Anglo-Irish writer (1882-1941). Autograph postcard signed. [Paris]. Oblong-8vo. 1 page.
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Joyce is asking his friend Frank Budgen to send him "that leaflet about the Book of the Dead" for "the artist who is doing the preface to pamphlet no. 4". The recto of the card with coloured photograph of the Paris Bourse. - Frank Budgen was a painter who had befriended Joyce in Zurich during World War I. The two shared ideas on aesthetic matters over many years, and their conversations are thought to have influenced both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The influence of the Egyptian Book of the Dead on Finnegans Wake is also well established, and the pamphlet mentioned here may be E.A.
Wallis Budge's The Book of the Dead, published by the British Museum in 1922 and known to have been used by Joyce. A number of extracts from what was then called Work in Progress were published in pamphlet form, the fourth of which to appear was The Mime of Mick Nick and the Maggies (1934), which included artwork by Lucia Joyce. Apparently unpublished: not in The Letters of James Joyce: Volume III (1966), ed. Ellman..