Joseph Conrad: Memories and Impressions - An Annotated Bibliography. (Conrad Studies)

199 Pages·2007·1.03 MB·English

by  Martin Ray

Joseph Conrad
Memories and Impressions
An Annotated Bibliography
C O N R A D 1
S t uDi eS
General Editors:
Allan H. Simmons and J. H. Stape
Advisory Editors:
Owen Knowles and Gene M. Moore

Joseph Conrad
Memories and Impressions
An Annotated Bibliography
by
Martin Ray
Amsterdam - New York, NY 2007
Frontispiece: Sketch of Joseph Conrad by Walter Tittle
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To

SUSANNAH
Acknowledgements

I am deeply grateful to Owen Knowles, J. H. Stape, and Allan H.
Simmons for their invaluable comments, advice, and suggestions
about this book, over a period of many years. Like so many people
who have written about Joseph Conrad, I owe a special debt of
gratitude to the late Hans van Marle for his magisterial erudition.
The frontispiece is reproduced by courtesy of the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco. All efforts have been made to trace the
Estate of Walter Tittle.
This book is dedicated to my daughter, Susannah, without whose
devoted care it could not have been completed.
Contents

Foreword viii

Cue-titles x

Joseph Conrad: Memories and Impressions 1

Index 174
Foreword

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY aims to identify and annotate publications that
record “memories and impressions” of Joseph Conrad by those who
knew him or met him. This volume has its origin in my monograph
Joseph Conrad and His Contemporaries (1988), published by The Joseph
Conrad Society (UK). The present much revised version has been con-
siderably expanded, especially by the addition of extensive annotation
for virtually all entries, which has been made possible by the publica-
tion of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad in recent years. It has also
been updated by the inclusion of relevant letters and diaries that
continue to come to light occasionally.
In the selection of items for inclusion, preference has been given to
recollections with literary or biographical interest. This criterion has
determined both the kind of items selected and the degree of citation
they receive. Recollections of Conrad offering merely a pen portrait of
him are omitted, and such descriptions are not mentioned in items that
are included. Priority throughout has been given to accounts of Conrad
that record what he said about himself and his writing. Conrad’s friends
and acquaintances are often recalling conversations that were quite
casual and that occurred many years before, and they are not on oath.
Some of the individual comments must thus be taken cum grano salis. A
small handful of items seem to be entirely bogus, invented either by
journalists in need of quick copy or by charlatans seeking a vicarious
association with literary fame. Such spurious accounts are included only
so that they can be clearly identified as such in the annotations.
Letters to Conrad from his friends are excluded, the most pertinent
of which are found in A Portrait in Letters: Correspondence to and about
Joseph Conrad, edited by J. H. Stape and Owen Knowles (1996). Letters
about him to a third party are annotated where their contents fall within
the scope of this bibliography. Items in Polish are omitted, since most
of these are available in Zdzisław Najder’s compilation Conrad Under
Familial Eyes, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder (1983). Items in French
are included.
Theodore G. Ehrsam’s A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad (1969) lists
many of the earlier items; a number of new items that it overlooked are
recorded here. For the purposes of this work, Ehrsam’s bibliography
was found to be more comprehensive than the well-known bibliog-
raphies of Lohf and Sheehy (1957) or Teets and Gerber (1971). I have
not listed the other printings that some items have enjoyed, since they
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are readily found in Ehrsam. Reprints not listed in Ehrsam are recorded,
and errors have been silently emended. Some articles on Conrad, such
as Hugh Clifford’s North American Review article of 1904, are known to
be based on an interview with Conrad, but are not presented in the
form of a personal account and have therefore been excluded.
Books of criticism devoted entirely to the study of Joseph Conrad
have been omitted, as have all publications listed in Ehrsam by Richard
Curle, Ford Madox Ford, G. Jean-Aubry, and Conrad’s wife and chil-
dren. Such works are already familiar to most students of Conrad’s life,
and their inclusion would have needlessly increased the length of the
bibliography. Preference has been given instead to relatively unfamiliar
or inaccessible items, especially those in newspapers and periodicals
whose only location may be, for example, The British Library or The
Bodleian Library. Articles in modern journals may not be inaccessible,
but they do not usually have a subject index, and are therefore included
to facilitate ease of reference.
These criteria should not be regarded as mosaic decrees, and I have
happily sacrificed them occasionally in the hope of making this work
useful and interesting. For example, George T. Keating’s A Conrad
Memorial Library (1929) is devoted entirely to the work of Conrad and
therefore, strictly, ought to have been excluded; however, it is difficult
to obtain in the United Kingdom (only one non-lending library in Scot-
land holds it, for instance), and not indexed, and I thus decided to
annotate it.
Articles by the same author may repeat some details, and such
information is described only once, although substantial overlaps are
indicated. Items of minor interest are included only to identify them as
relatively unimportant and thus to save other scholars’ time. The
numerous newspaper reports of Conrad’s visit to the United States in
1923 are inevitably repetitious, and therefore only the newspaper inter-
view that gives the fullest account of a particular statement by Conrad
is rewarded with citation of that comment. Entries for these reports of
the American visit are best regarded as composite, forming an aggre-
gate account of Conrad’s interviews during his trip.
Page numbers following a book title indicate the location of infor-
mation relevant to the aims of this bibliography; they do not imply that
there are not other pages in that book that refer to Conrad. Items are
listed in the alphabetical order of their authors’ surnames.