'Dear Edward Garnett,
(For I suppose it is you who have written the very masterly review of my novel in the Nation.)...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical
'Your introductions to Turgenev?s novels were an event in my history?if that interests you.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
'Now I only want to say that "An Imagined World " charmed my eyes with a charm of its own-distinc[t]ly.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
E. M. Forster to Edward Garnett, 28 October 1907:
'You said I might write to you about The Breaking Point. I think it wonderful, and unlike anything I have read before. One receives images from some books, and yours suggested a vase in the hands of a clumsy person which will be dropped sooner or later, but when, one cannot tell. I had this image even before I came to the broken glass in the first act.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
'Your article on [Icelandic] Sagas first rate and extracts quoted are good. I quite see how one could get dramas out of that.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Serial / periodical
'I got the play ["The Breaking Point"] at 9 this morning. I've shut myself up with it at once and I won't come out of the room. I will see no one, will let no word or thing come between it and me till I've written to you.' Hence follow five pages of commentary and praise.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: unclear whether MS or printed playscript
'Thanks for the play ["The Feud"] which reached me today and as you may imagine was read at once.' Hence follow a page of praise, including a comparison with the middle period plays of Ibsen, and some rather subjective criticism.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: playscript
'It was ever so good of you to have sent me the Hogarth little book. I knew practically nothing of the man and I was glad to learn.' Hence follow 13 lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'Phew! This [ "The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc" ] is fine. Just one word as the curtain falls for the last time.[...]. I'll with your leave keep the MS for 3 days before I read it again. I wanted to give the very freshest first impression just now, but won't say more at present.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Manuscript: Unknown
'I hadn't turned over the 3rd page when I let out a whistle of respectful admiration.'
Hence follows a page of praise with one minor reservation.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: playscript
'You have succeeded so well in effacing your personality in that little book ["Tolstoy: A Study"] ( and very interesting it is too) that but for an occasional turn of phrase I--even I! can't see you there at all.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'Your opening pages [of "Turgenev: A Study"] are excellent , excellent! I was much delighted with your masterly thrusts to all that thick headed crowd. As to the rest of the book you know that I do know it well.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly done. It is mordant, it is witty.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: proof
'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly done. It is mordant, it is witty.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Manuscript: typescript
'I didn't thank you for the book ["Papa's War and Other Satires" ] by letter because I knew I was coming to town at once. You know my opinion of all the pieces composing it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'I must thank you for the volume which has just arrived.[...]. What I have felt and thought is more suitable for talk, warm and many coloured than for the cold blue tint of the typewriter.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
