James Joyce Collection, 1899-1968.

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James Joyce Collection, 1899-1968.

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Manuscripts and correspondence make up the bulk of the James Joyce Collection, 1899-1968. Part of the collection comprises original Joyce material, but most of the collection is material about Joyce, including research and criticism. Series I is divided into three subseries. Subseries A, Works, consists of holograph drafts, typescripts, page proofs, notes, and fragments of novels, poems, song lyrics, musical scores, limericks, and translations by Joyce. The Center has the complete and final first edition page proofs for Ulysses (1922), with the author's corrections and additions, as well as page proofs for Finnegans Wake (1939), and drafts for Pomes Penyeach (1927), as well as other poems. Joyce provided the musical score for "Dark Rosaleen," and the text, from Finnegans Wake, for the musicals "May Song It Flourish" and "The Riverrun," and manuscripts for these works are present. A holograph draft of his translation into Italian of Riders to the Sea (1905) by J. M. Synge, is included here as well. Subseries B, Correspondence, consists principally of letters regarding Joyce's literary work. Outgoing letters by Joyce were written to his London publisher Elkin Mathews, and Swiss publisher Daniel Brody; to editor Padraic Colum; to literary friends Richard Aldington, John Byrne, Edouard Dujardin, and Livia Veneziani Schmitz; to Irish tenor John Sullivan; to his Zurich pupil, Victor Sax; to his daughter Lucia Joyce, and to his aunt Josephine Murray. Incoming correspondence to Joyce amounts to three letters, from Maria Jolas, Al Laney, and G. Herbert Thring. Subseries C, Personal Papers, consists of personal items relating to Joyce such as items withdrawn from books in his Trieste library, two memoranda of agreement with Albatross Verlag and one with The Egoist, Ltd., and a report regarding an operation on Joyce's left eye. Series II, Materials About Joyce and His Works, consists of correspondence and manuscripts principally pertaining to Joyce. There are holograph drafts, typescripts, and galley proofs of James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses (1960), by Frank Budgen as well as other works by Budgen. John Francis Byrne is represented in this series with five holograph notebooks and galley proofs for his memoir Silent Years (1953), and with numerous articles. Included also are four reviews of Silent Years, by Herbert Cahoon, Kuna Dolch, Richard Ellmanan, and W. B. Ready, as well as extensive correspondence. A typescript of a speech by Richard Ellmann, "James Joyce, Irish European," is present, as well as writings by Stuart Gilbert, including page proofs for his James Joyce's Ulysses (1930), and a small folder of Joyceana. There are galley proofs for a review copy of My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years (1958) by Stanislaus Joyce; numerous articles about Joyce or his writings by James Findlay Hendry, Helen Joyce, Lucie Leon, Josiah Mitchell Morse, Joseph Prescott, and Derek S. Savage, among others; radio broadcasts for the B.B.C. on Joyce by W. R. Rodgers and James Stephens; and musical scores for "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo" and "May Song It Flourish" by J. Willard Roosevelt. In addition to these writings referring to Joyce are several political articles by Francis and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington.

11 boxes (4.58 linear feet), 5 galley folders, 7 oversize flat files.

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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Sheehy-Skeffington, Hanna, 1877-1946

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Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington was born on May 24, 1877, in County Cork, Ireland to parents David Sheehy and Elizabeth "Bessie" McCoy. Her father was an Irish Parliamentary Party Member of Parliament. She married Francis Skeffington in 1903, and had a son, Owen, in 1909. As supporters of women’s rights, the Sheehy-Skeffingtons co-founded the Irish Women’s Franchise League, a militant suffrage organization, in 1908. Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington was also one of the founding members of the Irish Women’s Work...

Gilbert, Stuart (Stuart K.)

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British translator and student of James Joyce. From the description of Papers of Stuart Gilbert, 1900-1985 (bulk 1928-1975). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122547564 ...

Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...

Budgen, Frank, 1882-1971

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American author; James Joyce scholar. From the description of Letter to Herbert Gorman, 1931 February 18. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52611795 ...

Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987

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Schmitz, Livia (Veneziani), 1874-1957

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Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis, 1878-1916

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Sullivan, John, 1935-

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Epithet: Irish tenor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x000249 Grandson of the American Revolutionary General, John Sullivan of New Hampshire (1740-1795). From the description of Letters, 1847, 1860. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122515156 John Sullivan was the grandson of Major General John Sullivan who served at Brandywine in the Revolutionary Wa...

Brody, Daniel

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Farrar, Straus anad Young.

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Byrne, J. F. (John Francis), 1880-

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