James Joyce

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James Joyce

Sepia-toned gelatin silver print. Inscribed: “To Arthur Symons / James Joyce / Paris, 29.5.925.”

It was Arthur Symons, friend of W. B. Yeats and noted critic, who encouraged Elkin Mathews to publish Joyce’s first book, Chamber Music. Joyce presented this photograph to Symons alongside a press copy of Ulysses, partly in gratitude and partly, no doubt, to encourage Symons’s critical support of his novel.