| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'The first imaginative work by an Englishman ... [Joseph Conrad] read was Nicholas Nickleby (1839).' | Joseph Conrad | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Riceyman Steps' had brought him new prestige; it was read by lords and barbers, and Conrad was reported to say that ... | Joseph Conrad | Arnold Bennett | Riceyman Steps | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also gratefully acknowledge receipt of the "Daily Telegraph." The Liberal gov was defeated on the budget vote a day... | Joseph Conrad | | newspaper (Daily Telegraph) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The second number of the "Standard" came to hand yesterday via Singapore.' | Joseph Conrad | | newspaper (London Evening Standard) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ''I have finished "Yaga" - twice. I shall write nothing to you about it while I am still under its charm.' | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | La Madone de Busowiska, moeurs houtsoules | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.' | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I threw myself (in a manner of speaking) on "Popes et popadias" with eagerness and high hopes. From the first lines m... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Popes et popadias (published in book form as Les Filles du Pope) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am charmed with "Joujou". It is altogether and delightfully shocking. Where the devil did you find it? Pardon the n... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Joujou | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday evening I escaped from the ship for the pilgrimage to the station. I have my parcel No.4000 and something.... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading "Le fils Grandsire" with delight. It is charming and characteristic: it is alive. I shall finish the b... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I finished the book [Le Mariage du fils Grandsire] a while ago; then I went over several passages while waiting the ... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''I reread "Yaga" only the other day. It gave me intense pleasure. I read slowly and mingled my dreams with these page... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not clear whether this was being read in the book version or that published in the Revue des Deux Monde |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me.... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book, see additional comments |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me.... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Le Lys Rouge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just reread "Le fils Grandsire", opening the book at random, and continuing at random, I have read every singl... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I fear I may be too much under the influence of Maupassant. I have studied "Pierre et Jean" - thought, method and all... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Pierre et Jean | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now I only want to say that "An Imagined World " charmed my eyes with a charm of its own-distinc[t]ly.' | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | An Imagined World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Scottish dailies have begun to review my "FollY" ["Almayer's Folly"]. brief,journalistic, but full pf praise! Abo... | Joseph Conrad | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresi... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Wonderful Visit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresi... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Time Machine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresi... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am sorry to miss making the acquaintance of Mr Becke. Strangely enough I have been, only the other day, reading aga... | Joseph Conrad | George Lewis (Louis) Becke | By Reef and Palm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' I have read "The First Fleet Family"with interest tempered by disappointment.' Thereafter follow two pages of large... | Joseph Conrad | George Lewis (Louis) Becke (and Walter Jeffrey) | A First Fleet Family | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had this morning a charming surprise in the shape of the "Spoils of Poynton" sent me by H. James with a very charac... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Spoils of Poynton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I've just finished reading "Lisa of Lambeth" It is certainly worth reading--but whether it's worth talking about is a... | Joseph Conrad | W.Someret Maugham | Liza of Lambeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I delayed sending you my acknowledgement for the September issue[of Blackwood's Magazine] [...]The appreciation of Mr... | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'What do you think of the "Gadfly"? I wrote what I thought to P.[presumably Sydney Pawling of Heinemann] who rejoined ... | Joseph Conrad | E.(Ethel) L.(Lilian) Voynich | The Gadfly | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for the copy of the November number [of Blackwood;'s Magazine][...] I turned to "Tennyson" with eagerness.' | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R.Bridges is a poet I'm damned if he ain't! The... | Joseph Conrad | Humphry James | Paddy's Woman and Other Storiesries | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R.Bridges is a poet. I'm damned if he ain't! T... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bridges | Shorter Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Badge" It won't hurt you --or only very little. Crane-ibn-Crane el Yankee is all right. The man sees the ou... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a ... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Crane | A Man and Some Others | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a ... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Crane | The Open Boat | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I send back the MS tonight.The chapters are all as they should be. The last line excellent. Good luck to the book.' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Jocelyn | Manuscript: Unknown, probably a typed MS |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday I finfished the "Life" [the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila by Cunninghame Grahames's wife Gabriela.] Ca... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Impenitent Thief" has been read more than once. I've read it several times alone and I've read it aloud to my w... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | The Impenitent Thief | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'And the merit of the book ["Jocelyn"], (apart from distinguished literary expression) is just in this: You have given... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Jocelyn | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now the first sensation of oppression has worn off a little what remains with one after reading the Life of Santa Te... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Arthur] Symons reviewing "Trionfo della Morte" (trans:) [Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1894 novel] in the last "Sat. Rev" we... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | [article in Saturday Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Bristol Fashion" business is excellently well put. You seem to know a lot about every part of the world and what... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Bristol Fashion Pt.2 in Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [in reference to Israel Zangwill's praise for "The Nigger of the Narcissus" Conrad expresses] 'a disinterested admirat... | Joseph Conrad | Israel Zangwill | Premier and the Painter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Guide book simply magnificent Everlastingly good! [sic].I've read it last night having only then returned home.' | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Notes on the District of Menteith | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Clifford's book reached me only yesterday--the 15th [...] The book is interesting, has insight and of course unriv... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Studies in Brown Humanity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This morning I had the "Aurora" from Smithers, No.2 of the 500 copies. C'est tout simplement magnifique yet I do not ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Aurora la Cujini: A Realistic sketch in Seville | Print: Book, see additional comments |
| 1850-1899 | 'Blackwood's Magazine for this month has an appreciation of F.M. Kelly's [James Fitzmaurice Kelly 1857-1923] edition o... | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I return the pages "To Wayfaring Men". I read them before I read your letter and have been deeply touched.' | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Preface to: Mogreb-el-Aksa: A Journey in Morocco | Manuscript: Sheet, Presumably typewritten pages |
| 1850-1899 | 'At one o'clock [Neil] Munro and I went into the street.We talked. I had read up "The Lost Pibroch" which I do think w... | Joseph Conrad | Neil Munro | The Lost Pibroch and Other Sheiling Stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Higginson's Dream" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flatte... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Higginson's Dream | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'PS I've read "Two Magics" Henry James's last. The first story ["The Turn of the Screw"] is all there. He extracts an ... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Two Magics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read "Shifting of the Fire". I have read it several times looking for your "inside" in that book; the first im... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox (Hermann Ford) Ford (Hueffer) | Shifting of the Fire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your photograph came yesterday (It's good!) and the book [Mogreb-el-Acksa] arrived by this evening's post. I dropped ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Mogreb-el-Acksa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Just a word or two about Robert's book. It is a glorious performance.Much as we expected of him. [...] Nothing approa... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Mogreb-el-Acksa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks ever so much for "The Invisible Man". I shall keep him a few more days longer.
Frankly--it is uncommonly fine... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Invisible Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you think Stephen will be home for Christmas? His story in B. ["Blackwood's Magazine"] is magnificent. It is the v... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Crane | The Price of the Harness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had a treat in the shape of a number of the "Singapore Free Press" 2 and a half columns about "Mr Conrad at home an... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Article in Singapore Free Press | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The trans: of the T.M.["The Time Machine"] is really first rate. What an admirably good thing it is, this T.M. How tr... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Time Machine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today, from your kindness, I received the "Chronicle" with Robert's [Cunninghame Graham] letter. C'est bien ca -- c'e... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | letter in Daily Chronicle "Pax Britannica" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The thing ["A Paheka" ] in "West.Gaz." is excellent, excellent.' | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | 'A Paheka' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ''I was delighted with the number. Gibbon especially fetched me quite. But everything is good. Munro's verses--excelle... | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just read "Family Portraits". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pl... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Family Portraits | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The... | Joseph Conrad | William Beckford | Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The... | Joseph Conrad | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The... | Joseph Conrad | Abu Zaid (and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt) | The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart':
'To me even "R.T... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Real Thing | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart':
'To me even "R.T... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Pupil | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''I hold "Ipane". Hoch! Hurra! Vivat! May you live! And now I know I am virtuous because I read and had no pang of jea... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | The Ipane | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In reading the last number of the "Mercure [de France]" I had a moment of very lively pleasure, and I owe it to you.... | Joseph Conrad | | Mercure de France | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received the book only three hours ago--and it is only too short! I've read it twice.[...]. Many thanks. I've lived... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | In a Corner of Asia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Referring to the reporting of the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): 'I can't say I shared in the hyst... | Joseph Conrad | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think Zack [Gwendolen Keats] may be congratulated on the novel. It is an advance on the short stories--a promising ... | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I prefer to say nothing critical about John Buchan's story'.
