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John Hinsdale Thompson collection of James Joyce materials

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    John Hinsdale Thompson collection of book reviews and articles relating to James Joyce

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    Collection of book reviews and articles on James Joyce from various sources published between 1934-1972. Assembled by John Hinsdale Thompson (1907-1973) a scholar and collector of Joyce materials. The collection is comprised of clippings, offprints and single issues of a variety of periodicals including: Time magazine, New York Tribune Books, New York Review and the Sunday Times. Some articles are still housed in Thompson's original file folders with notes and original folder headings.

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    The Hibernian metropolis [graphic] : a subversion of Dublin via the peregrination of characters in James Joyce's Novel 'Ulysses'

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    Poster created by Conor Gallagher and Senan Molony. The graphic depicts the travels of several characters from James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. The map of Joyce's Dublin is rendered in the style of Harry Beck's classic 1931 London Underground or "Tube" map, with numerous puns merging both places on the original map with references from Joyce's novel. Referencers include some from 'Finnegans Wake'.

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    A complete dialogue script with pagery from Finnegans wake : prepared for the screening of the first rush print for The James Joyce Society and shown in celebration of Joyce's birthday

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    Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake was the final film produced and directed by Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983), a pioneer in experimental film and animation. Passages, a film treatment of Finnegans Wake using Joyce's original language was largely a live-action piece, but incorporated animation, double exposures, and various other unconventional visual methods."--Bookseller's blurb.

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    Human cartography: James Joyce, Dublin, paper cut map [graphic]

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    Color map of Dublin with a paper cut portrait of James Joyce cut by hand with a surgical blade. Backed with black paper to highlight the paper cuts.

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    [Funeral program for Lucia Joyce, 1907-1982]

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    Lists the order of service, hymns, psalms, and an address by Richard Ellmann (1918-1987), a noted biographer of James Joyce. Lucia Joyce was hospitalized at St. Andrew's from 1951 until her death from a stroke on 12 December, 1982.

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    Thompson, John James, 1815-1875. 1 letter to William Metford

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    The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, legal instruments, plans, surveys, appraisals, accounts and other documents related to the Growden legacy; including the shares in Durham Iron Works, the properties in Durham, Bensalem, and Richland Townships, an upper lot of the Delaware River, and houses in Philadelphia. The materials cover the 1773 partition of the Growden's estates and their fate after Pennsylvania Act of Attainder (1778) and the death of Joseph Galloway. Correspondents include: Joseph Galloway, his brother-in-law Thomas Nickelson and their Philadelphia representatives Abel James and John Thompson; Nickelson's sons-in-law Ellis Button Metford and John Jeffery; Grace Galloway's granddaughter Ann Grace Roberts Burton. John Thompson's grandson John James Thompson (1815-1875), and others.

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