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Poetry Manuscripts Collection (State University of New York at Buffalo). James Joyce collection, 1900-1959.

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James Joyce collection, 1900-1959.

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Covering the entire span of his artistic life, the James Joyce collection is the largest in the world and contains his private library, as described in Thomas Connolly's "The Personal Library of James Joyce: A Descriptive Bibliography" (1955); 22 holograph drafts, over 11,000 typescript pages, and corrected galleys and page proofs for Ulysses (1922); approximately 60 notebooks, transcriptions, typescripts, galleys, page proofs, and the author's copy with corrections of "Finnegans Wake" (1939); documents for "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916) and Joyce's lecture on Daniel Defoe; the notebook for "Exiles;" hundreds of letters between Sylvia Beach and Joyce; Beach's printing records for the publication of "Ulysses;" John Quinn's letters to Beach and Joyce regarding the trial over "Ulysses" and "The Little Review;" other Joyce and Beach correspondence; Joyce's presentation copies to Beach; portraits and over 150 photographs of Joyce and his family; numerous personal artifacts owned by Joyce, and thousands of his newspaper clippings; and notebooks, sketchbooks, and letters by Joyce's daughter Lucia Joyce. Supplementing the archive is a complete set of first editions, including all issues and states of every book published by Joyce, translations, a large number of his magazine appearances, and virtually all the literary criticism in book form on Joyce. Much but not all of the manuscript material has been described in Peter Spielberg's "James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters at the University of Buffalo: A Catalogue" (1962).