CONRAD JOSEPH Autograph Letter Signed Jph Conrad to My dear

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"A PHOTOGRAPH ANYHOW IS A BEASTLY THING" CONRAD, JOSEPH. Autograph Letter Signed, "Jph. Conrad," to "My dear Sir," expressing pleasure at approval of [his 1900 novel Lord] Jim, giving permission to use a photograph but not one of his own making, and explaining that he has just started a short story. 4 pages, 12mo, written on a folded sheet; faint uneven toning to first page, horizontal fold. "The Pent" [Stanford near Hythe], 19 September 1900

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"I am glad you think well of Jim . . . . I am in such a state of muddle about it myself that I have given up thinking. Moreover what's done can not be undone.
"As to your request you must really pardon me. I haven't a photograph--and, a photograph anyhow is a beastly thing even if I had one. If the public wants a photograph let them have it of course but I should think any sort of photograph would do. I have no objection but I won't have anything to do with it. I really think too much of my prose to throw photographs into the scale in which public favours are weighed.
"Indeed I have not forgotten the pledge! I keep that pleasure before me. I've just started a short story (a real one this time--not an incipient novel) and when I've murdered that I shall appear and claim the lunch. . . ."