Ulysses Draft Analysis

Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis

Details of the various draft stages.

Compiled by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon

2017 edition U pages 165-196
1922 edition U pages 176-209

Early Drafts

u9.0 (eo-text)
First draft: missing: the catalogue of the sale of the Joyce MSS at the La Hune gallery in Paris mentions an early draft of “Scylla et Charybdis” consisting of 10 large white unlined sheets, with text on rectos only, carrying fragments of dialogue that reappear in altered form in later drafts of the episode: possibly Zurich, early 1917 (see Selected Letters, 9 April 1917).
  • MS: missing
NLI Add. MS 36,639/8A-C (NLI.8A, NLI.8B, NLI.8C):
Three exercise books, lacking covers. Each notebook consists 12 leaves of graph paper: Joyce's text, written in ink on rectos only, with aditions in pencil and ink on facing versos, is continuous over the three copybooks. The rectos are numbered (by Joyce) 1-12 (NLI.8A), 13-24 (NLI.8B) and 25-33 (NLI.8C). The final two leaves of NLI.8C are unnumbered.
u9.1 (proto-text)
Early draft, written over three copybooks: Zurich, November-December 1918.

Fair Copy

u9.2 (Rosenbach)
Final fair copy (ink); Zurich, end December 1918
  • MS:Rosenbach Museum, fols. numbered 1-37
  • Reproduced: A Facsimile of the Manuscript (Faber, 1975): vol. I
  • Notebooks used: UN1 (NLI.3), UN4 (NLI.5A)

Typescript

u9.3   (Gabler—B)
First typescript, missing; early 1919
u9.4   (Gabler—C)
Second typescript: exemplar (missing) prepared and revised for publication in The Little Review (April 1919, pt 1, and May 1919, pt 2).
  • MS: missing
u9.5   (Gabler—D)
Second typescript: exemplar made in 1918 but prepared for the printer of Ulysses in 1921.
  • MS Buffalo V.B.7: 113-134
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 350-371
  • Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A)

Placards and Proofs

u9.6   (Gabler—1)
First placards; (PL 19-1) dated by the printer 17 August 1921 and (PL 21) 19 August 1921.
  • MS Harvard: placards (←) 19-1, 20-1, 21-1, 22-1, 23-1
  • Reproduced: JJA 18: 146-148, 159-166, 177-184,195-202, 213-218
  • Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A), UN5 (NLI.5B), UN6 (NLI.4)
u9.7   (Gabler—2)
Second placards
  • MS Harvard: placards (←) 19-2, 20-2, 21-2, 22-2, 23-2
  • Reproduced: JJA 18: 154-156, 167-174, 185-192, 203-210, 221-226
  • Notebooks used: UN5 (NLI.5B), UN7 (V.A.2)
u9.8   (Gabler—3)
First page proofs: gathering 12 is privately owned and unavailable
  • MS Buffalo V.C.1: gatherings (←) 11a, Private 12, Buffalo V.C.1 13a
  • Reproduced: JJA 23: 175-176, missing, 311-326; proof pages 177 and 179 are reproduced in a Glen Horowitz catalogue (New York, 1996).
  • Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A), UN5 (NLI.5B)
u9.8'   (Gabler—3)
First page proofs; an unmarked copy of gathering 12
  • MS Buffalo V.C.2: gatherings (←) 12
  • Reproduced: JJA 23: 259-274
u9.9   (Gabler—4)
Second page proofs
u9.10   (Gabler—5)
Third page proofs; (PP13) dated by the printer 4 October 1921.
  • MS Buffalo V.C.1: gatherings (←) 11d, 12c, 13c, 14c (→)
  • Reproduced: JJA 23: 208, 275-290, 343-358, 379
  • Notebooks used:
u9.11   (Gabler—6)
Fourth page proofs; (PP 11) dated by printer 7 October 1921; marked “Bon à tirer”; (PP 12) and (PP 13) marked “Bon à tirer” and dated 12 October 1921; (PP 14) marked “Bon à tirer” and dated 13 October 1921.
  • MS Yale gatherings (←) 11, Texas 12, 13, 14 (→)
  • Reproduced: JJA 23: 224, 291-308, 359-376, 380
u9.11+   (Gabler—6)
Late correction “stated” to “capped” in note dated 11 October 1921
  • MS Texas
  • Reproduced: JJA 23: 363
u9.12   (Gabler—7)
Fifth page proofs; covers U84 9.1-26 only; (PP 11) dated by printer 12 October 1921; marked “bon à tirer” and dated 14 October 1921.
  • MS Texas: gathering (←) 11 (→)
  • Reproduced: JJA 23: 240

Errata (post 1st edition)

u9.13'   (Gabler—8)
“Errata”: printed errata list for first edition; 2 copies
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 29, 33
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 204, 212
u9.13   (Gabler—8)
Errata (additional corrections) in Joyce's hand.
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 8, 8v
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 179-180
u9.13+   (Gabler—8)
Typescript of additional corrections.
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fol. 16
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 190
u9.13++   (Gabler—8)
New typescript of additional corrections.
  • MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 23
  • Reproduced: JJA 12: 197