Beschreibung:

Conrad, Joseph SERIES OF 12 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, 10 TO IRIS WEDGWOOD AND 2 TO HER HUSBAND RALPH WEDGWOOD friendly and personal letters dominated by World War I (“…the thought of this war sits on one’s chest like a nightmare. I am painfully aware of being crippled, of being ill & of being useless, with a sort of absurd anxiety as though it could matter to the greatness of the Empire. Borys is intensely miserable at not being yet of serviceable age…”), Borys’s commission, training, and war service (“…He has been … all along the front from Ypres-Arm[enti]ères Vimy ridge to the Somme offensive … He has been gassed a little, has flown in action, has been knocked down by shell concussion … has squatted in observation posts, had a joy ride in one of the first tanks – unfortunately the one which had its hind wheels shot away in the first half-hour…”), as well as other war-related topics including the death in action of Wedgwood family members, other subjects including Conrad's intentions in Within the Tides (“…a deliberate attempt at four different methods of telling a story – an essay in craftsmanship…”) and his expression of gratitude to Ralph Wedgwood for agreeing to being named as one of Conrad’s executors, 29 pages, 4to and 8vo, the Grand Hotel, Sheffield, Capel House, Orlestone, near Ashford, Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, and the Curzon Hotel, London, [6 July 1914] to “Tuesday" [?31 October 1922], one autograph envelope, occasional weakening at folds