BIB_ID
408587
Accession number
MA 13820.3
Creator
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Display Date
1897 June 2.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.3 x 10.1 cm
Notes
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
Enclosing a receipt for £20 and declining a request that he "concoct a wily paragraph" on the subject of his latest novel [evidently a reference to Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus"], explaining that "All I had to say about the story I've said in the story"; discussing plans for a visit and proposed day of boating with Pawling and his wife.
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