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Express. 23rd June 1916,
Seefeldstrasse 54, (parterre,
rechtz) [sic] Zurich VIII., Switzerland.
Dear Mr. Joyce,
I have just received your postcard of the 19th., and I reply at once by
express.
The date for the publication of your novel is not yet fixed, and we
cannot fix it until we hear from America. The American publisher is going
to set up the book and The Egoist will, I believe, take
sheets.[1] In America we shall get Ten
Pounds on account of royalty, but on this side there is to be no advance
paid on publication. Directly the date is settled I will advise you.
Correspondence with America is slow now, as you can understand, but I
will expedite matters so far as I possibly can.
I have not yet heard from the Drama about the play,
but
I hope to get a decision from the Stage Society in a few days about the
proposed production here.
Grant Richards tells me he is very short-handed, and has not therefore
been able to send me the royalty-account for "Dubliners". There is, he
says, however, no royalty due to you, as the 500 copies free of royalties
are not yet sold. As soon as I do get the account I will send it on to
you.
The verses are now with The Nation.
