Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO GEORGE GISSING responding in generous but characteristically lugubrious terms to Gissing's enthusiasm for his work, comparing Gissing to an enriched Aladdin with "the Lamp and the Treasure" who "can afford royally to fling away a priceless jewel of a word", admitting that "After forty it is easier to spurn away blame than to embrace the fair form of praise", and concluding that Gissing's praise is a Christmas gift "as no lavishness of Dickens's imagination could have contrived", 6 pages, 8vo, headed stationery of Pent Farm, near Hythe, Kent, 21 December 1902, second bifolium with integral blank crudely torn off, small nick to first bifolium
Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO GEORGE GISSING responding in generous but characteristically lugubrious terms to Gissing's enthusiasm for his work, comparing Gissing to an enriched Aladdin with "the Lamp and the Treasure" who "can afford royally to fling away a priceless jewel of a word", admitting that "After forty it is easier to spurn away blame than to embrace the fair form of praise", and concluding that Gissing's praise is a Christmas gift "as no lavishness of Dickens's imagination could have contrived", 6 pages, 8vo, headed stationery of Pent Farm, near Hythe, Kent, 21 December 1902, second bifolium with integral blank crudely torn off, small nick to first bifolium
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