Record Number: 19393

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'As to "Bushwhacking" you know I prize it above anything that may be written in acknowledgement of a presentation volume.[...]The book I consider as the best expression of your talent. All is seen and all is felt, with that gift of expression peculiar to you which suggests action itself underneath the record of vision and emotion.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

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:

Bushwhacking and Other Sketches

Genre:

Fiction, Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

August 1901

Provenance

owned
Presentation copy from author

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19393

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:

404

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Hugh Clifford, dated 5 April, 1902, 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. 404, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19393, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

According to his entry in the ODNB, Hugh Clifford's various collections of 'sketches' were semi-autobiographical short stories, and based on his Far Eastern experiences.