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Many who read ‘Conrad, the Man’ in the Literary Review of 9 August [1924] have asked for further reminiscences. It is an honour to share with others memories of this strangely fascinating genius whose friendship left one so rich in memories.
New York Evening Post Literary Review (30 Aug. 1924) p. 9.
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The first American edition of James’s The Golden Bowl (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons) was published in November 1904, thus dating this first meeting in January 1905.
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (London: J. M. Dent, 1946) p. 43.
Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes (London: J. M. Dent, 1947) p. 135.
Conrad’s great-uncle Nicholas (Mikołaj) Bobrowski (1792–1864), of whom Conrad says in A Personal Record (London: J. M. Dent, 1946) that ‘I knew, at a very early age, that my grand-uncle Nicholas B. was a knight of the Legion of Honour and that he had also the Polish Cross for valour, Virtuti Militari.
See C. T. Watts (ed.), Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969) p. 185.
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Willard, G. (1990). More about Conrad. In: Ray, M. (eds) Joseph Conrad. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09387-8_11
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