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DMW
, p. 459, Table 1.
several collapses
:
JJ to Weaver, Oct. 30, 1916,
LI,
p. 97.
first glimpse
:
Weaver to JJ, Nov. 10, 1916, Cornell, Series IV Box 14.
losing sleep
:
JJ to Weaver, Feb. 25, 1919,
LII
, p. 436.
314 copies
:
DMW
, pp. 155–6.
multiple eye attacks
:
See Ell, pp. 441, 454; JJ to Weaver, Feb. 25, 1919,
LII,
pp. 436–7, 418n.
£5,000 war bond
:
DMW
, pp. 157–60; Ell, p. 457.
danced a jig
:
DMW
, pp. 157–8.
“delicacy and self-effacement”
:
Weaver to JJ, July 6, 1919, Cornell, Series IV Box 14.
£2,000
:
Ell, p. 489, Maddox,
Nora: A Biography
, p. 177;
DMW
, p. 174.
several small gifts
:
E.g.,
DMW
, p. 174, and JJ to Weaver, July 11, 1923, BL.
unfettered by marketplace
:
Monro, Saw & Co to JJ, June 24, 1919,
LII,
pp. 444–5 qtd.
DMW
, p. 158.
£300
:
Ell, p. 498.
fashionable clothes
:
See, e.g., Maddox,
Nora: A Biography
, pp. 138, 176, 271–2.
five-franc tips
:
Myron Nutting, “An Evening with James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis,” Tulsa, Series 1 Box 176.
medical bills
:
JJ qtd. Ell, p. 541.
jury trial was denied
:
JQ to Shane Leslie, June 21, 1922, NYPL.
rushed to the DA’s office
and
Sumner refused:
JQ to MCA, Feb. 5, 1921, SIU, Box 1 Folder 6.
character witnesses
and
president of Harper & Brothers:
JQ to MCA, Feb. 5 and 8, 1921, SIU, Box 1 Folder 6.
“There isn’t the slightest”
:
Ibid., Feb. 8, 1921.
“old and callous”
:
JQ to EP, Oct. 16, 1920, SIU, Box 1 Folder 5.
woman in Chicago
and
“Damnable, hellish filth”:
TYW
, pp. 221, 213–4.
“profound ignorance”
:
TYW
, p. 214.
“
First, the artist
”
and
“Anything else”:
MCA, “An Obvious Statement (for the millionth time),”
LR
7, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 1920), pp. 8, 10, italics in original.
“the arranger of life”
:
MCA to Reynolds, Aug. 14, 1922, Delaware, Box 4 Folder 34. MCA circled the phrase “the favorite enemy of the bourgeoisie.”
16.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK V. MARGARET ANDERSON AND JANE HEAP
“Greenwich Girl Editors”
:
“Greenwich Girl Editors in Court,”
Chicago Herald Examiner
, Feb. 15, 1921, p. 8, cited in Jackson Bryer, “James Joyce, Ulysses and the
Little Review,
”
South Atlantic Quarterly
66 (1967), p. 160, and Lawrence Rainey,
Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998), p. 189.
observation at Bellevue
:
“Greenwich Village’s Editoresses Fined,”
New York Herald
, Feb. 22, 1921, p. 8, Yale Joyce, Box 17 Folder 321.
“ultra-violet”
:
“Magazines Are Published by Greenwich Artists,”
Morning Oregonian
, March 26, 1922, p. 5.
“window trimmings”
:
TYW
, p. 219.
“Everyone stands up”
and
“Perhaps one can”:
MCA, “‘Ulysses’ in Court,”
LR
7, no. 4 (Jan.-March 1921), p. 22.
Kernochan and two white-haired judges
:
TYW
, p. 219; JQ to Shane Leslie, June 21, 1922, NYPL.
only one witness
:
“Court Puzzled by Experts on Book’s Morals,”
New York Tribune
, Feb. 15, 1921, p. 5.
“a one hundred and thirty”
:
JQ to Shane Leslie, June 21, 1922, NYPL. See also JQ to JJ, April 13 and April 15, 1921, NYPL.
caliber of Shakespeare
:
“Court Puzzled by Experts on Book’s Morals,” p. 5.
Broadway performances
:
“Improper Novel Costs Women $100,”
NYT
, Feb. 22, 1921, p. 12.
wouldn’t even bother
:
JQ to MCA, Feb. 4, 1921, SIU, Box 1 Folder 6.
mitigate sentencing
:
Ibid., Feb. 8, 1921.
find it repellent
:
“Court Puzzled by Experts on Book’s Morals,” p. 5.
“in no way capable”
:
TYW
, p. 220. MCA paraphrases Powys’s argument.
use technical terminology
and
“unveiling of the unconscious mind”:
MCA, “‘Ulysses’ in Court,”
LR
7, no. 4 (Jan.-March 1921), p. 24.
