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Justin Tonra

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Academic Integrity Officer, University of Galway. Associate Professor of English. Research on intersections of literature and technology. Author, WRITE MY NAME doi.org/d736

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Irish Universities Association @iua-official.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Now is the moment to act." In today's Business Post, the Chairs of Ireland's leading universities outline why Government must tackle the current funding gap and invest in Ireland's universities in Budget 2027. www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi... #SupportIrishUniversities
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Opinion: Budget 2027 must tackle Ireland’s universities €250m funding gap
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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎉 We're excited to welcome 6 new Community Interest Groups to the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association! From #webarchives, #pedagogy, and #openknowledge, our CIG network now includes 10 active groups. 🔗 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/21/2... #DH #DigitalHumanities
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Announcement: New CIGs | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We've got a few big updates as we look ahead to 2027! The Annual Event is going on hiatus as we support colleagues attending DH2027 in Galway (@adho-org.bsky.social). We’re also launching a new event series! To find out more, check out our website: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/04/r... #DH
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Regional Events Series | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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DH2027 @adho-conferences.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#DH2027 is coming to Galway! ⛵️ Join us 28 June–3 July 2027 at the University of Galway for ADHO’s 37th annual conference, on the theme #Creativity. Our website is now live: dh2027.adho.org Watch this space: the CfP is coming soon. #DH2027 @adho-org.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So many AI icons are just people with AI written where their brain should be and it’s universally recognized as correct
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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
📢 Applications are open for the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association's Advocacy & Engagement Fellowship. Theme: Openness & Transparency 💰 £4,000 stipend + £1,000 project fund 📅 Deadline: 17 August 2026 Link: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/07/06/2... #DigitalHumanities #OpenResearch #DH
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2026/7 Advocacy and Engagement Fellowship | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Next venues for the @adho-org.bsky.social DH conferences mentioned in #DH2026 closing ceremony. - #DH2027 28 June - 3 July 2027, Galway, Ireland dh2027.adho.org - #DH2028 4-7 July 2028 Capetown, South Africa - #DH2029 2029, Padua, Italy Hope that I can make some of these!
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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As promised! The @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social has generously provided support for two days of public-facing ms activities this July. The events will be free of charge, and there is funding for ECR travel (defined as ≤7 years post-PhD, with preference for those not yet in permanent employment). 1/
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 26/05/2026
Panel Spotlight: Disciplinary Borders From health research to AI law, this panel brings together leading voices to explore how breaking disciplinary boundaries sparks innovation. Book your ticket now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We are excited to share that @ukri.org has awarded £300k to the UK‑Ireland Digital Humanities Association 🎉 From Feb 2026–Mar 2028, this funding will support advocacy, community building and sustainability for #DH across the UK and Ireland. 🔗 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/05/11/u...
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UKRI funding announcement | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Our pilot Small Grants Scheme for early career DH researchers and GLAM practitioners is now OPEN! Up to £ 3,000 / € 3,449.26 to support collaborative projects between researchers & GLAM institutions. Deadline: 19 June Details digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/05/01/2... #DH #digitalheritage
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Pilot Small Grants Scheme Announcement | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The longer I spend in digital humanities, the more I am obsessively drawn to analog technologies and convinced we must actively and intently teach them or the digital world loses its color, texture, and depth.
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Disappointing to see the HEA--a public body responsible for governance and regulation of higher education in Ireland--launching courses on "AI Fluency" that were co-designed by Anthropic. Their involvement is a clear and obvious conflict of interest. hea.ie/2026/04/01/h...
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HEA launches online learning resources to support AI literacy in higher education | Higher Education Authority
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than AI. Authoritarian leaders & tech oligarchs are deploying AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity.”
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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
⏰30 January⏰ is the deadline for the #CallForPapers for the UK-Ireland DH Association's 2026 Annual Event (15-16 June, University of Southampton & online). Theme: #Sustainability We look forward to receiving your proposals! digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-... #DigitalHumanities
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2026 Call for Proposals | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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Lex Bouter @lexbouter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I've just updated my preprint on short personal reviews of novels on #ResearchIntegrity , which now covers 35 titles. bit.ly/409E5ff Please attend me to novels which you believe to belong to this list, but are not yet included.
