Ulysses Draft Analysis
2017 edition U pages 230-262
1922 edition U pages 249-279
Early Drafts
- u11.0
- First draft (missing) of opening section of the episode..
- MS: missing
- NLI Add. MS 36,639/7A (NLI.7A)
- School exercise book (covers missing). 28 pages (14 leaves) of graph paper, 22 x 17.8 cm, with text written on rectos and versos. Pages [10-17], renumbered 1-18 by Joyce (the numbering we follow) relate to Sirens (see u3.0 (Proteus eo-text) for the first nine pages).
- NLI Add. MS 36,639/7B (NLI.7B)
- Loose leaf, with text on one side only, numbered 20 by Joyce; probably continuation of NLI.7A.
- Private
- Fragment of text written on a page (lined) torn out of a notebook.
- u11.1 (eo-text)
- Second draft of earlier section of text (lacking Bloom),
followed by the first drafts
of miscellaneous (uncoordinated) segments of the Bloom section: pages 10-27 of the notebook renumbered 1-18 by Joyce:
Zurich, 1918 or early 1919.
- MS:NLI.7A(sirens), pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, NLI.7B page 20, Private 1.
- Published edition: The Dublin Ulysses papers, vol. 1, ed. Danis Rose (East Lansing: House of Breathings, 2012), pages 47-61.
- Notebooks used: UN1 (NLI.3), UN4 (NLI.5A)', UN5 (NLI.5B)'
- NLI Add. MS 36,639/9 (NLI.9)
- School exercise book, blue paper covers. 20 pages (10 leaves) of unlined paper, 22.2 x 17.4 cm, with text (in ink, with revisions in pencil and ink) written on both rectos and versos. Pages 1-20 numbered 1-20 by Joyce.
- Buffalo MS V.A.5:
- School exercise book, blue paper covers. [12] leaves of unruled paper, 21.9 x 17.7 cm. Text, in ink with revisions in pencil and ink, a direct continuation of the text in NLI.9, is written mainly on rectos. Rectos 1-12 numbered 21-32 by Joyce (the numbering we follow) with the verso of 11 numbered 33.
- u11.2 (proto-text)
- Early draft. Written in black ink, with ink and pencil revisions, over two notebooks (NLI.9
covers U84 11.1-785; V.A.5 covers U84 11.785-1295): Zurich, early 1919.
- MS:NLI.9, pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, V.A.5, fols 21, 22, 23, 27v-24, 25, 25v-26, 26v-27, 27v-28, 28v-29, 30, 30v-31, 32, 33 (=31v)
- Published edition (NLI.9 only): The Dublin Ulysses papers, vol. 1, ed. Danis Rose (East Lansing: House of Breathings, 2012), pages 65-79.
- Reproduced (V.A.5 only): JJA 13:032-056
- Notebooks used: JN2 (Cornell.25), UN1 (NLI.3), UN4 (NLI.5A), UN5 (NLI.5B)
Fair Copy
- u11.3 (Rosenbach)
- Final fair copy (ink); Zurich, mid-May 1919
- MS:Rosenbach Museum, fols. numbered 1-44
- Reproduced: A Facsimile of the Manuscript (Faber, 1975): vol. I
- Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A), UN5 (NLI.5B)
Typescript
- u11.4 (Gabler—B)
- First typescript, missing
- MS: missing
- u11.5 (Gabler—C)
- Second typescript: exemplar (missing) prepared and revised for publication in
Little Review (August 1919, pt 1, and September 1919, pt 2).
- MS: missing
- u11.6 (Gabler—D)
- Second typescript: exemplar made in 1919 but
prepared for the printer of Ulysses in 1921.
- MS Buffalo V.B.9: 26-48 (also 1-23)
- Reproduced: JJA 13: 58-80
- Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A), UN5 (NLI.5B)
Placards and Proofs
- u11.7 (Gabler—1)
- First placards; (PL 28-1) and (PL 29-1) dated by the printer 28 September 1921;
(PL 32-1) dated by the printer 30 September 1921
- MS Harvard: placards (←) 28-1, 29-1, 30-1, 31-1, 32-1 (→)
- Reproduced: JJA 19: 6-10, 21-28, 39-46, 57-64, 85-89
- Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A), UN5 (NLI.5B), UN7 (V.A.2)
- u11.7' (Gabler—1)
- First placards; copy of (PL 31-1) with corrections only.
- MS Princeton: placards 31-1
- Reproduced: JJA 19: 65-72
- u11.8 (Gabler—2)
- Second placards; (PL 28-2) dated by the printer 4 October 1921;
(PL 31-2) dated by the printer 6 October 1921
- MS Harvard: placards (←) 28-2, 29-2, 30-2, Princeton 31-2, Harvard 32-2 (→)
- Reproduced: JJA 19: 14-18, 29-36, 47-54, 75-82, 93-97
- Notebooks used: UN7 (V.A.2)
- u11.9 (Gabler—3)
- First page proofs; the corrected pages 261-268 (U84 11.602-904) of PP 17 are at the Rosenbach Museum and are not
reproduced in the Joyce Archive;
(PP 16) dated by the printer 8 October 1921; (PP 18) dated by the printer 10 October 1921,
and dated for return 14 October 1921
- MS Buffalo V.C.1: gatherings (←) 16a, 17a (257-260), Rosenbach Museum 17 (262-268), V.C.1 17a (269-272), 18a (→)
- Reproduced: JJA 24: 139-150, 185-188, not reproduced, 197-200, 235-241
- Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A)
- u11.9' (Gabler—3)
- First page proofs of pages 261-68 (U84 11.602-904); uncorrected duplicates of the pages at the Rosenbach Museum.
- MS Princeton: gathering 17a (262-268)
- Reproduced: JJA 24: 189-196
- Notebooks used:
- u11.10 (Gabler—4)
- Second page proofs, extends only U84 II.1 - U84 11.1056;
(PP 16) dated by the printer 12 October 1921
- MS Buffalo V.C.1: gatherings (←) 16b, 17c
- Reproduced: JJA 24: 155-166, 201-216
- Notebooks used: UN5 (NLI.5B)
- u11.11 (Gabler—5)
- Third page proofs; (PP 16) dated by the printer 17 October 1921); (PP 16) and (PP 17)
marked “Bon à tirer” and dated 24 October 1921;
(PP 18) dated by the printer 17 October 1921 and marked
“Bon à tirer”
- MS Texas gatherings (←) 16, 17, Buffalo V.C.1: 18b (→)
- Reproduced: JJA 24: 171-182, 217-232, 251-257
- Notebooks used: UN4 (NLI.5A)
- u11.12 (Gabler—6)
- Fourth page proofs; (PP 18) dated by the printer 25 October 1921,
marked “Bon à tirer” and dated 27 October 1921
- MS Texas gathering 18 (→)
- Reproduced: JJA 24: 267-273
Errata (post 1st edition)
- u11.13' (Gabler—7)
- “Errata”: printed errata list for first edition; 2 copies
- MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 28v, 33v
- Reproduced: JJA 12: 204, 211
- u11.13 (Gabler—7)
- Errata (additional corrections) in Joyce's hand.
- MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 8v
- Reproduced: JJA 12: 180
- u11.13+ (Gabler—7)
- Typescript of additional corrections.
- MS:BL Add MS 57356, fol. 17
- Reproduced: JJA 12: 191
- u11.13++ (Gabler—7)
- New typescript of additional corrections.
- MS:BL Add MS 57356, fols. 24
- Reproduced: JJA 12: 198