TEL:1164 VICTORIA.

ROYAL LITERARY FUND,
40, DENISON HOUSE,
296, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD, S.W.
(CLOSE TO VICTORIA STATION).

26 July 1915.

Dear Sir,

At Mr Gosse's request I have today sent a form of application to Mr James Joyce at Zurich. I gather from Mr Gosse's letter that the matter is urgent & shall be glad if you will let me know if this is so. Will you also kindly tell me as fully as possible what you know of his present circumstances & what you think of the value of his literary work.

W. B. Yeats Esq.

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(7101055) Rich. 42 del 1959 - 1st. Pol. Stato - G. C. (320.000 bl. di 50 c.)

FORMERLY
FOX, DUFFIELD & COMPANY

DUFFIELD & COMPANY

PUBLISHERS
211 WEST 33RD STREET
NEW YORK

TELEPHONE GREELEY 5500
CABLE ADDRESS, FOXFIELD, NEW YORK

SUCCESSORS TO
HERBERT S. STONE & CO.

November 28, 1916

Dear Madam:

We have received your letter of November 13th and also the copy of "Certain Noble Plays of Japan" which you sent us.

We have read the book with much interest and pleasure, but while we should like very much to have the handling of it in this country, we do not think if we should take an edition for this market, that we should be able to put a price of more than $1.25 or $1.50 on it, and this makes it impossible for us to do anything with it at the price which you quote us. We note also that your edition is limited, so that you could hardly furnish us with many copies, and we would like, therefore, to make the following proposal to you for the publication of the book in this country:

We would propose to set up and manufacture the book here, following as nearly as possible the style of the present book, except that there would be no pages printed in red ink, and we would omit your imprint on the title page and the note at the end, (if you wished it, inserting a note in the front to the effect that the book was first brought out by you, and now by special arrangement published by us in this country.) We should expect to publish the book at $1.25 net, or possibly $1.50 net, and would pay you a royalty of 10% on the retail price, with an advance payment on the date of publication of $50.00 on

DUFFIELD & COMPANY

account of royalties. We must be assured that we are not in-
fringing on any copyright in this country, and in case we should
have any requests for the performance of the plays on the stage
here, we should grant these requests with the understanding
that we would share equally with you any amount received
for such performances. If you prefer us not to follow the
format and type page which you have used, we can, of course,
readily alter the size and shape of the book for our edition.

We recently published in this country the Japanese
play called "The Pine Tree", by Takeda Izumo, which has had some
success, and which was secured from an English publisher, and
another Japanese book called "The Book of Tea", by Okakura-Kakuzo,
and we should like, therefore, to add your book to our list. We
trust that the arrangement we propose will be satisfactory to you
in which case will you kindly let us know at the earliest possi-
ble moment in order that we may include the book in our Spring
List this year.

Yours very sincerely,

Miss Elizabeth C. Yeats,
Cuala Industries, Ltd.,
Churchtown, Dundrum,
Co. Dublin, Ireland,

THE BRICK ROW PRINT AND BOOK SHOP INC.

104 HIGH STREET, New Haven, CONNECTICUT
Importers, Booksellers & Print Dealers

July 18'17

W.B.Yeats,Esquire
107 Piccadilly, London, England.
Savile Club.

Dear Mr. Yeats;

I accept your offer and thank you for it and am enclosing
draft for £20 payable to your order on Messrs.Brown, Shipley & Co.

I would much prefer to receive the books directly from you
and at once by parcels post, insured. Should you be unable to send them directly
because of regulations now in force, would you be good enough to personally take
the package to Buckling & Co. (13 Garrick St.) asking them to despatch it to us immediately?

While I note there are a considerable number of omissions,
I will do my best to fill the lacunae and one day I trust a complete collection will
go with the other Irish books to our Yale University Library.

If, at any time, in the next year, you come across first
editions of yours, not included in your list and will inscribe them similarly, I
will very willingly pay you a fair price for them.

I consider myself fortunate in being able to secure even
the comparatively brief list of titles you are able to send.

It is possible that you have some corrected proof sheets of
your earlier writings. If so, I would be glad to secure them.

With my kindest regards, believe me,

For THE BRICK ROW PRINT & BOOK SHOP, Inc.

EBH:HEP

Ella Poundtay
5 Holland Plan Chamber
Church Street
W 8
London
England

Hotel St Georges
Route de Frejus
Cannes
France

February 2 1928

Dst D.

William is much better. Dont think he is likely to "give
trouble" while I'm Swissing. Anyway a wire could fetch me back
in 12 hours. We arrive D.V. at Rapallo 6.55 pm on Feb 17.
If one can dine, say at 7-45 ( Here one has to do it at 7 sharp
or give notice!) will you and E. dine with me and come up to play
with W. after?? Both males will go to bed on arrival, Michael
because he is made to, and Willy because he always wants to!

