate copy in the form in which it should appear in the volume.

1 November 1918, Yale (JJ to Ezra Pound): I hope you are not ill … as it is a long time since I heard from you … The above is my new address … I sent you lately the 8th episode (Lestrygonians) and before that the 7th (Eolus) but have had no acknowledgment of receipt … I hope to be able to send you the ninth episode (Scylla and Charybdis) shortly … I should be pleased to receive from you copies of the Little Review for August, September and October. I hope the chapters have appeared intact … I should like to put the play [Exiles] in the hands of some active agent. A Mr Marion L. Bloom wrote to me a long time ago but my illness made me forget his proposal. The name is rather curious, is it not? But so many of these strange coincidences happen. But whether he would like to take on the representation for Ulysses is, I suppose, doubtful.

4 November 1918, Pound Letters (Ezra Pound to LR): I enclose eighth bundle of Joyce.

19 November 1918, BLHW (Messrs Monro Saw to Harriet Weaver): [asks her to reconsider £5000 settlement]

21 November 1918, JJQ (JJ to Carl Bleibtreu): In the book I am writing Ulysses there is an allusion to your interesting Shakespearean theory, but, in order to refresh my memory, I should be glad to have your book [Die Lösung der Shakespear-Frage: Eine neue Theorie Leipzig: Thomas, 1907] for 2 or 3 days. Mr Sykes has mislaid his copy and I cannot get one at libraries. Would you let have your book for a day or two? Moreover I should like to know had you this idea for many years or can you tell me what year you began to make research. Your book was published in '07 or '08, if I remember. Another small point of interest is the date of your visit to the present Duke of Rutland. If you could let me know any impression of that event and also the name of his county-seat I should be obliged.

22 November 1918, Letters II (Ezra Pound to JJ): Bloom is a great man, and you have almightily answered the critics … Has ‘Ulysses’ 24 Odyssean books? I dont want to ask silly questions, and I hope it continues forever, but people are continuously asking ME about it … If there are going to be chapters after April, I will try to bone a few quid more out of someone

27 November 1918, JJQ (JJ to Carl Bleibtreu): Thanks for your letter … I am sorry to have to trouble you again but I should like to have the answer to the following questions: To save you trouble I am sending them in the form of a ‘question and answer’ which you can return to me. I should like your reply as soon as convenient. I may add that my book Ulysses takes place on 16 June 1904 in Dublin but I should like to open the chapter I am writing with an allusion to your theory — which I must therefore antedate.

28 November 1918, JJQ (Carl Bleibtreu to JJ): I am afraid I have little interest in this terrible time for details of that controversy. Yet occasionally I wrote something this summer about the sonnets in behalf of Oscar Wilde's theory. Your first question I do not understand. No, not before June 1904. 2) I do not know. The family Estates are mostly in Warwickshire, at the time of Lord Roger there was even a countie of Rutland. 3) The Sonnets allude to no man whatever, but to Shakespeare's own genius — the power of conseption [sic] —, separated from the Muse — the power of technical construction — personated by the Black Lady, wayward and fickle, as the Muse is, we poets know her ladyship. All that rumour about Mary Fulton is trash, she was fair (not ‘black’) and the love-passage between her and Lord Pembroke has nothing to do with the symbolism of the Sonnets. Only there is a possibility and probablility that Shakepeare's ever plastic and creative imagination took some personal observations from active life as a colouring of his allegorical composition. This would be in accordance with his dramatical instinct. 4) Mr W.H. is Mr. William Herbert (Lord Pembroke), the cousin of Rutland and afterwards executor of his intellectual will (Folio). Apparently he had a manuscript-copy of the Sonnets, as afterwards of many unknown plays in the Folio, and gave them to the editor Thorpe with the obligation to publish them anonymously, perhaps with the permission of Rutland or perhaps not. Thus he, W.H., is the ‘begetter’, by whom Thorpe got it. Considering that most of the Sonnets were written in the Tower, as I think certain (‘When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state …’ ‘Thus comes it, that my name does bear a brand’), most things clear up, otherwise unintelligible. And the allusion ‘from hence your memory death cannot take, although in me each part shall be forgotten’ ‘my name entombed with my body be’ (I quote from memory, this last verse is not verbal) or the grandiloquent prophecy of eternal immortality for the adored ‘lover’ (lover means in antique English ‘admirer’ or admired one) till ‘all the breathers of this world are dead’ ‘even in the eyes of all posterity, which wears the world out to the ending doom’ ‘till the day of judgement shall arise, you still shall live and love in lovers eyes’ is so distinct as possible: the adored one is no mortal, to whom such promise of eternal fame would be ridiculous. How could he get fame at all, if even the name of this mystical personage is never revealed? (Except ‘Hughes’ in Wilde's absurdity.) But of course there is no need for that, for the name is exactly that name all the world knows: Shakespeare, the nom de guerre of His own genius. And from that name he, the person of The Poet, is entirely separated and will be buried without this his real name of his immortal self — he will be buried as the simple Lord Rutland, not under the name of the greatest mortal that ever lived. ‘My name entombed with my body be.’ Now the Sonnets are the only inheritance we have of Shakespeares real personal life, a sort of lyrical and mystical (not mystifying) diary, and it is most significant that the Baconians evade any touch with the Sonnets like poison, because here is absolutely nothing in them which would not be in absolute contradction to Bacons life. It is quite the same with the life of the Stratford vulgarian, and the only allusion which the Stratford scholars grasp: ‘my name bears a brand’ as a stage-player, is downright nonsence [sic], because we know the good position of actors like Burbridge and others — whereas it is as clear as daylight for a person condemned to lifelong imprisonment for high-treason. 5) This is not part of my theory, because it is only a suggestion, first emanated by an American Baconian. But it is possible; then I should think Pembroke or Ben Jonson did it. 6) I do not understand, you must have mis-read. 7) In summer 1904 I was undoubtedly in Berlin and was nearly every day in the Café Kaiserhof, the centre of chess=players and visited by many literary people. 9) The monthly of the New Jersey Shakesperian [sic] Society, which has send [sic] me one [or] two numbers, contained the statement, that Sid. Lee was Simon Lazarus, clothed in the ironical question, why other people as Shakespeare had sometimes the hobby to change their names. 8) This fool I know very well because I have ridiculed very often his collossal [sic] ignorance in quoting Marlowes [sic] ‘Faustus’ about Hamlets [sic] ‘Wittenberg’. (The academical scholar Marlowe did not know Wittenberg, he spells it Wirtenberg, Wortenberg, Wartenberg, only the last edition long after his death spells rightly Wittenberg, corrected after Hamlet — but the ignorant Stratford comedian should have known this German university, known it too as the university where all Danish and Swedish noblemen studied — especially Rosencrans and Gyldenstjerne!) … I have read once a rather mediocre, but well-intentioned essay of Dowden about Othello, but the way of his polemics in defence of the Stratford clown is worthy even of Sidney Lee. You must have forgotten my book, for I mention there Dowden often enough.

1 December 1918, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I am glad to say that my health is better and my eyes give me no trouble but my sight is very bad sometimes.

5 December 1918, Yale (JJ to Ezra Pound): Many thanks for your kind … words about my book Ulysses. The book is in 18 episodes: Telemachia (3), Wanderings (12), Nostos (3). If regularly sent and printed it should run till the autumn of next year. I cannot possibly deliver any faster than I am doing. I suppose you understand this already. If sometimes a month goes by without my contribution I cannot help it. I cannot send any episode till it is quite finished. However, I send you an inclusive receipt which may be of use (or detriment?) to you if you are looking for someone to finance the review after April next. If any other money comes in I shall be glad to receive more … very soon I shall send you the Scylla and Charybdis episode (Hamlet) and immediately afterwards the Wandering rocks. I hope that Mrs Pound, if she ever honours me by reading the former, will not take amiss certain words of Telemachus about her illustrious ex-namesake.

12 December 1918, Pound/Joyce (Ezra Pound to JJ): I don't want to hurry you; and the slowness of making permanent literature is incomprehensible to all save a few of us who have tried … As to Hamlet, or whatever, Dorothy is among your constant readers, and so far as ascertainable from close scrutiny, has never jibbed [at] any remarks by Telemachus Daedalus or other protagonists. She has a growing affection for Bloom.

6 January 1919, Private (JJ to M[r] Nugent): I enclose a snapshot taken by a friend of mine after my illness. I hope it will serve your purpose.

23 January 1919, BLHW (Antoine Chalas to Harriet Weaver): Madame. Mr Joyce étant malade depuis six jours, m'a chargé de Vous écrire pour Vous prier d'écrire à son agent littérataire afin que l'éditeur milanais sache les conditions pour la traduction de son roman. Mr Joyce accepte d'avance les conditions qu'on fixera. Le chapitre d'Ulysse [Plangtai Petrai] a été envoyé au dactylographe.