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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
There are just 3 weeks left to submit your proposal for the 2026 Annual Event, to be held at the University of Southampton, 15-16 June. Theme: Sustainability. digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-... Questions about the CFP? Join our drop-in session on Wednesday www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
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UK-Ireland DH Association 2026 Annual Event - CFP Information Session
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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Call for Proposals!🔔 We're pleased to announce the CFP for the 2026 Annual Event (15-16 June, University of Southampton). Theme: Sustainability digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-... Info session 16 Dec Abstract submission by 30 Jan EOI for peer review by 2 Feb Notification of acceptance 16 Mar
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2026 Call for Proposals | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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Michael Donnay @mjdonnay.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Want to know how to start a #DH association? Probably not - but lots about building sustainable orgs that support researchers, practitioners & students. Thanks @jfwinters.bsky.social for guiding the process & @jtonra.bsky.social for working on the implementation section w/ me! @ukiedh.bsky.social
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Enhancing research and teaching capacity through collaboration: building a UK–Ireland Digital Humanities Association
Abstract. This article discusses the development of a Digital Humanities (DH) Association for the UK and Ireland. It explores processes for evidence gather
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
How do you start a Digital Humanities association? You can now read our answer to the question on everyone's lips, open-access in DSH: academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-... It's a real pleasure to be in the company of great co-authors, writing about a great association! @ukiedh.bsky.social
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Enhancing research and teaching capacity through collaboration: building a UK–Ireland Digital Humanities Association
Abstract. This article discusses the development of a Digital Humanities (DH) Association for the UK and Ireland. It explores processes for evidence gather
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"Tech companies do everything to turn inevitability into a lived experience, as they pollute their applications with ‘AI assistants’ and make opting out quite a cumbersome task for technology users. The inevitability myth is powerful. So powerful, I nearly got trapped." 👏
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Recommendations please: I'm looking for an LLM that can be downloaded and run on a local machine. User-friendliness of installation and use much more important than power or parameter size.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Obviously one expects no less from the university rankings industrial complex, but this is absolutely dire, willfully-naive AI boosterism. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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How to use ChatGPT at university without cheating: ‘Now it’s more like a study partner’
The ubiquitous AI tool has a divisive effect on educators with some seeing it a boon and others a menace. So what should you know about where to draw the line between check and cheat?
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Just realised that Robert Frost's "Putting in the Seed" has a winking emoticon: (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
You can use ChatGPT instead of your own brain to write your paper if I can talk about ChatGPT instead of you in your letter of reference
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CLS INFRA: Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure @clsinfra.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The CLS INFRA project has officially concluded. After four transformative years, our work in building infrastructure for computational literary studies is complete. Thank you for being part of this journey!
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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Students hate that I base 50% of their grade on their "rich inner life" but this is the only way to be sure they are not using LLMs
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Disappointing to see this piece recommending a general embrace of AI in higher education with no meaningful engagement with the serious issues involved. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Opinion: From personalised tutoring to improved accessibility, why AI can democratise higher education
Artificial intelligence is to be embraced rather than feared, but educators and students cannot ignore its dark side
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REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️ We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚 #REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory [See images for details & how to apply.]
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Read somewhere that em-dashes are now considered a signal of AI-generated text and lamented that AI is destroying everything that I love.
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Ireland & UK #DigitalHumanities folk, would you like to help shape the development of the UK-Ireland DH Association? There’s an open call for expressions of interest to join the organising collective (3 new members) & we’d love to hear from you whether you’re in HE, GLAM or somewhere else entirely!
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Open call for three new members of the Association collective | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
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CLS INFRA: Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure @clsinfra.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
📢 CLS INFRA Online Workshop 📢 All welcome! Registration now open at link below. 📆 Wed 9 July 🕐 10:30 CEST 🎟️ forms.gle/XH875jLaCwxf...
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of network analysis for humanities scholars, combining historical and literary case studies with hands-on practice. Participants will explore networks of literary characters, correspondence, and historical actors, and learn to visualise and interpret these structures using accessible tools like Gephi and EzLinaVis.
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CLS INFRA: Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure @clsinfra.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
CLS INFRA CLOSING EVENT Registration now open for in-person and online participants. 🎟️ Free: forms.gle/5b98Z9dpKarZ... 📍 Jagiellonian University, Kraków 📅 2 July 2025 🕐 0900-1800 🔗 clsinfra.io/closing-event/
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CLS INFRA Closing Event registration
Here you can sign up to participate in the CLS INFRA Closing Event - a workshop accompanying CCLS conference in Kraków. The event will take place on 2nd July 2025, in Collegium Padervianum (Jagiellon...
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Lindsay Reid and I have a chapter, "Digital scholarly editing in the early modern curriculum," in this very cool, open-access collection. Chapter abstract here: books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/... @uniofgalway.bsky.social
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Establish a sub-conclave to sort this out. www.fastcompany.com/91324550/ker...