Hence follow more than twenty lines of quite strong and... | Joseph Conrad | John Buchan | The Far Islands | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wanted to thank you for the volume you've sent me. The preface is jolly good let me tell you. It is wonderfully goo... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Desperate Character and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to your sketch (for it is that) in last "B'wood", it has pleased me immensely. The simplicity of treatment is effe... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Father Rouellet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I send you my affectionate thanks for the book ["The Plattner Story and Others"] and for the terms of the inscription... | Joseph Conrad | H.G. Wells | The Plattner Story and Others | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] but now since I've received the "Sat. Review" I've something to write about. The "german Tramp" is not only exc... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | In a German Tramp | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | In a long letter to Edward Garnett, in which Conrad outlines some aspects of his family history, he writes that his fa... | Joseph Conrad | William Shakespeare | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, One page of his father's translation into Polish. |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was only a month before or perhaps it was only a week before, that I had read to him aloud from beginning to end, ... | Joseph Conrad | Victor Hugo | Les Travailleurs de la Mer | Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, Conrad's father's translation into Polish. |
| 1900-1945 | 'But as to "Buta" it is altogether and fundamentally good, good in matter--that's of course--but good wonderfully good... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Buta | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev [sic]? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Al... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | The Jew and Other Stories | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I add a few words above all to talk to you about the book. I've read the novel for the third time, faithfully--from o... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Pour Noemi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the vol. Chaffery is immense. The thing as a whole remarkable in its effects.'
Hence follow five more li... | Joseph Conrad | H.G. Wells | Love and Mr Lewisham | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ''The MS heralded by your letter arrived tbhis morning. I've had the time to read it . it is wonderfully well done: te... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Cosmopolitan (eventually known as A Knight) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read "Cruz Alta" four days ago. c'est tout simplement magnifique. I know most of the sketches, in fact nearly al... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Cruz Alta | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the "Cinque Ports" which came today as a most agreeable surprise. In the matter of outward characteri... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Cinque Ports | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wanted to write to you about Your book [...] you know how paralysed one is sometimes-- and then we had talked--I ha... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Villa Rubein | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read " Petersburg Tales". Phew! That is something! [...] That work is genuine, undeniable,constructed and inhabi... | Joseph Conrad | Olive Garnett | The Petersburg Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read "The Silence" once but shall keep it till tomorrow. Certain remarks I keep for a note which I will send you... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Silence | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter. The enclosure was most intetesting. It reveals an original personality and to me attract... | Joseph Conrad | Frank Challice Constable | (letter) | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I run on with leaden feet and do not seem to advance an inch. I see no one, read nothing but "Maga" which is a solace... | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have never had the pleasure of meeting him [Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy] ; but I've read and admired his boo... | Joseph Conrad | William Robert Kennedy | Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor: Fifty Years in the Navy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to "Charlotte" the genuineness of its conception the honesty of its feeling make that work as welcome as a breath ... | Joseph Conrad | David Meldrum | The Conquest of Charlotte | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nevertheless I've read the book ["A Man of Devon"] twice'.
Hence follows a page of constructive criticism. | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | A Man of Devon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am altogether under the charm of that book ["The Vanished Arcadia"] in accord with its spirit and full of admiratio... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Vanished Arcadia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The lecture is splendid. It is striking in its expression [...]and in its eloquence too [...].I call it scientific el... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Discovery of the Future | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's wonderful how well sustained is the excellence of "Charlotte".I've just read the last instalment [...]' | Joseph Conrad | David Meldrum | (An episode of ) The Conquest of Charlotte | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The reading of the "Man from the North" has inspired me with the greatest respect for your artistic conscience. I am ... | Joseph Conrad | (Enoch) Arnold Bennett | A Man from the North. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to "Bushwhacking" you know I prize it above anything that may be written in acknowledgement of a presentation volu... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Bushwhacking and Other Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your paper in the "Academy" mutilated as it is by the mystic mind illustrates my meaning.' | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Making of Modern Verse | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the "Rossetti". My opinion of it you know but I am reading it carefully. It is good.' | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | Rossetti | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Remenber me faithfully to your wife whose translation of "Karenina" is splendid.Of the thing itself I think but littl... | Joseph Conrad | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm sorry I kept the MS so long.[...] However I've read it more than once; the difficulty was to say something useful... | Joseph Conrad | Elizabeth Martindale | Margaret Hever | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual un... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | [Stories] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'But if I could not find time to write to you [to acknowledge receipt of the presentation copy] I had found time to r... | Joseph Conrad | (Enoch) Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel so dull and muddle-headed that I daren't even attempt to give you now an idea of the effect the little volume ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Success | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Excellent, the last number of "Maga".'
Conrad then very briefly mentions two stories, one by Neil Munro. | Joseph Conrad | Neil Munro | Children of the Tempest | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1900-1945 | 'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then ... | Joseph Conrad | James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then ... | Joseph Conrad | James Fenimore Cooper | The Deerslayer | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then ... | Joseph Conrad | James Fenimore Cooper | The Prairie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The review [in the "Spectator"] is good is it not.The "Speaker" also reviewed me the same week--Whig and Tory. That i... | Joseph Conrad | | various newspapers and periodicals | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The River of Cathay is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.' | Joseph Conrad | Ernest Dawson | The River of Cathay | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ought to have thanked you before but I preferred to read the book first. I've read it twice with casts back here an... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | A Free Lance of Today | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading again the "[A] Vanished Arcadia" - from the dedication, so full of charm,to the last paragraph wi... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The "Mercure de France" notice is agreeable - and as he [Henry-Durand Davray] reproduces what I have been lately talk... | Joseph Conrad | Henry-Durand Davray | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ("Maison du Peché") has arrived and is now half read. Without going further my verdict is that it is good ... | Joseph Conrad | Marcelle Tinayre | La Maison du Peché | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your Saturday Review fling is first rate. Nothing I liked more since the gold-fish carrier story'. | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Convert (?) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Edward Garnett] gave me his father's book for you. He handed it to me because I wanted to look at some new storie... | Joseph Conrad | Richard` Garnett | The Twilight of the Gods and Other tales | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant: 'I've "suggested" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occ... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Stories from De Maupassant [English title] | Manuscript: Proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is any amount of masterly pages. I have not read all of them as you may imagine. [...] Yes the "virtue" of the ... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent volume. Last time I saw you , you spoke of it slightlingly-and this only adds to my envy of your astound... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | Twelve Stories and a Dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You must think me a brute. I don't even attempt to palliate an inexcusable delay in thanking you for "Leonora".