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Joseph Conrad Memories and Impressions An Annotated Bibliography C O N R A D 1 S t uDi eS General Editors: Allan H. Simmons and J. H. Stape Advisory Editors: Owen Knowles and Gene M. Moore Joseph Conrad Memories and Impressions An Annotated Bibliography by Martin Ray Amsterdam - New York, NY 2007 Frontispiece: Sketch of Joseph Conrad by Walter Tittle ©Estate of Walter Tittle. By permission of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Cover design: Pier Post The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 978-90-420-2298-0 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2007 Printed in the Netherlands To SUSANNAH Acknowledgements I am deeply grateful to Owen Knowles, J. H. Stape, and Allan H. Simmons for their invaluable comments, advice, and suggestions about this book, over a period of many years. Like so many people who have written about Joseph Conrad, I owe a special debt of gratitude to the late Hans van Marle for his magisterial erudition. The frontispiece is reproduced by courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. All efforts have been made to trace the Estate of Walter Tittle. This book is dedicated to my daughter, Susannah, without whose devoted care it could not have been completed. Contents Foreword viii Cue-titles x Joseph Conrad: Memories and Impressions 1 Index 174 Foreword THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY aims to identify and annotate publications that record “memories and impressions” of Joseph Conrad by those who knew him or met him. This volume has its origin in my monograph Joseph Conrad and His Contemporaries (1988), published by The Joseph Conrad Society (UK). The present much revised version has been con- siderably expanded, especially by the addition of extensive annotation for virtually all entries, which has been made possible by the publica- tion of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad in recent years. It has also been updated by the inclusion of relevant letters and diaries that continue to come to light occasionally. In the selection of items for inclusion, preference has been given to recollections with literary or biographical interest. This criterion has determined both the kind of items selected and the degree of citation they receive. Recollections of Conrad offering merely a pen portrait of him are omitted, and such descriptions are not mentioned in items that are included. Priority throughout has been given to accounts of Conrad that record what he said about himself and his writing. Conrad’s friends and acquaintances are often recalling conversations that were quite casual and that occurred many years before, and they are not on oath. Some of the individual comments must thus be taken cum grano salis. A small handful of items seem to be entirely bogus, invented either by journalists in need of quick copy or by charlatans seeking a vicarious association with literary fame. Such spurious accounts are included only so that they can be clearly identified as such in the annotations. Letters to Conrad from his friends are excluded, the most pertinent of which are found in A Portrait in Letters: Correspondence to and about Joseph Conrad, edited by J. H. Stape and Owen Knowles (1996). Letters about him to a third party are annotated where their contents fall within the scope of this bibliography. Items in Polish are omitted, since most of these are available in Zdzisław Najder’s compilation Conrad Under Familial Eyes, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder (1983). Items in French are included. Theodore G. Ehrsam’s A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad (1969) lists many of the earlier items; a number of new items that it overlooked are recorded here. For the purposes of this work, Ehrsam’s bibliography was found to be more comprehensive than the well-known bibliog- raphies of Lohf and Sheehy (1957) or Teets and Gerber (1971). I have not listed the other printings that some items have enjoyed, since they ix are readily found in Ehrsam. Reprints not listed in Ehrsam are recorded, and errors have been silently emended. Some articles on Conrad, such as Hugh Clifford’s North American Review article of 1904, are known to be based on an interview with Conrad, but are not presented in the form of a personal account and have therefore been excluded. Books of criticism devoted entirely to the study of Joseph Conrad have been omitted, as have all publications listed in Ehrsam by Richard Curle, Ford Madox Ford, G. Jean-Aubry, and Conrad’s wife and chil- dren. Such works are already familiar to most students of Conrad’s life, and their inclusion would have needlessly increased the length of the bibliography. Preference has been given instead to relatively unfamiliar or inaccessible items, especially those in newspapers and periodicals whose only location may be, for example, The British Library or The Bodleian Library. Articles in modern journals may not be inaccessible, but they do not usually have a subject index, and are therefore included to facilitate ease of reference. These criteria should not be regarded as mosaic decrees, and I have happily sacrificed them occasionally in the hope of making this work useful and interesting. For example, George T. Keating’s A Conrad Memorial Library (1929) is devoted entirely to the work of Conrad and therefore, strictly, ought to have been excluded; however, it is difficult to obtain in the United Kingdom (only one non-lending library in Scot- land holds it, for instance), and not indexed, and I thus decided to annotate it. Articles by the same author may repeat some details, and such information is described only once, although substantial overlaps are indicated. Items of minor interest are included only to identify them as relatively unimportant and thus to save other scholars’ time. The numerous newspaper reports of Conrad’s visit to the United States in 1923 are inevitably repetitious, and therefore only the newspaper inter- view that gives the fullest account of a particular statement by Conrad is rewarded with citation of that comment. Entries for these reports of the American visit are best regarded as composite, forming an aggre- gate account of Conrad’s interviews during his trip. Page numbers following a book title indicate the location of infor- mation relevant to the aims of this bibliography; they do not imply that there are not other pages in that book that refer to Conrad. Items are listed in the alphabetical order of their authors’ surnames.
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