The Library's extensive materials relating to twentieth century literature have been significantly augmented and enriched by the acquisition of papers and books of Sylvia Beach, proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, the Paris bookshop which was a meeting- point for French, English, Irish and American writers during the 1920's and 1930's. The collection, which had remained in Miss Beach's Paris apartment at 12, Rue de l'Od‚on since her death there in October 1962, was acquired earlier this year from the Sylvia Beach estate, through the generosity of Graham D. Mattison, Princeton Class of 1926, and with the interest and support of Miss Beach's surviving sister, Mrs. Frederic J. (Holly Beach) Dennis of Greenwich, Connecticut. The Assistant Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections spent several weeks in Paris last spring preparing the Beach Collection for shipment to the United States. It is now in Princeton, where it is in the process of being organized, and will, it is hoped, be available for the use of scholars in the course of the year 1965.
As general guidance to the Sylvia Beach Collection, including both books and "papers," the following publications will be found useful:
Centre Culturel Am‚ricain (U.S. Embassy). Les Ann‚es Vingt: Les Ecrivains Am‚ricains … Paris et Leurs Amis, 1920- 1930. Paris: 1959. [04703.247, and other copies]
Catalogue of an exhibition, based largely on Sylvia Beach's collection, March 11-April 25, 1959. Preface by Sylvia Beach.The catalogue was prepared with the assistance of Helene Baltrusaitis and Maurice Saillet. Items shown, unless otherwise indicated, were from SB's collection (and are for the most part now in the Princeton University Library). The same exhibition, with modifications, was subsequently presented in the USIS Gallery in London, 1960.
Maurice Saillet and Jackson Mathews, compilers. Sylvia Beach, 1887-1962. Paris, Mercure de France, 1963. [Beach 3622.414.814.1963]. Texts (but without illustrations) had previously appeared in Mercure de France, August- September 1963 issue.
Volume of tributes to Sylvia Beach, in French and English (the latter also in French translation).
This check list has been prepared by Mrs. Enid Adelson, who has been largely responsibe for sorting and arranging the Sylvia Beach papers, and putting them into useable form.
Howard C. Rice,Jr. Princeton, June 1966 Further references on Sylvia Beach and the Beach Collection: Noel Fitch, "Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company: Port of Call for American Expatriates." reprinted from Research Studies, December 1965, pp. 197-207. [Reprint in Beach Collection: Beach 3622.414.671]. A. Walton Litz, "The Last Adventure of Ulysses," Princeton University Library Chronicle, XXVIII, No. 2 (Winter, 1967), 63-75. Based in part on material in Beach Collection; illustrations from the Collection. Yves Bonnefoy, "Un Rˆve fait … Mantoue," in his collection of essays, Un Rˆve fait … Mantoue (Paris, Mercure de France, 1967), pp. 41-49. [Beach 3236.5882.376]. This is a reprinting, under another title, of Bonnefoy's reminiscence of Sylvia Beach first published in the memorial volume Sylvia Beach, 1887-1962 (1963), pp. 28- 33, under the title "Le Voyage de Grece." Bonnefoy accompanied the Mathews and SB on a trip to Greece in 1961. The 1967 reprint of the text lacks the photographs included in the 1963 publication. Paul Wagner, "Frank Harris and the Maid of Orleans," Princeton University Library Chronicle, XXX, No.1 (Autumn 1968). 25-38. Uses materials in the Beach Collection; illustration also from the Collection. William G. Rogers, Ladies Bountiful (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., 1968). [Beach N 8410.R6]. On Sylvia Beach: pp. 164 ff. GGeorge Wickes, Americans in Paris, 1903-1939 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Co., Paris Review Editions, 1969). [Beach 1514.971]. Occasional references to Sylvia Beach; no chapter devoted specifically to her. Several of the illustrations are from the Beach Collection, Princeton. Note: The Appendix to Volume III of Letters of James Joyce, ed. Richard Ellmann (New York: Viking, 1966), pp. 511- 513, included four items printed from manuscripts now in the Beach Collection at Princeton. These represent "strays" which are not in the University of Buffalo Library, where Sylvia Beach's James Joyce collection proper is now located. Several illustrations in Ellmann's Volume II are also from the Princeton collection: cf. Nos. 10, 19, 40, pp. xxix-xxxi. [Beach 3807.38.358.1966 v.3]. Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway, A Life Story (New York: Scribner's, 1969). [Ex 3778.74.568.4]. Occasional references to Sylvia Beach and to Beach-Hemingway correspondence. See Index. Illustrations Nos. 29-31, 33, 36, are from the Sylvia Beach Collection at Princeton. Note: A biography of Harriet Weaver by Jane Lidderdale, Dear Miss Weaver, will be published by Faber and Faber, in Autumn, 1970. Miss Lidderdale has made use of the Weaver letters and other material in the Beach Collection at Princeton.
