Beschreibung:

Conrad, Joseph SIX AUTOGRAPH LETTERS (FOUR SIGNED, ONE LETTER PRESUMABLY LACKING ITS FINAL LEAF, ONE WITH SIGNATURE CUT AWAY), FIVE TO TED SANDERSON AND ONE TO HIS FIANCÉE HELEN WATSON a series of letters written with blazing intensity to one of his closest friends, urging him to propose to the woman he loves and then congratulating both him and his fiancée on their engagement, with one earlier letter on his plans for the publication of An Outcast of the Islands (“…F[isher] U[nwin] wants to get the book accepted for a serial by some magazine or newspaper. I hate the idea but have given in to his arguments … My opinion is he shall not be able to place it…”) and his investment in a South African mining venture, a later letter commenting on his parting with Unwin and future publication plans (“…I can see a long, hard fight before me, with no certitude of victory. I am rather weary and not as restful as I ought to be – considering my many virtues…”), and the receipt of a letter from Poland (“…like voices from some other world seen a long time ago in another existence…”), together with one much later incomplete letter, 42 pages, 8vo, one with autograph envelope, 17 Gillingham Street, London, and Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, 14 August 1895 to 14 November 1896, the first letter seemingly lacking final leaf and with punch holes and adhesive stain, fold tears, one later letter lacking portion of text and signature [with:] Three autograph letters signed by Sanderson to Helen Watson, and four autograph letters signed by Watson to Sanderson, letters of a cautiously blossoming courtship, including her comments on The Outcast of the Islands (“…Mr Conrad has a curious power of expressing feelings one has had & did not know of till one read his book...”) and Almayer's Folly, and his defence of Conrad and his works (“…Conrad’s is one of the noblest, most unselfish refined natures that I have ever met. I think I told you of the hard life which he has had to lead. Throughout it all, his Ideals have never been lowered…”), 33 pages, 13 September to 1 October 1896