Conrad, Joseph

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Description

Conrad, Joseph
Autograph letter signed, to Kate Gordon Quill
ink on paper

thanking her for her letter and with appreciative comments on poems by David Morton that she had enclosed, which have "captured this musing mood so charmingly and with such a felicity of expression and images", 4 pages, 8vo, headed stationery of Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, 9 August 1920, with autograph addressed envelope, some light soiling

Literature

Collected Letters, IX, pp.229-230

Catalogue Note

Kate Quill was an American fan of Conrad's work, living in Nashville, Tennessee. She had sent Conrad verses by the Tennessee-educated poet David Morton (1886-1957), whose first volume Ships in Harbor, and Other Poems, was published in 1920.