Sylvia Beach, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1887, was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach, Princeton Class of 1876, for many years pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She first visited Paris in the early 1900's, when her father was director of a center for American students and assistant pastor at the American Church. Frequent trips abroad followed this first sojourn. After World War I (a part of which she spent in France), Miss Beach, with the encouragement of Adrienne Monnier, who presided over La Maison des Amis des Livres at 7, Rue de l'Odeon, opened a bookshop and lending library of her own specializing in English and American books. "Shakespeare and Company," as she called it, opened its doors in 1919 at 8, Rue Dupuytren, a small street on the Left Bank in the neighborhood of the Ecole de Medecine. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odeon, across the street from Mlle. Monnier's establishment, where it remained until 1941. In that year, to forestall confiscation by the Nazi occupants of Paris, Shakespeare and Company "vanished" overnight to a vacant upstairs apartment at the same address. After World War II (during which she spent six months in an internment camp at Vittel) Miss Beach maintained her residence at 12, Rue de l'Odeon, but did not reopen her street-floor bookshop there. During the two decades separating World Wars I and II Shakespeare and Company served as a port of call for American visitors to Paris, for expatriate writers of the so-called "Lost Generation," and as a center where French writers, translators, and scholars deepened their acquaintance with English and American literature. To her other activities Miss Beach soon added that of publisher, acquiring a portion of her fame as the publisher, in 1922, of James Joyce's Ulysses, which she distributed as long as it remained a banned book in England and the United States, and, in 1927, of his Pomes Penyeach. There followed, in 1929, also under the imprint of Shakespeare and Company, a volume of studies of Joyce's Work in Progress (later incorporated in Finnegans Wake), by fourteen contributors, entitled Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress.
Protecting Joyce's work against piracies was one of the frustrating subsidiary tasks created for Miss Beach by her publishing ventures. In one such episode her American "home town," Princeton, played an essential part. In April 1931, upon learning that an unauthorized edition of Pomes Penyeach was being printed in Cleveland, Ohio, on the grounds that the work was not copyrighted in the United States, "S.B." straightway requested "S.W.B.," her father in Princeton, to arrange with the Princeton University Press for a special printing of Pomes for the purpose of securing copyright. The business was handled most expeditiously, through Tomlinson of the University Press, and early in May fifty copies of a small twenty-page pamphlet in gray wrappers were on their way to Paris, while two additional copies were sent to the copyright office in Washington. This edition described in Slocum and Cahoon's Joyce bibliography under No.A 25, and now much prized by Joyce collectors includes on the title-page the name Sylvia Beach and date 1931, with "Copyright 1931 by Sylvia Beach" and "Printed in the United States" on the verso. There is no mention, however, of Princeton or of the Princeton University Press. According to a memorandum on the subject preserved among Miss Beach's papers, the charges for this P.U.P. printing of P.P., including copyright expenses, were $27.06.
