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A First Meeting with Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad lies deep under the sod and yet the letter staring at me as I write is almost warm from his hands. It is dated 23 June [1924], Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, and it deals with an hypothetical question I put to ‘the most romantic figure in English literature’ concerning probable present-day conditions had America remained under the political domination of Great Britain.

New York Herald and New York Tribune [Magazine — Fiction — Books], 24 Aug. 1924, p. 1.

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  1. Joseph Conrad, Notes on Life and Letters (London: J. M. Dent, 1949) p. 230.

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  2. Conrad wrote two articles about the disaster, ‘Some Reflections, Seamanlike and Otherwise, on the Loss of the Titanic’, English Review, 11 (May 1912) pp. 304–15,

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  3. and ‘Some Aspects of the Admirable Inquiry’, English Review, 11 (July 1912) pp. 581–95.

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  4. Both are reprinted in Conrad, Notes on Life and Letters (London: J. M. Dent, 1949) pp. 213–48, with slightly different titles.

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Maxwell, P. (1990). A First Meeting with Joseph Conrad. In: Ray, M. (eds) Joseph Conrad. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09387-8_17

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