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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'My dear! Thank you for "Pozoga". C'est très très bien. It seizes hold and interests one as much by its subject as by the manner of its writing.'Joseph Conrad Zofia Kossak-SzczuckaPozoga:Wspomieniaz Wolnia 1917-19 (The Blaze: Remi...Print: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for your Laforgue. Your introduction couldn't be more interesting as regards both matter and tone. It is very very well done. Your author's text is odd [curi...Joseph Conrad Jules Laforgue Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read your delightful and penetrating (I use the word deliberately) "[Mysterious] Japan". I have the book. I was looking into it again only the other day. Pray do ...Joseph Conrad Julian Street Mysterious JapanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Will you please give my warm regards to your husband and tell him I have just finished reading the "Rumak" with the greatest possible interest. I think it's simply wonde...Joseph Conrad Jan Tadeusz Zuk-SkarszewskiRumak Swiatowida:karykatura wczorajsza (Swiatowid'...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the press cuttings. The accident on board that ship was an extraordinary one.'Joseph Conrad W. A. H. MullA True Story: Loss and Record of the Wreck of the ...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I've had the "Fortnightly [Review]" sent to me. I've just finished your "Sainte Beuve". My dear fellow! It's an admirable analytical exposition of the man himself. I've ...Joseph Conrad Gérard Jean-AubrySainte Beuve (exact title unknown)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Best wishes for the book's career begun yesterday—wasn't it?'Joseph Conrad Richard CurleInto the East: Notes on Burma and MalayaManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Your Comédie du Laboratoire is perfect. Très chic — as French painters used to say of their pictures. This formula expresses the highest praise.'Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerRoztwor profesora Pytla (Professor Pytel's Solutio...Print: Book, or playscript
1900-1945'I liked "Engineer" very very much indeed! The idea, the execution, the style.[...] Shall I return the MS to you?'Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerR.H., InzynierManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I was just about to write to you on the "Dole " articles. They are wonderfully the right thing: matter, tone, attitude, interest.[...] Jessie is lost in admiration.'Joseph Conrad Richard CurleScandals of the DolePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am sorry I put in an, apparently, unlucky form what I had to say about the two pieces of prose you sent me.'Joseph Conrad Liam O'FlahertyThe Cow's DeathPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thank you very much for your letter and the pamphlet in which I was very much interested.' Joseph Conrad David John Nicoll"Commonweal": The Greenwich MysteryPrint: Pamphlet, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The vol. of your stories arrived while we were over in Havre [...]. Thanks, my dear fellow its a jolly good handful. Some of them I've seen before in Mags. but not many....Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyCapturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Warmest thanks for the vol and for the inscription. Oh my dear how good how profoundly appealing all this is — this little selection.'Joseph Conrad Hubert WellingtonWilliam RothensteinPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am sending back the pamphlet of the rules of the [National] Club. It is very interesting but but it occurs to me, my dear Gardiner [...] I cannot very well belong to t...Joseph Conrad [Rule Book of the National Club]Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Heartfelt thanks for your letter and the pamphlet about Einstein which for me is a small masterpiece of its kind.'Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerJeszcze o Einstein: teoria wzglenosci z lotu ptaka...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Thank you for your little book of innermost thoughts.[...] And you have proved your excellent humanity by the manner and matter of your essays.'Joseph Conrad Christopher MorleyInward Ho!Print: Book, Pamphlet
1900-1945'I have been laid up for days and days and your volume of H[udson]'s letters was the most welcome alleviation to the worry and general horror of the situation. I think th...Joseph Conrad William Henry Hudson153 Letters from W. H. Hudson Print: Book
1900-1945'I am better now and hasten to thank you for the more than generous sample of the "Criterion" which is really very good and did help me through some pretty bad sleepless ...Joseph Conrad The CriterionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Many thanks for the two copies, especially the grand format, of Crane's biography. Both sizes are very attractively got up. I very well like your fount and the spacing o...Joseph Conrad Thomas BeerStephen Crane: A Study in American Letters with an...Print: Book


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