Miss Beach has herself told the story of her career in a volume of memoirs published by Harcourt, Brace and Co. of New York in 1959, under the title Shakespeare and Company, which was also issued by Faber and Faber in London, and subsequently in French, German, and Italian translations. This book provides a key and summary guide to the collection of manuscripts, books, pictures and other souvenirs now at Princeton. Indeed, it is evident from a collation of the book with the collection that, during the 1950's, when Miss Beach was marshalling her memories, she was concurrently ordering her papers and books. Thus, the book itself may be characterized as a collection of documented memories and the collection as the documentation for the book. In 1959, Miss Beach had a major share in the organization of the exhibition, "Les Ann‚es Vingt, Les Ecrivains Am‚ricains … Paris et leurs amis, 1920- 1930," held at the Centre Culturel Am‚ricain in Paris, under United States Embassy auspices. The display was based to a large extent on Miss Beach's collection, as was the revised version of the same exhibition held at the USIS gallery in London the following year under the title, "Paris of the Twenties: An Exhibition of Souvenirs of British, French and American Writers, from Shakespeare and Company." The notable printed catalogue of the Paris exhibition, to which Miss Beach contributed an introduction, lists many of the items now in the Princeton Library. Still others are included, under the sub-heading "Petit Memorial de Shakespeare and Company," in Sylvia Beach, 1887-1962, a volume of tributes assembled by her friends Maurice Sailet and Jackson Mathews (published in the Mercure de France, August-September 1963 issue, and also separately, with added illustrations).
With the exception of Miss Beach's "Joyce Collection" that is, manuscripts which James Joyce had given to her and letters which he had written to her which she relinquished in 1959 to the University of Buffalo Library, the collection at Princeton is a substantially complete personal archive, reflecting all aspects of Sylvia Beach's life. The correspondence files include letters from such American writers as Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald McLeish, Robert McAlmon, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, Alice B. Toklas, Marianne Moore, Katherine Anne Porter, Richard Wright. George Antheil the "bad boy of music," who came to Paris from Trenton, New Jersey, and who lived for a time in the mezzanine-floor apartment above the Shakespeare and Company bookshop is represented in the collection by letters, musical scores, and by the orginal piano player rolls (inscribed to Sylvia Beach) which served at the world premiere of his Ballet M‚canique in Paris in 1926. F. Scott Fitzgerald makes a brief appearance with Miss Beach's personal copy of his The Great Gatsby, in which the author drew a picture commemorating the "Festival of St. James," a dinner held in July 1928 in Adrienne Monnier's apartment, at which the Fitzgeralds made the acquaintance of James Joyce.
Correspondents of English or Irish origin include, in addition to Joyce, Harriet Weaver, Gordon Craig, Arthur Symons, Ford Madox Ford, Frank Harris, Norman Douglas, Ivy Litvinov, Richard Aldington, Stuart Gilbert, Cyril Connolly, D. H. Lawrence, Stephen Spender, and Dorothy Richardson. French friends occupy an equally important place in the collection, as they did in Miss Beach's life: for example, Adrienne Monnier, Valery Larbaud, L‚on-Paul Fargue, Jean Schlumberger, Paul Val‚ry, Andr‚ Gide, Jules Romains, Jean Giono, Andr‚ Chamson, Jean Pr‚vost, and Henri Michaux (whose A Barbarian in Asia, translated by Sylvia Beach, was published in New York by New Directions in 1949).
