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JQ to Harriet Weaver, Oct. 2, 1922, NYPL.
“Give me twenty-four hours”
:
SC
, p. 88.
his name kept out
:
Barnet Braverman to SB, Jan. 16, 1923, SBP, Box 123 Folder 13.
Knopf and Ben Huebsch
:
SBLG
, p. 139.
twenty-five copies
:
Ibid., p. 125.
“Shoot books prepaid”
and
Canadian address:
Braverman to SB, March 21, 1922 telegram, SBP, Box 123 Folder 13.
clarify his plans
and
“expedite”:
Braverman to SB, April 15, 1922, SBP, Box 123 Folder 13.
he was on his own
and
a room in Windsor
and
told the landlord:
Ibid., Jan. 16, 1923. See also
SBLG
, p. 139;
SC
, p. 88.
break the law
and
five-thousand-dollar fine and five years:
35. Stat. 1129 § 245 (1909) and Michigan State Law Title 39 Chapter 406, 14787 § 1 (1912).
ban until 1949
:
“Ulysses Comes Out of Hiding,”
Vancouver Sun
, April 13, 1950, p. 12.
books was 25 percent
:
Braverman to SB, Sept. 6, 1922, SBP, Box 123 Folder 13.
import duty of $6.50
:
Ibid., Jan. 16, 1923.
copywriter and salesman
:
SBLG
, p. 119.
lectures
and
“Suffragists”:
Barnet Braverman, “Things in the Making,”
Progressive Woman
, April 1913, p. 9.
six dollars a week
:
Barnet Braverman, “A Word about Moralists,”
Progressive Woman
,
Feb. 1913, p. 11.
“Womanhood,” he wrote
:
Ibid., p. 7.
suffragist hunger strikers
and
wives and daughters faced:
Braverman, “Things in the Making,”
Progressive Woman,
April 1913, p. 7–8.
“The United States Constitution”
:
Braverman, “Things in the Making,”
Progressive Woman,
Nov. 1912, p. 9.
licensed prostitutes
and
“Behold the anti-vice”:
Ibid.
“the hideous U.S.”
:
Braverman to SB, April 15, 1922, SBP, Box 123 Folder 13.
wooden dock
and
skyline:
William Oxford,
The Ferry Steamers: The Story of the Detroit-Windsor Ferry Boats
(Toronto: Stoddart, 1992), pp. 54, 62 and 75.
ten-minute ferry
:
SBLG
, p. 139.
unwrap the package
:
Braverman to SB, Jan. 16, 1923, SBP, Box 123 Folder 13.
beginning to eye him
:
SC
, p. 88; SBP, Box 166 Folder 4.
the
La Salle
:
Oxford,
Ferry Steamers,
p. 80.
built compartments
:
Philip P. Mason
, Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995), pp. 44–5.
recruited a friend
and
stuffed two copies:
SC,
p. 88. SBP, Box 166 Folder 4 (on two separate drafts).
shy
:
SBLG
, p. 422.
boyish face
:
Barnet Braverman, “Social Service—Woman’s Master Passion,”
Progressive Woman
, April 1913, p. 12 (photograph).
20. THE KING’S CHIMNEY
Nora and the children were caught
:
JJ to Josephine Murray, Oct. 23, 1922,
LI
, pp. 189–90.
“O my dearest”
:
JJ to NB, April 1922 (n.d.),
LIII
, p. 63. See also Maddox,
Nora: A Biography
, pp. 195–6.
fainted
:
JJ to NB, April 1922 [n.d.],
LII
, p. 63.
multiple tooth abscesses
:
EP to JQ, Aug. 10, 1922, NYPL.
wrapped in a blanket
:
Ell, pp. 535–6.
immediate iridectomy
and
the one he needed:
SB to Weaver, June 11, 1922,
LSB
, pp. 95–96.
“Urgent reply”
:
SB to Weaver, June 9, 1922 telegram, qtd. in
DMW
, p. 196.
cold compresses
and
“When the pain”:
NB qtd. in
SC
, p. 67.
inexpensive clinic
:
SC
, p. 70, and SBP, Box 166 Folder 5.
“Too bad ye”
:
SC
, p. 71.
“by eliminating the poison”
and
he prescribed
and
“purify the blood”:
SB to Weaver, June 11, 1922,
LSB
, pp. 95–96.
apparently cocaine
:
JJ to SB, Sept. 5, 1922,
JJ/SB
, p. 13.
general health
and
“a more comfortable”:
SB to Weaver, June 8, 1922,
LSB
, p. 93.
relapse
and
fought off London doctors:
SB to JJ, Aug. 29, 1922,
JJ/SB
, p. 12; JJ to Borsch, Aug. 24, 1922, BL.
