Conrad, Joseph TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO W.H. CHESSON writing about his first novel Almayer's Folly before the publication, the first letter admitting that the "Pantai River" in the novel was identifiable as a river in Borneo and regretting "to see my own stupid finger pointing for ever to the spot on the map", for he has created a self-contained world ("...Any criticism that would look for real description of places and events would be disastrous to that particle of the universe which is nobody and nothing in the world but myself"...), the second admitting that the final typescript had omitted two paragraphs, which are therefore missing from the first edition, discussing advance publicity for the novel ("...Could you not say something about it being a "Civilized story in savage surroundings?"...") and agreeing to omit the preface, 5 pages, 8vo, 17 Gillingham Street, London, [mid-October/mid-November 1894 and early January 1895], adhesive marks, fold tears professionally restored [together with:] two pages of notes, possibly in Chesson's hand, summarising reviews of Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands
Conrad, Joseph TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO W.H. CHESSON writing about his first novel Almayer's Folly before the publication, the first letter admitting that the "Pantai River" in the novel was identifiable as a river in Borneo and regretting "to see my own stupid finger pointing for ever to the spot on the map", for he has created a self-contained world ("...Any criticism that would look for real description of places and events would be disastrous to that particle of the universe which is nobody and nothing in the world but myself"...), the second admitting that the final typescript had omitted two paragraphs, which are therefore missing from the first edition, discussing advance publicity for the novel ("...Could you not say something about it being a "Civilized story in savage surroundings?"...") and agreeing to omit the preface, 5 pages, 8vo, 17 Gillingham Street, London, [mid-October/mid-November 1894 and early January 1895], adhesive marks, fold tears professionally restored [together with:] two pages of notes, possibly in Chesson's hand, summarising reviews of Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands
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