Conrad, Joseph STEPHEN CRANE. A NOTE WITHOUT DATES Corrected typescript in red ink with extensive autograph revisions to every page, an additional final paragraph of some 60 words, and the title and date of completion (25 September 1919) in Conrad's autograph, also initialled and dated at end ("Spring Cove, September 1919"), with a further signed autograph note added at the bottom of the final page on the circumstances of composition ("Written at the request of a complete stranger named P.F. Somerville who ... asked me to give him a sketch of the man for a newspaper he wished to revive, The Englishman, to be published in Glasgow ... After writing this paper rather impulsively I held it back to learn something more of the periodical and thus up to this date 4 October [19]19 the above remains unpublished"), a brief signed note to the publisher ("...If you don't like it send it back to me...") cancelled in red crayon, and a further signed note ("Original draft") on the top right corner of the first page, 6 numbered pages, 4to (260 x 203mm.), 1919, fastened at upper left corners with a brass split fastener, in a collector's red morocco folding box lettered in gilt on upper cover
Conrad, Joseph STEPHEN CRANE. A NOTE WITHOUT DATES Corrected typescript in red ink with extensive autograph revisions to every page, an additional final paragraph of some 60 words, and the title and date of completion (25 September 1919) in Conrad's autograph, also initialled and dated at end ("Spring Cove, September 1919"), with a further signed autograph note added at the bottom of the final page on the circumstances of composition ("Written at the request of a complete stranger named P.F. Somerville who ... asked me to give him a sketch of the man for a newspaper he wished to revive, The Englishman, to be published in Glasgow ... After writing this paper rather impulsively I held it back to learn something more of the periodical and thus up to this date 4 October [19]19 the above remains unpublished"), a brief signed note to the publisher ("...If you don't like it send it back to me...") cancelled in red crayon, and a further signed note ("Original draft") on the top right corner of the first page, 6 numbered pages, 4to (260 x 203mm.), 1919, fastened at upper left corners with a brass split fastener, in a collector's red morocco folding box lettered in gilt on upper cover
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