Given these criteria, what is the best manner in which to approach the Estate about a permissions request?
Timing. There is, unfortunately, no simple answer to the question of how to time a request. On the one hand, approaching the Estate early in the development of a project prevents the applicant’s seeming to have treated permission as an afterthought or foregone conclusion. On the other hand, early negotiations with the Estate have in some cases ended up being protracted and complicated, with a written agreement repeatedly deferred and/or accompanied by conditions that have proven difficult for the applicant to accept. Tone. Permissions-seekers who have met with the most success in the past have been polite but not fawning, respectful but not timorous, direct but not blunt. In formulating your request, you should consider positioning your project in respect to the Estate’s evident criteria—both explicit and implicit—as discussed above. Be advised, however, that none of these considerations guarantees a productive outcome. Accuracy. The Estate appears to be keenly interested that Joyce’s