25 February 1919, Letters II (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I appreciate very much your friendly words about the Scylla-Charybdis episode of my book Ulysses but am sorry that it deprived you of sleep … I sent some days ago the episode Wandering Rocks to Mr Pound who is ill also. If he has not sent it to you could you write to him. As soon as I am able to work again I shall finish the Sirens and send it … for five weeks I could do little or nothing except lie constantly near a stove … I hope I shall be able to finish the book this year or early next year. It is as difficult for me to write it as for my readers to read it

ca. 28 February 1919, JML (JJ to Ezra Pound): I am very sorry to hear you have had the Spanish influenza … I have been ailing all this year with my eyes but I hope in a few days to begin work again … I hope you received the episode of the Symplegades. That of Sirens will follow.

1 April 1919, Yale (JJ to Ezra Pound): [Trouser affair; JJ's ingratitude re grant] In any other country would a writer who can point to such a press be, as I am, a beggar living on charity … I have beaten them to their knees twice before and will do so again.

30 April 1919, Letters I (JJ to Ben Huebsch): [Trouser affair] I need scarcely say in conclusion that in such circumstances it is impossible for [me] to continue the book I am engaged on — Ulysses.

3 May 1919, Letters II (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I regret the delay in forwarding the episode of the Sirens but perhaps I am the only person who finds it a subject for regret. I have had some worries which prevent me from doing much

20 May 1919, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): Locarno where I am staying for a few days

30 May 1919, Pound/Joyce (Ezra Pound to JJ): In face of mss just arrived, I think however I may adjoin personal op. that you have once again gone ‘down where the asparagus grows’ and gone down as far as the lector most bloody benevolens can be expected to respire. I dont arsk you to erase — But express opinion that a few sign posts. perhaps twenty words coherent in bunches of 3 to 5 wd. not only clarify but even improve 1st. page … I am sending mss today to Egoist and L.R. and if you have any relentings, please communic. direct to said offices … Also even the assing girouette of a postfuturo Gertrudo Steino protopublic dont demand a new style per chapter

4 June 1919, Pound/Joyce (Ezra Pound to Harriet Weaver): Not so good as usual [of ‘Sirens’]

10 June 1919, Letters I (Ben Huebsch to JJ): Colum immediately determined to lay the matter before a wealthy young man, whose soul is not crushed by his money, with the result represented by the enclosed cheque, the equivalent of $700 … The man's name is Scofield Thayer

12 June 1919, Ellmann (JJ to Harriet Weaver):: [J.S. Watson, Jr., a friend of Thayer, sent $300]

18 June 1919, Potts (JJ as quoted by Borach): ‘I finished the Sirens chapter during the last few days. A big job. I wrote this chapter with the technical resources of music. It is a fugue with all musical notations: piano, forte, rallentando, and so on. A quintet occurs in it, too, as in the Meistersinger, my favourite Wagner opera. The barmaids have the upper parts of women and the lower of fish. From in front you see bosom and head. But if you stand behind the bar, you see filth, the empty bottles on the floor, the ugly shoes of the women, and so on. Only disgusting things.’

19 June 1919, Letters I (JJ to Ben Huebsch): Colum … raised a subsidy of $2000 … It would greatly facilitate to have this money cabled as we have now reached the crisis.

19 June 1919, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): I sent on your dream book and hope it reached you … Pound writes disapproving of the Sirens, then modifying his disapproval and protesting against the close and against ‘obsession’ wanting to know whether Bloom … could not be relegated to the background and Stephen Telemachus brought forward. The chapter of the Cyclops is being lovingly moulded in the way you know. The Fenian is accompanied by a wolfhound who speaks (or curses) in Irish. He unburdens his soul about the Saxo-Angles in the best Fenian style and with colossal vituperativeness alluding to their standard industry. The epic proceeds explanatorily ‘He spoke of the English, a noble race, rulers of the waves, who sit on thrones of alabaster, silent as the deathless gods’.

26 June 1919, NYPL (John Quinn to JJ):: Would you care to dispose of the manuscript of ‘Ulysses’? How many pages will it run? If it is not finished and you wish to dispose of it, to me, I should be glad to send you a draft on account … P.S. If you wish to trade with me for the MS. of ‘Exiles’ [sic, means ‘Ulysses’], please do not send it without having it carefully wrapped, fully insured, and sent by registered post. But there is no hurry about sending it.

2 July 1919, Letters II (JJ to Ben Huebsch): CABLE SUM COLM COLLECTED.

2 July 1919, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): As regards my book Ulysses it will not be finished, I suppose, for a year or so … I forwarded some time ago the chapter Wandering Rocks to Mr Pound but it was not acknowledged. Was a copy of the typescript forwarded to you? I also sent him in France the episode of the Sirens. This, at least, reached him and he told me he had sent it on to you and to Miss Anderson. I fear he does not like the book. I shall send the episode of the Cyclops next — but when I cannot say

6 July 1919, SB (Harriet Weaver to JJ): After the last number of the Egoist came out (in April) our printers gave us notice, chiefly, though not entirely, on account of Ulysses. I have since made arrangements with another firm and they are bringing out the next number this week. Half of the sixth episode will appear in it; the other half in the following number … I remember mentioning this new plan [to suspend the Egoist and concentrate on book publishing] … the mananger, a Roman Catholic Irishman, had been much interesterd in your first novel. He has now seen the first ten chapters of Ulysses and … will be willing to print the complete text … Mr Pound sent me the Sirens episode a little time ago

11 July 1919, Yale (JJ to Frank Budgen): Sir Whorearse Rumphole has been ‘gently removed’ from Berne. Lord Acton in charge. 5000 frs cabled from U.S.A. for my cause … I have offered to finance the E.P. [English Players] … they very kindly … consented to accept 10,000 francs of my dirty money

20 July 1919, Selected Letters (JJ to Harriet Weaver): … you write me that the last episode sent [Sirens] seems to you to show a weakening or diffusion of some sort. Since the receipt of your letter I have read this chapter again several times. It took me five months to write it and always when I have finished an episode my mind lapses into a state of blank apathy … Mr Pound wrote to me in hasty disapproval … Mr Brock also … If the Sirens have been found so unsatisfactory I have little hope that the Cyclops or later the Circe episode will be approved of: and, moreover, it is impossible for me to write these episodes quickly. The elements needed will fuse only after a prolonged existence together … the progress of the book is in fact like the progress of some sandblast … I shall feel very thankful to you if you will accept from me the MS of [A Portrait]. It is in Trieste and, as soon as circumstances are more favourable, I shall get it and forward it to you.

3 August 1919, Letters II (JJ to John Quinn): Ulysses will not be finished probably till the end of next year — if even then. A chapter takes me about four or five months to write.

6 August 1919, Selected Letters (JJ to Harriet Weaver): Perhaps I ought not to say any more on the subject of the Sirens but the passages you allude to were not intended by me as recitative, There is in the episode only one example of recitative, on page 12 in preface to the song. They are all the eight regular parts of a fuga per canonem: and I did not know in what way to describe the seductions of music beyond which Ulysses travels. I understand that you may begin to regard the various styles of the episodes with dismay and prefer the initial style much as the wanderer did who longs for the rock of Ithaca. But in the compass of one day to compress all these wanderings and clothe them in the form of this day is for me possible only by such variation which, I beg you to believe, is not capricious

26 August 1918, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I do not know Mr Pound's address.

3 September 1919, Ellmann (claims JJ finished ‘Cyclops’ and sent it off to Pound):

8 September 1919, Letters II (JJ to Stanislaus Joyce): I am sending off today the first case of my books. Two more boxes of books, one box of pictures, and my typewriter will follow at intervals … I expect to be able to leave on 1 October … I am now writing The Cyclops

10 October 1919, Letters II (Mrs McCormick to JJ): I am not free on Sunday, so I will say ‘Good-bye’, in this letter. I know that you will reach Trieste safely, and that you will continue your work there with enthusiasm and with inward conviction.

13 October 1919, Letters II (Mrs McCormick to JJ): Thank you for your fine manuscript, — which I am glad to keep for you with the understanding that, when for any reason, you want it, you have only to write for it. As the Bank told you, I am not able to help you any longer financially, but now that the difficult years of the war are past, you will find publishers and come forward yourself, I know.

14 October 1919, NYPL (JJ to John Quinn): Starting cable maximum advance manuscript Ulysses via Sanita two Trieste

15 October 1919, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): Travelling Trieste Via Sanita Two Please Inform Ezra Pound.

16 October 1919, Letters II (JJ to Stanislaus Joyce): We arrive tomorrow evening at seven

24 October 1919, Yale (JJ to Ezra Pound): Thanks for your amusing and encouraging letter. I left Zurich with my family on the 14 as I was afraid to face the long damp winter there. The removal expenses were enormous and conditions here are very difficult. On the 12 I cabled to Mr Quinn to remit me by cable a maximum advance on the MS of Ulysses which he had offered to do some months ago. I expected to find the remittance here on my arrival but have now been here ten days and have received neither money nor message … Possibly he did so and the order has been rejected … may I ask you to cable him at once to remit it to you and you can send it on to me … by cheque in a registered express letter. I shall be able to live from the 1 January on when the first interest of the £5000 comes in but this move here has cost me about 3000 francs. I am aware that it is foolish of me to dispose of the MS in this way as I shall receive only a fraction of its eventual value — or so I think — but I must get a large sum of money within the next week or ten days at latest … [dreadful conditions] I shall be obliged, to my infinite disgust, to resume teaching in order to supplement my income … If [Quinn's] silence be due to a wish to revoke his proposal I want to know it at once so that I may dispose of the MS elsewhere. When this trouble is over I hope to be allowed time and leisure to set to work on Nausikaa (the next episode).

