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Espionage Act:
Case File 50839, Records Relating to the Espionage Act, WWI, 1917–1920, Office of the Solicitor, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group 28, National Archives, Washington, D.C. See also Paul Vanderham,
James Joyce and Censorship: The Trials of Ulysses
(New York: New York University Press, 1998), pp. 18, 29–30 and p. 116 photo insert, Figure 1. Vanderham agrees that
LR
was singled out at least partly for its politics.
“I suppose”
:
EP to JJ, Dec. 19, 1917
EP/JJ
, p. 129. My ellipsis.
“Joyce has run wode”
:
EP to MCA, Feb. 21, 1918,
EP/LR
, p. 189.
changed his mind
:
EP to JJ, June 7, 1918,
EP/JJ
, p. 143.
broke his glasses
:
See
Ulysses
, p. 456 (15: 3628).
“By what touch”
and
“the poignant”:
TYW
, p. 155.
“This is the most beautiful thing”
:
Ibid., p. 175.
three hundred
:
EP to MCA, Dec. 30, 1917,
EP/LR
, pp. 171–4.
if mentioning urination
:
EP to JQ, Dec. 29–30, 1917,
EP/JQ
, p. 134.
“When dealing with religious”
:
EP to JQ, Dec. 24, 1917, NYPL.
“For God’s sake”
:
EP to MCA, Dec. 30, 1917,
EP/LR
, p. 169.
“even if we go bust”
:
EP to JQ, Dec. 29, 1917, NYPL.
“I think the statute”
:
EP to JQ, Dec. 29 and 30, 1917,
EP/JQ
, p. 132.
“grotesque, barbarous”
:
Ibid., Feb. 18, 1918, p. 142.
“man to man”
and
“I trust you are”:
EP to JQ, Jan. 18, 1918, NYPL.
“the inventions”
:
EP, “The Classics ‘Escape,’”
LR
4, no. 11 (March 1918), pp. 32–34.
“might be the last straw”
and
make it stronger:
JQ to EP, March 6, 1918, NYPL.
“There is nothing”
:
Ibid., March 2, 1918.
“In the minds of”
:
Ibid., May 20, 1918.
“one of the most sincere”
:
JQ, “James Joyce, A New Irish Novelist,”
Vanity Fair
, May 1917, pp. 49, 128.
“very nearly approaches genius”
:
JQ to EP, Jan. 12, 1917, NYPL;
MNY
, pp. 273–4.
about thirty copies
:
JQ to JJ, April 11, 1917, NYPL.
“A new star”
:
Ibid, p. 49.
copy portions
:
cf. EP to JQ, April 8, 1916, NYPL; EP to JQ, Feb. 26, 1916, NYPL.
visited Ireland
:
MNY
, p. 16.
a malignant tumor
:
Ibid., pp. 334–6.
“I am still interested”
:
JQ to EP, May 20, 1918, NYPL.
“snotgreen”
and
“the scrotumtightening sea”:
Ulysses
, p. 4 (1: 78).
Jesus urinating
:
LR
4, no. 11 (March 1918), p. 19.
“That is what I call”
:
JQ to EP, March 14, 1918, NYPL.
“He felt heavy”
:
Ulysses
, p. 55 (4: 460–1); cf.
LR
5, no. 2 (June 1918), p. 50.
struck a line through
:
see Vanderham,
Joyce and Censorship
, p. 170; EP to JJ, March 29, 1918,
EP/JJ
, p. 131.
“I shall see”
:
JJ to Forrest Reid, Aug. 1, 1918,
LI
, p. 117.
“Bad because you waste”
and “I
can’t have”:
EP to JJ, March 29, 1918,
EP/JJ
, p. 131.
months without hearing
:
EP to JQ, Dec. 24, 1917, NYPL.
behind on rent
:
Heap to Reynolds, Oct. 21, 1918,
Dear Tiny Heart
, p. 63.
“It is so dirty”
:
Ibid., pp. 61–62.
fever blisters
:
Ibid., Thanksgiving 1918, p. 70.
someone else
:
Ibid., Nov. 11, 1918, p. 67.
Spanish flu
:
TYW
, p. 209.
avoid catching a glimpse
:
Heap to Reynolds, Oct. 21, 1918,
Dear Tiny Heart,
pp. 62–63.
