Ulysses Draft Analysis

Episode 1: Telemachus

Details of the various draft stages.

Compiled by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon

2017 edition U pages 5-23
1922 edition U pages 3-23

Note
See Selected Letters, 16 June, Letters, I, 6 December, 1915, and Pound/Joyce, 12 January1916)

Early Drafts

u1.0
Eotext: missing.
  • MS: missing
u1.1 (proto-text)
First draft (missing).

Fair Copy

u1.2 (Rosenbach)
Final fair copy (ink); Locarno, late November 1917
  • MS:Rosenbach Museum, fols. numbered 1-30
  • Reproduced: A Facsimile of the Manuscript (Faber, 1975): vol. I
  • Notebooks used: JN2 (Cornell.25), UN1 (NLI.3)

Typescript

u1.3'   (Gabler—A)
Revisions sent to Claud Sykes for inclusion in the typescript (see Letters I, 27 November, and 6 December, 1917).
  • MS:Yale
u1.3   (Gabler—B) (See also u1.3')
Typescript made (in triplicate) by Claud Sykes; one exemplar (missing) was prepared for publication in The Little Review (March 1918) and a second for The Egoist (not published). Sent to Ezra Pound December 1917 (see Letters II, 12 December 1917).
  • MS: missing
u1.3+  
Proofs (tearsheets) made from the second of the above typescript exemplars for the purpose of publication in The Egoist. Corrected and dated 1 March 1918.
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 1-5
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 224-233
u1.4   (Gabler—C)
Typescript exemplar (missing) made in 1917 but prepared for the printer of Ulysses in 1921

Placards and Proofs

u1.5   (Gabler—1)
First placards; (PL 1) dated by the printer 11 June 1921
  • MS Harvard: placards 1, 2, 3 (→)
  • Reproduced: JJA 17: 3-10, 13-20, 23-27
u1.6   (Gabler—2)
First page proofs (with two revised exemplars of p.17); dated by the printer (PP 1) 27 and (PP 2) 29 June 1921
  • MS Buffalo V.C.1: gatherings 1a, 2b, 2a (→)
  • Reproduced: JJA 22: 5-18, 66, 67-73
  • Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A)
u1.7'   (Gabler—3)
Second page proofs; lightly revised but not returned to the printer; includes two exemplars of PP 1; undated
  • MS Buffalo V.C.1: gatherings 1c, 1d, 2c (→)
  • Reproduced: JJA 22: 21-34, 35-48, 83-89
  • Notebooks used: UN6 (NLI.4)
u1.8   (Gabler—4)
Second placards; (PL 1) dated by the printer 18 August 1921
  • MS Harvard: placards I, II, III (→)
  • Reproduced: JJA 17: 99-104, 107-114, 117-123
  • Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A)
u1.9   (Gabler—5)
Third page proofs; dated by the printer (PP 1) 5 September 1921; also by reviser 20 September 1921
  • MS Texas: gatherings 1, 2 (→)
  • Reproduced: JJA 22: 51-64, 99-105
  • Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A)

Errata (post 1st edition)

u1.10'   (Gabler—6)
“Errata”: printed errata list for first edition; 2 copies
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 28, 32
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 203, 210
u1.10   (Gabler—6)
Errata (additional corrections) in Joyce's hand.
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fol. 7
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 177
u1.10+   (Gabler—6)
Typescript of additional corrections.
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fol. 15
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 189
u1.10++   (Gabler—6)
New typescript of additional corrections, with one extra correction: 4 copies
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 18-21
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 192-195