1309
May 19th 1916
Dear Mr. Joyce
The two printers who had seemed more reasonable, after considerable
delay finally decided declined [folls. del. decided], like the
others, to print without deletions; as also did a twelth [sic]. And since then
our own printers have said they would object even to printing with blank
spaces.
But you will have heard from Mr. Pound than [sic] an American
publisher, a Mr. John Marshall of New York, is willing to undertake not
only the American publication but also will print the book entire. He said
he had written also to me but no letter from him has reached me as yet. I
am writing to him today as to his sending us copies for publication here. I
am afraid it will be a few months before the book is actually out, at least
in England, but it will be a relief to you that the matter is at last settled
— for I think we may take it that it is.
Possibly you may have received a letter from a Mr. Bryceson
Treharne[1] (whose handwriting is
almost illegible). He wrote a short time ago to ask if I could put him in
touch with four people (of whom you were one) some of whose poems he
had set to music. So I sent him the addresses. I know very little about him.
He is mentioned by Mr. Leigh Henry in the extracts from his letters to his
wife published in the December "Egoist."[2] He was sent home from Ruhleben
in
December owing to ill health, and called at Oakley House a little time ago,
and it is since then that he wrote for the
addresses. Apparently he is a professional composer. | With kind regards
| Yours sincerely
