CONRAD, JOSEPH. Typed letter signed ("Ever Affectionately yours J. Conrad"), to his friend and advisor, critic/writer Edward Garnett ("Dearest Edward") , discussing his distressed mental state undoubtedly over his son Borys, who was fighting on the front. Orlestone, 27 March 1918. Two Pages, 4to, with a few minor holograph corrections and a brief postscript at the end. Accompanied with original addressed envelope, pasted to front pastedown of volume I (only) of Conrad's Works (Garden City, 1920. 8vo, original cloth-back boards. LIMITED EDITION, number 115 of 735 sets, with the first volume of each set signed by Conrad).

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CONRAD, JOSEPH. Typed letter signed ("Ever Affectionately yours J. Conrad"), to his friend and advisor, critic/writer Edward Garnett ("Dearest Edward") , discussing his distressed mental state undoubtedly over his son Borys, who was fighting on the front. Orlestone, 27 March 1918. Two Pages, 4to, with a few minor holograph corrections and a brief postscript at the end. Accompanied with original addressed envelope, pasted to front pastedown of volume I (only) of Conrad's Works (Garden City, 1920. 8vo, original cloth-back boards. LIMITED EDITION, number 115 of 735 sets, with the first volume of each set signed by Conrad).

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"Our warmest thanks for your brotherly sympathy with our natural anxiety about the boy. He was right in the thick of things, for at the beginning of this atack he was only about 12 miles from St. Quentin..."
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