Conrad, Joseph

warning in jocular tone to the twelve-year-old girl about the dangers of Corsican drivers ("...I, too, have been oppressed, buried under, smothered and choked by the mimosas thrown into the carriage by a driver...") and mountains ("...The precipice yawned (they always do), and I admired the Corsican scenery but wished myself back in England - on Romney Marsh, for preference..."), also promising to rescue her should she be captured by the Turks during a forthcoming trip to Istanbul, 2 pages, 4to, headed stationery of Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, 31 March 1923

Collected Letters, VIII, pp.65-66

Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) was the daughter of Conrad's friends Iris and Ralph Wedgwood (see lot 296). In later years she became one of the greatest historians of her generation; the author of many books, mostly on seventeenth-century subjects, was made a Dame in 1968, and in 1969 was awarded the Order of Merit.