Djuna Barnes
:
Linda Lappin, “Jane Heap and Her Circle,”
Prairie Schooner
78, no. 4 (2004), p. 18; Shari Benstock,
Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900
–
1940
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986), p. 239.
suicidal
:
Heap to Reynolds, Nov. 11, 1918,
Dear Tiny Heart,
p. 67.
“The Creature who writes”
:
March 14, 1919, letter from an unidenitified Translation Bureau employee to an unidentified supervisor re: Feb-March
LR.
Case File 49537, 7E4, Box 142, 8/5/2,. WWI Espionage Files, Post Office Records, NARA.
“High on Ben Howth”
:
LR
5, no. 9 (Jan. 1919), p. 47.
The Post Office notified
:
LR
6, no. 1 (May 1919), p. 21n. I am speculating that the belated ban on the January issue resulted from the employee’s comments on the February-March issue. The January issue was apparently banned after the February-March issue went to press (Anderson’s note appears in the May issue), and the Translation Bureau’s comments happen in mid-March.
hour and a half
:
JQ to MCA, June 14, 1919, UWM, Box 4 Folder 3.
decision over the weekend
:
Ibid., June 17, 1919.
dismissed her
:
JQ to EP, June 18, 1919, NYPL.
“incests and bestialities”
:
JJ, “Episode IX” (“Scylla and Charybdis”),
LR
6, no. 1 (May 1919), pp. 17–35.
“The fact of s—t—g”
:
JQ to EP, June 18, 1919, NYPL.
most brilliant defenses
:
EP to JQ, July 6, 1919,
EP/JQ
, pp. 176–77.
“a national scandal”
:
Eliot to JQ, July 9, 1919, NYPL. My ellipsis.
10. THE WOOLFS
gray woolen gloves
:
VW,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
(London: Hogarth Press, 1977), vol. 1, p. 140 (April 18, 1918).
tugged her collar
:
DMW
, p. 119.
unseasonably cold
:
Daily Weather Report, April 14, 1918, National Meteorological Archive, Exeter, UK.
answered questions scrupulously
:
DMW
, p. 40, and McAlmon,
Being Geniuses Together
, p. 42.
sudden prominence
:
Andrew McNeillie, “Bloomsbury,” in
The
Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf
, 2nd ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 15–16.
“curiously disappointing”
:
VW, “The Rights of Youth,” in
The
Essays of Virginia Woolf
, ed. Andrew McNeillie (London: Hogarth Press, 1987), vol. 2, p. 296.
“Every one”
:
VW, “Charlotte Brontë,” ibid., p. 29.
“on or about December 1910”
:
VW, “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,”
Essays
, vol. 3, p. 421.
“well-bred hen”
and brown paper wrapping:
VW,
Diary
, vol. 1, p. 140 (April 18, 1918).
refused to print it
:
Weaver to JJ, March 8, 1918, Cornell, Series IV Box 14.
“supplement” to
The Egoist
:
DMW
, p. 148.
first four episodes
:
Weaver to JJ, June 19, 1918, Cornell, Series IV Box 14.
incompetent
and
“How did she ever”:
VW,
Diary
, vol. 1, p. 140 (April 18, 1918).
back in a bun
:
DMW
, p. 40.
spine keeping its distance
:
Ibid., p. 304.
A few days later
and
reading aloud:
Ibid., p. 145 (April 28, 1918).
“Mr Leopold Bloom ate”
:
Ulysses
, p. 45 (4: 1–8).
“Mkgnao!”
and
“Mrkgnao!”:
Ibid., p. 46 (4: 16, 32).
quite satisfying
:
VW,
Diary
, vol. 1, p. 145 (April 28, 1918).
disgusting, unhealthy
:
Mansfield to Sydney Schiff, Dec. 28, 1921, in Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott, eds.,
Collected
Letters of Katherine Mansfield
, vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 432.
“I can’t get over”
:
Mansfield to Sydney Schiff, Jan. 15, 1922. Ibid., p. 434.
“But there’s something in this”
:
Mansfield qtd. in VW,
Diary
vol. 5, p. 353 (Jan. 15, 1941).
thirty-one pages
and
hour and fifteen minutes:
VW,
Diary
, vol. 1, p. 136 (April 10, 1918).
“the only woman in England”
:
VW,
Diary
,
vol. 2, p. 43, qtd. in Celia Marshik,
British Modernism and Censorship
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 11.
certain prosecution
:
Leonard Woolf,
Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911
–
1918
(London: Hogarth Press, 1968), p. 247.
“We have read the chapters”

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