[...] ... | Joseph Conrad | (Enoch) Arnold Bennett | Leonora | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A thousand thanks for the article you devote to me in the "Revue". I read it with lively interest, profound attention... | Joseph Conrad | Kazimierz Waliszewski | Un cas de naturalisation littéraire: Joseph Conrad | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have to thank you for Morel's pamphlet which reached me from L'pool a few days ago.There can be no doubt that his p... | Joseph Conrad | E.(Edward) D.(Dene) Morel | The Congo Slave State. | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Next to tell you that "H.[Hernando]de Soto" is most exquisitely excellent: your very mark and spirit upon a subject ... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Hernando de Soto: together with an account of one of his captains, Gonçalo Silvestre. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The reading of the "White Bird", apart from the sheer pleasure your work always gives, had a special interest for me ... | Joseph Conrad | J.[James] M.[Matthew] Barrie | The Little White Bird | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It only remains for me to add that I am on page 24 of "Ivan the Terrible"; that is to say that I have been comforted ... | Joseph Conrad | Kazimierz Waliszewski | Ivan le Terrible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Arrived: A book with a Chinese title of Scandinavian authorship translated by Mrs Reynolds. I am touched and pleased ... | Joseph Conrad | Henri Jean François Borel | Wu Wei:A Phantasy Based on the Philosophy of Lao-Tse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls s... | Joseph Conrad | W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson | The London Sparrow in Kith and Kin: Poems of Animal Life ed. H.S.Salt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls s... | Joseph Conrad | W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson | Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your first inst[alment] [of "Kipps"] in the PMM [Pall Mall Magazine] is jolly good. It turns up [sic] remarkably well... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells | Kipps:The Story of a Simple Soul | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'All I can say is that I am quite enthusiastic about the work ["A Modern Utopia"]. From the first line of the preface ... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells | A Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This moment I receive "Progress", or rather the moment (last night) occurred favorably to let me read before I sat do... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Progress and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've just read Nelson. It is very good. Some criticism can be made mainly on the point that you presuppose too much ... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ["The Year of Trafalgar"] arrived. Some day I will bring it to London for you to write your name and mine ... | Joseph Conrad | Henry Newbolt | The Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the battle and of the events which led up to it, with a collection of the poems and ballads written thereupon between 1805 and 1905 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your article on [Icelandic] Sagas first rate and extracts quoted are good. I quite see how one could get dramas out ... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | 'The Icelandic Sagas' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have re-read your book on Trafalgar and can only repeat that your argumentation is absolutely convincing.' | Joseph Conrad | Henry Newbolt | The Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the battle and of the events which led up to it, with a collection of the poems and ballads written thereupon between 1805 and 1905 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'If you don't know already it may interest you to know that in Anatole France's last book ["Sur la pierre blanche"] th... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Sur la pierre blanche | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in yo... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Abeille: conte | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in yo... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Thais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ["The Man of Property"] is in parts marvellously done and in its whole a piece of art-undubitably [sic] a pi... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Man of Property | Manuscript: presumably copy of MS sent for publication, or the page proofs, since book was publsihed on 23 March 1906 |
| 1900-1945 | 'The blessed vol: ["The Fifth Queen"] arrived about 4 days ago - or is it a week? I've read it twice - thats all.[...]... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Fifth Queen and how she came to court | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ford's ] "The Heart of the Country" is out today and a very charming piece of writing it is.' | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Heart of the Country:A Survey of Modern Land | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read Jack's article in the "Speaker". Hum! Hum! He had better be careful.' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Wanted - Schooling in Fiction | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Comet appeared to my naked (and surprised) eye yesterday morning. By a great effort of will I stuck to my own tas... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells | In the Days of the Comet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And on the subject of Wells, his book on the United States is quite smart.He has understood a heap of fundamentally u... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells | The Future in America: A search after realities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got the play ["The Breaking Point"] at 9 this morning. I've shut myself up with it at once and I won't come out of ... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | The Breaking Point | Print: unclear whether MS or printed playscript |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am sending you with my love a pretty edition of "Emaux et Camées" [of Théophile Gautier]. I don't think you have... | Joseph Conrad | Théophile Gautier | Emaux et Camées | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read your book ["His People"] with the usual delight and more than the usual admiration.[...] Three times I've g... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | His People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Years ago I looked into "Typee" and "Omoo" but as I didn't find there what I am looking for when I open a book I did g... | Joseph Conrad | Herman Melville | Moby Dick or The Whale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been a few times to the Town [Montpellier] Library- with an object. And the object is reading up all I can di... | Joseph Conrad | Paul Gruyer | Napoleon, roi de l'ile d'Elbe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by your... | Joseph Conrad | Jessie Conrad | A handbook of Cookery for a Small House | Manuscript: Sheet, final typescript and possibly earlier versions as well |
| 1900-1945 | 'My dearest Jack I read the "C[ountry H[ouse]" with perfectly unalloyed delight. [...] I can only say it came to me in... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Country House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I didn't write before because I was finishing something. That does not mean that I did not read the play ["Joy"] at ... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Joy | Print: probably a playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read Hueffer's portrait of Mr John Galsworthy several times. It is interesting mostly as a portrait of Mr Hueffe... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | [article on Galsworthy] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In many respects and from an absolute point of judgement - the book ["An English Girl"] is simply magnificent.' Henc... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | An English Girl | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I have had the new edition of Sta. Teresa sent down for a leisurely re-reading. It seems no end of years since I rea... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The first instalment of your story in the PMM ["Pall Mall Magazine"] opens the year brilliantly. How good you are in ... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells | The War in the Air | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The new edition of the "Island Ph[arisee]" arrived during the crisis of horrors [severe gout and the debilitating eff... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Island Pharisees | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And of all the men who write today it is only Hueffer who writes for love[...]. I took up the "H[eart]of [the]C[ountr... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Heart of the Country: A Survey of Modern Land | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Write your fiction in the tone of this very excellent article if you like. Place it in S. Italy if that will help.' | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | The Island of Typhoeus | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks ever so much for the book. One would want a long and warm talk about it.To set down the several trains of thou... | Joseph Conrad | H. G.(Herbert George) Wells | New Words for Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the book. You know what I think of it in so far as I have been able to express it. I did not do it very we... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Fifth Queen Crowned | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book arrived by the first post.[...] [it] might be described as an appalling indictment of the middle classes--[... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | A Commentary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Send me Lane's exact address and I will forward him the MS of "[The Holy] Mountain". I've just finished re-reading th... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | The Holy Mountain | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely readi... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Fraternity | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely readi... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | A Little Tour in France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I have just finished the book ["Mr. Apollo"] which reached me this morning [...].It comes off magnificently.'
