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Biological Psychiatry
3, no. 4 (1971), pp. 347–55.
room was haunted
:
JJ to Weaver, May 7, 1924, BL; June 1930 medical report, Berg Collection, NYPL (reprinted in
LIII
, pp. 197–8).
scopolamine orally
:
JJ to Weaver, Jan. 20, 1926,
LI
, p. 239.
“attack of giddiness”
:
JJ to Weaver, Oct. 2, 1928, BL.
“No—I’m free, free!”
and
wildly handled puppet:
Myron Nutting to Ellmann, Feb. 17, 1958, Tulsa, Series 1 Box 176.
panic attack
and
hallucinations
and
into the snowy street:
JJ to Weaver, Jan. 18, 1933, BL.
sleeping pills
:
Ibid., Oct. 2, 1928, and Jan. 18, 1933. Joyce took as many as six per night.
his teeth
:
Weaver to JQ, May 30, 1923, NYPL; Brewerton to Weaver, Sept. 12, 1922, BL.
theory of infection
:
Thomas Pallasch and Michael Wahl, “Focal Infection: New Age or Ancient History?”
Endodontic Topics
4, no. 1 (2003), pp. 32–45.
“a great many Irish”
:
JQ to Weaver, Oct. 2, 1922, NYPL.
extracted ten of Joyce’s teeth
:
NB to Weaver, April 5, 1923, BL.
seven more teeth
:
George Joyce to Weaver, April 21, 1923, BL; Weaver to JQ, May 30, 1923, NYPL.
shop fronts
:
Ell, p. 579.
“I dream about my eye”
:
JJ to Weaver, May 22, 1923, BL.
charcoal pencil
:
JJ to Weaver, March 28, 1923,
LIII
, p. 73. JJ began
FW
ca. March 11, 1923.
stripes on wallpaper
:
JJ to Weaver, Sept. 28, 1922,
LI
, p. 186.
Place de la Concorde
:
Arthur Power,
From an Old Waterford House: Recollections of a Soldier and Artist
(Waterford: Ballylough Books, 2003), p. 129.
Sylvia Beach would bring
:
SC
, p. 71.
holding on to himself
:
Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses
, p. 321.
Cloves of garlic
and
small kitchen
and
Nora stayed:
SC
, pp. 70–71; SBP, Box 166 Folder 5.
rippled windows and warped walls
:
Myron Nutting, Tulsa, Series 1 Box 176.
helped put leeches
:
SC
, pp. 71–72.
napkin
and
canthus:
Beard,
Ophthalmic Surgery,
p. 51.
in the jar
and
“the creatures”
and
fell on the floor:
SBP, Box 168 Folders 2 and 4.
lay awake screaming
:
SBP, Box 168 Folders 2, 4 and 5.
22. GLAMOUR OF THE CLANDESTINE
The Great Gatsby
:
Matthew Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002), p. 217.
drunk young man
:
SBLG
, p. 159.
filled orders from
:
Ibid., p. 105, and SBP, Box 166 Folder 5.
Officials who aided
:
See Section 305(b) of the Tariff Act of 1922, 42 Stat. 975.
Merry Tales for Little Folks
:
SC
, p. 98.
biography
:
Emails to me from SIU-Carbondale curator, Sept. 17, 2010.
“Tell Mrs. Bullis”
:
SB to Holly Beach, Nov. 27, 1926, qtd.
SBLG
, p. 254.
“Madam”
:
L. W. Schwaebe to Holly Beach, Dec. 16, 1926, qtd.
SBLG
, p. 254.
A Paris art dealer
and
“14 books”:
JQ to SB (JQ to Charles Pottier enclosure), June 5, 1922, Buffalo, Series XII. See also JQ to SB, Sept. 20, 1922, NYPL.
three Picassos
:
JQ to Paul Rosenberg, May 30, 1922; Paul Rosenberg to JQ, June 12, 1922, NYPL; JQ to Charles Pottier, June 7, 1922, NYPL.
a Cézanne
:
MNY
, p. 533.
liver cancer
:
Ibid., p. 627.
prosecution, which it avoided
and
Customs officials
and
The chief constables:
BNA, H.O. 144/20071 (Old Ref. # 186.428/2).
issued warrants
:
Ibid. (Old Ref. # 186.428/61).