Complementing the letters are books by the above-mentioned writers, many of them first editions inscribed to Sylvia Beach. There are also ephemeral pamphlets, magazine publications of their work, and other material about those whose careers Miss Beach followed with special attention, and almost maternal interest, as long as she lived. Little magazines published on the continent by English and American expatriates, as well as books issued by such Paris-based enterprises as William Bird's Three Mountains Press, Robert McAlmon's Contact Editions, and Harry and Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press, account for another interesting and now hard-to- come-by group of publications. Miss Beach's portrait gallery which once adorned the walls of Shakespeare and Company, and more recently those of her private residence has come to Princeton. Informal snapshots and more formal portraits, many of them inscribed by the subjects and some of them the work of "name" photographers like GisŠle Freund and Man Ray, provide a visual record of Miss Beach's wide circle of acquaintances. Among the orginal works by the French artist, Paul-Emile B‚cat, are oil portraits of Adrienne Monnier (the painter's sister-in-law), done in 1921, and of Sylvia Beach (1923); pencil portraits of Miss Beach (1926) and of her father, the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (1927); a pencil portrait of Havelock Ellis (1924); and a double portrait, also in pencil, depicting James Joyce and Robert McAlmon in 1921. Finally, mention should be made of several mementoes of Shakespeare and Company: the familiar red and blue signboard, painted by Marie Monnier-B‚cat, which hung from a bar above the door of the shop; the Staffordshire bust of the "Patron Saint," presented by Lady Ellerman; the detachment of toy soldiers representing George Washington and his staff, supplied by Valery Larbaud to stand guard over Shakespeare's house; and the framed scraps of Walt Whitman manuscripts which Sylvia Beach's Aunt Agnes Orbison had once rescued from a wastebasket when on a visit to the old poet in Camden.
The Sylvia Beach Collection promises to be a rich quarry for those interested in the literary figures with whom she was acquainted, as the above roll call of names far from complete will indicate. Nevertheless, when seen as a whole, the collection is above all a reflection of Sylvia Beach herself, a personality who will long command respect for her own sake and not merely as one who lived in the reflected glory of others. The role of a prophet of the Twenties, which was thrust upon her during the last and what has been described as "the official period" of her life, was one that she accepted with characteristic conscientiousness, generosity and humor, but with a grain of salt, and without ever losing her bearings or sense of proportion. She was often distressed to find that people confused the literary life with the caf‚ life of the Paris Twenties. The name Sylvia Beach inevitably appears in the many published memoirs of this period, which tell a great deal about who thought what about whom. But, as Katherine Anne Porter has recently pointed out in her perceptive sketch, "Paris: A Little Incident in the Rue de l'Od‚on" (Ladies' Home Journal, August 1964), although these recorded memories often glitter with malice, hatred and jealousy, none of them speak meanly of Sylvia Beach.
The French novelist Jean Schlumberger, when inscribing one of his books to her, characterized her as "Sylvia Beach, ambassadrice des lettres." Another of her French friends, the novelist Andr‚ Chamson (now Director of the National Archives of France), has developed this theme in a tribute entitled "Le Secret de Sylvia," which appeared in the memorial volume mentioned above. Recalling that it was thanks to Sylvia Beach that he made the acquaintance of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chamson concludes his reminiscence with these words: "Sylvia carried pollen like a bee. She cross-fertilized these writers. She did more to link England, the United States, Ireland, and France than four great ambassadors combined. It was not merely for the pleasure of friendship that Joyce, Eliot, Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Bryher and so many others so often took the path to Shakespeare and Company, in the heart of Paris, to meet there all these French writers. But nothing is more mysterious than such fertilizations through dialogue, reading or simple human contact... I know, for my part, what I owe to Scott Fitzgerald.... But what so many other writers owe to each other, is Sylvia's secret."
In recognition of Sylvia Beach's roles as ambassadress of letters, a substantial segment of the books which once formed part of the stock of Shakespeare and Company has been presented, on behalf of Princeton University, to the University of Paris, for use in the library of its English Department, the Institut d'Etudes Anglaises et Am‚ricaines. These books might be described as a "basic library of English literature," for the Shakespeare and Company "lending library" was far more than a mere circulationg library for current reading. French teachers, students, and English scholars, as well as translators and writers, were in the habit of finding there, alongside the avant-garde writers of the twentieth century, not only Shakespeare, but also, in his company, the Elizabethan poets, the eighteenth-century novelists, the Romantics and the Victorians. Such books, which Miss Beach brought into France, with persistence and discrimination, from across the Channel or the Atlantic, may now continue their ambassadorial and fertilizing role among new generations at the Institut's library, located in the Rue de l'Ecole de M‚decine, in the "heart of Paris," where Sylvia Beach lived for more than four decades.
