Record Number: 21538

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I've read your book ["His People"] with the usual delight and more than the usual admiration.[...] Three times I've gone through your pages so vigorous, so personal and so exquisite. What a "Return of the Native" you have given us! "His People" is a wonderful piece of description and an amazing piece of analysis.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 3 Jan 1907 and 14 Jan 1907

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Montpellier
county: Herault
specific address: Continental et Riche Hotel, Place de la Comedie

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:

France

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

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

Title:

His People

Genre:

Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Geography / Travel, see additional comment 2. below

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Duckworth,1906

Provenance

owned
Gift from author

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Source Information:

Record ID:

21538

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:

405-406

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 14 January 1907, Riche Hotel, Montpellier.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 405-406, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=21538, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

1.See also letter from Conrad to Cunninghame Graham dated 31 December 1906 requesting a copy of the book. 2. See fn.3, p.406 of source text on the difficulties of assigning a genre to this and to Cunninghame Graham's other short works. 3. In assigning a date range, evidence from other letters (e.g. those to J.B. Pinker dated 21st and 27th February 1906, p.317 of source text, which suggests that that mail between London and Montpellier took two days or less, has been used.