![]() ![]() In a letter home, a month into the voyage, he described “a capital chap,” Polish, somewhat odd-looking, with “a fund of yarns on which I draw freely.” Galsworthy’s sister credited this encounter with turning him away from the law. ![]() In March, 1893, John Galsworthy-a product of Harrow and Oxford who had recently passed the English bar exam-was boarding the passenger ship Torrens, in Port Adelaide, when he noticed a small man with black hair boisterously loading cargo. Conrad mined his life for material, but chafed at being called a “writer of the sea.” Illustration by Riccardo Vecchio ![]()
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