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726 J A M E S I 1939-1941 jfamily.* He instructed Gorman to leave out one of his limericks againstConsul-General Bennett in Zurich, however, on the grounds that enoughhad already been said on this subject. The effect of these changes was tocurb a sporadic cheeriness in Gorman's book, and to render more solemnand sardonic its picture of the persecuted artist.t Joyce's life after 1922Gorman scarcely dared touch upon; George and Helen did not like hisreferences to them, which had to be removed; he could say nothing ofLucia's illness, and was in general as distracted by Joyce's curbs and prodsas Joyce was by Gorman's delays and revelations.After reading some of Gorman's proofs, Joyce, with Nora, left Parisabout July 21 to see Stephen, who was at summer camp at Etretat, thenreturned to Paris in George's automobile on July 26 so as to be withLucia on her birthday. In August they went on to Montreux, where Helen,after several nervous collapses, was again convalescing. George, muchupset by his wife's illness, remained in Paris. From Montreux Joyce andNora proceeded to Lausanne, spending a few days there in the secondweek of August, chiefly to enable Joyce to talk with Mercanton about hisforthcoming article on Finnegans Wake, t They went on then to Bernand Zurich, but when, during the latter part of August 1939, the threatof war became again unmistakable, they returned to Paris.Joyce's main concern was for Lucia. Having ascertained again fromDr. Delmas that the maison de sante was to be moved to the HotelEdelweiss in La Baule, he and Nora went on Monday, August 28, toBrittany to await Lucia's arrival there. Delmas had been there the daybefore arranging with governmental authorities to requisition the hotel.During the next few days Joyce walked repeatedly to consult with MmeDelmas, whose villa was two miles outside the town. He was assured thatall was in readiness. But on September 2, seeing signs of activity in theclosed hotel, he asked the caretaker when Delmas's party was expected,only to be told that no such arrangements had been made. He wrote toPaul Leon begging him to findout whether the hotel was in fact reserved.'You have troubles enough of your own,' he said apologetically, 'but ifyou can findthis out by telephone so much the better. Nothing else is* Joyce dictated on this topic of Lennon's article: 'You could collect much more informationfrom Mr. Ernst if he feels inclined to sanction its publication by you, about theextent of campaign which was organised by the Irish and Catholic elements in Americaagainst the proposed repeal of the ban. There can be little doubt that the defamatoryarticle already alluded to in my letter by such a widely circulated review as the CatholicWorld written by Mr. Michael Lennon of Dublin (at present a Dublin police magistrate)alleging that the author of Ulysses had amassed 'ample means' by breaking his parole tothe Austrian government which had released him and his family and entering the Britishgovernment propaganda service in Italy at a time when the British government was carryingon a war of its own against the nationalist forces in Ireland which culminated inthe Easter Week rebellion had no small effect in forming the virulence of this campaign.'tin Finnegans Wake (738) Joyce speaks mockingly of'the Martyrology of Gorman.'1 111 1 I I M . V 6 — ~X This did not appear.