About BR. "I hope he knew, in the end, how fond I was of him, and how inexpressibly I regretted those wasted years ... I'd like to say, too, how much pleasure it gave me to see him so happy with you. I think you made him much happier than he had ever been before ... I hope you know how much joy the past two and a half years have been to me, and how grateful I am, both to my father and to you, that they were possible."

Conrad refers to writing his Illustrated London News article on BR.