Harriet Shaw Weaver
reported in a letter to John Slocum
that 499 copies of James Joyce
's Ulysses were seized at Folkestone harbour under the Customs Act of 1867; only one copy, sent to London...
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Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW
was stringent about granting permission to use Joyce's texts (for which the demand was such that the Board of Trade
's paper restrictions often impeded projects to reprint), and insisted that foreign rights should...