It is true that you concede one of the disputed passage in ‘Counterparts’ but, inasmuch as you say you have no feeling on the subject, I suppose the concession costs you much less than those I have made cost me. You said nothing of this in your first letter and it was I, again, who pointed out to you the ‘enormity’ in it. Moreover you now say that you wish to leave out altogether the story ‘An Encounter’. While I have made concessions as to the alteration of a word in three of the stories you are simply allowing me to use it in a story where, not having noticed it until I pointed it out to you, you had not not objected to it. If you were to recall your first letter you will see that on your side they have broadened a little. If this is true it is I who have narrowed them. You say that the difficulties between us have narrowed themselves down. He eventually passed on publishing the book altogether. This led Richards to believe that the book could not be published without, in his words, “suppress” it. The printer originally hired to set the book had objected to its content and refused to print it. Almost eight years before the publication of Dubliners, James Joyce was involved in a tense correspondence with Grant Richards, the man who originally agreed to publish the manuscript.
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