BIB_ID
408584
Accession number
MA 13820.6
Creator
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Display Date
1900 April 22.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Inscribed "Private" at upper left of first page.
Written on stationery printed "Pent Farm, / Stanford, / Near Hythe."
Forms part of a collection of 8 letters from Joseph Conrad to Sydney Pawling (MA 13820.1-8).
Written on stationery printed "Pent Farm, / Stanford, / Near Hythe."
Forms part of a collection of 8 letters from Joseph Conrad to Sydney Pawling (MA 13820.1-8).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing to confirm that he will be visiting Pawling in the company of his "partner" (i.e. Ford Madox Ford) and requesting a loan to pay for school related expenses for two of his wife's sisters, for whom he has arranged admission to a convent school in Slough run by the Order of the Ladies of St. Bernard; explaining that they are to attend the school free of charge, and that he is therefore loath to miss such an opportunity to provide for the girls' education "over a few pounds."; concluding with the request to "destroy this letter in any case. I don't apologize -- haven't the heart for it really."
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