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Typed letter signed : Orlestone, Kent, to [Edmund] Candler, 1918 November 12.

BIB_ID
408635
Accession number
MA 13828.1
Creator
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Display Date
1918 November 12.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.5 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Typed on light blue stationery with letterhead, "Capel House, / Orlestone, / Nr Ashford."
Forms part of a collection of 8 letters from Joseph Conrad to Edmund Candler.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Thanking him for a copy of Candler's book [Siri Ram, revolutionist], and expressing his praise and appreciation for it.; declining an invitation, citing his current involvement in his work, and closing with a reference to the armistice, announced the day before, "Yesterday brought us a feeling of deep and almost mournful thankfulness. One looks back with awe at the greatness of the sacrifice. Whether the future will be worthy of it time alone will show."