Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO VIOLET PAGET on Nostromo ("...the least lucky of my reveries - badly printed, obscurely published and generally ignored..."), and explaining, in answer to questions put by her on behalf of Carlo Placci, that he has no plans to publish any further reminiscences ("...I gave way to megalomania at the insistence of F.M. Hueffer who insisted on having something from me for the E[nglish] R[eview]...") but admitting that "the Mirror of the Sea is, in a sense, biographical" and wishing Placci good fortune in his "Quixotic adventure", 2 pages, 4to, headed stationery of Aldington, near Hythe, Kent, 12 November 1909
Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO VIOLET PAGET on Nostromo ("...the least lucky of my reveries - badly printed, obscurely published and generally ignored..."), and explaining, in answer to questions put by her on behalf of Carlo Placci, that he has no plans to publish any further reminiscences ("...I gave way to megalomania at the insistence of F.M. Hueffer who insisted on having something from me for the E[nglish] R[eview]...") but admitting that "the Mirror of the Sea is, in a sense, biographical" and wishing Placci good fortune in his "Quixotic adventure", 2 pages, 4to, headed stationery of Aldington, near Hythe, Kent, 12 November 1909
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