Even though Sylvia Beach's name is indeliby associated with the Rue de l'Od‚on, it is not wholly inappropriate that a collection of her papers and books should now find a home in Princeton. Speaking in her memoirs of her very first visit to "the spot where such important things in my life were to happen," she recalls that the eighteenth-century neo-classic fa‡ade of the Od‚on, the theatre standing at the head of the street, reminded her somehow "of Colonial houses in Princeton." The first chapter of these memoirs evokes the years spent in Princeton with her family in the days of Woodrow Wilson. "Princeton," she comments, "with its trees and birds, is more a leafy, flowery park than a town, and the Beach family considered itself lucky." After Sylvia Beach's death, her ashes were brought to Princeton for interment in the family plot in the Princeton cemetery.
In the autumn of 1959, on her last visit to Princeton, Miss Beach had a glimpse of the University Library, where she took keen delight in examining Audubon prints and drawings (her memory flitting back to the birds she knew at her cottage at Bourr‚ on the banks of the Cher, or at her chalet high above the Lac du Bourget at Les D‚serts in Savoy). She seemed, upon this occasion, far less interested in talking about the writers of the Twenties than she was in seeing the parsonage in Library Place, or in finding out if the families in Witherspoon Street still named their little boys Sylvester, as they had in the days when her father was their pastor.
- Howard C. Rice, Jr.
This check-list provides a summary guide to the Sylvia Beach Papers, which has been arranged and roughly classified in a series of numbered boxes, according to the scheme set forth below. The term "papers" is used to designate materials other than catalogued books: letters, documents, photographs and such ephemera as leaflets, clippings, announcements, programs, etc. Books from Sylvia Beach's collection have been separately catalogued, and are shelved together in the Rare Books Department; the call number is preceded by the designation "Beach." These books (many of them inscribed by the authors to Sylvia Beach) are available in the Rare Books reading-room; they are recorded both in the Library's central card catalogue and in the Rare Books room catalogue.
Sylvia Beach's papers constituting a personal archive have been grouped under the following "chapter headings" or categories:
I. Family Correspondence and Personal Documents
II. Sylvia Beach Correspondence (and related material) with Personal
Friends
III. Bookshop: "Shakespeare and Company"
IV. James Joyce Material, Including Shakespeare and Co. Publications
V. Sylvia Beach's Works (published writings)
VI. General Correspondence and Related Material (alphabetically
arranged, and including "literary" figures)
VII. Photographs (and other pictorial documents)
VIII. Phonograph Records (and other recordings)
IX. Paintings, Drawings, and Memorabilia
X. Additional Material (such as Holly Beach Dennis scrapbooks)
XI. Newspaper Clippings, Etc.
1 Letters to SB and others 1912-1929 2 Letters to SB and others 1930-1940 3 Biographical material and clippings 4 Letters to Sylvester W. Beach and Beach family from Woodrow Wilson and family. Added to the Sylvia Beach Collection by Holly Beach Dennis, 1965.
