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I was very glad to get your letter of March 24th and to hear that you were well and, to use your own word, unmolested.
Yes; I have now the complete copy of your novel and I hope to write to you about it quite shortly.
By the way, as I am writing I had better clear up two or three misconceptions. If you will look up the agreement for "Dubliners" you will see that you ought not, as a matter of fact, to have let anyone publish your novel serially except by arrangement with me. However, we will let that pass. But the "Smart Set" certainly must not publish it except by arrangement with me — unless, of course, I refused it. Mr. Ezra Pound came in a week or two ago and saw my secretary who explained the matter to him, so perhaps you have already heard.
I don't at all understand what the Editor of the "Smart Set" means when he tells you that if there had been more time before the publication of the American edition of "Dubliners" he would have printed more of the stories. No American edition of the book has been arranged for; and it is odd that he should have thought one was to appear since he first heard
Thank you for letting me see Mr. Pinker's letter about your work.
No further notices have appeared, I think, since those we have already sent you.
The enclosed letter ought to have been sent to you sooner. It came at a time when we did not know if it was safe to send things to you and it somehow was overlooked when the other letters were forwarded. I hope it is nothing important. Sincerely yours,
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