Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO NITA M.B. WALL ("DEAR MRS WALL") a lengthy and gracious response to her letter of appreciation on The Outcast of the Islands, describing her letter as a reward for the painful labour of creation ("...when one sits before the blank page while the unexpressed thought shapes itself slowly - deep down somewhere at the bottom of one's heart...") and as sweetening the bitterness of the writer's solitude ("...That's why - I apprehend - the author, the artist craves for praise. For the hours of labour are long - and the time of achievement is only a short and fleeting moment..."), also with thanks for her wishes on his marriage and informing her that "we shall withdraw from the sights and sounds of civilization into the wilds of Brittany", 5 pages, 8vo, 17 Gillingham Street, London, 22 March 1896, autograph addressed envelope with red wax seal impression, lacking integral blank, envelope dust stained
Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO NITA M.B. WALL ("DEAR MRS WALL") a lengthy and gracious response to her letter of appreciation on The Outcast of the Islands, describing her letter as a reward for the painful labour of creation ("...when one sits before the blank page while the unexpressed thought shapes itself slowly - deep down somewhere at the bottom of one's heart...") and as sweetening the bitterness of the writer's solitude ("...That's why - I apprehend - the author, the artist craves for praise. For the hours of labour are long - and the time of achievement is only a short and fleeting moment..."), also with thanks for her wishes on his marriage and informing her that "we shall withdraw from the sights and sounds of civilization into the wilds of Brittany", 5 pages, 8vo, 17 Gillingham Street, London, 22 March 1896, autograph addressed envelope with red wax seal impression, lacking integral blank, envelope dust stained
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