Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO H.-D. DAVRAY in French, apologising for his delay in thanking Davray for notices in Semaine Littéraire and Mercure, which he blames on his melancholy, isolation, and the difficulty he is having in writing Nostromo, also praising Elsie Martindale's [Hueffer's] translation of Maupassant which is about to be published, and asserting the profound influence of Maupassant on his own work ("...Moi qui suis ... saturé de Maupassant..."), 8 pages, with the final five lines written cross-wise in the margin, 8vo, headed stationery of Pent Farm, near Hythe, Kent, 22 August 1903, fold tears
Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO H.-D. DAVRAY in French, apologising for his delay in thanking Davray for notices in Semaine Littéraire and Mercure, which he blames on his melancholy, isolation, and the difficulty he is having in writing Nostromo, also praising Elsie Martindale's [Hueffer's] translation of Maupassant which is about to be published, and asserting the profound influence of Maupassant on his own work ("...Moi qui suis ... saturé de Maupassant..."), 8 pages, with the final five lines written cross-wise in the margin, 8vo, headed stationery of Pent Farm, near Hythe, Kent, 22 August 1903, fold tears
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