Record Number: 27575

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am delighted and honoured by your gift of an inscribed copy [presumably of "Voices of Tomorrow" but see additional comment]. It is with great pleasure that I discover in myself an intellectual (or perhaps instinctive) sympathy for what you say in your book with such force, clearness and conviction. In the article on myself what I see first is the generosity of your appreciation.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 May 1912 and 16 May 1912

Country:

England

Time

n/a

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

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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:

E.(Edwin) A.(August) Bjorkman

Title:

Voices of Tomorrow:Critical Studies on the New Spirit of Literature

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book, Serial / periodical, see additional comment

Publication Details

New York, 1912 and 1913 see additional comment

Provenance

owned
gift from author

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27575

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1996

Vol:

5

Page:

65

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to E.A.Bjorkman dated 16 May 1912, Capel House.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916 (Cambridge, 1996), 5, p. 65, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27575, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See fns 1-3 p.65 of source text. There is here some inconsistency/uncertainty about whether Conrad received and was reading the May 1912 issue of 'American Review of Reviews' in which Bjorkman's essay on him 'Joseph Conrad: A Master of Literary Color' first appeared, or whether it was the book 'Voices of Tomorrow' which seems to have only been first published in 1913. The context suggests the published book, even though inconsistent with the footnote information. This entry is included as example of Conrad's reactions after reading essays about himself. There are many such examples refrred to in his letters, which have not been submitted for recording in the database.