Record Number: 19296

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'As to your sketch (for it is that) in last "B'wood", it has pleased me immensely. The simplicity of treatment is effective.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Dec 1899 and 12 Dec 1899

Country:

England

Time

n/a

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 in company 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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Hugh Clifford

Title:

Father Rouellet

Genre:

Fiction, Biography, Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Blackwood's Magazine December 1899

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19296

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:

227

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Hugh Clifford 13th December 1899, Pent Farm.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 227, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19296, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

'Father Roullet' was a story about a selfless French missionary in Malaysia. See fn.1 p227 source text.