25 October 1919, Pound/Joyce (Ezra Pound to John Quinn): Last ms. chapter of Joyce perhaps the best thing he has done … parody of styles, a trick borrowed from Rabelais, but never done better, even in Rab. Our James is a grrreat man. I hope to God there is a foundation of truth in the yarn he wrote me about a windfall. Feel he may have done it just to take himself off my mind.

28 October 1919, Letters II (JJ to Harriet Weaver): A few days before I left I forwarded to Mr Pound the episode of the Cyclops but I suppose there are many mistakes as I had not time to revise the typescript carefully.

2 November 1919, SB (Harriet Weaver to JJ): I asked [Pound] at the same time for the episode of the Cyclops and it reached me last night … I noticed a number of mistakes in the typescript and I shall read it through carefully and make what corrections I can

7 November 1919, Letters I (JJ to Frank Budgen): Not a word from Quinn! Not a flat to be had. Prices very high. Will write in a day or so … Three imbecile lines from W — unanswered by me. As for Ulysses — it is like me — on the rocks.

15 November 1919, Yale (JJ to Ezra Pound): As there is nothing to be hoped for from Mr Quinn I wrote urgently to my agent Mr Pinker … asking him to cable Huebsch for an advance of royalties on any or all of my books … Will you please send me the last number of the Little Review.

22 November 1919, NYPL (John Quinn to JJ):: I should be willing to pay a reasonable sum for the MS. of ‘Ulysses’ when it is all finished. I was going to write that to you but it has been impossible to write before today … I am cabling you today as follows: James Joyce Twenty-nine Universitatstrasse Zurich Switzerland Willing cable advance twenty-five pounds account manuscript Ulysses but do not understand words your cable via Sanita two Trieste. Please cable definite instructions regarding cabling money. I think £25 would be a reasonable advance to you on account of the completed MS. of Ulysses. I should not want a fragment but only the completed MS. I could not give you an estimate of what the completed MS. would be worth until I had seen it and knew the number of pages in it and so on.

ca 1 December 1919, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): Since I came here I wrote a long letter to Mrs M, asking her very urgently to consider the ‘advisability of the revivability’ of her aid. That distinguished lady never answered … Pound wrote ‘enthusing’ about the Cyclops episode and thereafter less heatedly telling me that Quinn is no monk, he, (Q,) having bought £300 worth of pictures from Wyndham Lewis — unpaid for … Also if Mrs M doesn't reply within a month I shall take back the MS … I have not written a word of Nausikaa beyond notation of flappers' atrocities and general plan of the specially new fizzing style (Patent No. 7728. S.P. E.P. B.P. L.P.).

1 December 1919, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): The MS of A Portrait … is safe and at your disposal.

2 December 1919, Letters II (JJ to James B. Pinker): The text hitherto published in Little Review is not my text as sent on in typescript. The book is to be published as I wrote it with a few additions on the proof.

8 December 1919, NYPL (John Quinn to JJ):: Willing cable you equivalent hundred twenty- five dollars advance part payment manuscript Ulysses provided you cable me definite address for cabling money.

10 December 1919, SB (Harriet Weaver to JJ): perhaps you might venture to send me the manuscript of your book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man … please understand that I shall value it very highly indeed

3 January 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): For six weeks after my arrival I neither read nor wrote nor spoke. But as it cannot go on so I started Nausikaa and have written less than half. Perhaps I can finish it for February 2. No reply from Mrs M. It seems that gentility cannot be acquired in a single generation. Quinn replied after a month offering 700 frs down on account of Ulysses MS. I did not answer. He now offers 1500 frs down, without naming the ultimate sum. I shall write to Mrs M. to know if she wants it … To abandon the book now would be madness. First half of Cyclops appeared in November with excision of the erection allusion … Nausikaa is written in a namby-pamby jammy marmalady drawersy (alto là!) style with effects of incense, mariolatry, masturbation, stewed cockles, painter's palette, chitchat, circumlocutions, etc etc. Not so long as the others.

5 January 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Aunt Josephine): Will you please send me a bundle of other novelettes and any penny hymnbook you can find as I need them? … Another thing I wanted to know is whether there are trees (and of what kind) behind the Star of the Sea church in Sandymount visible from the shore and also whether there are steps leading down at the side of it from Leahy's terrace. If you can find out these facts for me quickly I shall be glad.

6 January 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Harriet Weaver): [re AP MS] Of course if all or any of it goes astray I shall write it out again for you but it would be better for you to have the original. The ‘original’ original I tore up and threw into the stove about eight years ago in a fit of rage on account of the trouble over Dubliners. The charred remains of the MS were rescued by a family fire brigade and tied up in an old sheet where they remained for some months. I then sorted them out and pieced them together as best I could and the present MS is the result … I am working at the Nausikaa episode … I hope to finish this episode during January … hope to complete my book during the year.

13 January 1920, Ellmann (Frank Budgen to JJ): What's this about abandoning Ulysses? As if that were possible! The Zurich skies might just as easily quit raining.

28 January 1920, SB (Harriet Weaver to JJ): I am doubly glad that the whole manuscript has arrived intact because, although I am touched that you should suggest copying out for me any or all of it that might fail to reach me, I should have been very sorry for you to waste your time in such a way … In view of what happened to the ‘original’ original it is fortunate that the chapters of Ulysses are typed out as soon as they are written and the typescript dispatched to safer keeping in England and America!

ca. 1 February 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Aunt Josephine): Thanks for the journals. I want that information about the Star of the Sea church, has it ivy on its seafront, are there trees in Leahy's terrace at the side or near and, if so, what, are there steps leading down to the beach? I also want all the information you can give, tittletattle, facts etc about Holles Street maternity hospital. Two chapters of my book remain unfinished till I have these so I shall feel very grateful if you … write me a long letter with details.

ca. 1 February 1920, Letters II (JJ to Frank Budgen): Gloria in excelsis Deo! Nausikaa episode finished. Typing: and will send you a copy at once

ca. 1 February 1920, Letters II (JJ to Frank Budgen): Hope you got Nausikaa. Do you like it? We wrote you two cards to wrong number in Forschstrasse. Did you get them … Wrote to Mrs M to know whether she wants MS of Ulysses. No reply! How the hell am I to get it back … Oxen of the Sun now. Whoo! … Thanks for birthday wish

4 February 1920, NYPL (JJ to John Quinn): Cable immediately advance manuscript Ulysses.

5 February 1920, NYPL (John Quinn to JJ):: Cabling you three thousand lire through National Bank Commerce New York advance manuscript Ulysses … Three thousand lire at today's rate of exchanged, 19.50, amounts to $153.85

13 February 1920, Yale (JJ to Ezra Pound): ????

18 February 1920, Letters II (JJ to Frank Budgen): More than a fortnight ago I sent you Nausikaa and a letter. Did you get them. The chapter you may pass on to Sykes with instructions to send back to me registered

24 February 1920, Letters II (JJ to Claud Sykes): The Nausikaa episode was sent to Budgen three weeks ago but not acknowledged … Please appy to him for it … Working on Oxen of the Sun

25 February 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Harriet Weaver): … several letters sent by me (including two to you) went astray it seems … About three weeks ago I sent the Nausikaa episode in duplicate to Mr Pound. If he has not sent it on to you will you please write to him for it. I heard from him this morning much to my relief for I feared that too had gone astray and the prospect of doing it all over again was not pleasant … I am now working on the Oxen of the Sun the most difficult episode in an odyssey, I think, both to interpret and to execute … Mr Huebsch writes rather urgently about Ulysses. I shall tell him that it may be finished for publication late in autumn but without engagement on my side. If the type for the first half were set early in summer I could perhaps revise it then. I do not know whether they have my complete typescript in New York. It would be creating trouble to set from the Little Review, as many passages are omitted and hopelessly mixed.

8 March 1920, JML (JJ to Jane Heap): The Nausikaa episode was sent off about a month ago and I hope has reached you. I am writing the Oxen of the Sun and shall send as soon as it is finished. There remains of the adventures Circe and the close of the book, the nostos proper, part of which is already written, divided, like the Telemachia, into three episodes.

10 March 1920, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): … let me know … if Mr Pound has sent on the Nausikaa episode?

