Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO WILLIAM GRIFFITH thanking him for kind words on Freya of the Seven Isles and admitting his prolixity ("...My great friend Perceval Gibbon (who I believe is fairly well known on your side [of the Atlantic] as a story writer) could have put it all in within the compass of say 7000 words. But I haven't the talent: Perhaps it is true that, as a distinguished French critic said: 'Conrad is essentially a dreamer (rêveur)..."), promising his magazine first refusal of Conrad's next unplaced short story, 1 page, 4to, headed stationery of Capel House, Orlestone, near Ashford, 25 February 1913, with autograph envelope, letter split in half
Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO WILLIAM GRIFFITH thanking him for kind words on Freya of the Seven Isles and admitting his prolixity ("...My great friend Perceval Gibbon (who I believe is fairly well known on your side [of the Atlantic] as a story writer) could have put it all in within the compass of say 7000 words. But I haven't the talent: Perhaps it is true that, as a distinguished French critic said: 'Conrad is essentially a dreamer (rêveur)..."), promising his magazine first refusal of Conrad's next unplaced short story, 1 page, 4to, headed stationery of Capel House, Orlestone, near Ashford, 25 February 1913, with autograph envelope, letter split in half
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