Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Joseph Conrad: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Abbreviations

Heart of Darkness

Appendix A: Maps

Appendix B: Correspondence from and to Conrad

1. To Albert Thys (11 April 1890)
2. To Marguerite Poradowska (15 May 1890)
3. To Karol Zagórski (22 May 1890)
4. To Marguerite Poradowska (26 September 1890)
5. To T. Fisher Unwin (22 July 1896)
6. To William Blackwood (31 December 1898)
7. To Ford Madox Hueffer [Ford] (3 January 1899)
8. To R.B. Cunninghame Graham (8 February 1899)
9. From William Blackwood (10 March 1899)
10. To William Blackwood (31 May 1902)
11. To Roger Casement (17 December 1903)
12. To Roger Casement (21 December 1903)
13. To R.B. Cunninghame Graham (26 December 1903)
14. To Ernest Dawson (25 June 1908)

Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews

1. From Hugh Clifford, “The Art of Mr. Joseph Conrad,” Spectator (29 November 1902)
2. From [Edward Garnett,] “Mr. Conrad’s New Book,” Academy and Literature (6 December 1902)
3. “Youth; and Other Stories,” Graphic (3 January 1903)
4. From “Joseph Conrad,” Literary World (16 January 1903)
5. From Desmond B. O’Brien [Richard Ashe King], “Letters on Books,” Truth (22 January 1903)
6. From “Books Worth Reading,” Times of India (14 February 1903)
7. From “Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and Things of Lesser Moment,” Evening Telegram (21 February 1903)
8. From “New Novels,” The Australasian (28 February 1903)
9. From “Novels of the Week,” Commercial Advertiser (7 March 1903)
10. From Elia W. Peattie, “On Conrad’s Youth and Isham’s Under the Rose,” Chicago Daily Tribune (21 March 1903)
11. From George Hamlin Fitch, “On the Bookshelves,” San Francisco Chronicle (12 April 1903)
12. From Frederic Taber Cooper, “Literature, American and English,” International Year Book 1902 (1903)
13. From [Virginia Woolf,] “Mr. Conrad’s Youth,” Times Literary Supplement(20 September 1917)

Appendix D: Autobiographical Writings by Conrad

1. From Joseph Conrad, Congo Diary (1890)
2. From Joseph Conrad, Some Reminiscences (1912)
3. From Joseph Conrad, “The Romance of Travel” (1 February 1924)

Appendix E: Contemporary Accounts of the Congo

1. George Washington Williams, An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo (1890)
2. From Life and Letters of Samuel Norvell Lapsley, Missionary to the Congo Valley, West Africa, 1866–1892 (1893)
3. From W.P. Tisdel, “‘The Realm of the Congo’: My Trip to the Congo” (1890)
4. From E.J. Glave, “The Slave-Trade in the Congo Basin” (1890)
5. Léopold II, “Letter from the King of the Belgians” (1898)

Works Cited and Bibliography