Record Number: 18521
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The second number of the "Standard" came to hand yesterday via Singapore.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 24 Nov 1885 and 25 Nov 1885
Country:India
Timen/a
Place:city: Calcutta
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:3 Dec 1857
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Mariner (First Mate) Masters certificate obtained 1886)
Religion:originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist
Country of Origin:Poland
Country of Experience:India
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:newspaper (London Evening Standard)
Genre:Ephemera
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Details1885
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:18521
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1983
Vol:1
Page:13
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad (signed as 'Conrad N. Korzeniowski') to Spiridion Kliszczewski, Polish emigrant and Cardiff watchmaker, dated 25 November 1885, Calcutta. According to eds. of source material (p. lxiv) this may be among the first letters Conrad wrote in English. See also record 18520.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18521, accessed: 18 April 2024
Additional Comments:
footnote in source text p.13 states that Conrad began reading the 'London Evening Standard' early in his career on British ships.
