JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Two autograph letters signed ('James Joyce') to 'Mr Nugent', Universitätstrasse, Zurich, 1 November 1918 and 6 January 1919, together 1½ pages, 4to (splitting at horizontal folds); with a portrait postcard showing a bearded Joyce reclining on one elbow on a sofa, signed on lower margin 'with compliments , James Joyce , 6/1/1919' (crease and short tear at right margin). Provenance: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. (catalogue James Joyce (1996), item 75).

JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Two autograph letters signed ('James Joyce') to 'Mr Nugent', Universitätstrasse, Zurich, 1 November 1918 and 6 January 1919, together 1½ pages, 4to (splitting at horizontal folds); with a portrait postcard showing a bearded Joyce reclining on one elbow on a sofa, signed on lower margin 'with compliments , James Joyce , 6/1/1919' (crease and short tear at right margin). Provenance: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. (catalogue James Joyce (1996), item 75).

COMMENTS ON THE PUBLICATION OF ULYSSES AND A PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH. Joyce writes gratefully in response to a letter of appreciation of Ulysses, apologising for the fact that 'As I have been so long absent from Ireland ... I have forgotten you', giving details of the publication of eight instalments of the work in The Little Review in New York (see the following lot), and commenting on the difficulties for The Egoist in London who 'cannot find any printer to set up these chapters. They have also been delayed by my illness this year -- a grave malady of the eyes to which I am subject'; he expresses gratitude to the recipient and his friends for their encouragement, and adds 'I have asked my friend Mr [Ezra] Pound to send you some other chapters, if he has them'; the letter closes with a promise to send on a photograph as soon as he has one, and sends on some reviews of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (not present). The second letter briefly notes his enclosure of 'a snapshot taken by a friend of mine after my illness'. (2)