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The kerning on the pope's tomb is a travesty
The internet is up in arms about Pope Francis's tomb, and it's all because of lettering.
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Where has the woodblock from the image on the left gone? And why has it been replaced by the same page printed on wood? I'm confused.
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Trying this query again 🥺
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Academic misconduct in John Kelly's _Cool About the Ankles_.
Examinations were regular and torturous. If you did well in your exams you were a stew, and so I was therefore technically a stew — but I never, ever stewed. I hated stewing. I preferred listening to Dave Fanning on the radio, cramming and letting my granny do the novenas. There were other techniques, too, and the most frowned upon was coggin’. This involved copying from the person next to you, passing notes, smuggling in reams of information on tissue paper, arriving with essays already written out, hiding your textbooks in the cisterns, or decorating your own body with formulae and symbols like some tattooed South Pacific warrior to be read at leisure. Very few people attempted coggin’ and even fewer with any success. I think we were all secretly against it. Anyone caught coggin’ would be court-martialled and shot.I remember one occasion when there was a bomb scare. This, after all, was the place called Northern Ireland and bomb scares had to be taken seriously. Pens down, everybody out, walk, don’t run. We would assemble on the all-weather pitch and it was inevitable that someone might eventually enquire furtively what you’d got for question six?
— Why? What did you get for it?
But that wasn’t the same as coggin’.
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Academic misconduct in Tove Ditlevsen's _Childhood_.
Once he was going to help me write a composition about Florence Nightingale, but all that he could say about her was that she had big feet and bad breath – so I consulted Miss Mollerup instead. Otherwise my father has written a lot of my papers and gotten good grades from Miss Mathiassen. It didn’t misfire until he wrote an essay on America and ended it like this: ‘America has been called the land of freedom. Earlier it meant freedom to be yourself, to work, and to own land. Now it practically means freedom to starve to death if you don’t have money to buy food.’ ‘What in the world,’ said my classroom teacher, ‘do you mean by that nonsense?’ I couldn’t explain it, and we only got a ‘B’ for the effort.
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
What (free) OCR software are DHers using these days? Source images are straightforward: early 20C printed texts.
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University of Galway @uniofgalway.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A recruitment process is underway for the appointment of President of University of Galway. Read more and apply here: perrettlaver.com/university-o...
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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
DH developer job here at the University of Galway. Come hang with (and maybe support?) the @stemma.bsky.social crew! www.linkedin.com/posts/davkel...
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Digital Humanities Developer Job Spec | David Kelly
Interested in a role as a Digital Humanities Developer? You'll be working with me to deliver and maintain technical solutions that enable research in the areas…
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Yes, my book (and several of my articles) are in LibGen. No, Taylor and Francis have still not responded to my multiple queries about whether they sold my book to Microsoft to train their AI without my consent.
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Reading John Guillory's _On Close Reading_, this note brought to mind the mountains of unread academic publications, certain to be multiplied now by AI slop, that are generated in response to the metric fixation of the sector. Happy World Book Day!
A passage from John Guillory's On Close Reading, discussing the rapid accumulation of literary writing, particularly through internet self-publication. It highlights that most of this writing is read by very few people or not at all, suggesting a new function for literary writing that may expire at the moment of its creation. The passage references Mark McGurl's book, Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon.
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I'm looking for recommendations of journals publishing articles on pedagogy in literary studies (or broader humanities).
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QAA @qaa.ac.uk · 26/02/2025
💡Join us at 15:00 GMT for our #QualityInsights Conference Plenary session 'Walking the Tightrope: Maintaining academic integrity through effective assessment design'. Our panel of experts will delve into issues surrounding academic integrity in relation to undirected student use of #GenerativeAI.
'Walking the Tightrope: Maintaining academic integrity through effective assessment design'.
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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We're pleased to announce we've published a proposal for the Association’s governance approach, which lays out a structure for the Association, a model for membership for individuals & institutions and a timeline for elections. Check it out & let us know your thoughts! We'd love to hear from you!
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Association Governance Proposal Published | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon. Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027! #DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway
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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
In case you happen to have a copy, I'm looking for Joseph Conrad, _A Personal Record; The Mirror of the Sea_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. [Volume 11 of the "Sun-Dial" _Works of Joseph Conrad_ edition]. search.worldcat.org/title/61342334
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A personal record ; The mirror of the sea | WorldCat.org
A personal record ; The mirror of the sea | WorldCat.org
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