An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Title:
Joseph Conrad Collection
Dates:
1895-1970, undated
Extent:
5 boxes (2.10 linear feet)
Abstract:
Includes manuscripts, letters,
documents, and photographs of the Polish author Joseph Conrad, who wrote in English.
Manuscripts are present for his novels Almayer's
Folly (1895), Chance (1913), Victory (1915), and other works. His letters to Norman
Douglas, Henry James, Alfred A. Knopf, and others are present. Additional letters
and questionnaires concern Conrad and his place in literature; responses from
Ralph
Ellison, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Fannie Hurst, James
Michener, Henry Miller, George Orwell, Katherine Anne Porter, J. B. Priestley,
Bertrand Russell, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Robert Penn Warren, Thornton
Wilder, and others are included.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-0903
Language:
English, French
Access:
Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Sara Saastamoinen, 2012
Note:
This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in
a
card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for
information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the
abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.