Hence... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | Mr. Apollo | Print: BookManuscript: proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am keeping the "Jeanne d'Arc" until you return to town, unless you want me to send it out west to you. Upon the who... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Vie de Jeanne d'Arc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'From one point of view I've nothing but admiration for the ending of "Shadows" ["Fraternity"].Its naturalness is appa... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Fraternity | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] the gratuitous atrocity of, say, "Ivan Illyitch"[sic] or the monstous stupidity of such a thing as "The Kreutze... | Joseph Conrad | Leo Tolstoy | The Death of Ivan Illyich and other stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But "La leçon bien apprise" is really quite....And what is wrong with "Les Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine"? I don't like ... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Les Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine, and La Leçon bien apprise see also additional comments | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There are books one seems to have read before, and books one doesn't want to read, books that one reads with annoyanc... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | A Poor Man's House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have tasted, sipped, and consumed the delectable nectar prepared surely with the milk of human kindness and spiced ... | Joseph Conrad | E.[Edward] V. [Verrall] Lucas | Over Bemerton's: An Easy-going Chronicle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[...]the 2 vols of my uncle's memoirs which I have by me, to refresh my recollections and settle my ideas.' [while st... | Joseph Conrad | Tadeusz Bobrowski | Pamietniki | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have the complete text of "The Isle" in my possession.[...]. The short passage [on Giovanni de Procida, 13th centur... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | The Isle of Typhoeus | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Does the A[natole] F[rance] next book consist of the proofs you've let me see? And what on earth is one to write abou... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | L'Ile des Pingouins | Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'The India book is most interesting. Nevinson is a dear. What is happening now there only shows that nations as well a... | Joseph Conrad | Henry Woodd Nevinson | The New Spirit in India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Both Jessie and I are very much struck with "[A] Fisher of Men".' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | A Fisher of Men | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the e... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The American | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the e... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The American | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A fine book dearest boy ! I've read it several times. There's a breadth, an ease in it which gives one a quite new v... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Fraternity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'All the same I've read your two short stories. Very good both. Very good indeed. But I am not going to think out a st... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | His [Norman Douglas's] intention is to offer his MS [" Siren Land"] to Mr Methuen. It is jolly good--a distinguished a... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | Siren Land | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'So I will only tell you that the 1st instalment of the novel [ "The Holy Mountain"] is brilliantly effective.' | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | The Holy Mountain | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am extremely gratified by the arrival of your book of Supermen. [...] your pages can give nothing but pleasure to a... | Joseph Conrad | J. (James) G. Gibbons Huneker | Egoists: A Book of Supermen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the play ["The Feud"] which reached me today and as you may imagine was read at once.' Hence follow a page... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | The Feud | Print: playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote yesterday to P[erceval] G[ibbon] about his Afrikander memories. I didn't quite tell him how good they are for... | Joseph Conrad | Reginald Perceval Gibbon | Afrikander Memories | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like immensely your verse in the last E[nglish R[eview]. The second piece for choice but as a matter of fact I like... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | unspecified poem | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Its really good of you to have sent "Faith". Your magic never grows less; each of your prefaces is a gem and my enthu... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Faith | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This ["The Eldest Son"] is extremely fine [...]. At the end of each act I got up and walked for a while in a sort of ... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Eldest Son | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'You know Marris--the man of the East who wrote the letter I read to you? Well he is going back to his Malay princess ... | Joseph Conrad | Carl Murrell Marris | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am [...] reading and dipping into and re-dipping into your blue volume ["The Holy Mountain"]. Fact is I've just ban... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | The Holy Mountain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your paper on the drama has pleased me so much in the form and has appealed strongly to my convictions which it clari... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Some Platitudes Concerning Drama | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is c... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is c... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Salammbô | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I received the volume ["A Motley"] the day before yesterday and laid it aside till this afternoon.'
Hence follow one... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | A Motley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sent about a fortnight ago, three of your papers to Austin Harrison [...] the present editor of the E[nglish] R[ev... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | The Caves of Siren Land (and 2 other pieces cited in evidence | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the same No. [of Harper's Magazine] Nevinson has a story-- and Lord it is bad. The whole No. is so inept that I fe... | Joseph Conrad | Henry Woodd Nevinson | Sitting at a Play | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your gift is none the less welcome because I read your book a few weeks ago. E[dward] Garnett, Duckworth's literary a... | Joseph Conrad | David Bone | The Brassbounder | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I didn't dare to look at your book ["The Scar"] till I finished a rather long thing which I was writing.[...] I have ... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | The Scar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Without any doubt Jean [Gachet de la Fournière] has talent.[...] I wrote my immediate impression right after reading... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Gachet de la Fournière | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I must thank you for the "B[lack]wood" where your "Puffin" was really interesting.' | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | The Puffin (uncertain) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'All these sketches have the quality without which neither beauty, nor I am afraid, truth, are effective, that is they... | Joseph Conrad | Helen Sanderson (pseud. 'Janet Allardyce') | African Sketches and Impressions | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the story. It's marvellous in a way but we must talk it over.' | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | unidentified | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wouldn't throw a doubt on his [Edward Garnett's] judgement but I understand he has been lately crying up [through h... | Joseph Conrad | E.F. Wedgwood | The Shadow of a Titan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I have an idea dear Jack that any comment on your work can be nothing by now but ( in the words of the Pole in "[A] L... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I send back "The Windlestraw" by return of post. In this sort of apologue you are simply incomparable.' Hence follow... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Windlestraw | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The other day I took up "Yvette". How well she [Ada Galsworthy] has done it all!' | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Yvette and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was ever so good of you to have sent me the Hogarth little book. I knew practically nothing of the man and I was g... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Hogarth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now I have looked [at the verses] I have to thank you for the kind thought of sending me the little volume and for th... | Joseph Conrad | Douglas Goldring | A Country Boy and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The appeal to my literary opinion was not fair. Suppose I had been in one of my cantankerous hours when the book came... | Joseph Conrad | (Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle) Mrs Henry de La Pasture | Peter's Mother | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' This is really great, great in every dimension. [...] I have read the book ["The New Machiavelli"] yesterday and thi... | Joseph Conrad | H. G. (Herbert George) Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Phew! This [ "The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc" ] is fine.Just one word as the curtain falls for the last time.[...]. I'll w... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ["Siren Land"]'s certain to be well noticed -- maybe attacked too; but that's no harm. I've been delighted.... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | Siren Land | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Of course it ["The Patrician"] isn't pure aesthetics (only Flaubert's "Salammbo" among novels is that) but even on th... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Patrician | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'No end of thanks for the little vol: so charming inside and outside--in its slender body containing a gently melodiou... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | unidentified | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the little book ["Light and Twilight"] so full of good things. You know I have a prediliction for your pro... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Thomas | Light and Twilight | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks very much for the books. You are indeed very good to me. Hudson's volume is fine, very fine, infinitely loveab... | Joseph Conrad | W.H.(William Henry) Hudson | A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs (probable) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"François" is quite good. Very genuine touches all along and quite telling bits here and there.' | Joseph Conrad | unknown | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'What I set out to say was that all these delays, vexing as they were, gave me the time to read "The Downfall of the G... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | The Downfall of the Gods | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have the read the two July articles just before that period [of depression or at least writer's block] began. Evide... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | unidentified | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the fine present.[...] While reading delightedly this little work which shines with so soft a brightnes... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Outcry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the MS. I have read it twice.' Hence follow 20 lines of quite strong but constructive criticism. | Joseph Conrad | (Francis) Warrington Dawson | unspecified | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the book. So judicious, so interesting, so touching--why shouldn't I say so when I have been touched?' | Joseph Conrad | Henri Ghéon | Nos Directions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book has arrived too. It was very kind of you to think of sending it to me. As everything that Professor [William... | Joseph Conrad | William James | Memories and Studies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The volume is very emphatically all right. In many respects better than I expected.' Hence follows a page of strong ... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds (and Bob and Tom Woolley) | Seems So! A Working Class View of Politics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I hadn't turned over the 3rd page when I let out a whistle of respectful admiration.'
