[JOYCE (James)]. Handwritten letter signed "Joyce", all in a - Lot 181

[JOYCE (James)]. Handwritten letter signed "Joyce", all in another unidentified hand, to a "dear poet". "Villa romaine" in Versailles, "Monday". 2pp. in-8 square. "We wish very much to see you on Sunday the6th. Would you like to come for lunch? As we do with royalty -because you are king in your kingdom -the most beautiful there is. I am sending you the guest list in the hope that you will approve of my choice and especially that you will add a few essential names. Marie Murat, Princess Bibesco, Chambrun, Cocteau, Fabre, Derain, Satie. Bring me a friend of yours I don't yet know, if you don't mind..." Marguerite Chapin, wife of Roffredo Caetani, Prince of Bassiano, held salons in her Versailles "Villaromaine" on Sundays, and was a patron of the important literary magazine Commerce, where the first extracts from the French translation of James Joyce's novel Ulysses appeared.