Joseph Conrad Decides to Go to Sea

in The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA, USA)

First serialized as Some Reminiscences in The English Review (London, UK) (Dec 1908 — Jun 1909)
Collected as A Personal Record in A Personal Record (1912)
Subsequently serialized as Some Reminiscences in The New York Sun (New York, NY, USA) (Feb 3, 1912)
Subsequently extracted as Almost Shipwrecked in The Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, TX, USA) (Sep 27, 1912)
Subsequently extracted as Almost Shipwrecked: Trying Ordeal For the Sailor Who Would Be a Master in The Lowville Herald & Lewis County Democrat (Lowville, NY, USA) (Nov 17, 1912)
Subsequently extracted as Almost Shipwrecked: Trying Ordeal For the Sailor Who Would Be a Master in The Geneva Advertiser-Gazette (Geneva NY, USA) (Nov 17, 1912)
Subsequently serialized as The Red Ensign in The Times Broadsheet Edition (London, UK) (Jan 1, 1918)
Subsequently extracted in The Lewiston Evening Journal (Lewiston, ME, USA) (Oct 2, 1919)
Subsequently serialized as My English! in The Book Monthly (London, UK) (Dec 1919)
Subsequently serialized as Des Souvenirs in Le Correspondant (Paris, France) (Aug 25, 1924 — Oct 25, 1925)
Subsequently extracted as Prispevek k teoriji umetniškega ustvarjanja in Ljubljanski zvon (Ljubljana, Slovenia) (Feb 1928)
Subsequently serialized as Lebenserinnerungen in Die Neue Rundschau (Berlin, Germany) (Sep 1928)
Subsequently extracted as Conrad's First Touch of England in The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA, USA) (Jan 12, 1931)
Subsequently serialized as A Familiar Preface in Encore (Hoboken, NJ, USA) (Jan 1943)
Subsequently extracted as Über mich selbst in Welt und Wort: Literarische Monatsschrift (Tübingen, Germany) (May 1964)

p.15. The Home Forum section. Extract of 1168 page begins: "We sat down by the side of the road to continue the argument begun half a mile or so before. I am certain it was an argument, because I remember perfectly how my tutor argued, and how without the power of reply I listened with my eyes fixed obstinately on the ground."

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