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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

Time

evening
night

Place:

city: Capri
county: Napoli
specific address: Villa di Maria

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:

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 Details

London: Duckworth, 1905

Provenance

owned
Copy from author, with dedication to Conrad.


Source Information:

Record ID:

20540

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:

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.

   
   
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