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Gilbert (Stuart & Moune, literary scholar

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numerous pp. & envelopes, 8vo, Paris & elsewhere, v.s., v.d., 1938-85, mostly conversational letters, " ... very soon we shall meet again [in Paris] - shall it be the Tour d'Argent, or the more sedate Foyot's, or poor Joyce's beloved Fouquet's?", and some relating to his work, "... whether I would be needed at Geneva for a biggish Shira book (French Painting, Fouquet to Poussin). I have just been sent their 'planning' as they call it. Alas, printing will be in mid-July and go on till the end of August and I shall be wanted on the spot for 'tailoring' the text, & make it fit in with the pictures. A nerve-racking job as a rule! Still, I'm used to it..."; and a small quantity of others including a photograph of Sylvia Beach and a letter from friends giving a copy of Beach's last letter to them etc., v.s., v.d.(c. 120)

***Stuart Gilbert jointed the Indian Civil Service in 1907 and after active service in the First World War, served as a judge in Burma until 1925. Thereafter he settled in France and worked as a translator. He met Sylvia Beach and James Joyce after having seen some typescript pages of a French translation of Ulysses by Auguste Morel and Valery Lambaud advertised in the window of Beach's shop, Shakespeare and Company. He saw the translators had made some serious errors and when he pointed them out to Sylvia Beach and she introduced him to James Joyce. Gilbert published James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study in 1930 and a collection of Joyce's letters in 1957. Most of the letters in this collection are from Moune Gilbert to Dorothy Harmsworth..

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