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Date(s)
- 1958 - 1983 (Creation)
- 1935 (Creation)
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Item
Scope and content
Joseph Conrad: Mottram manuscript essay opening 'In the preface to the secret agent...'; Mottram manuscript essay, with one typescript insert, opening 'Conrad's advice to a young writer...'; Mottram typescript essay headed 'Conrad: three novels', referring to The nigger of the Narcissus, Typhoon, and The shadow-line; Mottram manuscript notes on individual works by Conrad; partial photocopy of article by Ford Madox Ford 'Conrad and the sea' from The American Mercury June 1935, 169-175; photocopy of V.S. Naipul article 'The darkness of Conrad' from Naipul's The return of Eva Perón (Knopf, New York, 1980), with covering note, 19 May 1990, from correspondent in New York signing 'David'; newspaper cuttings on Conrad, 1958-1982; Portsmouth Polytechnic Library bibliography of articles on Conrad, 1965-1983