Hence follows a page of praise... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Lords and Masters | Print: playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'Very many thanks for your kind and friendly notion of sending me "The Brothers Karamazov". I am quite simply astonsi... | Joseph Conrad | Jacques Copeau(and Jean Croue, after Fyodor Dostoievski | Les Frères Karamazov: une drame en 5 actes Dostoievski | Print: playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said a... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | L'Immoraliste | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said a... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Alain-Réné Lesage (Le Sage) | The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santilane | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Adam Bernard Mickiewicz de Poraj | Pan Tadeuz | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Anthony Trollope | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You have given me a very invidious task.[...]. Well I have read all your copy. And the result of all my extreme fast... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | How 'Twas: Short Stories and Small Travels. | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I won't say anything of "The Pigeon"-- except that it reads admirably and that I have been fascinated by the theme an... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Pigeon: A Fantasy in Three Acts | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very Fre... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] the volume ["Charity"] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Charity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am delighted and honoured by your gift of an inscribed copy [presumably of "Voices of Tomorrow" but see additional ... | Joseph Conrad | E.(Edwin) A.(August) Bjorkman | Voices of Tomorrow:Critical Studies on the New Spirit of Literature | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, see additional comment |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do hope you are not too disgusted with me for not thanking you for the "[The Brothers] Karamazov" before. It was ve... | Joseph Conrad | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. A... | Joseph Conrad | Thomas Reed | House Flags and Funnels of English and Foreign Steamship Companies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. A... | Joseph Conrad | H.|Henry] M.[Major] Tomlinson | The Fog | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'This ["Fountains in the Sand"] is first rate. I have seldom read prose d'une si belle tonalité.' Hence follow 23 li... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | Fountains in the Sand: Rambles among the Oases of Tunisia | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's ["The Inn of Tranquillity"] wholly excellent and certainly fascinating.[...] Of course I had read many of the pa... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Inn of Tranquillity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the meantime I thank you heartily for your more than in one way very interesting vol.["Shadows out of the Crowd"].... | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | Shadows out of the Crowd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'From that far distant day [in 1903] when (you remember?) you sent me "Leonora" it's great fundamental quality of abso... | Joseph Conrad | Arnold Bennett | Leonora | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that vol... | Joseph Conrad | Tristan Bernard | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that vol... | Joseph Conrad | Elémir Bourges | Le Crépuscule des Dieux: Moeurs Contemporaines | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that vol... | Joseph Conrad | Elémir Bourges | (probably) Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs tombent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) | Pierre Loti: Biographie-critique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) | L'enseignement de Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The novel --Good! Très fort!! As Pinker could not have done much with it before Easter I held it up here for a secon... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | The Novel of George (published as The Pyramid) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Forgive me for the delay in thanking you for the volume you were so kind to as to send me. How well done, well concei... | Joseph Conrad | André Ruyters | Le Mauvais Riche | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was a joy to have your book ["Hors du Foyer"]. A thousand thanks. I have just finished reading it and, and I am ch... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Hors du Foyer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had read some of your Philipino [sic] stories--and was looking for more of your work.I spotted it first in the old... | Joseph Conrad | James Marie Hopper | Caybigan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I didn't write to thank you for the delightful volume ["The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments"... | Joseph Conrad | J. (James) G. (Gibbons) Huneker | The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just a word to tell you I have finished your Mother's book ["A Confederate Girl's Diary"]. Admirable.' Hence follow 1... | Joseph Conrad | Sara Morgan Dawson | A Confederate Girl's Diary | Manuscript: Proofs (see letter and fn.3 p.243 of source text) |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sending today the "Grand Elixir" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects ... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | Grand Elixir (The Green Moustache) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is dificult to express the joy I felt at the arrival of the "Complete Works of M. Barnabooth".[...].The first read... | Joseph Conrad | Valéry-Nicolas Larbaud | A.O.Barnabooth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks. I've just read the first chapter at once to take possession and have laid the book ["The Problems of Phi... | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | The Problems of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am glad I read the little book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] before coming to your essays ["Philosophical Essays"]... | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | Philosophical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your good letter arrived yesterday--a great pleasure and a source of serious misgivings. I have had your latest volum... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Malayan Monochromes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Infinite thanks for the most precious and admirable volume [Knave of Hearts] [...] meanwhile I am as ever yours with ... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | Knave of Hearts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am proud to learn that there is [a phrase in "Lord Jim"] worthy to serve as an epigraph to one of the books of "Les... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | Les Caves du Vatican (Book 1) | Print: see additional information |
| 1900-1945 | 'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Hatchment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life... | Joseph Conrad | (Lady) Margaret Brooke | My Life in Sarawak | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the copy of the "E.[English] R.[Review]". You won't mind me saying that your article on international poli... | Joseph Conrad | Austin Harrison | Foreign Politics | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks too for the Chinese books. I have already looked at the introduction and certain sections of the "Lute [of Jad... | Joseph Conrad | L.[Lancelot] Cranmer-Byng | A Lute of Jade: Being Selections from the Classical Poets of China | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You don't mind if I suggest that you should take a glance at Curle's short stories "Life is a Dream"-- not all in the... | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | Life is a Dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You have succeeded so well in effacing your personality in that little book ["Tolstoy: A Study"] ( and very interesti... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Tolstoy:A Study (also catalogued as Tolstoy: His Life and Writings) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'If we had telephonic communication I would call you up and hear me thump my chest and cry mea culpa for not having wr... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | Henry James:A Critical Study | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ''We are so glad to know you are both flourishing. We know of your Sicilian interlude from your letter to the "Times".' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I keep the two books a little longer. "Shakespeare" is good.' | Joseph Conrad | A.[Andrew] C.[Cecil] Bradley | Shakespearean Tragedy:Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Today I saw a good review of your book ["Bernal Diaz del Castillo"] in the D[ai]ly Chr[onicle]: by some woman. I am g... | Joseph Conrad | Agnes Herbert | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the book ["The Little Man"]. "Abracadabra" is immense. Indeed every page is as full as it can be right thr... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Little Man and other satires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These things [proofs of "The Little Man"] are much too exquisite and poignant to be really satire even if you prefer ... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Little Man and other satires | Print: galley proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the ... | Joseph Conrad | W. H. (William Henry) Davies | either The Bird of Paradise and other Poems OR Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the ... | Joseph Conrad | unknown unknown | Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern Poland | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Infinite thanks for the honour [dedication] and for the book ["The House of Many Mirrors"]. The copy having reached m... | Joseph Conrad | Violet Hunt | The House of Many Mirrors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is a most delightful lecture and most judiciously illustrated, if a mind so uncultivated as mine dares express an ... | Joseph Conrad | Sidney Colvin | Concentration in English Poetry | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your father's book is wonderful. I read the articles of course at the time; but now collected, in the mass, they asto... | Joseph Conrad | Frederic Harrison | The German Peril: Forecasts 1864-1914, Realities 1915, Hopes 191- | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It ["The Freelands"] is a most beautifully done thing. [...]. I kept your book for a propitious day and finished it a... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Freelands | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the book which is excellent and super excellent; even to the point of making me uneasy lest its true... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | EITHER Between St Dennis and St George: A Sketch of Three Civilisations OR When Blood is their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I've just finished "B[ernal] Diaz". The terminal pages of the preface are just lovely with their irresistable refer... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Bernal Diaz de Castillo:Being Some Account of Him Taken From His True History of the Conquest of New Spain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was writing something so I refrained from looking at "The Good Soldier" (according to my time-honoured practice) ti... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Good Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will talk to you at length about the stories when you are well enough to come down here for the weekend.[...]. The... | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | The Echo of Voices | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The "[Ivory] Apes and Peacocks" book is good and immensely characteristic of our extremely "alive" friend.'
