Conrad's First Touch of England

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 as Joseph Conrad Decides to Go to Sea in The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA, USA) (Sep 18, 1919)
Subsequently extracted as Joseph Conrad Decides to Go to Sea 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 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.9. Extract begins: "No fresh breeze had come with the dawn, only the steady little draught got a more keen edge on it as the eastern sky became bright and glassy with a clean, colourless light. It was while we were all ashore on the islet that a steamer was picked up by the telescope, a black speek like an insect . . ."

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