Conrad, Joseph LONG AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO EDWARD GARNETT expressing the intensity of his gratitude for Garnett's praise and support of his writing ("...what would become of me if it were not for your brave words that warm like fire and feed like bread and make me drunk like wine!..."), discussing the structure of his ongoing work, Lord Jim, then turning to discuss in rare detail his Polish cultural heritage and family history, touching on the exile and early death of his parents, concluding his melancholy recollections with the comment that "I always intended to write something of the kind for Borys, so as to save all this from the abyss a few years longer. And probably he wouldn't care", 14 pages, 8vo, Pent Farm, Kent, 20 January 1900, with a red wax seal impression on p.7, slight staining and occasional nicks
Conrad, Joseph LONG AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO EDWARD GARNETT expressing the intensity of his gratitude for Garnett's praise and support of his writing ("...what would become of me if it were not for your brave words that warm like fire and feed like bread and make me drunk like wine!..."), discussing the structure of his ongoing work, Lord Jim, then turning to discuss in rare detail his Polish cultural heritage and family history, touching on the exile and early death of his parents, concluding his melancholy recollections with the comment that "I always intended to write something of the kind for Borys, so as to save all this from the abyss a few years longer. And probably he wouldn't care", 14 pages, 8vo, Pent Farm, Kent, 20 January 1900, with a red wax seal impression on p.7, slight staining and occasional nicks
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