Hence fo... | Joseph Conrad | J. (James) G. (Gibbons) Huneker | Ivory Apes and Peacocks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was delighted with Miss Glasgow's novel ["Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage"]; the insight, the ma... | Joseph Conrad | Ellen (Anderson Gholson) Glasgow | Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualit... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | A Small Boy and Others | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualit... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | Notes of a Son and Brother | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "[The]Advertisement" yesterday only--thrice over. très fort.' | Joseph Conrad | (Basil) Macdonald Hastings | The Advertisement: A Play in Four Acts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ever so many thanks for the honour of the dedication; and for the copy [of "Figures of Several Centuries"] which reac... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | Figures of Several Centuries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I see the "Obs[erv]er" every Sunday and I am waiting the next number with impatience.' [ For a review by Sidney Colvi... | Joseph Conrad | | Observer newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of course like everybody else I was a reader of the "Singapore Free Press" which was the [underlined] paper of the Ea... | Joseph Conrad | | Singapore Free Press | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'll show you where I got the hint for it [his story "The Warriors' Soul"] in Philippe de Ségur. There's a hint for ... | Joseph Conrad | Philippe-Paule Ségur (Comte de) | Un Aide de Camp de Napoléon (de 1800 à 1812 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '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... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | The True Dimension | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a b... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | Smoke | Print: newspaper supplement/magazine ('feuilleton') |
| 1850-1899 | 'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a b... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Nest of Gentlefolks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading through your plays again. You are "très fait" as the French say. Tell me, had E[den] P[hillpotts... | Joseph Conrad | (Basil) Macdonald Hastings (and Eden Philpotts) | The Angel in the House | Print: probably an acting edition |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for your pamphlet, to which I responded with every feeling and conviction that go to make up my "less perishab... | Joseph Conrad | William Rothenstein | A Plea for a Wider Use of Artists and Craftsmen | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Pray, when you see [Wilson] Follett, give him a warm greeting from me. His little book is one of these things one doe... | Joseph Conrad | Helen Thomas Follett (and Wilson Follett) | Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I only secured lately not so much the leisure as the proper freedom of mind, to read through and get on terms with yo... | Joseph Conrad | E.[Elliot] L. [Lovegood] Grant Wilson | The Mainland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This ["Beyond"] is a gripping piece of writing. I got as far as p.47 before it dawned on me that these were marvellou... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Beyond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'PS I've seen your most charming article on the French in the "Fortnightly [Review]". ' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | France, 1916-1917: An Impression | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for sending me your contribution towards the solution of the great problem [Polish independence].... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dmowski | Russian Realities and Problems (chapter) or Problems of Central and Eastern Europe | Print: Book, see additional comment, identity of text uncertain |
| 1900-1945 | 'The first 60 pages [of "Summer"] might well have been written with one of those quill feathers one finds lying on a q... | Joseph Conrad | Edith Wharton | Summer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your opening pages [of "Turgenev: A Study"] are excellent , excellent! I was much delighted with your masterly thrust... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Turgenev: A Study | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This morning on opening my eyes I saw the noble vol [on Keats] delicately deposited by my side, while I slept, by Jes... | Joseph Conrad | Sidney Colvin | John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics, and After-fame [With plates, including portraits] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This morning [Reginald Perceval] Gibbon's corespondence [on the aftermath of the battle of Caporetto] in the "D[aily]... | Joseph Conrad | Reginald Perceval Gibbon | article published in "Daily Chronicle" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was a study of you [André Gide] in the "Times". Have you sen it? It is intelligent up to a point and respectfu... | Joseph Conrad | | article in "Times Literary Supplement" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old an... | Joseph Conrad | Michael Monahan | New Adventures | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old an... | Joseph Conrad | Ezra Pound | Pavannes and Divisions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes. I've seen "Contact's" [Alan Bott's] work. It is very good . But he's not the only one.' | Joseph Conrad | Alan Bott [pseud. "Contact"] | An Airman's Outings | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am of course with you entirely both as to the matter and the expression of the Agricultural pamphlet. Thanks very m... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Land: A Plea | |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Green Mirror" reached me alright.[...] I didn't write to you about it as I expected almost every day to have you... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | The Green Mirror | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My warmest thanks for the inscribed copy which arrived yesterday. The first time I read the book was in 1908, the las... | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Gosse | Father and Son:A Study of Two Temperaments | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...].... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Truth's Welcome Home | Print: proof |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...].... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | A Week in Paris | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1850-1899 | 'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the book. I read the sketch of De la R[ochefoucauld] psychology with great delight.' | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Gosse | Three French Moralists and the Gallantry of France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I started reading my inscribed copy [of "Mr Perrin and Mr Traill"] straight away. How well (and freshly) all this is ... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | Mr Perrin and Mr Traill: A Tragi-Comedy. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will confess at once that I have read the book ["The Reconnaissance"] once only, and that of course is not enough;[... | Joseph Conrad | Theodore James Gordon Gardiner | The Reconnaissance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your R.A.F. paper is very good [...].' | Joseph Conrad | Edric Cecil Mornington Roberts | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to "The Hist[ory] of the British Army" it is "tout bonnement admirable!". No other phrase can do justice to it.' | Joseph Conrad | John William Fortescue | History of the British Army: Extracts from British Campaigns in Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That vol[ume]["Colour Studies in Paris"] is full of charm and contains many pages of rare distinction and luminous li... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | Colour Studies in Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that i... | Joseph Conrad | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ought to have thanked you before, for the very curious pamphlet containing Swinburne's sweet little joke. I enjoyed... | Joseph Conrad | Algernon Swinburne | A Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for your green book which I have read with the greatest of interest.' | Joseph Conrad | | Gold Coast Blue Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I didn't thank you for the book ["Papa's War and Other Satires" ] by letter because I knew I was coming to town at on... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Papa's War and Other Satires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I write to thank you for the book [...]. I have already seen most of the papers composing your new vol. ["Old Junk"]... | Joseph Conrad | Henry Major Tomlinson | Old Junk | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the inscribed copy. [...]. On the 28th May I finished correcting the last pages of "Rescue" [...]. Th... | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Candler | Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ought to have thanked you before for the book ["Siri Ram"] which I read directly it reached my hands.' | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Candler | Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ever so many thanks for copy of "[The] Sepoy". Everything you write is a matter of most sympathetic interest to me; a... | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Candler | The Sepoy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The whole household went to bed early [...] then with a mind refreshed and made receptive [...] I sat down to read yo... | Joseph Conrad | Sidney Colvin | Some Personal Recollections | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'The justness of all these things said in "Another Sheaf" is what strikes one most.' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Another Sheaf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return here the first volume with many thanks. It is very curious reading, but somehow one cannot take it very s... | Joseph Conrad | Wilfred Scawen Blunt | My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events,1888-1914 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is ... | Joseph Conrad | George Bradshaw (ed) | Bradshaw's Monthly General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide for Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is ... | Joseph Conrad | | The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very interesting journal and I read it with a particular pleasure derived both from the matter and from the... | Joseph Conrad | Christopher Sandeman | [untitled] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read (before breakfast) your "Gambetta" a most excellent thing both as picture and appreciation of the man.' | Joseph Conrad | Sidney Colvin | Gambetta | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me thank you for the Swinburne bibliography which I've read with the greatest interest.' | Joseph Conrad | Thomas James Wise | A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Part 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the beginning I must say that I have not read the tales ["Tales of a Cruel Country"] through as yet'.
| Joseph Conrad | Gerald Cumberland (pseud.) | Tales of a Cruel Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am just fresh from the second reading of your vol ["Brought Forward"]'.
Hence follow twelve lines of admiring comm... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | Brought Forward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was laid up directly on arriving here, and this is the explanation of the delay in thanking you for the precious... | Joseph Conrad | David Bone | Merchantmen-at-Arms:The British Merchants' Service in the War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I know the work of Paul Adam very little and all I have in the house is his "Lettres de Malaisie". | Joseph Conrad | Paul Adam | Lettres de Malaisie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the "Saint-Simon", which to my great joy arrived this morning. I finished the play the day before yeste... | Joseph Conrad | Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon | Les Mémoires de Saint-Simon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just a line to thank you for the book. As I turn the pages my consideration for you grows to the proportions of respe... | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | Wanderings | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ever so many thanks too for the "Life and Miracles" which I have just read for the second time.There is no one but yo... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | A Brazilian Mystic, being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished your MS yesterday and am very much impressed by the ampleness of the scheme, the masterly ease in the h... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | In Chancery | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Warm thanks for the charming copy of "Wild Oranges" which it was a great pleasure to have in this interesting form. [... | Joseph Conrad | Joseph Hergesheimer | Wild Oranges | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ["The Rescue"] which has found favour in your eyes has been inspired in a great measure by the history of th... | Joseph Conrad | Rodney Mundy | Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to the Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James Brooke | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E. [Edward] Grey's book, of which I have already read a considerable portion, has certainly the charm of a genuine fe... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon | Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to the Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James Brooke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I do know the Mérimée story you speak of. It is "Tamango". A rather good piece of work. [...] I read it years ago.' | Joseph Conrad | Prosper Mérimée | Tamango | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Pray forgive me keeping your article on Mérimée so long. I read it as soon as it arrived — and then re-read i... | Joseph Conrad | Gérard Jean-Aubry | Mérimée | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is only to tell you that I have read the book.'
