7 3 6 D O C . 4 7 0 ON B L I C A T I O N OF L Y S S E S [1] [2] [3] Paris, 2nd February 1927. It is a matter of common knowledge that the Ulysses of Mr. James Joyce is being republished in the United States, in a magazine edited by Samuel Roth, and that this republication is being made without authorization by Mr. Joyce without payment to Mr. Joyce and with alterations which seriously corrupt the text. This appropria- tion and mutilation of Mr. Joyce’s property is made under colour of legal protection in that the Ulysses which is published in France and which has been excluded from the mails in the United States is not protected by copyright in the United States. The question of justification of that exclusion is not now in issue similar decisions have been made by government officials with reference to works of art before this. The ques- tion in issue is whether the public (including the editors and publishers to whom his advertisements are offered) will encourage Mr. Samuel Roth to take advantage of the resultant legal difficulty of the author to deprive him of his property and to mutilate the creation of his art. The undersigned protest against Mr. Roth’s conduct in repu- blishing Ulysses and appeal to the American public in the name of that security of works of the intellect and the imagination without which art cannot live, to oppose to Mr. Roth’s enterprise the full power of honorable and fair opinion. L a s c e l l e s A b e r c r o m b if . R ic h a r d A l d in g t o n . S h e r w o o d A n d e r s o n . R e n é A r c o s . M. A r c y b a c h e f f . E b b a A t t e r b o m. A z o r in , P r ésident del' Académie Espagnole. C. d u B a is s a u r a y . L é o n B a z a l g e t t e . J a c in t o B e n a v e n t e . S il v io B e n c o . J u l ie n B e n d a . A r n o l d B e n n e t t . 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