Add MS 49975

'A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN' AND 'ULYSSES', BY JAMES JOYCE; circa 1912-1921. Autograph fragment, with drafts of, and notes for, passages later incorporated in these works. Ff. 1-5 were given to Miss H. S. Weaver by Sylvia Beach, May 1949 (see ff. ii, iii), and ff. 6-29 by Paul Léon, 1938. Presented by Miss Harriet Shaw Weaver.

Paper; ff. iii+29. As follows:–

1. f. 1. Page 83 of the manuscript of A Portrait of the Artist given to the National Library of Ireland by Miss Weaver in 1951 and now MSS. 920, 921, therein; 1913. See The James Joyce Archive. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Facsimile of the Final Holograph Manuscript . . . , ed. H. W. Gabler, New York, 1977, i, p. 124. 210 x 170mm. Numbered in pencil in top left hand corner.

2. ff. 2-5. Passage from an early version of the preceding, later revised and incorporated in Ulysses, Paris, 1922, on pp. 17, 18; circa 1912-1913. Draft, imperfect at the beginning. For a facsimile, etc., see The James Joyce Archive, i, and ii, pp. 1217-22. 210 x 170mm.

3. ff. 6-29. Words, phrases and short passages mostly scored through by Joyce in red, blue and occasionally green pencil after incorporation in the last seven episodes of Ulysses;circa 1919-1921. The episodes are 'Cyclops'

(ff. 6-8), 'Nausicaa' (ff. 9, 10), 'Oxen of the Sun' (ff. 11-15), 'Circe' (ff. 16-21), 'Eumaeus' (ff. 22, 23), 'Ithaca' (ff. 24-27) and 'Penelope' (ff. 28, 29). Transcribed by P. F. Herring, Joyce's Ulysses Notebooks in the British Museum, Charlottesville, 1972. See also corrections, etc., in his Joyce's Notes and Early Drafts for Ulysses, Charlottesville, 1977, pp. 263-9. For a facsimile, see The James Joyce Archive. Ulysses Notes . . . , ed. M. Groden, New York, 1978, pp. 2-96. On large double sheets, varying in size.