5 Letters to SB and others 1911-1917 6 Letters to SB and others 1918-1926 7 Song Books (Mrs. Beach or Cyprian?) 8 Mrs. Beach's watercolors and some books
9 Letters to SB and others 1913-1936 10 Letters to SB and letters to SB from Helen Jerome Eddy (Jerry), friend of Cyprian 1937-1951 11 Material concerning Cyprian's career in movies 1917-1923
12 Letters to SB and others 1914-1929 13 Letters to SB and others 1930-1939 14 Letters to SB 1940-1949 15 Letters to SB 1950-1954 16 Letters to SB 1955-1959 17 Letters to SB 1960-1962 18 Various letters to Holly Beach Dennis. Newspaper article by HBD, newspaper clippings about HBD and other correspondence from the Dennis family
19 Letters to family 1901-1926 19,19a,19b, 20,20a Letters to family (added to the Sylvia Beach Collection by Mrs. Holly Beach Dennis, 1966) 1917-1962
21 Letters to SB from various relatives, including Aunt Agnes Orbison, Douglas Orbison, Thomas Orbison, Mary Morris, Bessie Somerville, and others
22 Passports and Memorabilia, including lists of presents given by SB to family and friends 1887-1960s 23 World War I letters and papers 1914 24 Notes and Memorabilia concerning the time SB lived at the Hotel Beaujolais in Paris and her stay in Spain 1916-1918 25 Engagement Calendars and Memoranda Books 1919-1939 26 Engagement Calendars and Memoranda Books 1940-1948 27 Engagement Calendars and Memoranda Books 1949-1951 28 Engagement Calendars and Memoranda Books 1952-1956 29 Engagement Calendars and Memoranda Books 1957-1959 30 Engagement Calendars and Memoranda Books 1959-1960 31 Engagement Calendars and Memoranda Books 1961-1962 32 Engagement Calendars and Memoranda Books undated 33 Diaries and Notes 1956-1960 34 Honorary Degrees: L‚gion d'Honneur 1938 Doctor of Letters, University of Buffalo 1959 35 World War II - Occupation - Letters and papers 1940-1945 36 World War II - Occupation - newspaper clippings 1940-1945 37 World War II - Liberation - letters, booklets, newspaper clippings and posters 1945 38 Trips to Jersey, USA, Switzerland, and Greece - travel arrangements, letters, notes 1946-1961 39 Trip to Ireland - travel arrangements, letters and souvenirs 1960 40 Legacies - Estate of William Miller, Ann Elmira Humes and Mary Morris, relatives of SB 1938-1948 41-45 Misc. personal financial matters 1950-1962 46 Misc. notes concerning dogs, birds, etc., and biographical material for Who's Who
47 Letters to SB 1918-1954 Letters from SB 1938-1943 48 Letters and related material re Adrienne Monnier's death June 19, 1955 49 Adrienne Monnier's bookshop, "La Maison des Amis des Livres": publications, mementos, manuscripts 50 Articles by Adrienne Monnier 51 Articles by and about Adrienne Monnier 52 Magazine and newspaper clippings about Adrienne Monnier
53 "Les D‚serts" - account books, insurance, and related material 54 Letters from various neighbors and friends at "Les D‚serts" and related material
55 Letters to SB [1938]-1962 56 Photographs of Embroidery, etching by Marie Monnier B‚cat, "Le Cerveau"
57 Letters to SB and related material
58 Letters to SB 1935-1962 Letters from SB (added to collection by Mrs. Briggs, 1965) 1941-1961 59 Letters from Briggs family and various neighbors at Bourr‚ (Loir-et-Cher), where SB had a small cottage
60 Letters to SB 1928-1961 Letters from SB (added to collection by Mrs. Peter, March 18, 1966) 1911-1961 Letters to SB from Sylvia Preston, Marion Peter's daughter 1938-1961
Letters to SB 1946-1958 Letters to SB 1959-1962 Letters to SB undated
61 Beginning of bookshop - original check from SB's mother - correspondence and related material 1919 62 Record Books (8, Rue de Dupuytren and 12, Rue de l'Od‚on) 1919-1921 63 Record Books 1922-1923 64 Record Books 1924-1925 65 Record Books 1926 66 Record Books, accounts of books received 1926-1933 67 Record Books 1927-1929 68 Record Books 1930-1932 69 Record Books 1933 70 Record Books 1934-1935 71 Record Books 1936-1938 72 Record Books 1939-1941, 1946 73 (blank) 74 Address Books 75 Banking - check stubs and cancelled checks 1919-1929 76 Banking - check stubs amd cancelled checks 1930-1939 77 Bills and banking 78 Insurance and taxes 79 Bookplates, printing examples (DarantiŠre, Dijon) 80 Booksellers announcements and catalogues
