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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19670, 13 July 1929, Page 15

An important literary discovery » reported in the New York "Bookman forMav, which tells of the opening of an old trunk containing hitherto unrecorded papers of Stephen Crane. Among theee papers were many intimate letters written to Crane by Joseph Conrad in the 'ff |; **£" Conrad had achieved world fame as a novelist. The letters reveal Conrad a sincere admiration for Crane and his modestv regarding his own work. In replv te> abetter which Crane wrote, urei'ne his friend to collaborate with him on a play with an American setting, Conrad wrote: I am very eurioua to know your idea; but I feel lomehow that eollaboretin* with tod would be either eheatin* or deeeiYine you. In any ease, disappointin* you. I hare no dramatic rift. You hare the tersenesg the e l„ r , ye _the way imapnatioa. 199b« «H—and I kaTe aaly ti« tttmH. turnip •£