Record Number: 18876

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Your photograph came yesterday (It's good!) and the book [Mogreb-el-Acksa] arrived by this evening's post. I dropped everything--as you may imagine and rushed at it paper knife in hand. It is with great difficulty I interrupt my reading at the 100th page -- and I interrupt it only to write to you. A man staying here has been reading over my shoulder; for we share our best with the stranger within our tent. No thirsty men drank water as we have been drinking in, swallowing, tasting, blessing, enjoying, gurgling, choking over, absorbing, your thought, your phrases, your irony [...Then follows ten lines of enthusiastic praise for the book.]

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

1 Dec 1898

Country:

England

Time

evening
night

Place:

city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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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

unnamed male house guest who read the text over Conrad's shoulder.

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Title:

Mogreb-el-Acksa

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London Heinemann 1898

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18876

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:

124

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham, 1st December 1898, Pent Farm, Kent

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 124, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18876, accessed: 18 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None