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Record Number: 20273


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The River of Cathay is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Feb 1903 and 3 Feb 1903

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


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:

Ernest Dawson

Title:

The River of Cathay

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Blackwood's Magazine Vol. 173, pp. 222-30 February 1903

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

20273

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1988

Vol:

n/a

Page:

15

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ernest Dawson, Pent Farm dated 3rd February 1903.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 15, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20273, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Ernest Dawson (1884-1960) soldier and magistrate in Burma was a friend of the Conrads and a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine. The article cited was 'an evocation of the Irrawaddy'. (see fn.1 p.15 and pp.xxxiv of source text) and also Owen Knowles and G.M. Moore 'Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad' (OUP: Oxford ,2000) p.85.

   
   
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