Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, PROBABLY TO C.L. HIND regretfully declining his offer to review Stephen Crane's The Open Boat ("...The excellent fellow in the goodness of his heart has been praising me beyond my merits on his own side of the water .... I've not enough standing and reputation to put me above the suspicion of swinging back the censer..."), explaining that he read the stories prior to publication and has discussed them with him at length, "yet what can be said and explained during an all-night talk may wear a different complexion in the cold austerity of print", 4 pages, 8vo, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, 23 April 1898, dust stained
Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, PROBABLY TO C.L. HIND regretfully declining his offer to review Stephen Crane's The Open Boat ("...The excellent fellow in the goodness of his heart has been praising me beyond my merits on his own side of the water .... I've not enough standing and reputation to put me above the suspicion of swinging back the censer..."), explaining that he read the stories prior to publication and has discussed them with him at length, "yet what can be said and explained during an all-night talk may wear a different complexion in the cold austerity of print", 4 pages, 8vo, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, 23 April 1898, dust stained
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