Letter with enclosures from Martin Secker to Edward P. McGrath, 1

Letter from Martin Secker, director of The Richards Press Ltd., 5 Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London. Informs McGrath that he cannot be of any help as Mr. Grant Richards (founder of Richards Press) and others associated with the business at the time of the publication of Joyce's 'Dubliners' were now dead. Also notes that the reason why publication was delayed was because 'publishers were too blind to recognize genius when they saw it' and that any suggestion of outside influences was 'purely moonshine'. Included with this letter by McGrath is a brief history of Richards Press Ltd. and a newspaper cutting advertising a Sotheby's auction at which inter alia the page proofs of Joyce's 'Dubliners' were to be sold.