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40.
April 14th, 1915
Dear Mr. Joyce,
I wrote to you yesterday, but I may as well answer the letter I have received from you this morning.
In writing of Mr. Pinker you refer to him as "Mr. Wells's secretary or agent". He is not Mr. Wells's secretary. He is an ordinary literary agent — a very good literary agent, in fact. He sometimes handles Mr. Wells' own work. I confess though that it comes as a surprise to me that he has set up as a dramatic agent. I should have thought that dramatic agency work was better handled by the exclusively dramatic agents, of whom there are one or two, Miss Elizabeth Marbury being the best known.
Yes; I got back the press cuttings. Neither the "Freeman's Journal" nor "Sinn Fein" has reviewed your book.
Sincerely yours,
On 19 April Joyce wrote explaining patiently that A
Portrait had begun appearing serially before his contract with
Richards, who therefore had no legitimate complaint. He asked again about
Irish reviews of Dubliners and about his list of corrections.
He
also asked for a financial statement.
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