Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 2,000
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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
PROPOSING A NEW TITLE FOR "THE SHORTER TALES OF JOSEPH CONRAD" CONRAD, JOSEPH. Typed Letter Signed, "J. Conrad," to Doubleday executive Samuel A. Everitt, stating that he has sent a copy of his letter to [literary agent Eric] Pinker and an outline of his proposal for the content and order of works for The Shorter Tales of Joseph Conrad (1924), and suggesting a new title for the book. With salutation, closing, and several corrections in holograph. 2 pages, small 4to, personal stationery; moderate foxing overall, folds, ink stain at lower edge. Bishopsbourne, 14 February 1924

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". . . [M]y feelings . . . were always against taking . . . single stories out of the volumes to which they belong . . . . But I hate to set myself up against anything proposed by D.P. & Co.
"My scheme is essentially a compromise.
". . . Why I divided the vol. into two Parts is because I wanted to give both YOUTH and TYPHOON a distinct prominence, each of them being the first of their respective Parts. . . .
"There is an alternative suggestion which I wish to make, bearing on the title. It could be: THE / SHORTER TALES / of / JOSEPH CONRAD . . . .
"The point is in using the word TALES instead of STORIES. . . ."
Does not appear in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).