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Record Number: 26472


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'All these sketches have the quality without which neither beauty, nor I am afraid, truth, are effective, that is they are intetesting in themselves. I've spent all yesterday with your pages [...].' Hence follow almost two pages of constructive criticism.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 15 Oct 1910 and 22 Oct 1910

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House

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:

Helen Sanderson (pseud. 'Janet Allardyce')

Title:

African Sketches and Impressions

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

some sketches published in Scribner's Magazine 1910 and 1912

Provenance

n/a


Source Information:

Record ID:

26472

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:

374

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Helen Sanderson, dated 16 or 23 October, 1910 Capel House.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 374, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=26472, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

See fn.2 and 3 p. 374 of source text.

   
   
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