Conrad, Joseph TYPED LETTER SIGNED, TO ARTHUR W. PHILLIPS in blue ink, with autograph corrections and postscript, recalling his days at sea to a fellow sailor, including the dismasting of the Torrens on the voyage before he sailed in her ("...The most absurd thing in the world by all accounts. It was only a slight squall..."), and writing regretfully of the changes wrought by the passing of the age of sail, as he had observed in his passage to America the previous year ("...Capt. Bone, who had some ten years of sail, told me that they had wholly lost the 'weather sense', that touch with the natural phenomena of wind and sea which was the very breath of our professional life..."), 2 pages, 4to, headed stationery of Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, 12 January 1924, spotting, [with:] typescript biographical note on the addressee (1 page)
Conrad, Joseph TYPED LETTER SIGNED, TO ARTHUR W. PHILLIPS in blue ink, with autograph corrections and postscript, recalling his days at sea to a fellow sailor, including the dismasting of the Torrens on the voyage before he sailed in her ("...The most absurd thing in the world by all accounts. It was only a slight squall..."), and writing regretfully of the changes wrought by the passing of the age of sail, as he had observed in his passage to America the previous year ("...Capt. Bone, who had some ten years of sail, told me that they had wholly lost the 'weather sense', that touch with the natural phenomena of wind and sea which was the very breath of our professional life..."), 2 pages, 4to, headed stationery of Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, 12 January 1924, spotting, [with:] typescript biographical note on the addressee (1 page)
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