James Joyce letter controversy

Charles Davis writes “from The Observer:

The auction of a love letter by James Joyce, revealing his most intimate sexual fantasies, was condemned last night by the writer’s closest relatives as an invasion of privacy which Joyce would have loathed.

The letter, described by one expert as ‘the missing link from the most famous erotic correspondence in modern literature’, is among a collection that belonged to James Joyce’s brother, Stanislaus, including the only complete set of proofs of an aborted 1910 Irish edition of Dubliners. Together the items are expected to raise up to £450,000 for the late Stanislaus’s estate.”