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44.
May 18th, 1915.
Dear Mr. Joyce,
You may think it an ironic commentary on my saying to you the other day that there was no need to be discouraged by the comparatively small
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For obvious reasons correspondence between Joyce and Richards
became less frequent after May of 1915. Harriet Shaw Weaver and
The Egoist magazine finally undertook to bring out A
Portrait in book form. And ultimately Grant Richards published the
play Exiles. Richards's side of the correspondence after 1917
has not yet been located. From Joyce's letters to Richards in the Slocum
Collection at Yale, we learn that in the case of Exiles Joyce
again was denied a second revision of proof. In a letter on this matter (28
July 1918) Joyce returned to the question of the text of
Dubliners, observing that about two hundred mistakes which
he
had corrected on the page proofs had been allowed to stand in the first
edition. Since Joyce had sent Richards his small list of additional
corrections before seeing the published text, these two hundred lost
corrections must be different from those on Joyce's list, the two hundred
not being on the list because
Joyce assumed they would be made from the page proofs. The grand total
of errors found by Joyce and never yet corrected in any published text is
thus well over two hundred.
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