Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO ELSIE HUEFFER ("MY DEAR SENORA") explaining that "I have been plunged in a torpor so profound that even your attack on my pet Heart of Darkness could do no more than make me roll my eyes ferociously", but now responding in detail to her criticisms, admitting that "your strictures are intelligible to me; and every criticism that it intelligible (a quality by no means common) must have some truth", but explaining his intentions in writing Heart of Darkness and his characterisation of Kurtz, concluding with typically decorous compliments and promising to bring cuttings of reviews to their next meeting ("...Most of them are unintelligible to me and consequently contain no truth..."), 6 pages, 8vo, headed stationery of Pent Farm, Stanford, Kent, 3 December 1902, integral blank on second bifolium torn off, not affecting text
Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO ELSIE HUEFFER ("MY DEAR SENORA") explaining that "I have been plunged in a torpor so profound that even your attack on my pet Heart of Darkness could do no more than make me roll my eyes ferociously", but now responding in detail to her criticisms, admitting that "your strictures are intelligible to me; and every criticism that it intelligible (a quality by no means common) must have some truth", but explaining his intentions in writing Heart of Darkness and his characterisation of Kurtz, concluding with typically decorous compliments and promising to bring cuttings of reviews to their next meeting ("...Most of them are unintelligible to me and consequently contain no truth..."), 6 pages, 8vo, headed stationery of Pent Farm, Stanford, Kent, 3 December 1902, integral blank on second bifolium torn off, not affecting text
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