“Mr. Joyce’s mode”
:
Weaver to SB, June 15, 1922, SBP, Box 35 Folder 18.
nights in pain, sweating
:
JJ to Richard Wallace, Aug. 15, 1922,
LII
, p. 65.
cold compresses
:
DMW
, p. 201; SBP, Box 166 Folder 5.
stared at the brass knobs
:
JJ to Weaver, Sept. 20, 1922,
LI
, p. 186n.
perpetual darkness
:
Ell, p. 537.
afternoon arrival
:
JJ to Weaver telegrams, Aug. 18, 19 and 22, 1922, BL.
impeccable manners
:
DMW
, p. 201.
had no pupil
:
JJ to Richard Wallace, Aug. 15, 1922,
LII
, p. 65; JJ to Louis Borsch, Aug. 24, 1922, BL. The condition—a complication of iritis—is called a pupillary membrane.
a fog
and
bluish green:
Ernst Fuchs,
Text-Book Ophthalmology
(Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1917), p. 382; Sir John Parsons,
Diseases of the Eye: A Manual for Students and Practitioners
(London: J&A Churchill, 1918), p. 284.
blood seeped
:
Ell, p. 535.
dread of advancing blindness
:
DMW
, p. 198.
receive 90 percent
:
Weaver to James Pinker, May 9, 1921, SBP, Box 123 Folder 14 (copy enclosed to SB).
Note:
Miss Weaver decided to publish the first U.K. edition of
Ulysses
a couple of months before meeting Joyce in August.
Pelican Press
and
changed their minds:
DMW
, p. 174.
solicitor informed her
:
Ibid., p. 199, and Weaver to SB, July 22, 1922, SBP, Box 35 Folder 18.
send it to the police
:
DMW
, p. 200, and SB to Weaver, June 26, 1922,
LSB
, pp. 97–98.
“Bible of the Outcasts”
:
Douglas, “Beauty—and the Beast.”
Pound’s dinner meetings
:
Iris Barry to Jane Lidderdale, 1966, UCL, Joyce/1/A/1.
Weaver asked Rodker
:
DMW
, p. 203.
conscientious objector
:
DMW
, pp. 173, 203–4, and Iris Barry, “The Ezra Pound Period,”
Bookman
(October 1931), pp. 159–171.
his hunger strike
:
Iris Barry, Lidderdale Questionaire, UCL, Joyce/1/A/1.
two hundred pounds
:
Ibid., p. 204.
attracted literary pirates
:
Weaver to JQ, Nov. 15, 1922, NYPL.
Quinn heard the same
and
“a gang”
and
“It would be somewhat ironical”:
JQ to Weaver, Oct. 28, 1922, NYPL.
no longer had time
:
DMW
, p. 203.
suffragette
and
Egoist
reader
and
farm near Birmingham
and
weekly baths:
Iris Barry to Joe Lidderdale, Dec. 1966, UCL Joyce/1/A/1;
DMW
, pp. 131, 203.
a friend’s bookshop
and
rented a basement room:
DMW
, p. 204.
sold out in four days
and
table was covered with sheets:
Ibid., p. 206. See also Ellmann’s notes from John Rodker, Tulsa, Series 1 Box 182.
Miss Weaver refused
and
kept dozens:
Ibid., p. 207. See also Lidderdale’s questionnaire for Iris Barry, UCL, Joyce/1/A/1.
American middlemen
:
Weaver to JQ, Nov. 15, 1922, NYPL.
wholesaler unstitched the bindings
and
inside newspapers
and
first mate of an American merchant:
DMW
, p. 207. See also Ellmann notes on Rodker, Tulsa, Series 1 Box 182; Weaver to John Slocum, 1947, Yale Joyce, Box 29 Folder 555.
American shores duty-free
:
See Title II of Tariff Act of 1922, 42 Stat. 975.
mailing agency
and
hid behind the counter
and
Victorian wardrobe:
Weaver to John Slocum, Feb. 25, 1947, Yale Joyce, Box 29 Folder 555.
bow on her hat
:
Iris Barry to Jane Lidderdale, Dec. 1966, UCL, Joyce/1/A/1.
stayed there for months
and
anxiety

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