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3.
July 26th, 1905
My dear Sir,
With reference to your collection of verses, "Chamber Music", which you kindly submitted to me through Mr. Arthur Symons, and which unfortunately got mislaid during my illness last year and changing houses, I write now to say that in spite of careful search I am unable still to lay my hand on the manuscript. Could you, do you think, reconstruct it from material in your possession? If you could do this and would care to submit it again to me for the firm with which I am now associated, I should hope to be able to make you on its behalf some offer for the publication of the work. I am exceedingly sorry for the inconvenience to which I fear this delay has subjected you. Believe me, my dear Sir, Very faithfully yours,
This letter was originally sent to Arthur Symons as explained in
letter 5 below, finally reaching Joyce with that letter in mid-August.
"Changing houses" is a delicate reference to Richards's bankruptcy. For
some years after this he operated his firm under his wife's initial, as "E.
Grant Richards." On 17 August Joyce sent Richards the reconstructed MS
of Chamber Music.
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