1338
May 12th 1917
Dear Mr. Joyce
Many thanks for your letter[1]
of April 22nd and for the money order for £2.6.4 for the second dozen
copies of your novel. I enclose a receipt. I enclose also a copy of a notice
that has appeared in the English Review
[2] — I do not think the press
cutting
agency sends cuttings from that paper. The English Review
wrote and asked for a copy of the book (I had not sent them one as they do
very little reviewing). Mr. Ernest Boyd[3] wrote and asked for a copy, so did
the
Sphere, so also about half a dozen other papers, including an
English Church illustrated paper! I think this last paper cannot have
ventured to print a review.[4] The
only notice I have received from the press cutting agency since I asked
them to send duplicates to you is one of two lines from the Daily
Chronicle.
The sales continue to be rather slow. 41 copies were sold in April and
11 in the first 11 days of this month. The total number sold up to date is
435 (336 of these have been paid for, 99 not yet paid for). I am hoping to
have soon the help of someone who has been with a large publisher and
who would know how to make use of the reviews and how to push the
book. There are about 240 copies left and, in the hope of another edition
being wanted, I have written to Mr. Huebsch about this. I have sent him a
few corrections to be made before another edition (English or American)
is printed. The printers seem not to have understood that in most places
where you crossed out hyphens you meant the words to be joined together
and not separated as they have been. Except for this the text, as corrected,
seems to have been very carefully set up.
I was sorry to hear from Mr. Pound that you had to have an
operation after all.[5] I hope it went
off quite successfully and that you will not have more trouble with your
eyes. | With kind regards | Yours sincerely
