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Record Number: 18871


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'"Higginson's Dream" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flattered that you discern some points of similitude. Of course I am in complete sympathy with the point of view. For the same accomplishmnet in expression I can never hope--and Robert [Cunninghame Grahame] is too strong an individuality [sic] to be influenced by anyone's writing. He desired me to correct the proofs but the "Sat. Rev" people did not send me the proofs.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1898 and 16 Oct 1898

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stanford-le-Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm

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:

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:

Higginson's Dream

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

story published in Saturday Review 1 October 1898

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18871

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:

104-105

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to the Hon.A.E.Bontine [mother of Robert Cunnighame Graham] 16 October 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. 104-105, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18871, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

"Higginson's Dream" was a story of colonial squalor in the South Seas (fn.4 p.104 source text) re-published in "Thirteen Stories" 1900 (fn.1 p.105 source text).

   
   
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