ABSTRACT
Ford Madox Ford’s letters are undoubtedly the single element of his oeuvre most in need of editorial attention. This chapter begins the work of closing significant gaps. It sets out where Ford’s letters can currently be found in print. The chapter offers an account of all of the sources, as well as providing researchers with information about both the archival and private/personal collections of Ford’s letters that are known to exist. Cornell University Library’s Ford collection contains the greatest number in any single location. Conrad, Pound was Ford’s longest and most significant literary friend, and yet the researcher armed only with Ludwig’s selection of his letters would have no idea of the importance of the two men in Ford’s life. Unfortunately, Conrad tended not to keep incoming correspondence, so the surviving letters to him from Ford are mostly from Conrad’s last year, 1924, when Ford was editing the transatlantic review and republishing their collaborative novella The Nature of a Crime.
