Joseph Conrad’s Polish-Ukrainian “Graveyard”: Memory, Mourning, and Anti-Colonial Resistance in his 19th-Century Family Photo Album 

Conradiana at Duke University

Publications

Gray, Virginia R., [with assistance from Zofia Grzybowska], “Young Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski,” Library Notes, Number 43 (November 1972), pp. 43-52.

Randall, Dale B. J. “Some New Conrad Biographical Sources,” Conradiana, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 1968), 69-70.

Archival Material

Joseph Conrad papers, 1850-1972  includes Letters from Joseph Conrad, 1897-1922 as well as Jessie Conrad’s scrapbooks and Joseph Conrad photograph album of his Polish relatives

William Blackburn papers, 1859-1985 include Letters by and about Joseph Conrad, 1898-1924.

Dale B. J. Randall papers, 1940-2010 includes correspondence and photographs that were to be included in Randall's book.

Francis Warrington Dawson family papers, 1386-1963, bulk 1859-1950
includes Dawson's letters with Joseph and Jessie Conrad as well as Miscellaneous Photographs of Conrad’s family.

Non-Duke Digital Collections

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

The Joseph Conrad Collection, 1860-1957, contains writings, correspondence, and other material by or relating to Joseph Conrad, including photographs of “Conrad and Others, 1862-1927, undated.”

National Museum of Warsaw, Digital Exhibits

Photography Room in the Gallery of 19th Century Art

Beyer. A Photographer in the Era of Romanticism  The second instalment of the Photography Room in the Gallery of 19th Century Art 

Polona.pl

Polona.pl is a digital library with digitized collections from the National Library of Poland and cooperating institutions.  Albums from the January Uprising, images by photographers like Karol Beyer, Walery Rzewuski and Felix Czerkawski, and Joseph Conrad materials are available.  User pages in English and Polish, but searches need Polish keywords.

V. I. Vernadskii National Library of Ukraine

The Image collection in the Electronic library "Ukrainica" includes student yearbooks of the Imperial Kyiv Theological Academy and other photo materials.

Selected Publications on Conrad's ‘Polishness’ and Transnationalism

Brodsky, G.W.S. Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self, ed. George Z. Gasyna [Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives Project; Vol. XXV] (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016).

Francis, Andrew. “Postcolonial Conrad,” in The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad, edited by J. H. Stape, St Mary's University (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Gasyna, George. Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise: Exilic Discourse in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz (New York & London: Bloomsbury, 2011).

Gogwilt, Christopher. “Afterward: How Black Lives Matter for Conrad’s Personal Record of Migration and Transnationalism,” in Migration, modernity and transnationalism in the work of Joseph Conrad, edited by Kim Salmons and Tania Zulli (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).

Joseph Conrad Society of America: Anti-Racism Statement (6/17/2020).
Includes list of authors that discuss racism, criticism and inspiration in Conrad.

Najder, Zdzisław. Joseph Conrad: A Life. Trans. Halina Carroll-Najder (Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2007).

Najder, Zdzisław, ed. Conrad under Familial Eyes. Trans. Halina Carroll-Najder (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 1983).

Najder, Zdzisław, Conrad's Polish background; letters to and from Polish friends. Translated by Halina Carroll (London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1964).

Szczypien, Jean M. "Sailing Towards Poland" with Joseph Conrad (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2017).

Conrad, Jessie. Joseph Conrad as I knew him. (London: W. Heinemann, 1926).