Gorman’s James Joyce [pp. 53 ff.]. Mr. Gorman and Messrs. Farrar and Rinehart, publishers of Mr. Gorman’s book, have kindly permitted the use of the photograph of the young Joyce and his friends. The Augustus John portrait drawing of Joyce is in the collection of Mrs. Murray Crane, and the program announcing Joyce’s essay in the collection of John Jermain Slocum.

* Herbert Gorman: James Joyce, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1940, p. 196.

* Mr. Gorman agrees with me on this point. I quote a letter from him dated January 21, 1941: “I … believe that what you have is all that Miss Beach possessed. Neither do I believe that any other portion of the draft exists. When Mr. Joyce’s secretary (I presume you mean M. Paul Léon) wrote you that ‘lots’ had been sold to ‘different institutions in America’ I think his informant (presumably Mr. Joyce) had mixed up in his mind other material that Miss Beach was selling.”

* Mr. Harry Levin has already used the manuscript to excellent critical effect in his James Joyce, a Critical Introduction, New Directions, 1941.

* In the present text, Stephen meets Emma at the house of a Mr. Daniel, where he sometimes goes on Sunday evenings. Nothing is said about Mr. Daniel and his household in the Portrait, but Joyce transfers, in a shortened form, his description of Mr. Daniel’s living room to describe “her” house [Portrait, p. 257]. The change is a typical example of Joyce’s economy and concentration in the published work.

* In the manuscript Stephen does, to be sure, discuss his aesthetic theory with a friend [see pp. 212 ff.]. But it is interesting to note that the friend is Cranly, not Lynch, that the conversation comes long after the main theory is expounded in the public essay, and that Stephen is personally disappointed in Cranly’s failure to be interested in the argument.

* There are traces of Stephen’s paper on aesthetics left in the Portrait. On page 217 the dean of studies asks Stephen: “When may we expect to have something from you on the esthetic question?” And on p. 247 Donovan says to Stephen: “I hear you are writing some essay about esthetics." These remarks, like several others in the Portrait (for example the references to “that certain young lady” [Emma] and Father Moran, p. 236) take on richer connotations — and sometimes can only be fully understood — if we read them with a knowledge of the present text in mind.

† This theory is mentioned once in Ulysses [Random House edition, p. 41]. Stephen is meditating: “Remember your epiphanies on green oval leaves, deeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria?” Dr. Gogarty also refers to it in his autobiography, As I was Walking down Sackville Street [American edition, p. 295]. Gogarty is spending the evening with Joyce and others; Joyce says “Excuse me,” and leaves the room.