11 March 1920, Letters II (JJ to John Quinn): I received in due course your cabled remittance, advance of purchase money for MS of my book Ulysses, and now your letter confirming dispatch of same. I thank you for your prompt reply to my cable. The Nausikaa episode was sent off some time ago and I am working at the Oxen of the Sun. There remains to be written Circe of the adventures. The close of the book or Nostos propoer is, like the Telemachia, in three parts, but simpler, and is in part written

15 March 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): You will hear (till you get sick) the bloody Oxen of the bloody Sun

20 March 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): I thought if you came you could bring the MS of Ulysses … Am working hard on Oxen of the Sun, the idea being the crime committed against fecundity by sterilizing the act of coition. Scene, lying-in hospital. Technique: a nine-parted epsiode without divisions introduced by a Sallustian-Tacitean prelude (the unfertilized ovum), then by way of earliest English alliterative and monosyllabic and Anglo-Saxon (‘Before born the babe had bliss. Within the womb he won worship.’ ‘Bloom dull dreamy heard: in held hat stony staring’) then by way of Mandeville (‘there came forth a scholar of medicine that men clepen etc’) then Malory's Morte d'Arthur (‘but that franklin Lenehan was prompt ever to pour them so that at the least way mirth should not lack’), then the Elizabethan chronicle style (‘about that present time young Stephen filled all cups’), then a passage solemn, as of Milton, Taylor, Hooker, followed by a choppy Latin-gossipy bit, style of Burton-Browne, then a passage Bunyanesque (‘the reason was that in the way he fell in with a certain whore whose name she said is Bird in the Hand’) after a diarystyle bit Pepys-Evelyn (‘Bloom sitting snug with a party of wags, among then Dixon jun., Ja. Lynch, Doc. Madden and Stephen D. for a languor he had before and was now better, he having dreamed tonight a strange fancy and Mistress Purefoy there to be delivered, poor body, two days past her time and the midwives hard put to it, God send her quick issue’) and so on through Defoe-Swift and Steele-Addison-Sterne and Landor-Pater-Newman until it ends in a frightful jumble of Pidgin English, nigger English, Cockney, Irish, Bowery slang and broken doggerel. This progression is also linked back at each part subtly with some foregoing episode of the day and, besides this, with the natural stages of development in the embryo and the periods of faunal evolution in general. The double-thudding Saxon motive recurs from time to time (‘Loth to move from Horne's house’) to give the sense of the hoofs of Oxen. Bloom is the spermatozoon, the hospital the womb, the nurse the ovum, Stephen the embryo. How's that for high?

12 May 1920, Letters II (JJ to Harriet Weaver): As soon as I get [Pound's] new address I shall send him on the Oxen of the Sun episode which is now being typed to forward to you and to New York.

18 May 1920, Yale (JJ to Ezra Pound): The Oxen of the Sun episode is finished but the typing is still a job. As soon as it is ready will post you express to be sent on to New York and to Miss Weaver as it is overdue … Ulysses leaves me no time for sleep much less for other work … This episode has cost me about a thousand hours of work. Thank the lord it is finished … I shall get on with the typing as quickly as possible and send off the script.

18 May 1920, Letters II (JJ to Frank Budgen): The oxen of the bloody bleeding sun are finished. Typing nearly so. Will send if I do not hear that you have changed address … Please write to me about Oxen

25 May 1920, SB (Harriet Weaver to JJ): I suppose that the Oxen of the Sun episode, now being typed you say, concludes the second part of Ulysses (the Odyssy) for I remember that you told me that the book would contain seventeen episodes in all, three in the last part.

31 May 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Ezra Pound): I am in need of a long holiday (by this I don't mean abandonment of Ulysses but quiet in which to finish it) away from here … I … have had great difficultyu in securing time and peace enough to write those two chapters … I spend the greater part of my time sprawled across two beds surrounded by mountains of notes …[I] buy the Daily Mail … So I propose to spend three months in Ireland in order to write Circe and the close of the book. I should return here with my family in October (if anyone finds a flat for us in the meantime) or, if not, without them in order to write the end of it … I hope you received safely the Oxen of the Sun and have sent it off to London and New York. I was bringing down another copy this morning.

9 June 1920, Ellmann (from Pound to Linati): [Joyce arrived last night]

17 June 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Aunt Josephine): As regard the gazette or police news or whatever the devil it is it was always on sale in low newsagents. You must be misinformed unless it is a brandnew regulation. Well, can you obtain for me Reynolds or Lloyd's Weekly News or News of the World for the weeks ending? Keep them till my next card when I shall tell you where to send them either to Paris or to London.

22 June 1920, JML (JJ to Margaret Anderson): I shall be obliged if you will pass on to Mr Huebsch the typescript of Ulysses, as he is signing a contract for publication which my agent has drawn up. The last adventure Circe is being written; that of Oxen of the Sun was sent on to you by Mr Pound from Sirmione, Italy, some weeks ago. The close of the book is also drafted and I shall send it in the autumn. I hope to leave Trieste in a week or so for Paris. Having worked very hard I need a few months' rest. Letters sent to me here will be forwarded by my brother.

22 June 1920, Letters I (JJ to Ben Huebsch): I … have written to Miss Anderson to send you on the typescript of Ulysses. The last adventure Circe is being written. The close of the book is drafted and I shall send you it in duplicate this autumn.

24 June 1920, NYPL (JJ to John Quinn): I shall send you tomorrow five chapters or episodes, Wandering Rocks, Sirens, Cyclops, Nausikaa and Oxen of the Sun and a few days later nine more, making entire MS so far. The final adventure and close of the book I shall remit you as written during the next few months … [Joyce also asked Quinn to cable an additional advance on receipt c/o Thomas Cook and Sons, Paris,] or, if you prefer, the balance of the total price.

12 July 1920, Letters III (JJ to Stanislaus Joyce): MSS came today and sent them on.

12 July 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I arrived here with my family three days ago. My intention is to remain here three months in order to write the last adventure Circe in peace (?) and also the first episode of the close. For this purpose I brought with me a recast of my notes and MS and also an extract of insertions for the first half of the book in case it be set up during my stay here … I hope you duly received Oxen of the Sun which Mr Pound sent you on from Italy … I hope also I shall be able to finish the twelfth adventure at my ease. Like its fellows it presents for me great technical difficulties and for the reader something worse. A great part of the nostos or close was written several years ago and the style is quite plain … The whole book … will be finished about December

re ca. 12 July 1920, Shakespeare and Co (Sylvia Beach): Joyce … had spent his entire savings on the removal to Paris. He must look for pupils … I wondered when Joyce found time to write. At night, he said, after the lessons were over … Did he sometimes dictate? ‘Never!’ he exclaimed. He always wrote by hand. He liked to be held back, would otherwise go too fast. He had to see his work as he shaped it word by word … It appeared that John Quinn, the brillant Irish-American lawyer in New York, was buying the manuscript of Ulysses bit by bit. As soon as Joyce completed an instalment, he made a fair copy and sent it off to Quinn, who, in return, sent Joyce the sum agreed on — small sums, but they helped.

19 July 1920, Letters III (JJ to A.F. Bruni): Circe is making progress once more.

25 July 1920, Letters III (JJ to Stanislaus Joyce): MSS of Ulysses arrived safely and I sent them on … Madame Circe advances regally towards her completion after which I hope to join a tennis club

27 July 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): Besides I want to hear you on the Oxen episode and want to bore the life out of you about Circe which is half written … Circe is the last adventure, thank God. Hope you got something out of M'Cormick Stiftung. Just mention my name

29 July 1920, Letters III (JJ to Claud Sykes): Please write here and send back Oxen of the Sun when read. I remain here 2 or 3 months to write Circe.

10 August 1920, JJQ (Ezra Pound to JJ): Recd yr. museum piece of (undated but presumably 8th inst.) I never read them till after breakfast. I enclose contribution for yr. upkeep and running exp. from deux marchands de tableaux. (£6/ and 26.30 fr)

15 August 1920, NYPL (John Quinn to JJ):: I received July 13 your letter … June 24, 1920 … There was received at my office in a parcel marked ‘Via Cherbourg’ day before yesterday, August 13, nine separately fastened sections of MS. … These sections make a total of 235 MS. pages … I am cabling to Thomas Cook and Sons, Paris, on your account, 3400 francs, which is the equivalent of $250 at the present rate of exchange … It is difficult, in fact impossible, to put a price upon a MS. until it is completed. Perhaps when I receive the nine further chapters or episodes I might send you a further advance on account of the total price of the MS.

15 August 1920, Ellmann (met and dined with T.S. Eliot):

16 August 1920, Letters III (JJ to Harriet Weaver): Circe is giving me in all ways a great deal of worry. I have written the greater part of it four or five times

25 August 1920, Ellmann (Harriet Weaver to JJ): [New benefaction of £2000 intended to free his] best and most powerful and productive years [from material worries]

29 August 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Stanislaus Joyce): I had a letter yesterday from Miss Weaver, saying that she has made me a further gift of £2000 … Quinn sent 3500 francs. Huebsch is crying off Ulysses. Miss Weaver writes nobody will print it. So it will be printed, it seems, in Paris and bear Mr John Rodker's imprint as the English printer … Budgen was here a week, gone to London P.S. Ask Frank to ask that Hungarian in his bank the Magyar for Mr e.g. Mr Joseph Smith.

