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February 26th 1917
Dear Mr. Joyce
Mr. Huebsch sent me the enclosed, asking me to forward it to you.
I wonder whether you have received two letters from me — one of
them
written towards the end of January and sent to your last address; the other
written nearly three weeks ago and sent by express post to your new
address.[1] I wrote the latter, I
remember, on the 7th, the day the first review copies of your book were
posted. Your twelve presentation copies had been sent out the day before.
One of these, by the way, has since been returned, marked "gone away".
It was the one sent to Mr. Healy at the address you gave (6 Saint Lawrence
Road, Clontarf, Dublin).[2]
The book has been on sale now for a fortnight and tradespeople have
begun to send for copies though I think no reviews have appeared as yet in
London papers — nothing beyond the bare announcement of
publication.
You asked me to tell you the prices of the book and I did so but will
repeat in case you have not had the letters. Though the nominal published
price is 6/— the real net price is 5/—. The trade price is
4/— and
for orders of a dozen copies, 3/6 per copy with one extra copy added free
(thirteen for the price of twelve). The postal rates to Switzerland come to
fourpence a copy and there is no reduction in the rate whatever numbers are
sent. If you buy a few dozen I do not think you should pay the postage: it
ought to be a publication expense.
You asked me also whether Mr. Huebsch had arranged to send me
copies of the American press notices. I wrote to ask him to do so unless he
had already arranged to send them to your agent. In my earlier letter I said
I would send you the three copies for which you asked and I thanked you
for your kindness in saying that one of them was for me and that you
wanted to write a few words in this one as well as in the one for Mr.
Pound. I asked whether you would accept your own copy from me, apart
from the ten that you receive by agreement. Though I have not heard from
you I shall venture to send it now without waiting any longer. I have
wondered whether you were ill again or whether I had annoyed you or
whether perhaps the letters did not reach you.[3] In the one I wrote more than a
month ago
I sent my best wishes for your birthday and am sorry if the message did not
reach you on the day. It was very good of you to telegraph twice in
acknowledgement of
my telegrams. | With many thanks and kind regards | Yours
sincerely
