by ButterflyEffect

1909. James Joyce lives in Trieste (Italy) with his family. End of October, he leaves alone for Dublin on a business trip, and stays there until the end of December. He makes a pact with his wife to write to each other erotic letters. The letters of his wife disappeared, but the ones he wrote were published in 1975, the "dirty" letters of Joyce to her wife. Transcribing from Richard Ellmann, Selected Letters of James Joyce, Introduction, Faber & Faber, London, 1975: