Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a novelist. See the Dictionary of National Biography for details.

Papers of, and relating to, Joseph Conrad comprising:

• letters to Hodgson & Co., 1919-35, n.d., including ten from Joseph Conrad, 1919-24; six from Jessie Conrad, 1926-35; seven from Richard Curle, 1922-6; and a manuscript draft of Curle's preface to Hodgson's Conrad sale catalogue, 13 Mar. 1925
• newspaper cuttings of obituaries and appreciations of Conrad, 1924
• a facsimile [made in 1928?] of pages from the manuscript of 'The Tale'
• amended typescript of 'A Warrior's Soul'
• typescript copies of fifty-four letters from Conrad to T. Fisher-Unwin, 1894-1904, n.d., made by J.E. Hodgson in 1928 from original letters in the Conrad sale at Hodgson's, 11 May 1928
• photocopies of 12 unpublished letters, 1895-1904, made from the above typescripts by Norma Dalrymple-Champneys for an unwritten article, 1990. Copies of the twelve letters were subsequently given to the editors of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad
• two undated photographs of drawings given by Jessie Conrad to J.E. Hodgson. A sketch by Conrad, 'Old Peyrol' [the original is in the Beinecke Library, Yale], and a drawing of Conrad by Sargent, 1911, later said to be a forgery
• newspaper cuttings relating to sales of Conrad's manuscripts, letters and books, 1925, 1928
• the following articles and reviews relating to Conrad: J.G. Sutherland, 'At war in a Q Brigantine. When Mr Conrad went U-Boat chasing', The Navy, Oct. 1920; Richard Curle, 'Tales of hearsay. (Conrad's posthumous volume)', The Blue Peter [Feb. 1925]; Edmund Blunden, 'A Conrad repository', London Mercury, Dec. 1927
• a photocopy of an article by M.L. Turner concerning Conrad, Wise and Bodleian MS. Eng. misc. e. 578 [The Book Collector, XV (66) pp. 350-1].

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Authors

English literature

Conrad | Jessie George | fl 1896-1936 | wife of Joseph Conrad

Conrad | Joseph | 1857-1924 | novelist

Curle | Richard Henry Parnell | 1883-1968 | traveller and author

Unwin | Thomas Fisher | 1848-1935 | publisher