Record Number: 25037

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have the complete text of "The Isle" in my possession.[...]. The short passage [on Giovanni de Procida, 13th century Sicilian doctor and instigator of the Sicilian Vespers massacre] interested us very much.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 29 Sep 1908 and 8 Oct 1908

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Luton Hoo Estate
county: Bedfordshire
specific address: Someries

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:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Norman Douglas

Title:

The Isle of Typhoeus

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Sheet

Publication Details

Appeared in February 1909 issue of the 'English Review'.

Provenance

n/a

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Source Information:

Record ID:

25037

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

4

Page:

140

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Norman Douglas dated 8 October 1908, Someries.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 140, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=25037, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

The identity of this text referred to in the evidence as 'The Isle' and not further commented on in footnotes is fairly obviously, from the context and from a previous letter to Douglas dated 29 September 1908, (p. 130 of source text), the travel article 'The Isle of Typhoeus', parts of which were later used in 'Siren Land' (1911) Douglas's book about Capri and the Sorrento area around Naples.