University of Virginia Library

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C/o Gioacchino Veneziani, Murano, Venice, Italy.
Dear Mr. Joyce,

I received your letter of the 9th. with its enclosure.[1] Mr. Grant Richards has declined your novel, and I am not sorry, especially in view of the result of his [his handwritten] previous effort.

I cannot understand about "The Dubliners" in America, and I suggest that if you have not written to the publisher mentioned by the editor of the Smart Set,[2] I should do, so and ask him if it be true that he is publishing "The Dubliners".