Record Number: 18762
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'This morning I had the "Aurora" from Smithers, No.2 of the 500 copies. C'est tout simplement magnifique yet I do not exactly perceive what on earth they have been making a fuss about.[...] I notice variations in the text as I've read it in the typewritten copy.This seems the most fnished piece of work you have ever done.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:30 Jul 1898
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Stanford-le-Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm
(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:Master mariner and author
Religion:originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist
Country of Origin:Poland
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author:R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Title:Aurora la Cujini: A Realistic sketch in Seville
Genre:Biography, Geography / Travel, see additional comments
Form of Text:Print: Book, Pamphlet, see additional comments
Publication DetailsLeonard Smithers 1898
Provenanceowned
sent to Conrad by publishers
Source Information:
Record ID:18762
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1986
Vol:2
Page:80
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, 30 July 1898 Stanford-le-Hope.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 80, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18762, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
The work is referred to in fn.5 p80 of the source text as 'a booklet about a legendary gypsy dancer'.