Some Reminiscences
in The New York Sun (New York, NY, USA) (Feb 3, 1912): 
pp.1–15
- First serialized in The English Review (London, UK) (Dec 1908 — Jun 1909)
- Collected as A Personal Record in A Personal Record (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 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)
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p.9.
Excerpt from "A Personal Record".