972
27th May 1915,
C/o Gioacchino Veneziani, Murano, Venice, Italy.
Dear Mr. Joyce,
I received your letter of the 9th. with its enclosure.[1] Mr. Grant Richards has declined
your
novel, and I am not sorry, especially in view of the result of his [his
handwritten] previous effort.
I cannot understand about "The Dubliners" in America, and I suggest
that if you have not written to the publisher mentioned by the editor of the
Smart Set,[2] I should
do,
so and ask him if it be true that he is publishing "The Dubliners".