A 1908 law
:
Post Office Act of 1908, 1908 c. 48, Section 18.
The Clique
:
Carmelo Medina
Casado, “Sifting through Censorship: The British Home Office
Ulysses
Files (1922–1936),”
James Joyce Quarterly
37, no. 3/4 (Spring/Summer 2000), p. 486.
strike Joyce’s
name
:
Marshik,
British Modernism and Censorship
, pp. 161–2.
town clerk of Stepney
:
BNA, M.E.P.O. 3/930/021.
“red hot Socialist”
:
BNA, M.E.P.O. 3/930/015–7.
a radio program
and
“I am not permitted”:
Harold Nicolson to SB, Dec. 2, 1931, Buffalo, Series XII.
walked into Galloway & Porter
and
Leavis was certain:
F. R. Leavis, “Freedom to Read,”
Times Literary Supplement
, issue 3192 (May 3, 1963), p. 325.
“boy and girl undergraduates”
and
“take active steps”
and
“This is an amazing”
and
“If the last forty”
and
hoax:
BNA, H.O. 144/20071 (Old Ref. # 186.428/7).
“as to who and what”
:
Bodkin to Chief Constable Pearson, July 24, 1926, ibid.
called Leavis into his office
and
The Home Office knew
and
“will be open”:
Leavis, “Freedom to Read” p. 325.
“I don’t pretend to be”
and
crossed out
and
“prompt criminal proceedings”:
Bodkin to Albert Charles Seward, July 31, 1926, BNA, H.O. 144/20071 (Old Ref. # 186.428/7).
“I happen to know”
and
“the glamour of”
and
“I’m glad you didn’t”:
Leavis, “Freedom to Read,” p. 325.
rumors spread
and
“disfavor”
and
“We don’t like the books”:
Ibid., p. 325.
23. MODERN CLASSICS
the first books of Hemingway
:
Dardis,
Firebrand: Life of Horace Liveright
, p. xv.
his ads had testimonials
:
Satterfield,
World’s Best Books
,
p. 31.
fonts that blared
:
Bennett Cerf,
At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
(New York: Random House, 1977), pp. 40–41.
book-launch party
:
Satterfield,
World’s Best Books,
p. 31.
Dreiser and wild man Eugene O’Neill
:
Cerf,
At Random
, pp. 33, 35.
showmen and bootleggers
:
Ibid., pp. 31, 41–42.
knew everyone
:
Dardis,
Firebrand,
pp. 68–70.
mix Pernod
:
Cerf,
At Random
, pp. 31–32.
false account statements
:
Ibid., p. 31.
wide-eyed
:
Ibid., p. 33.
left him $125,000
:
Ibid., p. 11.
royalty payments
:
Dardis,
Firebrand,
p. 217.
“If you’d like to start”
and
a $25,000 loan:
Ibid., p. 27.
Boni’s idea
:
Cerf,
At Random,
p. 40.
the first twelve
:
Dardis,
Firebrand,
p. 54.
prices soared
:
Cerf,
At Random
,
p. 63.
ignoring the Modern Library
:
Ibid., p. 40.
Quinn balked
:
JQ to Horace Liveright, May 11, 1922, NYPL.
“a declension into the sunset”
:
Ibid., May 17, 1922.
He reminded Quinn
:
Horace Liveright to JQ, May 15, 1922, NYPL.
“a trip I’ve dreamed of”
:
Bennet Cerf, diary entry, May 20, 1925, Cerf Papers, Box 11.
midtown speakeasy
and
“Oh, how I’d like to”
and
Cerf had to fight:
Cerf,
At Random
,
pp. 44–46.
275,000 copies
and
highest price ever paid:
Satterfield,
World’s Best Books
, p. 36.
at one in the morning
:
Bennet Cerf, diary entry, May 20, 1925, Cerf Papers, Box 11.
“Where the hell”
:
Cerf,
At Random
, p. 46.
office of six people
:
Ibid., p. 57.
“one of the nicest”
:
Ibid., p. 62.
visiting booksellers
and
redesigning:
Ibid., pp. 60–62.
every month
:
Modern Library descriptive catalogue, qtd. in Cerf,
At Random,
p. 62.
became substantially
older
:

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