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Francis Warrington Dawson
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Francis Warrington Dawson : The Scar
'I didn't dare to look at your book ["The Scar"] till I finished a rather long thing which I was writing.[...] I have not been disappointed.There is power to begin with, and a great charm of style, a soberness of presentation which appeals to me extremely, [...] for as you can imagine I am not writing this after one reading only.' Hence follow nine lines of further praise.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Francis Warrington Dawson : Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis
'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very French it is too and yet with something individual-- and even racial--glowing through it and adding to the fascination of the perfectly simple diction.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Francis Warrington Dawson : The Sin
'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a whole, up to that sample then it is distnctly stuff that can be handled.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Warrington Dawson Manuscript: Unknown
Francis Warrington Dawson : The Novel of George (published as The Pyramid)
'The novel --Good! Très fort!! As Pinker could not have done much with it before Easter I held it up here for a second reading.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Manuscript: Unknown
Francis Warrington Dawson : Grand Elixir (The Green Moustache)
'I am sending today the "Grand Elixir" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects admirable there can be no doubt.' Hence follow 12 lines of constructive criticism.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Manuscript: Unknown
Francis Warrington Dawson : The True Dimension
'The story you sent me (I'm glad to have it) I remembered of course very well. It isn't the sort of thing that is ever forgotten.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad
Francis Warrington Dawson : The Gift of Paul Clermont
'Now I have absorbed it I send you my thanks for "The Gift of Paul Clermont". It is a very charming and touching performance which one likes more the deeper one gets into it.'
[Hence follow nine lines of praise.]
