the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Francis Warrington Dawson : The Scar

'I didn't dare to look at your book ["The Scar"] till I finished a rather long thing which I was writing.[...] I have not been disappointed.There is power to begin with, and a great charm of style, a soberness of presentation which appeals to me extremely, [...] for as you can imagine I am not writing this after one reading only.' Hence follow nine lines of further praise.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Francis Warrington Dawson : (probably) The Purser's Shilling an earlier version of The True Dimension

'I have read the MS. I have read it twice.' Hence follow 20 lines of quite strong but constructive criticism.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: typescript (see additional information

Francis Warrington Dawson : Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis

'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very French it is too and yet with something individual-- and even racial--glowing through it and adding to the fascination of the perfectly simple diction.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Francis Warrington Dawson : The Sin

'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a whole, up to that sample then it is distinctly stuff that can be handled.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Warrington Dawson      Manuscript: Unknown

Francis Warrington Dawson : The Novel of George (published as The Pyramid)

'The novel --Good! Très fort!! As Pinker could not have done much with it before Easter I held it up here for a second reading.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Francis Warrington Dawson  : Grand Elixir (The Green Moustache)

'I am sending today the "Grand Elixir" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects admirable there can be no doubt.' Hence follow 12 lines of constructive criticism.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Francis Warrington Dawson : The True Dimension

'The story you sent me (I'm glad to have it) I remembered of course very well. It isn't the sort of thing that is ever forgotten.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      

Francis Warrington Dawson : The Gift of Paul Clermont

'Now I have absorbed it I send you my thanks for "The Gift of Paul Clermont". It is a very charming and touching performance which one likes more the deeper one gets into it.'
[Hence follow nine lines of praise.]

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

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