[Hence follow six lines of praise.] | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | The Captives: A novel in Four Parts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks indeed for your good letter and for the little book ["La Symphonie Pastorale"] whose precious pages I wil... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | La Symphonie Pastorale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for Mr Holliday's book, which has certainly got a lot of good things in it and which I enjoyed gr... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Cortes Holliday | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks ever so much for the admirable book of portraits. Every one is a revelation-especially of course those of the ... | Joseph Conrad | William Rothenstein | Twenty-Four Portraits, with Critical Appreciation by Various Hands | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'What to me [...] seems most wonderful in the Carthagena book is its inextinguishable vitality, the unchanged strength... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinu | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday I read the first inst[alment] of "To Let" in a spirit of philistinish curiosity.' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | To Let | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudo [R.H.Sauter] shows much charm in "Awakening", which harmonised with the charm of the text in a fascinating way.' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Awakening | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for sending me the text [of John Galsworthy's play "The Family Man"] which I have looked over wit... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Family Man | Print: playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for sending me the comedy. I found it [...] interesting and greatly entertaining, which however dd not prev... | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | Ksiega Hioba (The Book of Job) | Print: playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I must begin by thanking you for the little book of satirical pieces ["Groteski"] which I read with great enjoyment a... | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | Groteski | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A few days ago in fact I re-read "Les Caves du Vatican", with the same intetest but with an admiration that grows on ... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | Les Caves du Vatican | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have b... | Joseph Conrad | Frederick O'Brien | White Shadows in the South Seas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have b... | Joseph Conrad | Frederick O'Brien | Mystic Isles of the South Seas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. T... | Joseph Conrad | Stefan Zeromski | Dzieje grzechu | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. T... | Joseph Conrad | Stefan Zeromski | Popioly | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the charming copy of "The Brassbounder". It is as fresh and attarctive as ever to read and I am still... | Joseph Conrad | David Bone | The Brassbounder | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I want to thank you at once for the book you have been good enough to send me.It is of course of the greatest interes... | Joseph Conrad | Harold Waldo | Stash of the Marsh County | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The readng of "Memories and Notes" has been one continuous delight. As you know I have been privileged to see some of... | Joseph Conrad | Sidney Colvin | Memories and Notes of Persons and Places, 1852-1912 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As for yourself — I have been dwelling with you mentally for several days between the covers of your book [...].' | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | Analysis of Mind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And first of all my tender thanks for the copy of the limited edition [...]. The reading of it was an absorbing exper... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | The Young Enchanted: A Romantic Story | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now I have absorbed it I send you my thanks for "The Gift of Paul Clermont". It is a very charming and touching perfo... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | The Gift of Paul Clermont | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the book which has given me the greatest of pleasure. I have always had a great admiration for Sir Al... | Joseph Conrad | Alfred Comyn Lyall | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks my dearest fellow for he Che[k]hov vol. He is too delightful for words. Very great work. Very great. Do tell y... | Joseph Conrad | Anton Chekhov | The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you, my dearest for all the books you have presented me with, in particular for Fredro, qui m'a donné un plai... | Joseph Conrad | Alexandr Fredro | Trzy po Trzy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the book. Reading it gave me very great pleasure.' | Joseph Conrad | Jean Fayard | Oxford et Margaret | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book you sent me was a great pleasure to me. Some of the ships I knew personally.' | Joseph Conrad | Basil Lubbock | The Colonial Clippers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Abdication" arrived four of five days ago. How short the book is and how much you have managed to put into it. As yo... | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Candler | Abdication | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I must thank you for the volume which has just arrived.[...]. What I have felt and thought is more suitable for talk... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Friday Nights: Literary Criticism and Appreciation, First Series | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was very happy to receive "La Musique et les nations" yesterday. I read the Debussy immediately and with the greate... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Aubry | La Musique et les nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I would have written to you before about my delight in "The Conquest of Granada" if it had not been for the beastly s... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | The Conquest of New Granada, being the Life of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wonder what you think of my long silence after the receipt of your play ["A Tale of Young Lovers", late May]? I w... | Joseph Conrad | Cecil Roberts | A Tale of Young Lovers: A Tragedy in Four Acts | Print: Book, playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I dictate these few words to thank you most heartily for your letters and especially for your little tale which I hav... | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | Slepa latarka (Dark Lantern) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For the last two days I have been reading "The [Forsythye] Saga" which makes a wonderful volume.[...] How fresh "The ... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Forsythe Saga | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read with the greatest of interest your communications to the "Times [Literary Supplement]" in the Dumas-Maquet af... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Garnett | The Dumas Maquet Case (and) Dumas and Maquet | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'When your book ["The Problem of China"] arrived we were away for a few days. Perhaps [...] I should have acknowledge... | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | The Problem of China | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I hasten therefore to tell you without a moments delay what did mean to write (or have perhaps written) that the boo... | Joseph Conrad | Clarence Andrews | Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for D. [David]'s little tale ["Lady into Fox"]. Its the most successful thing of the kind I have ever see... | Joseph Conrad | David Garnett | Lady into Fox | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I consider myself highly privileged by the possession of an inscribed copy of the limited edition of the "Preludes"; ... | Joseph Conrad | John Drinkwater | Preludes, 1921-1922 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ever so many thanks for the little book of fantasy and charm and sharp irony seasoning the tragic story of poor Loved... | Joseph Conrad | Fryniwyid Tennyson Jesse | The White Riband; Or a Young Female's Folly | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've lately read nothing but Marcel Proust.' | Joseph Conrad | Marcel Proust | Swann's Way (Du coté de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the volumes you sent me I was much more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation.'
... | Joseph Conrad | Marcel Proust | Swann's Way (Du coté de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My dear! Thank you for "Pozoga". C'est très très bien. It seizes hold and interests one as much by its subject as b... | Joseph Conrad | Zofia Kossak-Szczucka | Pozoga:Wspomieniaz Wolnia 1917-19 (The Blaze: Reminiscences of Volhynia 1917-18 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your Laforgue. Your introduction couldn't be more interesting as regards both matter and tone. It is ... | Joseph Conrad | Jules Laforgue | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read your delightful and penetrating (I use the word deliberately) "[Mysterious] Japan". I have the book. I wa... | Joseph Conrad | Julian Street | Mysterious Japan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Will you please give my warm regards to your husband and tell him I have just finished reading the "Rumak" with the g... | Joseph Conrad | Jan Tadeusz Zuk-Skarszewski | Rumak Swiatowida:karykatura wczorajsza (Swiatowid's Steed: A Caricature of Yesterday) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the press cuttings. The accident on board that ship was an extraordinary one.' | Joseph Conrad | W. A. H. Mull | A True Story: Loss and Record of the Wreck of the Ship "Dalgonar" of Liverpool | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've had the "Fortnightly [Review]" sent to me. I've just finished your "Sainte Beuve". My dear fellow! It's an admir... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Aubry | Sainte Beuve (exact title unknown) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Best wishes for the book's career begun yesterday—wasn't it?' | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | Into the East: Notes on Burma and Malaya | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your Comédie du Laboratoire is perfect. Très chic — as French painters used to say of their pictures. This fo... | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | Roztwor profesora Pytla (Professor Pytel's Solution) | Print: Book, or playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I liked "Engineer" very very much indeed! The idea, the execution, the style.[...] Shall I return the MS to you?' | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | R.H., Inzynier | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was just about to write to you on the "Dole " articles. They are wonderfully the right thing: matter, tone, attitud... | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | Scandals of the Dole | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sorry I put in an, apparently, unlucky form what I had to say about the two pieces of prose you sent me.' | Joseph Conrad | Liam O'Flaherty | The Cow's Death | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for your letter and the pamphlet in which I was very much interested.' | Joseph Conrad | David John Nicoll | "Commonweal": The Greenwich Mystery | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The vol. of your stories arrived while we were over in Havre [...]. Thanks, my dear fellow its a jolly good handful. ... