Discovering James Joyce At The Ub Anderson Gallery

These transition placards, along with the more than ten-thousand other pages of Joyce manuscripts in the Poetry Collection, makes UB's Joyce Collection the largest and most prestigious in the world.

Sections of Finnegans Wake appeared as separate monographs throughout the Wake's composition.

For the Joyce scholar, the Buffalo collection is priceless. For the Finnegans Wake scholar, it is indispensable.

Upon reviewing the novel, Joyce discovered a large number of changes he wished to incorporate.

Facets of Finnegans Wake were published at different times, and portions of the novel were serialized.

Ulysses was translated into French by Sylvia Beach's partner, Adrienne Monnier, who, like Beach, operated a bookstore.

The more than fifty editions of Ulysses have made significant changes to the novel throughout the years.

Joyce and his publisher, Sylvia Beach, published a small chap-book called "Pomes Penyeach," in an effort to raise money from Joyce's earlier works

The publication of Ulysses began what is known as the "Joyce Industry," the publication of books of criticism about Ulysses.

The story of the production and publication of Ulysses is told through correspondence and other documentation.

The Poetry Collection is rich with manuscripts that document the evolution of the Circe section of Ulysses.

Ulysses is a novel of ascension. It constantly grew.

Manuscripts mark the conception and birth of Ulysses, which began as an idea for a short story to be included in "Dubliners."

Some of Joyce's early works, including the broadside "Gas From a Burner."

Valuable first editions of Ulysses, and a map of Dublin.

Joyce's personal library, rescued from his apartment after he left Paris at the outbreak of World War Two.

Joyce's childhood and family life displayed in a series of original photographs, sketches, and memorabilia.

Mike Basinski introduces the exhibition with an explanation of the mission of the Poetry Collection at UB, followed by a walk around a roomful of James Joyce's memories.