Will write later to E. regarding his notes on punctuation
as W. has not yet got down to it..please thank E. exceedingly.
By the way, this direct from W.- the "Inhabitant" is LOVE - NOT, no
decidedly NOT"heaven and earth."

Also, very sorry but the one poem he asks for EXILE is part
of a series and so has to go with it. Watt is sending some to
Dial at once and others later when the blight in America sends
a copy of what he has. W didn't bring a copy as one never expected
not to be back in Dublin Dec. 15 last!

We both agree that VETTA would be a hell of a way away, and
I think W. will probably find Rapallo sufficiently "country" without
moving from "Albergo Rapallo". I hope he will begin soon to be
able to walk. For months he has only gone 1000 yards at the
outside - if 1000 yards is what I can walk in 15 mins. My space

42 Fitzwilliam Square. Dublin.

August 49 1928

Dear Ezra, as William is at his essay for the Cavalcanti book, and so it will shortly be my unpleasant duty to get the sister to print some.. as and/their setting up is the worst in the world, I attach a sheet of questions re the english version. If you could reply on these points I will save me having her trotting round to 42 thrice daily for the sake of asking questions and having a little chat as well!

Twill probably take four visits to keep them from spelling virtu E virtu E.

The italian version you went over at Rapallo, and I have just broken it to her about the capitals...

breno J.

EXHIBIT B. PLEASE RETURN

Coole Park,

Gort, Co. Galway.

August 26, 1928.

Dear Ezra,

I came down here some ten days ago to complete that essay begun
in Rapallo on you and your work. I toiled away at it and then suddenly
in the midst of the philosophic discussion with the vicar or rather with
his animated face, and with his wife who spat a little, I got suddenly
the thought I wanted. I went at it again and all was going beautifully
until George sent me your Cavalcanti translation, which I hadn't looked at
since I left Rapallo. I read it and it was almost clear to me, but the
meaning I found had no relation to that time. I dare not risk it without
a whole apparatus of learning, for they would either accuse you of bad
translation, or me of bad scholarship. If I am to use my essay about
you I must use it without the Cavalcanti which uninterpreted would be
without meaning to the Cuala readers and interpreted would get me out of
my depth at the best. publish the Cavalcanti therefor whenever you want
to. perhaps I may be able to use my essay with a small selection of
your poems, or if that cannot be, in a book of Cuala essays of my own
I am long for Rapallo to get away from damp and political agitation.

The Government has just introduced an *Evil Literature* Bill which will enable the pietists if they have the nerve to make it illegal to import into the country any book on the Roman Index. The Government hate the Bill as much as I do, but for the moment the zealots are all powerful, in the struggle between Free State and Republic each party promises them whatever they want. I have been interviewed and may probably write but I can speak no more, it makes me too ill and in any case I shall be in Rapallo before the fight comes.

RIVERSDALE,
WILLBROOK,
RATHFARNHAM,
DUBLIN.

Jan II

Dear Ezra

Have forwarded your letter to WBY who doesn't leave USA until Jan 22. Would have written to you before but have been laid out first with flu and then with op. for "acute antrums" if you know what they are...

March 2 1933

My dear Ezra

Your letter of January 3rd followed me to America
and then back here and when it reached here I had influenza so
George didn't give it to me until tonight. I have read it
without much understanding, I wonder if you could bring yourself
to tell me what you want in old-fashioned English. I shall
refuse to do anything which will complicate my
life. Things are developing here into a devil of a fight.
I have founded an Irish Academy, sufficient endowments have been
found for it and all the clerical press of the country is denouncing
it, and some of the secular. Then in the last two or three
days a quarrel with the Minister of Finance about the Abbey
Theatre which has disturbed some Irish Americans has blazed up.
Do not say anything about this in print, for the moment. If I
find it necessary to publish certain documents I will send them
to you. The liberty of thought is very seriously threatened
here. I may ask you to get comment in "Il Mare" and elsewhere
if you can. I am sending you my last book, almost everything
that is written since "The Winding Stair" is written.

This is a little old house with a large garden, a
tennis court and a croquet ground, I play croquet constantly and
can still keep up my dignity by beating the children. Anne is
I4 and goes to the art schools every day, she brings back vigorous

TELEPHONE
TERENURE 758.

November 12 1935

Dear Ezra

There is only one man in the English language as
expensive as you and I am going to reduce him to one poem.
I have only a limited amount of money for permissions and have
to pay both English and American copyright out of this sum.
I can spend twenty pounds on poems from you. What can I have
for that? I should like to use Canot XVII and anything else
from my selection. You can throw in.

I have personally never got more than two
guineas for a peem on either side of the water. It is clear
that I shall have to raise my charge. I know you have no
dislike for anthologies as you have published a couple yourself.

I am afraid I shall not be able to pay you for American
copyrights in American dollars as I shall myself be paid in
English money.