Your post is almost as unreadable as Joyce's prose (to be fair, HN's layout and scant formatting options don't help), but one note:

>> The outcome is that I don’t think I can do anything for the propaganda of your work.

> did wells mean for the word propaganda to be a subtle dig? does he mean 'promotion'?

In 1928 "propaganda" was still a fairly neutral term, literally "something that is to be propagated". It only acquired the current negative connotations during and after the World War II due to prominent use by several fascist governments, most notably Goebbels's Propagandaministerium [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Ministry_of_Public_Enlig...