Record Number: 20540
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'This moment I receive "Progress", or rather the moment (last night) occurred favorably to let me read before I sat down to write. Nothing in my writing life[...] has give mre a greater pleasure, a deeper satisfaction of innocent vanity [...] than the dedication of the book so full of admirable things, from the wonderful preface to the slightest of the sketches between the covers.' Hence follow nine more lines of unqualified praise.
Century:1900-1945
Date:2 Feb 1905
Country:Italy
Timeevening
night
city: Capri
county: Napoli
specific address: Villa di Maria
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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:Italy
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:Progress and Other Stories
Genre:Fiction,
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Duckworth, 1905
Provenanceowned
Copy from author, with dedication to Conrad.
Source Information:
Record ID:20540
Source: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:214
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 3 February 1905, Capri.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 214, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20540, accessed: 29 March 2024
Additional Comments:
See also letter to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 16 February 1905, p.217 of source text.