sentences:  In 1897, Curtin's first meeting with Sienkiewicz, like his earlier first contact with the latter's writings, came about by sheer chance, in a hotel dining room at the Swiss resort of Ragatz.For the next nine years, until Curtin's death in 1906, the two men would be in continual contact through correspondence and personal meetings.Harold B. Segel writes about Curtin's translations of works by Henryk Sienkiewicz