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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Forgive me for the delay in thanking you for the volume you were so kind to as to send me. How well done, well conceived, well said! Your "Ariane" is easily the most cha...Joseph Conrad André RuytersLe Mauvais RichePrint: Book
1900-1945'It was a joy to have your book ["Hors du Foyer"]. A thousand thanks. I have just finished reading it and, and I am charmed.'Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaHors du FoyerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had read some of your Philipino [sic] stories--and was looking for more of your work. I spotted it first in the old MacClure Mag.; certainly without any help from any...Joseph Conrad James Marie HopperCaybiganPrint: Book
1900-1945'I didn't write to thank you for the delightful volume ["The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments"] as I hoped [...] to have the pleasure of seeing yo...Joseph Conrad J. (James) G. (Gibbons) HunekerThe Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and O...Print: Book
1900-1945'Just a word to tell you I have finished your Mother's book ["A Confederate Girl's Diary"]. Admirable.' Hence follow 14 lines of praise. Joseph Conrad Sara Morgan Dawson A Confederate Girl's DiaryManuscript: Proofs (see letter and fn.3 p.243 of source text)
1900-1945'I am sending today the "Grand Elixir" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects admirable there can be no doubt.' Hence follow 12 li...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington Dawson Grand Elixir (The Green Moustache)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'It is dificult to express the joy I felt at the arrival of the "Complete Works of M. Barnabooth".[...].The first reading of the "Journal Intime" makes an unforgettable i...Joseph Conrad Valéry-Nicolas LarbaudA.O.BarnaboothPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks. I've just read the first chapter at once to take possession and have laid the book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] aside till Monday -- when the short story ...Joseph Conrad Bertrand RussellThe Problems of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am glad I read the little book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] before coming to your essays ["Philosophical Essays"]. If in reading the first I felt moving step by step...Joseph Conrad Bertrand RussellPhilosophical EssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your good letter arrived yesterday--a great pleasure and a source of serious misgivings. I have had your latest volume and surely I acknowledged it! [...] You mean "Mono...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordMalayan MonochromesPrint: Book
1900-1945'November brought a peculiar police-court case, which made literary history, after Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well of Loneliness", had been suppressed for impropriety. ...Vera Brittain Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1900-1945'Winston Churchill had been Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Baldwin Government of 1924, which now, after five years of office, sought re-election. In "The Gathering S...Vera Brittain Winston ChurchillThe Gathering StormPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had hesitated, knowing that "The New Statesman" and "The Week-end Review" regarded each other as rivals; two days later I agreed to write the notice, and subsequently ...Vera Brittain Storm JamesonNo Time Like the PresentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Infinite thanks for the most precious and admirable volume [Knave of Hearts] [...] meanwhile I am as ever yours with admiration of the poet and affection for the man...'Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsKnave of HeartsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am proud to learn that there is one [a phrase in "Lord Jim"] worthy to serve as an epigraph to one of the books of "Les Caves du Vatican". What a beautiful start! What...Joseph Conrad André GideLes Caves du Vatican (Book 1)Print: see additional information
1900-1945'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life in Sarawak"] as soon as I ought to have done. Upon ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA HatchmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life in Sarawak"] as soon as I ought to have done. Upon ...Joseph Conrad (Lady) Margaret BrookeMy Life in SarawakPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[paper on Bunyan's life]Manuscript: Unknown


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