Ulysses Draft Analysis

Episode 7: Aeolus

Details of the various draft stages.

Compiled by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon

2017 edition U pages 105-134
1922 edition U pages 112-143

Early Drafts

u7.0 (eo-text)
First draft: missing.
  • MS: missing
u7.1 (proto-text)
Fair copy (missing).
  • MS: missing

Fair Copy

u7.2 (Rosenbach)
Final fair copy (ink); Zurich, mid-August 1918

Typescript

u7.3   (Gabler—B)
First typescript, missing; early 1918
  • MS: missing
u7.4   (Gabler—C)
Second typescript: exemplar (missing) prepared and revised for publication in The Little Review (October 1918); revisions made early 1918.
  • MS: missing
u7.5   (Gabler—D)
Second typescript: exemplar made in 1918 but prepared for the printer of Ulysses in 1921.

Placards and Proofs

u7.6   (Gabler—1)
First placards; (PL 14-1) dated by the printer 12 August 1921
u7.7   (Gabler—2)
Second placards; (PL 13-2) dated by the printer 23 August 1921
  • MS Harvard: placards 13-2, 14-2, 15-2, 16-2 (→)
  • Reproduced: JJA 18: 13-20, 43-50, 69-76, 95
  • Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A), UN6 (NLI.4)
u7.8   (Gabler—3)
Third placards; extends only as far as U84 7.1041 (remainder of text is carried over from previous draft); (PL 13-3) dated by the printer 12 September 1921
u7.9   (Gabler—4)
First page proofs
u7.10   (Gabler—5)
Second page proofs
u7.11   (Gabler—6)
Third page proofs; (PP 7) is dated by the printer 3 October 1921 and by other 6 October 1921 and marked “bon à tirer” (as is PP 9 but dated 7 October 1921)
  • MS Texas: gatherings (←) 7, 8, 9 (→)
  • Reproduced: JJA 23: 4, 39-54,89-103
u7.11+   (Gabler—6)
Late correction “Gray” to “Grey” in note dated 11 October 1921
  • MS Texas
  • Reproduced: JJA 23: 363

Errata (post 1st edition)

u7.12'   (Gabler—7)
“Errata”: printed errata list for first edition; 2 copies
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 28, 28v, 32, 32v
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 203-204, 210-211
u7.12   (Gabler—7)
Errata (additional corrections) in Joyce's hand.
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 7v, 8
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 178-179
u7.12+   (Gabler—7)
Typescript of additional corrections.
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fol. 16
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 190
u7.12++   (Gabler—7)
New typescript of additional corrections.
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 22, 26, 27
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 196, 200, 201