29 August 1920, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I hope that Ulysses will soon be finished … something to set against your generosity

3 September 1920, Letters I (JJ to John Quinn): Thanks for second remittance on account, which I received. I hope you now have the other parcel of MS. Ulysses is in 3 parts (Telemachia, Odyssey, Nostos) [scheme follows] The dotted line represents the first half [also 2nd parcel], but not part or division … I am now writing the Circe episode for, I think, the sixth time

6 September 1920, Letters I (JJ to Carlo Linati): I am working like a galleyslave, an ass, a brute. I cannot even sleep. The episode of Circe has changed me too into an animal.

ca. 8 September 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to A.F. Bruni): I have already written the Circe episode some six times

13 September 1920, Letters III (JJ to John Rodker): I have not received that copy of The Oxen of the Sun but perhaps you have read part of the Nausikaa episode. The best plan is to ask Miss Weaver to let you see these two episodes so that you may judge of their length.

14 September 1920, Letters III (JJ to Stanislaus Joyce): Have written Circe about five times … The M.S. I sent Quinn from Triest on 10 June never reached him (by his letter of 17 August) while that sent from Paris 6 weeks later did … He sent 3500 francs on the first batch and will send more if the other parcel arrives. I suppose I have to write it out all over again! Curse them again! He will give 20,000 Lire for the entire MS of Ulysses but wants the end of it and the corrected proofs

21 September 1920, Letters I (JJ to Carlo Linati): it would be better to send you a sort of summary — key — skeleton — scheme (for your personal use only). Perhaps my idea will appear clearer to you when you have the text. I have given only catchwords in my scheme but I think you will understand it all the same. It is an epic of two races (Israelite — Irish) and at the same time the cycle of the human body a well as a little story [storiella] of a day (life).

27 September 1920, NYPL (John Quinn to JJ):: [Acknowledges receipt of MS of 5 episodes.]

29 September 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): Have met Sargent several times and dined. He is held up here for a week. The stories he tells me of mob manners in London are almost incredible. Have worked some of it into Circe … It gets wilder and worse and more involved but I suppose it will all work out. Thanks for the papers you send which, though very onesided, are most useful. Tomorrow I send you another 10 francs. I see there is or was a paper by Lord Alfred Douglas Plain English. Can you lay hold of any copies? In fact anything in that line will be useful. I am sorry you do not think your ideas on Circe worth sending. As I told you a catchword is enough to set me off. Moly is a tough nut to crack. My latest is this. Moly is the gift of Hermes, god of public ways, and is the invisible influence (prayer, chance, agility, presence of mind, power of recuperation) which saves in case of accident. This would cover immunity from syphilis (σύ φιλος = swine-love?). Hermes is the god of signposts: i,e, he is, specially for a traveller like Ulysses, the points at which roads parallel merge and roads contrary also. He is an accident of providence. In this special case his plant may be said to have many leaves, indifference due to masturbation, pessimism congenital, a sense of the ridiculous, sudden fastidiousness in some detail, experience. It is the only occasion in which Ulysses is not helped by Minerva but by her male counterpart and inferior. Curious that Sargent should be an authority on animals. His character, also, it seems to me, may have been like his namesake in the Nestor episode … Are you strong on costume? I want to make Circe a costume episode also. Bloom for instance appears in five or six different suits. What a book! … Hell, I must get Circe finished and Eumeus under way before I move anywhere.

11 October 1920, Letters III (JJ to Claud Sykes): Circe progresses.

12 October 1920, NYPL (JJ to John Quinn): [He has heard from his aunt in Dublin that a letter he had sent from Trieste on 28 June had not reached her until 22 September. He wanted assurance that the balance of the MS (the five episodes) had reached New York.] If not, I shall write it out again.

24 October 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): Flat hunting … Must leave here on Friday or Saturday. A dreadful job and of course Circe put aside completely … The problems raised in Circe (of good taste, tact, technique, etc) are taking up all my time. In order to solve them I must be delivered of all other cares … P.S. Last night I thought of an Entr'acte for Ulysses in middle of book after 9th episode Scylla and Charybdis. Short with absolutely no relation to what precedes or follows like a pause in the action of a play. It would have to be balanced by a matutine (very short) before the opening and a nocturne (also short) after the end. What? I agree about the explanation of syphilis. I always thought the etymology was syn philein (together with loving, connected with it) but a man named Bradley says the other. Moly could also be absinthe the cerebral impotentising (!!) drink or chastity. Damn Homer, Ulysses, Bloom and all the rest.

28 October 1920, Letters III (JJ to Stanislaus Joyce): Miss Weaver sent me … an extra gift of £200

3 November 1920, Letters III (JJ to Carlo Linati): I am now writing the final version of Circe. I had to wait for my case of books to come

5 November 1920, JJQ (Ezra Pound to JJ): Can only repeat that as J.Q.'s only person in U.S.A. who can or will do anything for you in this matter; sensible thing is to cable giving him a free hand. Huebsch can't pirate what is already copyright by L.R. I have no connection with L.R. — have seen nothing since Jul-Aug — which is I take it the no. suppressed

10 November 1920, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): Huebsch was here but on me he made anything but a favourable impression … Circe has been very much delayed by a number of causes … I am now writing out the final (the sixth or seventh) draft of the episode which is about twice as long as the longest episode hitherto, The Cyclops

17 November 1920, NYPL (JJ to John Quinn): I did not reply to your last letter which contained a supplementary cheque of 1400 francs for the other MS sent on because until the 31 October I never knew where we were going to lodge … I changed into this address on the 2 November … the Circe episode (a tasteful production on which I am now engaged)

24 November 1920, Letters III (JJ to John Quinn): The complete notes fill a small valise … The insertions (chiefly verbal or phrases, rarely passages) must be put in for book publication. Before leaving Trieste I did this sorting for all episodes up to and including Circe. The episodes which have the heaviest burden of addenda are Lotus-eaters, Lestrygonians, Nausikaa and Cyclops. Therefore I must stipulate that I have three sendings of proofs (preferably a widemargined one must be pulled), namely: (1) a galley-page proof of all the book up to and including Circe, (2) A similar proof of the three chapters of the Nostos, (3) A complete proof of the book in page form … I hope to finish the Circe episode before Christmas. Eumeus, being already drafted, I could send on in January … write the Ithaca and Penelope episodes which, however, have been sketched since 1916 and are very short in comparison with the Circe episode

9 December 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I have been ill for the past few weeks with my eyes … It is better now … I shall try to finish the Circe episode before Christmas … the next one is already drafted

10 December 1920, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): Thanks for the papers. Now I want you to do another favour for me and in a great hurry. The whirligig movement in Circe is on the refrain My Girl's a Yorkshire etc, but to unify the action the preceding pas seul of S.D. which I intended to balance on the gramophone of the opposite kip should be on the air of that same ditty played on Mrs Cohen's pianola with lights. I enclose 10 francs. Will you be so kind as to apply to any vendor (a big one) of musichall airs. It was popular between 1904 and 1908. I want words and music. I have a piano here and telephone (Saxe 34-33). I hope to finish Circe before Christmas … My mood grows bitterer on account of Trieste and other things. At first I had not thought of the slaughter of the suitors as in Ulysses' character. Now I see it can be there too. I am going to leave the last word with Molly Bloom — the final episode Penelope being written through her thoughts and body Poldy being then asleep. Eumeus you know so there remains only to think out Ithaca in the way I suggest … I have … been botching and patching that bloody old Circe since last June. The Nauiskaa case comes on next Monday … A point about Ulysses (Bloom). He romances about Ithaca (Oi want teh gow beck teh the Mawl Enn Rowd, s'elp me!) and when he gets back it gives him the pip.

19 December 1920, NYPL (John Quinn to JJ):: the 1,400 francs … was a payment in advance and on account of the further MS. to be received

20 December 1920, Letters III (JJ to Ezra Pound): Circe finished this morning at last. Will revise, type and forward soon

24 December 1920, Shakespeare and Co (Beach): [JJ meets Larbaud]

5 January 1921, Selected Letters (JJ to Italo Svevo): The Circe episode was finished some time ago … typists … I am told it will contain 170 pages, commercial size. The Eumeus episode, which is almost finished, will also be ready around the end of the month … [asks Svevo to collect his 4.78 kilos of notes for him]

7 January 1921, Letters I (JJ to John Quinn): … terms of offer to Huebsch … Circe is finished and is being typed. When it reaches New York the whole book so far can be set up and sent to me. I shall return it corrected a few days after receipt, with the Eumeus episode and probably Ithaca also. The second revise can be sent me then and I shall return it with the final episode, Penelope. This last is a short episode — can be checked by the proofreader, in whom I have more confidence now that your continent is ‘dry’ … I wrote the Circe episode nine times from first to last.

