What did the 2nd drawer contain?

Documents:  the birth certificate of Leopold Paula Bloom:  an endowment assurance policy of 500 pounds in the Scottish Widows’ Assurance Society, intestated Millicent (Milly) Bloom, coming into force at 25 years as with profit policy of 430 pounds, 462/10/0 and 500 pounds at 60 years or death, 65 years or death and death, respectively, or with profit policy (paidup) of 299/10/0 together with cash payment of 133/10/0, at option:  a bank passbook issued by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch showing statement of a/c for halfyear ending 31 December 1903, balance in depositor’s favour:  18/14/6 (eighteen pounds, fourteen shillings and sixpence, sterling), net personalty:  certificate of possession of 900 pounds, Canadian 4 percent (inscribed) government stock (free of stamp duty):  dockets of the Catholic Cemeteries’ (Glasnevin) Committee, relative to a graveplot purchased:  a local press cutting concerning change of name by deedpoll.

Quote the textual terms of this notice.

I, Rudolph Virag, now resident at no 52 Clanbrassil street, Dublin, formerly of Szombathely in the kingdom of Hungary, hereby give notice that I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times to be known by the name of Rudolph Bloom.

What other objects relative to Rudolph Bloom (born Virag) were in the 2nd drawer?

An indistinct daguerreotype of Rudolf Virag and his father Leopold Virag executed in the year 1852 in the portrait atelier of their (respectively) 1st and 2nd cousin, Stefan Virag of Szesfehervar, Hungary.  An ancient haggadah book in which a pair of hornrimmed convex spectacles inserted marked the passage of thanksgiving in the ritual prayers for Pessach (Passover):  a photocard of the Queen’s Hotel, Ennis, proprietor, Rudolph Bloom:  an envelope addressed:  To my dear son leopold.

What fractions of phrases did the lecture of those five whole words evoke?

Tomorrow will be a week that I received... it is no use Leopold to be ... with your dear mother ... that is not more to stand ... to her ... all for me is out ... be kind to Athos, Leopold ... my dear son ... always ... of me ...  Das Herz ...  Gott ...  DEIN ...

What reminiscences of a human subject suffering from progressive melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom?

An old man, widower, unkempt of hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing:  an infirm dog, Athos:  aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia:  the face in death of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison.

Why did Bloom experience a sentiment of remorse?

Because in immature impatience he had treated with disrespect certain beliefs and practices.

As?

The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal:  the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots:  the circumcision of male infants:  the supernatural character of Judaic scripture:  the ineffability of the tetragrammaton:  the sanctity of the sabbath.