Ulysses/Motifs/Newspapers

Majority of notes are from James Joyce: The Lost Notebook

Joyce must have had his copy of the June 17, 1904 Irish Independent to hand by, at the latest, not June, but rather February 1919, at which time he was completing (by dictation to Frank Budgen) the (Rosenbach) faircopy of "Wandering Rocks."

Scholarly and sensitive readers of that estimable episode will be pleased to learn that the description there of the onset of the now imfamous bicycle race is a rendering, hardly altered (apart from Mr. Budgen's idiosyncratic orthography), of the account of the conclusion of the same as it appeared in the said newspaper and no other. The Irish Times omitted J. B. Jones; the Evening Telegraph omitted W. C. Huggard but included a J. J. Comyn, and so on...

...It may be a coincidence but, on the (microfilmed) copy in the National Library of Ireland that we consulted, there is a mark (bitched type?) just above the "n" of Jones which makes it appear to the casual or, perhaps, weak eye as "Joffes", which, spoken aloud, may have occasioned Mr. Budgen's "Joffs", later altered by Joyce to "Jeffs".