18 January 1921, NYPL (JJ to John Quinn): [Send $200 as soon as possible] pending completion of contract [i.e. with Huebsch. Quinn interpreted this as a further advance on MS]

24 January 1921, NYPL (JJ to John Quinn): Cable Joyce.

ca. February 1921, Letters I (JJ to Claud Sykes): At last came forward a young woman barrister who reads my books and she offered to do it in her spare time .. for an hour or so every other day. When she had done about half of it her father had a seizure (an incident, by the way, in the episode) … now the proprietress of a small bookshop here says she will finish it, beginning tomorrow … Eumeus. The first episode of the close of the book much shorter about 30pp and quite different, is also nearly finished; and I am, in fact, working at the second Ithaca. There remains to be written the last: Penelope

4 February 1921, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I ought to have acknowledged before with thanks Mr [Allen] Upward's book [The Divine Mystery, 1913], the first part of which seems to me like a running marginal comment on Circe … I finished that episode some weeks ago and sent it to be typed … [trouble with typists] … will not be ready for some weeks more … On Monday I hope to deliver to another typist the first part of the Eumeus episode and the rest in a week or a fortnight. This will leave me the time I need for composing the two final and shorter episodes … I hope the projected (U.S.) edition of Ulysses will come out in June

18 February 1921, Letters III (JJ to Carlo Linati): I'm working like a convict until 3 or 4 in the morning. I finished Circe and Eumeus. The last two episodes that are left, Ithaca and Penelope are also giving me a hard time

21 February 1921, NOTE: [QQ: Quinn made his final argument before the three-judge Court of Special Sessions in defence of the ‘Nausikaa’ episode. Little Review editors Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap were convicted of publishing obscenity and fined $50. Case began 14 February resumed 21 February]

28 February 1921, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): Circe is finished long ago, also Eumeus and I am writing Ithaca. I have dreadful worries about a typist. Four declined to do Circe, at last one admirer(ess) volunteered. She started but when she had done 100 pp her father got a seizure in the street (a Circean episode) and now my MS is written out in a fair hand by someone who passes it to someone else who sends it to be typed.

28 February 1921, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): Circe is finished long ago, also Eumeus and I am writing Ithaca. I have dreadful worries about a typist. … I sent Eumeus to a third typist … I am heaping all kinds of lies into the mouth of that sailorman in Eumeus which will make you laugh. At one time I thought the slaughter of the sailors un-Ulyssean. In my present frame of mind, I have modified my opinion

28 February 1921, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): Circe is finished long ago, also Eumeus and I am writing Ithaca. I have dreadful worries about a typist. Four declined to do Circe, at last one admirer(ess) volunteered. She started but when she had done 100 pp her father got a seizure in the street (a Circean episode) and now my MS is written out in a fair hand by someone who passes it to someone else who sends it to be typed. I sent Eumeus to a third typist … No word [from] Trieste where I wrote asking for the forwarding of certain MSS … I am writing Ithaca in the form of a mathematical catechism. All events are resolved into their cosmic physical, psychical etc. equivalents, e.g. Bloom jumping down the area, drawing water from the tap, the micturation in the garden, the cone of incense, lighted candle and statue so that not only will the reader know everything and know it in the baldest coldest way, but Bloom and Stephen thereby become heavenly bodies, wanderers like the stars at which they gaze. The last word (human, all too human) is left to Penelope. This is the indispensible countersign to Bloom's passport to eternity … I am heaping all kinds of lies into the mouth of that sailorman in Eumeus which will make you laugh. At one time I thought the slaughter of the sailors un-Ulyssean. In my present frame of mind, I have modified my opinion

28 February 1921, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): P.S. If you or Sargent can pick up any handbook cheap on Freemasonry or any ragged, dirty, torn, defiled, effaced, dogeared, coverless, undated, anonymous misprinted book on mathematics, or algebra or trig. or Eucl. from a cart for 1d or at most 2¼d tant mieux.

1 March 1921, NYPL (JJ to John Quinn): Circe and Eumeus are both finished but the typing is dreadfully slow … I am working at the end of the book and rarely go to bed before 2 or 3 in the morning.

1 March 1921, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): A fortnight ago when nearly 100 pages of Circe (about half) were typed the father of my typist had a seizure in the street (a Circean episode as it happens) and consequently the work came to an end. Now a fair copy is made from my MS and and then passed on to another typist who will finish the episode slowly. I sent the first half of Eumeus to still another typist and I am told it is almost finished. I am writing out the fair copy of the end of it and shall send it on in a few days. // I am now working on Ithaca. This episode and Penelope will take all my time till May. As I needed for both of them my notes left in Trieste I have been writing express registered letters to my relatives there and certain friends without success till yesterday when I got a letter saying that a person who is coming to Paris shortly will bring them

22 February 1921 (JJ to Harriet Weaver): [clipping from New York Times] Improper novel costs woman $60 Mr Quinn admitted that it was cast in a curious style … Joyce, he said, didn't use punctuation marks in this story probably on account of his eyesight

24 March 1921, NYPL (Ben Huebsch to John Quinn): [Cannot publish U without some alterations]

3 April 1921, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): (partly I) Four copies of Circe and Eumeus have been delivered to me at last. Unfortunately there are only 122 pages of the former as the present typist … can work only an hour or so at night. They (the copies) are so irritating that I wish I knew where to throw them. It is risky to send them to Mr Pound … and Mr Rodker or the Little Review or Mr Quinn or Mr Huebsch may not want them either. The Circe episode, typed by several different typists using different machines and all colours and kinds of paper is a horrible thing to look at — much less to read … I received safely about a fortnight ago the bag full of notes for Ulysses … Ithaca and Penelope are progressing as well as the worries here set forth permit

5 April 1921, NYPL (Ben Huebsch to John Quinn): [formally exercised first refusal U]

8 April 1921, NYPL (JJ to John Quinn): Manuscript forwarded you. Kindly return immediately registered complete transcript now with Huebsch.

9 April 1921, Letters III (JJ to Harriet Weaver): Last night at 6 o'clock Mrs Harrison, to whom the final scenes of Circe had been passed on for typing after the accident to Dr Livisier, called on me in a state of great agitation … her husband, employed in the British Embassy here, had found the MS, read it and then torn it up and burned it … she told me he had burned only part and that the rest was ‘hidden’.

9 April 1921, NYPL (JJ to Harriet Weaver): [Note: Joyce stopped in at Shakespeare and Company: ‘My book will never come out now’. Sylvia beach proposed to publish it. The plan, put to JJ the next day, was for a 1st ed of 1000 copies to be sold by subscription as far as possible.]

10 April 1921, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): On Saturday night I received a packet from Mrs Harrison containing the rest of the MS of Circe … Only some pages which she had left on her table have been destroyed. I shall have to go over the notes of the scene again and recreate it which is not so easy as since writing it I wrote the end and all the Eumeus episode and a good part of Ithaca … On receipt of Mr Huebsch's letter forwarded by you I cabled Mr Quinn to withdraw the entire typescript of Ulysses from Mr Huebsch and all other American publishers and return it to me immediately. Not that I need it but in order to break off relations definitely. Mr Huebsch will not pirate an edition of Ulysses (as he kindly suggested) in the United States but not because of consideration for the writer. The next day I arranged for a Paris publication to replace the American one — or rather I accepted a proposal made to me by Shakespeare and Co., a bookseller's here … The proposal is to publish here in October an edition (complete) of the book … Today I delivered the first sheets to the printer and am to receive trial proofs on Saturday together with his estimate. The actual printing will begin as soon as the number of orders covers approximately the cost of printing which they estimate at 20,000 to 25,000 francs … about 150 copies … The form of the book is to be carré, the type which they call here no 9 and it will make about 600 pages if that … in the months between now and September I can write with comfort the two last episodes … I shall send you the two episodes [Circe and Eumeus] in a day or so when the end of Circe is typed.

13 April 1921, NYPL (John Quinn to JJ):: … before returning the copy [of the TS] that Miss Weaver had sent to Huebsch to you … [try] Liveright /// John Quinn to Ben Huebsch: Ite! — Go! — to or otherwise — the typescript goes to rejoice Joyce.

17 April 1921, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I hoped to send you the first trial proofs with this letter … but they have not come … To my surprise I received a card from Mr Pound who is now in Paris. I met him yesterday and at his request gave him Circe and Eumeus to read and he will send them on to you (if he survives them) as before. As regards the former, the final typescript which arrived only yesterday, it is very difficult to follow on account of the medley of papers and types. Moreover, after p. 112 there should be a blank indicated where the scene or scenes burned by Mr Harrison will be replaced when I rewrite them. P.113 is not the proper sequence. The scene which intervenes covers an episode outside the door, a hue and cry in the street (imaginary) after Bloom and the opening scene of the quarrel.

