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Appendix II
Transcription of Typescript Inserted in Raverat Proofs (225.1-17)
The following transcription attempts to do two things: (1) to note the revisions Woolf made when she deleted a paragraph in the Raverat proofs (225.1-17) and replaced it with the typescript transcribed here; and (2) to record the variants between
burst open the door. Holmes would * saya [comma omitted] * =Inb [typographical error for '"In'] a funk, eh?" Holmes would get him. But no; not Holmes; not Bradshaw. * Getting up rather unsteadily, hopping indeed from foot to foot, he considered Mrsc Filmer's nice clean bread knifed with 'Bread'e carved on the handle. Ah, but one mustn't spoilf that. The gas fire? But it was too late now. Holmes was coming,g Razors he might have got, but Rezia, who always did that sort of thing, had packed them. [insrtd. aft. 'Bradshaw'] There remained * only [insrtd.] the window, the large Bloomsbury * lodging [hyph. omitted] househ window, the tiresome, the troublesome, and rather melodramatic business of opeiningi the window and * throwinj himself out [insrtd. for del. 'getting out on to the sill']. It was their idea of tragedy, not his or Rezia's (for she was with him) *. [period insrtd. for del. semicolon] Holmes and Bradshaw * likedk that sort of thing [insrtd. for del. 'always insisted upon scenes like this']. * (He sat on the sill)1 ** But he would waitm till the very last moment. He did not want to die. [insrtd.] ** Life ['L' alt. fr. 'l'] was [insrtd. for del. 'As for himself (he had raised himself on to the sill now—could see Mrs. Filmer's pots were down below) life was'] * good; the sunn hot [insrtd. for del. 'pleasant, the air cooler after the heat; he had no wish to die']. * Only human beings—what did theyo want of one?p [insrtd.; 'they' underscored in ink] * Coming down the stair caseq opposite an old man stopped and stared at him. [insrtd. for del. 'But look at the old man in the house opposite, staring at him!'] * Holmes was at the door [insrtd. for del. 'Human nature—Here was Holmes']. * "I'll give it you!" he cried, and [insrtd. for del. 'He'] flung himself * vigorously, [comma added] * violently,r [comma added] down on to * Mrss [alt. fr. 'Mrs.'] Filmer's area railings.
- a say] ˜ Apr, A1; ˜, E1
- b=In] "˜ Apr, A1, E1
- c Mrs] ˜ Apr; ˜. A1, E1
- d bread knife] ˜˜ Apr, A1; ˜-˜ E1
- e 'Bread'] '˜' Apr; "˜" A1, E1
- f spoil] ˜ A1, E1; spoilt Apr
- g coming,] ˜. Apr, A1, E1
- h Bloomsbury lodging house] ˜˜˜ Apr; ˜-˜˜ A1; ˜˜-˜ E1
- i opeining] opening Apr, A1, E1
- j throwin] throwing Apr, A1, E1
- k liked] ˜ Apr, E1; like A1
- l sill)] ˜) Apr; ˜.) A1, E1
- m wait] ˜ A1, E1; wiat Apr
- n good; the] ˜. The Apr, A1, E1
- o they] underscrd. in ink Apr; ital. A1; del. E1
- p Only . . . one?] Only . . . want ['of one' del. Apr]? A1; Only . . . beings? E1
- q stair case] staircase Apr, E1; stair-| case A1
- r violently,] ˜ [∧] Apr, A1, E1
- s Mrs] ˜ Apr; ˜. A1, E1
Notes for Appendix II
- Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
- Bowers, Fredson. "Transcription of Manuscripts: The Record of Variants." Studies in Bibliography, 29 (1976): 212-264.
- DeSalvo, Louise A. Virginia Woolf's First Voyage: A Novel in the Making. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1980.
- Kirkpatrick, B. J. A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. 3rd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
- Lukenbill, Dan. "UCLA's Mrs. Dalloway Proofs, Ex Libris Majl Ewing." UCLA Librarian February 1982: 11-16.
- Shields, E. F. "The American Edition of Mrs. Dalloway." Studies in Bibliography, 27 (1974): 157-175.
- Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. 5 vols. Ed. Anne Olivier Bell. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977-84.
- ____. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. 6 vols. Ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautman. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975-82.
- ____. Mrs. Dalloway. London: Hogarth Press, 1925. (E1)
- Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925. (A1)
- Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. (A2)
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