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Auction archive: Lot number 1

CONRAD, LETTER TO KLISZCZEWSKI, 1885

Estimate
£12,000 - £15,000
ca. US$18,210 - US$22,763
Price realised:
£13,750
ca. US$20,866
Auction archive: Lot number 1

CONRAD, LETTER TO KLISZCZEWSKI, 1885

Estimate
£12,000 - £15,000
ca. US$18,210 - US$22,763
Price realised:
£13,750
ca. US$20,866
Beschreibung:

Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED USING HIS POLISH NAME ("K.N. KORZENIOWKI"), TO JOSEF SPIRIDION KLISZCZEWSKI bemoaning the result of the recent British general election, warning that "every disreputable ragamuffin in Europe feels that the day of universal brotherhood, despoliation and disorder is coming apace, and nurses daydreams of well plenished pockets amongst the ruin of all that is respectable venerable and Holy", claiming that this is the moment when "the great British Empire went over the edge" and marks the removal of the "last barrier to the pressure of infernal doctrines born in continental back-slums", warning of the dire consequences ("...Socialism must inevitably end in Caesarism...") and explaining that he sees no hope for the future ("...The whole herd of idiotic humanity are moving in that direction at the bidding of unscrupulous rascals, and a few sincere but dangerous lunatics. These things must be. It is a fatality!..."), 6 pages, 8vo, Calcutta, 19 December 1885, second bifolium lacking integral blank, fold tears, pin holes, ink smudge

Auction archive: Lot number 1
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2013
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED USING HIS POLISH NAME ("K.N. KORZENIOWKI"), TO JOSEF SPIRIDION KLISZCZEWSKI bemoaning the result of the recent British general election, warning that "every disreputable ragamuffin in Europe feels that the day of universal brotherhood, despoliation and disorder is coming apace, and nurses daydreams of well plenished pockets amongst the ruin of all that is respectable venerable and Holy", claiming that this is the moment when "the great British Empire went over the edge" and marks the removal of the "last barrier to the pressure of infernal doctrines born in continental back-slums", warning of the dire consequences ("...Socialism must inevitably end in Caesarism...") and explaining that he sees no hope for the future ("...The whole herd of idiotic humanity are moving in that direction at the bidding of unscrupulous rascals, and a few sincere but dangerous lunatics. These things must be. It is a fatality!..."), 6 pages, 8vo, Calcutta, 19 December 1885, second bifolium lacking integral blank, fold tears, pin holes, ink smudge

Auction archive: Lot number 1
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2013
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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