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Joyce, James AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("JAS. A. JOYCE"), TO AUGUSTA, LADY GREGORY written on the eve of his first "exile" from Ireland and containing his artistic declaration of faith ( "...though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine..."), explaining that he believes his medical studies are being deliberately frustrated by the University authorities in Dublin so he is going "alone and friendless" to study in Paris ("...I want to get a degree in medicine for then I can build up my work securely. I want to achieve myself - little or great as I may be - for I know there is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being...") and hoping for assistance from Lady Gregory, 4 pages, 8vo, mourning stationery, 7 St Peter's Terrace, Cabra, Dublin, 22 November 1902, with autograph envelope, slight ink smudging on final page, rust mark