19 April 1921, Letters III (JJ to John Quinn): I understand that the typescript of Ulysses is on its way back, as I instructed. The publication of Ulysses (complete) was arranged here in a couple of days. I hope you received the MS of Circe and Eumeus. As a curiosity I threw in the 8th draft of the former … [Mrs Harrison] What I am concerned with is there is now a lacuna of several pages in the typescript, which has already gone to the printer, and I must write it in … Six or seven pages after Bloom's exit (which you will find at a glance by the long catalogue of persons in pursuit) will suffice

23 April 1921, Letters III and BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): … prospectus which Miss Beach is having printed … I sent you sample pages. Frankly I didn't like the size of the page (which in volume form is likely to fall out of the reader's hands when the narrative is more than usually unintelligible) but they tell me it is the usual form for such editions … I saw Mr Pound. He has read Circe and Eumeus about which he appears to be very excited

2 May 1921, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I would have sent on the typescript of Oxen of the Sun with this for Mr Eliot but that this with all the copies of the Little Review was lent to Mrs Harrison to enable her, as she said, to follow the names and allusions in Circe when typing … Nevertheless I shall present the typescript [of Oxen] to [Pound] (another copy) for forwarding as I have done hitherto knowing that it will never appear in the review … Tomorrow evening I hope to send you a proof of the prospectus

5 May 1921, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I enclose the typescript of Oxen of the Sun which I obtained from Mrs Harrison … I also enclose uncorrected proof of the prospectus which will be ready on Tuesday next

17 May 1921, NYPL (John Quinn to JJ):: Mailing you photographic copies pages manuscript requested also copy received from Huebsch registered insured

ca. 18 May 1921, Letters I (JJ to Claud Sykes): Quinn has had the pages photographed (as he won't send back the ms) and is sending on the result so that I shall not need to trouble you. You can return the typescript here registered if sending by return. Otherwise better send it c/o Shakespeare and Co, rue Dupuytren 8, Paris VI … I am glad you liked Circe and Eumeus. Struggling with the aridities of Ithaca — a mathematico-astronomico-physico-mechanico- geometrico-chemico sublimation of Bloom and Stephen (devil take 'em both) to prepare for the final amplitudinously curvilinear episode Penelope.

21 May 1921, T.S. Eliot to JJ: I am returning your three mss by registered post as you require and am exceedingly obliged for a taste of them. I think they are superb — especially the Descent into Hell, which is stupendious. Only, in detail, I object to one or two phrases of Elijah: ‘ring up’ is English, ‘call up’ American; ‘trunk line’, if applied to the telephone service, is English, the American is, if I remember, ‘long distance’. I don't quite like the wording of the coon transformation of Elijah, either, but I cannot suggest any detailed alteration. But otherwise, I have nothing but admiration, in fact, I wish, for my own sake, that I had not read it.

5 June 1921, NYPL (John Quinn to JJ):: Before this time you have received the ten photographic copies, enlarged, of ten pages of the MS that you requested, as stated in Mr Watson's letter of May 18, and also the copy galley proofs and typewritten, of the parts or sections of Ulysses as described in Mr Watson's letter, which were finally got from Huebsch … Huebsch … has as much backbone as the traditional invertebrate … Meanwhile the last parts of your MS have been received at my office. On April 21st there was received … the manuscript of Circe and Ecumeus [sic] episodes … There were also 27 large sheets, forming what I presume is the first draft of these parts of Ulysses … I am sending one of the prospectuses to .. Dr. Rosenbach … at 273 Madison Avenue

5 June 1921, Letters III (JJ to Valery Larbaud): I begin to feel so comfortable that the episode of Ithaca is progressing rapidly … I expect the first proofs of Ulysses on the tenth inst..

6 June 1921, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): … new address … the removal took up a great deal of time [from work on] Ithaca. The first proofs are due on Saturday.

6 June 1921, Letters III (JJ to Claud Sykes): Did you return the typescript. A copy arrived about a week ago but my family opened the wrapper so I don't know if it is yours or Eliot's.

7 June 1921, Selected Letters (JJ to A.F. Bruni): [in Larbaud's flat] The episode of Ithaca is now all geometry, algebra, and mathematics, and then finally Penelope! I'd like to dip my head in a sea of ice. The book is already in press and I expect the first proofs day after tomorrow. It will be published only in October or November. Three expensive editions being involved, misprints have to be avoided. The colours of the binding (chosen by me) will be white letters on a blue field — the Greek flag though really of Bavarian origin and imported with the dynasty. Yet in a special way they symbolize the myth well — the white islands scattered over the sea … I have become a monument — no, a vespasian.

21 June 1921, Letters III (JJ to Valery Larbaud): The first proofs have arrived and I am working right and left on the corrections and on Ithaca.

ca. 28 June 1921, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): Ithaca is giving me fearful trouble. Corrected the first batch of proofs today up to Stephen on the strand which I read out to you on a memorable night in Zurich … I'll break the back of Ithaca tomorrow so 'elp me fucking Chroist.

6 July 1921, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): Violent eye attack

7 August 1921, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): (also partly I) I am advised to go to Aix-les-Bains but am in Ithaca instead. I write and revise and correct with one or two eyes about twelve hours a day I should say … I believe some 5000 prospectuses went out and the capture is 260 but people ought not to be told this figure … I have the greater part of Ithaca but it has to be completed, revised and rearranged above all on account of its scheme. I have also written the first sentence of Penelope but as this contains about 2500 words the deed is more than it seems to be. The episode consists of eight or nine sentences equally sesquipedalian and ends with a monosyllable. Bloom and all the Blooms will soon be dead, thank God

ca. 12 August 1921, Letters I (JJ to Valery Larbaud): Mlle Monnier spoke to me of your impatience to read the last episode. But there are two, Ithaca and Penelope. Of the latter I have since the beginning sketched the outline and now I have filled in at least three quarters. Of the former I have written almost as much but it needs much more work. I work six hours a day in adding also text to the proofs which I correct … I have added to Circe a Messianic scene with a litany sung in honour [of the titles of the adventures]

Kidney of Bloom, pray for us!
Flower of the Bath, pray for us!
Mentor of Menton, pray for us!
Canvasser of the Freeman, pray for us!
Charitable Mason, pray for us!
Wandering Soap, pray for us!
Music without Words, pray for us!
Reprover of the Citizen, pray for us!
Friend of all Frillies, pray for us!
Midwife Most Merciful, pray for us!

[…] the last word of Ulysses. Here it is: yes.

16 August 1921, Selected Letters (JJ to Frank Budgen): First of all send me that Sieges of Gibraltar and also Conan Doyle's History of the South African War published by same house Nelson in their cheap collection … registered and express … As regards that 60pp book would it be too much to suggest to you the following: get an exercise book and detach the leaves of it. If you read rapidly through the book again you could jot down on the sheets anything in the words of the book you think interesting and a quick sketch of those views (not artistic I am not an artist) this plan you might follow with the other books and then simply put the sheets in an envelope and send them on to me. Penelope is the clou [Fr. star-turn] of the book. The first sentence contains 2500 words. There are eight sentences in the episode. It begins and ends with the female word yes. It turns like the huge earth ball slowly surely and evenly round spinning, its four cardinal points being the female breasts, arse, womb and cunt expressed by the words because, bottom (in all senses bottom button, bottom of the class, bottom of the sea, bottom of his heart), woman, yes. Though probably more obscene than any preceding episode it seems to me to be perfectly sane full amoral fertilisable untrustworthy engaging shrewd limited prudent indifferent Weib. Ich bin der [sic] Fleisch der stets bejaht.

27 August 1921, Letters I (JJ to Robert McAlmon): [Collapse]

30 August 1921, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I have been obliged to reduce my working from about sixteen hours daily to about six in consequence of an attack I got, some kind of syncope … looking … to see if there is any place where I could throw Bloom with a 56lb weight tied to his feet. I have made a great deal of additions to the proof so far (up to the end of Scylla and Carybdis). Perhaps you would like to see them. If so I shall send them on. I have also added a messianic scene to Circe but the printer has not reached that yet.

3 September 1921, Letters III (JJ to Robert McAlmon): I sent on that lot of Penelope to Budgen but he hasn't written yet about it. If you see him please ask him to send it back. I have now written in a great lot of balderdash all over the damn book and the first half is practically as it will appear. I shall give Molly another 2000 word spin, correct a few more episodes and write all over them and then begin to put the spectral Ithaca into shape … If you ever find anything relating to what I am doing throw it into an envelope and perhaps it will go into the stew. No more subscriptions for Ulysses. Only 4 or 5 last month.

6 August 1921, Letters I (JJ to Frank Budgen): Received first instalment of Gibraltar. What is wrong with the rest? … I send you 1st part of Penelope in its draft form to let you see it and have your opinion. This is only the draft a great deal will be added or changed on 3 proofs. Let me know how it strikes you and return it by registered post as quickly as possible. Will send you more money on Monday or Tuesday for the following if obtainable: (1) Love's Old Sweet Song. (2) In Old Madrid. (3) Fanny Hill Memoirs (unexpurgated). If you find this latter you can put a stop on it … To understand Penelope well you should have an idea of Ithaca but it is not ready

9 September 1921, Letters III (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I have a new eye attack threatening me

24 September 1921, Letters III (JJ to Valery Larbaud): I am nearly dead with work and eyes. Sent Penelope to the printers so that you may have it to read when you come here. All will be ready for you on the 2 October. The Ithaca episode I shall put in order in October … You will scarcely recognise parts of Ulysses I have worked so much on them

26 September 1921, Buff (Maurice Darantiere to JJ): Sections 1 and 2 that your courier sent us this afternoon are definitively printed [définitivement tirés]. The sole correction from page 31 can still be executed on the [vergé d']Arches copies, because we are obliged to re-impose them by 4 pages [réimposer par quatre pages] because of the format of this paper. We have reread the bons à tirer for the first five signatures. The corrections for pages
17… Agenbite of Inwit
21… and lips and breastbone
25… Oh
were not indicated. Those on pages 3 (except for the word jesuit which was written with a capital letter), 14, 22, 31, are our fault. The error on page 3 is the most ridiculous ; if you would like, we could re-pull a four page cancel [carton de quatre pages] that will be exchanged in the stitching.

