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:
Theodore Roosevelt, “A Layman’s Views of an Art Exhibition,”
Outlook
103 (March 29, 1913), pp. 718–20.
rushed to New York
:
Brown,
Story of the Armory Show
, pp. 121–3.
more art than anyone
:
MNY
, p. 209.
read an article
:
EP, “Affirmations,”
New Age,
Jan. 21, 1915, p. 312.
“If there is a ‘liver’
”
:
JQ to EP, Feb. 25, 1915, qtd.
MNY
, p. 198.
wrote
the new tariff
:
MNY
, pp. 157–9.
“If there were”
:
EP to JQ, March 9, 1915,
EP/JQ
, p. 20.
“Are there any damd
 ”
and
“I don’t want”:
Ibid., May 21, 1915, pp. 27–28.
“The rest are sheep.”
:
Ibid., Sept. 8, 1915, p. 47.
“a young chap”
:
Ibid., Aug. 11, 1915, p. 37. My ellipsis.
“Joyce,” Pound assured
:
Ibid., Sept. 8, 1915, p. 48.
remembered hearing
:
JQ to JJ, April 11, 1917, NYPL;
MNY
, p. 30.
ideas for a title
:
EP to JQ, Aug. 26, 1915,
EP/JQ
, p. 40.
“I think active America”
:
Ibid., p. 41.
feminized objects
:
See, e.g., Steven Lubar, “Men / Women / Production / Consumption,” in Roger Horowitz and Arwen Mohun, eds.,
His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998), pp. 12–13.
“No woman shall”
:
EP to JQ, Oct. 13, 1915, NYPL;
EP/JQ
, pp. 53–54.
“the non-existence”
:
EP, “James Joyce—At Last the Novel Appears,”
Egoist
4, no. 2 (Feb. 1917), pp. 21–22 qtd.
EP/JJ
, p. 90. My ellipsis.
aristocracy of taste
:
EP to JQ, July 27, 1916,
EP/JQ
, p. 79.
“the patron then”
:
Ibid., March 9, 1915, p. 23.
“
absolutely free
”
:
JQ to EP, Feb. 9, 1916, NYPL.
“Ten years teaching”
:
EP to JQ, April 8, 1916, NYPL.
“We want a little”
:
JQ to EP, Aug. 26, 1916, NYPL.
“seems to be looking up”
:
EP letter in
LR
3, no. 2 (April 1916), p. 36.
“I loathe compromise”
:
MCA, “A Real Magazine,”
LR
3, no. 5 (Aug. 1916), pp. 1–2.
wanted the same things
:
EP to MCA, Nov. 29, 1916,
EP/LR
, p. 4.
two thousand subscribers
:
LR
3, no. 2 (April 1916), p. 25.
“official organ”
:
EP to MCA, Jan. 26, 1917,
EP/LR
, p. 6.
peppered her
:
Ibid., Nov. 29, 1916, and Jan. 26, 1917, pp. 4–7.
£150 per year
:
Ibid., Jan. 26, 1917, p. 6.
“BOMM!”
:
Ibid., Feb. 8, 1917, p. 15.
it had enthusiasm
:
EP to JQ, Feb. 8, 1917,
EP/JQ,
pp. 95–96.
nauseating “Washington Squareite”
:
JQ to EP, March 24, 1917, NYPL.
“The thing I really”
:
Ibid., May 3, 1917.
four-room apartment
:
TYW
, pp. 152–3.
Hart Crane
:
Ibid., p. 153.
advertising manager
:
Clive Fisher,
Hart Crane: A Life
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002), p. 80.
“What shall I do”
:
TYW
, p. 154.
Joyce wrote
:
LR
4, no. 2 (June 1917), p. 26.
immigrant named Popovitch
:
TYW
, p. 157.
price increases
:
LR
4, no. 6 (Oct. 1917), p. 42.
“the simple and beautiful”
:
MCA, “What the Public Doesn’t Want,”
LR
4, no. 4 (Aug. 1917), p. 20.
“I want to”
:
EP to MCA, Nov. 5, 1917,
EP/LR
, p. 139.
“I don’t want”
:
Ibid., p. 141.
Press advertising
:
Gerald J. Baldasty,
The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992), p. 59.
sixty-five million
:
Frank Mott,
A History of American Magazines
(Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958–1968), pp. 1–17.
“sandwichmen”
:
Morrisson, “Marketing British Modernism,” p. 451–2.
two hundred copies
:
Ibid., p. 466n; Thacker, “Marsden and
Egoist
,” p. 189.
seven thousand books
:
MNY
, p. 111.
Manet’s
L’Amazone
:
Ibid., p. 91.
disorderly ranks
:
Sheldon Cheney, “An Adventurer Among Art Collectors,”
NYT Magazine
, Jan. 3, 1926, pp. 10, 23, qtd.
MNY
, p. 651.
why she began
:
Platt,
“The Little Review,”
p. 139; Lappin, “Jane Heap and Her Circle,” p. 7.
enjoyed Quinn’s irascibility
:
MCA, “Collection of Memoires and Private Papers” (“My Collection”), Yale Anderson, Box 12 Folder 236.
“full of radium”
:
JQ qtd.
MNY
, p. 290.
like piles of money
:
MCA to Solita Solano [n.d.], 1968, Yale Anderson, Box 12 Folder 236.
“a damned attractive”
:
JQ to EP, Oct. 31, 1917, NYPL.
“a typical Washington Squareite”
:
Ibid., June 2, 1917.
butcher’s paper
:
“‘Little’ in Butcher Paper,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, Nov. 18, 1916, p. 5.
“could come in”
:
JQ to EP, June 2, 1917, NYPL. My italics.
“go ahead”
:
Ibid., June 6, 1917. See also
TYW
, pp. 207–8.
“a firm hand”
:
JQ to EP, June 2, 1917, NYPL.
“he expresses approval”
:
EP to MCA, May 17, 1917,
EP/LR
, p. 57.
“be a comfort”
:
Ibid., May 25, 1917, p. 58.
“amiable spirit”
and
“She hadn’t any”:
EP to JQ, June 18, 1917, NYPL.
secure advertisements
:
JQ to MCA, Sept. 21, 25 and 26, 1917, UWM, Box 4 Folder 2.
“I shall, of course”
and
“Will you”:
JQ to Jane Heap, Aug. 7, 1917, UWM, Box 4 Folder 2.
8. ZURICH
two months’ salary
and
collateral to purchase:
JJ to A. Llewelyn Roberts, July 30, 1915,
LII
, p. 357.
haven for smugglers
:
Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses
, pp. 27–34.
In July 1916
:
Hugo Ball,
Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), pp. xxiii, 56, 64, passim.
“How does one”
:
Hugo Ball, “Dada Manifesto” (1916).
nearly half
:
Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses,
p. 34.
“As a foreigner”
:
Austrian government report (July 31, 1916) qtd. Stanzel, “Austria’s Surveillance of Joyce,” pp. 361–71.
“most undesirable people”
:
Rumbold to Gaselee, July 18, 1918, BNA, F.O. 395/209/003–4.
“Professor Joice”
:
July 9, 1916 report to the Imperial and Royal Defense Headquarters in Tyrol, qtd. in Stanzel, “Austria’s Surveillance of Joyce,” pp. 368–9. See also Stanzel, “Austrian Subtext of Joyce’s
Ulysses
”; McCourt,
Years
, p. 249; Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses,
p. 34.
“As an artist”
:
Georges Borach, “Conversations with James Joyce,” in Potts,
Portraits of the Artist in Exile,
p. 71.
“Herr Satan”
:
Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses,
p. 35.
surviving on the breadline
:
July 9, 1916, letter from k.u.k. Militärattaché to Imperial and Royal Defense Headquarters qtd. in Stanzel, “Austria’s Surveillance of Joyce,” p. 368.
institutional grants
:
Ell, pp. 392, 406.
had his reservations
:
Gordon Bowker,
James Joyce: A New Biography
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), p. 227.
“Club des Étrangers”
: Ell, p. 407.
home alone
:
Marilyn Reizbaum, “Swiss Customs,”
JJQ
27, no. 2 (Winter 1990), p. 213 qtd. in Carol Shloss,
Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), p. 66.
signature dance
:
Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses,
p. 190; Carola Giedion-Welcker, “Meeting with Joyce,” in Potts,
Portraits of the Artist in Exile
, p. 273; C. P. Curran,
James Joyce Remembered
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1968), p. 90; Ell, pp. 430, 433.
“Ther-r-r-re he goes”

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