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JOYCE, JAMES. Autograph letter signed ("James Joyce") to Arthur Laubenstein, Paris, 9 February 1927. 1 page, 4to, in gray ink on grayish paper, Joyce's street address imprinted in blue at head, with slight fold creases, with original postmarked envelope addressed by Joyce ; in very good condition. "GIORGIO HAS TAKEN UP SINGING AGAIN" "At the Schola Cantorum, Giorgio [Joyce's son]...made friends [in 1923] with Arthur Laubenstein, a young American organist...Laubenstein began to coach him [in singing] and eventually was brought into the family circle. Joyce found the young man agreeable, and took to conversing with him...They met as often as three evenings a week..."--Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (New York, 1982), pp. 556-7. Joyce writes: "Many thanks for your kind telegram on my birthday...Have you settled down altogether in Nice or is there any likelihood of your passing through Paris at any time...Giorgio has taken up singing again. It is now fixed that he certainly has not a bass but a baritone or robust tenor. Lucia [the daughter] has danced in public here and in Brussels and is starting to teach. [Patrick] Tuohy [Irish painter] was here for about two months (it seemed two years) to finish my face [portrait] which will adorn the May salon. Thank goodness he left today...My eyesight seems to be getting better...Did you set any of those verses? I enclose [not present] copy of a protest offered on my birthday [2 February] to the French, English and American press [the broadside Protest Against Samuel Roth's Piracy of Ulysses ]..." Not in Letters , ed. Ellmann, and presumably unpublished.