Joseph Conrad In West

Indies

Letter to the Editor IN your issue of January, 1937, received A yesterday, I noticed a paragraph in regard to a resident of the Solomon Is lands who received Christmas greetings from one of the crew of the Joseph Conrad.' Your information is correct as regards “The member of the crew of the Joseph Conrad ,” but when you state that he saw the magazine in New York, your informant is incorrect.

I have been a subscriber to the Pacific Islands Monthly for over a year now and I find it one of the most interesting, as well as one of the best magazines dealing with the southern hemisphere. I eagerly await each issue, reading avidly even the advertisements. It is truly a remarkable magazine.

As regards the Joseph Conrad, she was sold by Mr. Villiers to a Mr. G. Hunting ton Hartford, one of the heirs of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company fortune, who has spent a considerable amount fitting her out for a prolonged voyage to the West Indies. She should be somewhere off the coast of Florida at this time.

As a member of the crew of cadets of the Joseph Conrad for over a year and a half' I should like to use your magazine if possible as a means of thanking the many hospitable persons in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere who were so kind to all of us.

I am. etc.,

Adair Miller.

Southport, Conn., U.S.A., March 11. 1937.

Mr. G. D. Quensell, of Niuafoou (“Tin Can” Island), arrived in Auckland from Tonga by the Matua recently to spend a holiday in New Zealand.