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Harmsworth (Desmond) Autograph

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5pp., 8vo, Paris, 21st June 1934, James Joyce, "It is very late, so this must be brief... . James Joyce, who as you know is extremely interested in our family, asked me the other day if I knew precisely where was the house occupied by my Grandfather at Chapelizod (the birthplace, according to him, of Iseult - as he has frequently told me): it (all that kind of thing) interests him in his present 'Work in Progress [Finnegan's Wake]'. Joyce is anxious - or rather, he insists - to draw us, the H. family, into the extraordinarily tangled skein of his present writings about Ireland: fable on poetic history or whatever one likes to call them. He is equally interested in such Dublin notables as Guinness, Dunlop, and the man who started the tramways. But he wants to put us in, and needs information, which I'd like to be able to furnish. The sage was in excellent mood the other night: we met him and a convivial party after the Russian ballet. He was positively congenial, with only a carafe or two. Full of the questions detailed above, and doing ballet kicks on the pavement as we all left the café",

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