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Shloss' Deletions | The Notebook Observations
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"This kissingwold's full of killing fellows."
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Alec "was certainly never in love with Lucia," she wrote to Richard Ellmann in 1959. He was "still in love with Hazel Guggenheim, with whom he had had an affair for about three years. I believe she had left him and returned to London, or started another one of her numerous affairs or marriages."
| | Helen Fleischman Joyce. Notes to Richard Ellmann re mistakes in his biography of James Joyce, RE Papers. |
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but apart from that they are also a family document of great value to me and I regard their eventual loss in the same light as I should regard the loss of one of my onw mss, which had cost me months of labor."
| | James Joyce to Holroyd-Reece, 4 August 1934, Paul Leon Papers, National Library of Ireland, Dublin. |
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"Unfortunately," he told Harriet Weaver, "she seems to have antagonized a great number of people, including her immediate relatives and as usual I am the fellow in the middle of the rain holding out both hands though whether she is right in her blunt outspokenness or not is a question my head is too addled to answer."
| | James Joyce to Harriet Shaw Weaver, 25 November 1932, Letters I, 327. |
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"He was a member of many learned societies: "Membre de la société de pathologie comparée...de la Société anatomique...de l'association française pour l'étude du cancer...de la Société de dermatologie et de syphiligraphe...de la Société d'électrothérapie et de radiologie...de la Société de sexologie (membre fondateur, vice-president)...de la Société de l'anesthésie de d'analgésie." He held military titles and medals of distinction. In 1930, for example he had been named Lauréat de l'académie des sciences; in 1933 he had been elected an Officier de la legion d'honneur. Not only was he honored for a distinguished career in public service, but he was also recognized for his pioneering work in obstetrics, especially in problems during pregnancy and anomalies of birth.
| | Expose des Titres et des Travaux Scientifiques du Dr. H. Vignes. |
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