Item 3 - Photocopy of a letter from James Joyce to Grant Richards

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IE 2135 P8/2/1/3

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Photocopy of a letter from James Joyce to Grant Richards

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  • 23 June 1906 (date of original) (Creation)

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3 pp.

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(1929-1994)

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Edward Patrick McGrath was born in New York City on 8 December 1929, the son of Edward Patrick McGrath and Elizabeth née Breen. His parents had emigrated to the United States from Belfast. He received a bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1958 and a master’s degree from Brooklyn College in 1960.

Edward McGrath began his career in journalism at the New York Herald Tribune in the 1950s. Over the years, he worked in publishing and public relations. During the final twelve years of his life he was president of McGrath Associates, a corporate communications consulting firm. Edward was also a writer. His published non-fiction works included articles on such far-ranging subjects as whaling and witchcraft. He had an interest in Irish literature and wrote fiction for personal pleasure. In 1974, Edward and his wife moved from New York City to Weston, Connecticut where among other things he held the position of chairman of the Library Board. Edward McGrath died in Weston on 23 August 1994.

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Photocopy of a letter from James Joyce, Via Giovanni Boccaccio, Trieste, Austria to Grant Richards, in which he agrees to modify certain words and passages in Counterparts and other stories in order that the story Two Gallants may be included. Suggests to Richards that he find another printer ‘who was dumb from his birth, or, if none such can be found, a person who will not “argue the point”’. Concludes by saying that he has sent Richards a copy of a Dublin paper which will illustrate that ‘the Irish are the most spiritual race on the face of the earth’ and hopes that this will reconcile him to Dubliners. States that he seriously believes that Richards ‘will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking-glass’.

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    P8/14

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