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Captures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Warmest thanks for the vol and for the inscription. Oh my dear how good how profoundly appealing all this is — ... | Joseph Conrad | Hubert Wellington | William Rothenstein | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sending back the pamphlet of the rules of the [National] Club. It is very interesting but but it occurs to me, m... | Joseph Conrad | | [Rule Book of the National Club] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Heartfelt thanks for your letter and the pamphlet about Einstein which for me is a small masterpiece of its kind.' | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | Jeszcze o Einstein: teoria wzglenosci z lotu ptaka (More about Einstein: A Bird's-eye View of the Theory of Relativity | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for your little book of innermost thoughts.[...] And you have proved your excellent humanity by the manner ... | Joseph Conrad | Christopher Morley | Inward Ho! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been laid up for days and days and your volume of H[udson]'s letters was the most welcome alleviation to the w... | Joseph Conrad | William Henry Hudson | 153 Letters from W. H. Hudson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am better now and hasten to thank you for the more than generous sample of the "Criterion" which is really very goo... | Joseph Conrad | | The Criterion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the two copies, especially the grand format, of Crane's biography. Both sizes are very attractively g... | Joseph Conrad | Thomas Beer | Stephen Crane: A Study in American Letters with an introduction by Joseph Conrad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sorry I am late in thanking you for the little book and the friendly inscription. I greatly enjoyed the parodies on th... | Joseph Conrad | Christopher Ward | The Triumph of the Nut and Other Parodies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you seen Gwatkin? His novel is not bad and I can see now why it had that sale. Shall I send it to you or has he ... | Joseph Conrad | John Paris [pseud. Frank Trelawney Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin] | Kimono | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am wholly delighted with your "R.[iceyman] S.[teps]. Wholly. You will give me credit for not having missed any spec... | Joseph Conrad | Enoch Arnold Bennett | Riceyman Steps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read with the greatest pleasue what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made... | Joseph Conrad | Allan Monkhouse | A Bookman's Notes | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read with the greatest pleasure what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and mad... | Joseph Conrad | Anthony Trollope | Phineas Finn: The Irish Member | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The play arrived yesterday and I read it in the evening (the proper time for plays) with the greatest appreciation.' ... | Joseph Conrad | Allan Monkhouse | | Print: Book, playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for "La Maison natale", which you have so kindly sent me. I have just finished reading it and am greatly ... | Joseph Conrad | Jacques Copeau | La Maison natale | Print: Book, playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dyboski | Modern Polish Literature: a course of lectures delivered in the School of Slavonic studies, King's College, University of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dyboski | Periods of Polish Literary History: Being the Ilchester lectures for the year 1923 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dyboski | ?The Religious Element in Polish National Life | |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had letter from Sir Hugh Clifford. He sends me six copies of his address to the Legislative Council.[...] The repor... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Address to the Legislative Council of Nigeria | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the magazines and books. I haven't yet dipped into the novel. I am very touched by the favourable respo... | Joseph Conrad | | Robotnik (The Worker) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Today's "J[ohn] B[lunt]" is particularly good. [...] The last three "Blunts" were remarkably good.' | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle [writing as 'John Blunt'] | I Say | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'For weeks I've had a bad wrist or I would have thanked you before for the "[A] M[an] [in] the Z[oo]". D[avid] may be ... | Joseph Conrad | David Garnett | A Man in the Zoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to the novel I think that between us two, if I tell you that I consider it "tout à fait chic" you will understand... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford | Some Do Not | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for letting me have a view of the Nelson letter which is most interesting. I appreciate very much you tak... | Joseph Conrad | Horatio Nelson | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Forgive me for not thanking you sooner for the book ["Incidences"]. It's my gouty wrist I can barely hold a pen. But ... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | Incidences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My gouty wrist has kept me from thanking you immediately for the volume of poems that you so kindly sent me. [...] Wh... | Joseph Conrad | Louis-Marie-Emile Roché | Temps perdu | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My warm thanks for the inscribed copy of "Bolshevik Persecution" you have been kind enough to send me. I have read wi... | Joseph Conrad | Francis McCullagh | The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel compunctions not having written before about "The Forest" — a piece of work to which I came with the gre... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Forest | Print: playscript |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to your verses. May I keep them? Of course now you say you will not finish the poem — and it may be true &md... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Lancelot Sanderson | An Episode of Southern Seas | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Even H. Norman corroborates me out of his short experience. See his "Far East".' | Joseph Conrad | Henry Norman | The Peoples and Politics of the Far East:Travels and Studies in the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam and Malaya | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for the copy of "Good Reading". It's a charming little book.' | Joseph Conrad | John Millar | Books: A Guide to Good Reading | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I simply had to tell you having been impressed by seeing for the first time in my life a work of imagination acting u... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Strife | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the vol entitled "Lear of the Steppes" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two ["Acia" and "Fa... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the copy of your book which I have read with the greatest of interest and pleasure.' | Joseph Conrad | James Johnston Abraham | A Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far East | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Infinite thanks for the honour and for the book. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing until I ha... | Joseph Conrad | Violet Hunt | The House of Many Mirrors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That's first rate stuff. I have read all but two of the stories, which'll have their turn this afternoon and I shall ... | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Candler | The General Plan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have this moment received your very kind letter with the enclosure of verse for which I hasten to send you my warm ... | Joseph Conrad | David Morton | ?Old Ships | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ought to have thanked you before for Mrs Soskice's book. I remember it had a good press when it first appeared. It ... | Joseph Conrad | Juliet M. Soskice (Hueffer) | Memoirs from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Grand-daughter | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is years since I have read "Candide" of course in French. I must tell you I have been immensely pleased by the par... | Joseph Conrad | François-Marie Arouet Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Stendhal [pseud. i.e. Marie-Henri Beyle] | Vie de Napoléon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Gaspard Gourgaud | Journal de Ste. Hélène 1815-1818 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Marcellin Pellet | Napoléon à l'île d'Elbe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Paul Gruyer | Napoléon, roi de l' île d'Elbe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Rapp | Mémoires écrits par lui-même | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Léon Lanzac de Laborie | Paris sous Napoléon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It my be that I failed to understand "The Ascending Effort", but I did not mean to treat Bourne disrespectfully. [But... | Joseph Conrad | George Bourne [pseud. of George Sturt] | The Ascending Effort | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I was a bit older he read to me from Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs and Stories". "Mr Yongy Bongy Bo", "The Owl a... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Lear | Nonsense Songs and Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At other times he would tell me about the Malay Archipelago and the Malays and show me pictures in A. R. Wallace's... | Joseph Conrad | Alfred Russel Wallace | The Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am pretty sure that J[oseph] C[onrad] read it [the bound Christmas annual of "Boy's Own Paper"] after I had gone to... | Joseph Conrad | | Boy's Own Annual | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude an... | Joseph Conrad | | La Vie Parisienne | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude an... | Joseph Conrad | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He admired Edward Lear and would spend whole evenings reading "The Nonsense Songs and Stories" and he was also very f... | Joseph Conrad | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AND Through the Looking Glass | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He would say he bought books to read, not to stare at their backs on a shelf while they collected dust over the years... | Joseph Conrad | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Max Adeler pseud. i.e Charles Heber Clark | Out of the Hurly Burly: or Life in an Odd Corner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Guy De Maupassant | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' Most mornings he spent reading the papers until about half past ten, then answered any letters that had come [...].' | Joseph Conrad | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] two or three times a week after dinner we got out the chessmen and board and spent a couple of hours playing th... | Joseph Conrad | José Raul Capablanca | My Chess Career or Chess Fundamentals | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'If my father saw my mother, brother or myself reading a book he would cruise around and pounce on it if we put it dow... | Joseph Conrad | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The night before we left [Montpellier]was one of the worst I have ever spent. Joseph Conrad was still handicapped by ... | Joseph Conrad | | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'At another time he insisted that the gardener should remove all the plants from the tall stage in the glass house, th... | Joseph Conrad | | | Print: Book |