ABSTRACT
Letter to Sylvia Beach (11 June 1921). This famous letter can be found in the following: Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company (1959), p. 52, a translation of the letter which had appeared in the Mercure de France, xxxix (May 1950), 23; David Dempsey, ‘G.B.S. on Joyce, Joyce on G.B.S.’ New York Times Book Review (23 July 1950), 8, with four sentences missing; William Hull, ‘Shaw on the Joyce he Scarcely Read’, Shaw Bulletin, i (September 1954), 17; William White, ‘Irish Antithesis: Shaw and Joyce’, Shavian, ii, No. 3 (February 1961), 28–9 and note 6 (from which the present text is taken), also in Joyce, Letters, Volume III, edited by Richard Ellmann, p. 50.
