Two New Ulysses Working Drafts

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© 2001 by the University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, Texas 78713-7819 The author thanks Hans Walter Gabler, Samuel B. Slote and Michael Groden for their help and suggestions; also the staff of Christie’s New York and Sotheby’s London. 1 The gavel prices were $1,400,000 (“Circe”) and £780,000 (“Eumaeus”), but the buyer also pays the auctioneer a commission—as does the seller. Christie’s had expected a gavel price of $800,000 –$1,200,000 for “Circe,” and Sotheby’s had expected a gavel price of £800,000 –£1,200,000 for “Eumaeus” (“Unknown Draft Chapter of Ulysses to be Sold at Sotheby’s,” Sotheby’s Press Release, p. 1). 2 In addition to the “Circe” and the “Eumaeus” drafts now extant in two states, there are “early draft fragments” of “Cyclops”—“in the manner of sketches [which] do not lead directly to the fair copy”—and “fragments of early drafts at two levels” of “Oxen of the Sun” (Hans Walter Gabler, “Textual Notes,” “Ulysses”: A Critical and Synoptic Edition [New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984], 1742, 1744). Six working drafts of Ulysses are extant in one state: a complete final working draft of “Proteus”; a fragmentary early draft of “Sirens”; and a complete early draft of “Nausikaa”; and the three chapters in the Rosenbach Manuscript which are not fair copies but working drafts, “Wandering Rocks,” “Ithaca” and “Penelope.” I use Gabler, “Textual Notes,” pp. 1729–1753 passim, supplemented by Michael Groden to the author, email 22 July 2001, and Hans Gabler to the author, email 29 July 2001. Two New Ulysses Working Drafts