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The Little Gest of Robin Hood: A Note on the Pynson and Lettersnijder Editions by J. C. T. Oates
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The Composition of the Quarto of Much Ado About Nothing by John Hazel Smith
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George Wither's Quarrel with the Stationers: An Anonymous Reply to The Schollers Purgatory by Allan Pritchard
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John Partridge and the Company of Stationers by Richmond P. Bond
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Fielding's Revisions of Joseph Andrews by Martin C. Battestin
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The British Critic and the Oxford Movement by Esther Rhoads Houghton
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Government Printing in Massachusetts, 1751-1801 by Rollo G. Silver
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Privilege to Print by James G. McManaway
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The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles by William E. Miller
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The Text of "The Eve of St. Agnes" by Jack Stillinger
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An Unknown Early Appearance of "The Raven" by G. Thomas Tanselle
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Evidence of Plate Damage as Applied to the First Impressions of Ellen Glasgow's The Wheel of Life (1906) by Oliver L. Steele
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A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1961

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October 18th, 1906
Dear Mr. Joyce,

I do not think I can usefully add anything to my last letter with reference to "Dubliners". You know how much we regret finding it impossible to publish the book. To bring it out as it stands, or even with the emendations you suggest, would be quite valueless from your point of view: it would bring you neither money nor reputation. If, however, you can bring yourself to complete your novel and it has the strength of your short stories, I think it might bring you both money and reputation, and that then, as I have said, "Dubliners" could follow it.

The manuscript of your poems is going back to you under separate cover. Believe me, dear Mr. Joyce, Sincerely yours,

On 22 Oct. (in a letter not yet published) Joyce wrote, making further concessions. Among them he agreed to suppression of "A Little Cloud" and "Two
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Gallants", saying of the latter that he felt it was second only to "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" among the first thirteen stories.
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