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Conrad and Richard Curie first met in November 1912. Curie had written an appreciative article on Conrad (mainly about Nostromo) for the November 1912 issue of the magazine Rhythm, which Edward Garnett had shown to Conrad. The two men subsequently met at one of Garnett’s regular Tuesday lunches at the Mont Blanc restaurant in Soho, and shortly afterwards Conrad invited Curie to visit him at Capel House.2 As Raymond Brebach notes, Curie was a working journalist and popularising critic, and he and Conrad settled quickly into a mutually rewarding relationship.
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Frederick Karl, Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives (London: Faber, 1979), pp. 721–2; Zdzistaw Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), p. 381; and, particularly, Raymond Brebach, ‘Conrad and Curie’, a paper given at the 1991 Joseph Conrad Society International Conference in Canterbury, which will be published in the ‘Sociology of the Text’ special issue of The Conradian.
Richard Curie, Joseph Conrad: A Study (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner, 1914).
Richard Curie, The Jast Twelve Years of Joseph Conrad (London: Sampson Low, 1928); Richard Curie (ed.), Conrad to a Friend: 150 Selected letters from Joseph Conrad to Richard Curie (London: Sampson Low, 1928); Joseph Conrad, Notes on Life and tetters (London: J. M. Dent, 1921); Joseph Conrad, Jast Essays (London: J. M. Dent, 1926), with an Introduction by Richard Curie (hereafter cited in the text as LE).
E. H. H. Archibald, Dictionary of Sea Painters (London: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1980).
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Hampson, R. (1996). Conrad, Curle and The Blue Peter. In: Willison, I., Gould, W., Chernaik, W. (eds) Modernist Writers and the Marketplace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24551-2_4
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