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In 1929 or 1930 I lodged, while doing vacation research at the British Museum, with a family which had known Conrad from 1885 to 1894–5. My principal informant, Captain Arthur Burroughs, later of Eider Dempsters, made his first voyage as an apprentice, at the age of 15, in the full-rigged ship Tilkhurst1 (Messrs W. R. Price of Austin Friars), Captain Blake2 in command. Burroughs joined the ship at Penarth Docks, 2 June 1885, and the ship sailed on 10 June with a cargo of coal for Singapore.3
Review of English Studies, vol. XVIII (1967) pp. 54–6.
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Hamer, D. (1990). Conrad: Two Biographical Episodes. In: Ray, M. (eds) Joseph Conrad. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09387-8_12
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