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Record Number: 18870


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'At one o'clock [Neil] Munro and I went into the street.We talked. I had read up "The Lost Pibroch" which I do think wonderful in a way.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Joseph Conrad

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:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Neil Munro

Title:

The Lost Pibroch and Other Sheiling Stories

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Blackwood 1896

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18870

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

95

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett 29 September 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. 95, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18870, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Neil Munro (aka Hugh Foulis) 1863-1930 Scottish journalist and storyteller. Date of Conrad's reading expereince unknown but context of letter suggests he read it soon before going to, or while already in Glasgow in Sept 1898 and meeting Munro, possibly at the home of Dr John Macintyre, his host and a friend of R.B. Cunninghame Graham (see also fns. pp. 94-95 in source text.)

   
   
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