“most emphatically”
and
“What’s this!”:
“Court Puzzled by Experts on Book’s Morals,” p. 5.
“We don’t care”
:
MCA, “‘Ulysses’ in Court,”
LR
7, no. 4 (Jan.-March 1921), p. 23.
Note:
The order of events, exchanges and particular arguments during the trial isn’t always clear, and it varies from account to account. I’ve arranged it for narrative purposes.
“When I wish to hear from you”
:
“Judge Rebukes Comstock,”
NYT
, May 17, 1914, p. 15. My exclamation point.
suspicious of judicial hunts
:
Geoffrey Stone, “Judge Learned Hand and the Espionage Act of 1917: A Mystery Unraveled,”
University of Chicago Law Review
70, no. 1 (2003), pp. 335–58, and Gerald Gunther, “Learned Hand and the Origins of Modern First Amendment Doctrine: Some Fragments of History,”
Stanford Law Review
27 (1975), pp. 719–73.
“to reduce our treatment”
:
United States
v.
Kennerley
, 209 F. 119, 121 (D.C.S.D.N.Y. 1913).
judges stopped him
and
“I am sure”:
TYW
, p. 221.
“I myself do not”
and
“Yes”
and
“Let me tell you”
and
“Don’t try to talk”:
MCA, “‘Ulysses’ in Court,”
LR
7, no. 4 (Jan.-March 1921), pp. 24–25.
cornerstone of his argument
:
JQ to JJ, April 13, 1921, NYPL.
“cubism in literature”
:
“Ulysses Finds Court Hostile as Neptune,”
New York World
, Feb. 22, 1921, p. 24.
read a passage
and
“A monkey puzzle”:
“‘Little Review,’ Though It’s Convicted, Refuses to Be Suppressed,”
Jackson Citizen’s Patriot
, March 6, 1921, p. 8;
LR
7, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 1920), p. 48.
poor eyesight
:
“Improper Novel Costs Women $100,”
NYT
, Feb. 22, 1921, p. 12.
“This is my best exhibit!”
:
JQ to JJ, April 13, 1921, NYPL. My ellipses.
“Does a reading”
:
JQ to Shane Leslie, June 21, 1922, NYPL.
“experimental, tentative”
:
Ibid. See also “Ulysses Adjudged Indecent; Review Editors Are Fined,”
New York Tribune
, Feb. 22, 1921, p. 13.
“It’s just the story”
:
“Notes from New York,” unidentified newspaper clipping, Yale Joyce, Box 17 Folder 321.
“He is an ass”
and
Quinn certified:
JQ to JJ, April 13, 1921, NYPL.
gallantly pushed
and
“Not at all”:
TYW
, p. 221.
“very lenient”
and
ten days in prison:
WHS, Box 2 Folder 7, February 1921 Report.
Joanna Fortune
:
Jackson R. Bryer, “‘A Trial-Track for Racers’: Margaret Anderson and the
Little Review
” (PhD diss., University of Wisconsin, 1965), pp. 402–3. Bryer’s source is a private letter to him from Fortune.
“That chapter”
:
“Notes from New York,” unidentified publication, Yale Joyce, Box 17 Folder 321.
“should be left”
:
“Greenwich Girl Editors in Court,”
Chicago Examiner
, Feb. 15, 1921, p. 8, qtd. in Bryer, “Trial-Track,” p. 160.
examined the inkpad
:
TYW
, p. 222.
“I thought of Joyce”
:
JQ to MCA, Feb. 5, 1921, SIU, Box 1 Folder 6.
Salvation Army
:
“Tabloid Book Review,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, Feb. 6, 1921, p. A7.
girl’s father
:
John Sumner, “The Truth about ‘Literary Lynching,’ ”
Dial
71 (1921), pp. 63–68.
“O sweety. All your”
:
See Buffalo TS V.B.11.a and Cornell 57 in
JJA “Nausicaa” MS
, pp. 294, 257.
“O sweety all your little”
:
LR
7, no. 2 (July-Aug. 1920), p. 57.
“every possible physical secretion”
:
EP to JQ, Feb. 21, 1920,
EP/JQ
, p. 185.
“the episode where”
:
JQ to EP, Oct. 21, 1920, SIU, Box 1 Folder 5.
“hoarse breathing”
and
“whitehot passion”:
Ibid
.
, p. 42.
pretended not to
:
Jane Heap, “Art and the Law,”
LR
7, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 1920), pp. 5–9.
an innocent judge
:
JQ to Shane Leslie, June 21, 1922, NYPL.
added a new insert
:
Buffalo TS V.B.11.a, Joyce and Groden,
JJA “Nausicaa” MS

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