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Record Number: 20357


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Your Saturday Review fling is first rate. Nothing I liked more since the gold-fish carrier story'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 30 May 1903 and 9 Jun 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:

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

Title:

A Convert (?)

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Saturday Review

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

20357

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:

41

Additional Comments:

Letter to R.B.Cunninghame Graham tentatively dated 9th June 1903, Pent Farm.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 41, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20357, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

According to fn.3, p.41 of source text this was the most likely story Conrad was reading. The 'gold-fish carrier' story referred to is according to fn.4, p.41 of source text, ' The Gold Fish' published in the Saturday Review 18th February 1899.

   
   
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