3 October 1921, Letters III (Rev Charles Doyle SJ to JJ): The Christian name of the wife of the first Earl of Belvedere was Mary, She was the daughter of Lord Molesworth. She never lived in Belvedere College, however. After the divorce court proceedings she was confined in Gaulstown, Co. Westmeath, the old seat of the family, near Belvedere House by the shore of Lough Ennel, a new residence just completed by the Earl. The Countess Mary died about 1780. Belvedere House (now Belvedere College) was not completed by the second Earl (the builder of it), until 1786.

6 October 1921, Letters I (JJ to Robert McAlmon): Penelope is finished and at the printers. As it is to be done before the others for Larbaud I could send it over if this is still your address. Am working now putting Ithaca in order

7 October 1921, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I am here again with MSS and pencils (red, green and blue) and cases of books … nearly snowed up in proofs and nearly crazed with work. Ulysses will be finished in about three weeks … and ought to be published early in November. I sent the Penelope episode to the printer … the Ithaca episode which precedes it I am now putting in order. It is in reality the end as Penelope has no beginning, middle or end. I expect to have early next week about 240 pages of the book as it will appear ready and will send on. Eolus is recast. Hades and the Lotuseaters much amplified and the other episodes retouched a good deal. Not much change has been made in the Telemachia (the first three episodes of the book).

10 October 1921, Letters I (JJ to Robert McAlmon): Darantiere is damn slow setting Penelope … Have sent the first part of Ithaca to the typist and am working like a lunatic, trying to revise and improve and correct and continue and create all at the one time

11 October 1921, Letters III (JJ to Valery Larbaud): I am still waiting for Penelope. Perhaps it will come tomorrow.

14 October 1921, Selected Letters (JJ to Aunt Josephine): Thanks for prompt reply to my letter. Ulysses, a huge book of about 800 pages, about 11 inches by 7, ought to be out in about three weeks or so. The cheapest copies cost £3 each, the dearest £7 each. I shall send you one … I want all the information, gossip or anything you remember about the Powells — chiefly the mother and daughters. Were any of them born abroad? When did Mrs Powell die? I never heard of a third brother, only Gus and Charley. The women were Mrs Gallaher, Mrs Clinch, Mrs Russell. Where did they live before marriage? When did the major, if that was his rank, die? Also any information you have about the Dillons (Mat Dillon and his bevy of daughters, Tiny, Floey, Atty, Sara, Nannie, and Mamie, especially the last, the cigarette smoker and Spanish type). Get an ordinary sheet of foolscap and a pencil and scribble any God damn drivel you may remember about these people … Also I forgot to ask what do you know about Hunter who lived in Clonliffe road and Alf Bergan etc etc. I mean what has become of them. I know what the relations were there.

20 October 1921, Letters III(JJ to Valery Larbaud): Herewith the Penelope episode, uncorrected and incomplete but perhaps enough to allow you to get a general idea of it.

29 October 1921, Letters I (JJ to Robert McAlmon): A few lines to say I have finished the Ithaca episode so that at last the writing of Ulysses is finished. I have still a lot of proofreading and revising to do but the composition is at an end. I shall send you Penelope with all my revisions and additions when the printers send it back.

30 October 1921, Letters III(JJ to Valery Larbaud): My typist has sent you extracts (of course uncorrected) from the beginning and middle of Ithaca. In a few days she will send you extracts from the end. I will send you the proof of the Messianic [scene] from Circe when I get it back. I finished Ithaca last night so that now the writing of Ulysses is ended, though I have some weeks of work in revising the proofs.

1 November 1921, Letters III (JJ to Harriet Weaver): A fortnight ago I sent you by registered post a set of proofs … will you send them back … I have two new sets to send … I have now finished the Ithaca episode and with that the writing of Ulysses. What remains is the revision of the proofs of the last four episodes … About 400 subscriptions are made … Ulysses began on 1 March (birthday of a friend of mine, a cornish painter [Frank Budgen]} and was finished on Mr Pound's birthday [30 October]), he tells me. I wonder on whose it will be published.

2 November 1921, Selected Letters (JJ to Aunt Josephine): Thanks for the information … Two more questions. Is it possible for an ordinary person to climb over the area railings of no 7 Eccles street, either from the path or the steps, lower himself from the lowest part of the railings till his feet are within 2 feet or 3 of the ground and drop unhurt. I saw it done myself but by a man of rather athletic build. I require this information in detail in order to determine the wording of a paragraph. Secondly. Do you know anything of Mat Dillon's daughter Mamy who was in Spain? If so, please let me know. Did any of your girlfriends ever go there? Thirdly and last, Do you remember the cold February of 1893. I think you were in Clanbrassil street. I want to know if the canal was frozen and if there were any skating.

6 November 1921, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): Since the completion of Ulysses I feel more and more tired but I have to hold on till the proofs are revised. I am extremely irritated by all those printer's errors. Working as I do amid piles of notes at a table in an hotel I cannot possibly do this mechanical part with my wretched eye and a half. Are these to be perpetuated in future editions? I hope not. I am glad the first proofs I sent didn't go astray … I sent you a new batch yesterday. Will you please read them as quickly as you can and send them back as I sometimes need them to refer to.

6 November 1921, Letters I (JJ to Robert McAlmon): I shall send you tomorrow some extracts from Ithaca. They are not complete or revised and consecutive only in so far as order is concerned. I mean they are separated by gaps … I like the episode myself. I find it of a tranquilising spectrality

6 November 1921, Letters I (JJ to Frank Budgen): Ulysses is finished. Have you time or do you want to see extracted (type) from Ithaca? When do you arrive here? I enclose 20 francs. Will you please do poor Ulysses these last favours? I want

any little handbook of fortune telling by cards
〃 〃 〃 〃 Brit. freemasonry
any catalogue of Whitelely's or Harrod's stores
〃 〃 〃 a Tottenham Crt Rd furnisher
any bookseller's catalogue preferably old.

Can you let me have these as quickly as possible registered. Also if you can find any little manual of stampcollecting.

11 November 1921, Letters III(JJ to Valery Larbaud): Here is my copy of the book so far for you to look through to refresh your memory. I should like to have it back as soon as possible — even piecemeal — as I need it to refer to. One copy of each page proof coming in will also be sent you. I add the unrevised pages (galley) of the Messianic scene from Circe

23 November 1921, Letters III (JJ to Frank Budgen): Let me know what day you arrive. Can you bring me a little book on palmistry? I enclose 10 francs … Can you find out the price of a book published about a year ago My Three Husbands, author unknown [Methuin, May 1921; anonymous woman author]

25 November 1921, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): I had an interview yesterday with the printer. From what I can gather a crisis seems to have been reached as a result of which I need £75 to pay him a draft falling due on the 30 November and to keep myself alive till the first week in December … Anyhow for the last two or three weeks the printer has shelved my book in favour of McAlmon's (who, I take it, paid promptly and in advance). This latter is now out but for the past week not a single word has been set, the printers confining themselves to executing my corrections … The printer told me that I have made such alterations in Ulysses as reduce my estimated gain (on total sale) by about £600 — and this after 7½ years labour. I cannot help it. I must give as much as I can. He says the book will weigh about 4 lbs. I suggest it be sold by the ounce. Typing has been a heavy item for me personally as I had certain parts done over three or four times to facilitate the printer in setting. Also I am afraid I must have the proofs of Ithaca (the ugly duckling of the book and therefore, I suppose, my favourite) read by a competent person — which will be another expense … I made out a rough chart of the book for Mr Larbaud in order to help him to confuse the audience a little more … I hope when all is over you will give me a position as gardener though I shall spend as much time as possible sitting on the wheelbarrow.

2 December 1921, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): There has been an endless amount of confusion all these days mostly about the printing and the séance. The former is now removed but I am certain that had the draft not been paid the printer would have refused to continue. As it is he has waited for confimration from the bank here before continuing … I sent you the plan. It is incomplete, made from memory. The one I made is locked up in my case of books.

6 December 1921, Letters I (JJ to Harriet Weaver): As regards Ithaca the question of printer's errors is not the chief point. The episode should be read by some person who is a physicist, mathematician and a number of other things. I hope to find one however … Penelope in printed proof (the 4th) is so illegible with interlineations that it would be useless to send it

10 December 1921, Selected Letters (JJ to Harriet Weaver): There are only about 180 pages more to print … the printer, for some reason, sends me now proofs of Circe, Eumeus and Penelope at the same time without having finished the composition of the first two and I have to work on them simultaneously different as they are

23 January 1922, Letters III (JJ to Robert McAlmon): Here pp.683 to end of Penelope in uncorrected semi-final form

31 January 1922, Letters III (JJ to Frank Budgen): I have been working on the last proofs till this morning and am exhausted.

2 February 1922, BLHW (JJ to Harriet Weaver): Ulysses published today thanks for all your generous kindness [Note by Sylvia Beach: seven hundred and thirty-two pages ‘complete as written’, and an average of one to half-a-dozen typographical errors per page … 1 Kilo 550 grams.]