81 A-C 82 D-H 83 I-O 84 P-R 85 T-Z
86 Dealers and others 87 Miscellaneous 88 Miscellaneous 89 Publishers 90 Student Inquiries 91 (blank) 92 Documents concerning premises: Rue de l'Od‚on, 1924-1944
93 Walt Whitman, 1926 - catalogue, correspondence, invitations, guest book, scrapbook, and related material (see also Box 234) 94 Caf‚ Voltaire, 1957, and Exposition Commerce, Rome, 1958 - catalogue, correspondence, booklets, list of items lent and related material Twenties Exhibition (Paris, 1959): 95 Opening - guest list, catalogue 96 Correspondence, pre-lists, working materials 97 Photographs and publicity 97a Souvenir Folio, including catalogue and photographs 98 Radio and TV coverage 99 Working materials Twenties Exhibition (London, 1960) 100 Opening - guest list, correspondence and related material 101 Correspondence regarding theft of Oscar Wilde manuscript, catalogue, photographs and related material 102 "Trois Amis du Vie," 1961 (Appollinaire, Leon-Paul Fargue, and St. Exup‚ry) - correspondence, publicity, and related material
103 A-R 104 S-Z Correspondence dealing with Lending Library accounts 105 A-L 106 M-Z 107 Magazine articles about Shakespeare and Company, 1924-1938 - Publishers Weekly, The Bookman, The Delphian Quarterly, etc. 108 Manuscripts submitted by various writers, including Ana‹s Nin 109 Periodicals, misc. book lists, announcements for art shows 110 Petition for Saving Shakespeare and Company (1935- 1936) and "Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company" - correspondence and related material. 111 Readings, 1931-1937 - including Ernest Hemingway, Andres Maurois, and Stephen Spender. Announcements, correspondence, and related material 112 Rubber stamps used in bookshop 113 Sale, 1935 - Joyce, Whitman, and Blake items. Catalogues and related material (see also Box 234) 114 Souvenirs, including various signs used in Bookshop 115 Stationery, printed forms, and job printing (Dijon) 116 (blank)
117 Letters from James Joyce, Lucia Joyce, and Stanislaus Joyce 118 Letters concerning "The Calendar," "The Criterion," "Dial," "This Quarter," and "Transition" 119 Letters from various dealers and other inquiries re Joyce 120 Letters dealing with two literary "incidents": the publication of an article in the German newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung (1931) by Michael Joyce, attributed to James Joyce (some autograph notations by James Joyce in this folder); and the unauthorized publication of two Joyce essays by Jacob Schwartz of the Ulysses Bookshop, London (1930) 121 Letters and related material concerning James Joyce recordings 122 Misc. correspondence
123 Ulysses - first edition (February 1922). Correspondence and related material 124 Ulysses - first edition - page proofs for various stages of first edition 125 Ulysses - first edition - 136 slip proofs (28 September 1921-4 January 1922) 126 Ulysses - proofs, including 36 slip proofs for third section of Ulysses; 21 slip proofs for last episode; prelim page proofs for 8th printing (May 1926); page proofs for 9th printing (May 1926) 127 Ulysses - proofs of book wrappers 128 Ulysses - accounts and royalties 129 Ulysses - pirating - correspondence and related material 130 Ulysses - pirating - protest forms, autographed cards of thanks by James Joyce, etc. 131 Ulysses - pirating - correspondence 132 Ulysses - subscriptions: A-P 133 Ulysses - subscriptions: Q-Z 134 Ulysses - American edition - correspondence and related material 135 Ulysses - French edition - printed announcements 136 Ulysses - German edition - correspondence and related material 137 Pomes Penyeach (1927) - diary of publication, announcements, correspondence, and related material 138 Our Exagmination (1929) - announcements, correspondence and related material 139 Our Exagmination (1962) - announcements, correspondence and related material
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