Ulysses Draft Analysis

Episode 11: Sirens

Details of the various draft stages.

Compiled by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon

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.
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.

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.

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
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