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October 19th 1916
Dear Mr. Joyce
I thank you for your letter of the 18th. I had a letter yesterday from
the New York publisher acknowledging the receipt of your corrections of
chapters I, II & V of your novel. He writes that he will do his very
best
to get the book out before the end of the year but is not quite certain of
being able to manage it. This being the case I am afraid it can hardly be
ready for publication here before the early part of next year. I had a letter
also from Mr. Byrne Hackett to whom Mr. Pound wrote originally and who
brought your book to the notice of Mr. Huebsch. He writes that he
considers Mr. Heubsch the best of the younger American publishers and by
best he means the most imaginative honourable and resourceful. I gather
that Mr. Hackett keeps a bookshop in connexion with the Yale University
Press. He says that in his capacity of bookseller he will do all in his power
for the success of the book and he also feels sure that his brother,[1] who is literary
editor of the New York New Republic, will review the book
"at
length and with discrimination." This should be a help for I think the
journal has a large circulation. Mr. Hackett asks to be remembered to you
though he thinks it quite likely that you will have no recollection of him.
He says he was at Clongowes when you were but was an altogether obscure
member of "first junior" at that time. He was unhappy at the school.
[2] | With kind regards | Yours
sincerely
