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Record Number: 27582


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'In the meantime I thank you heartily for your more than in one way very interesting vol.["Shadows out of the Crowd"]. We shall have a talk about it when you come, with the corpus delicti there before us to refer to.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Nov 1912 and 6 Nov 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


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:

Richard Curle

Title:

Shadows out of the Crowd

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1912 Stephen Swift

Provenance

owned
sent by author


Source Information:

Record ID:

27582

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:

130-1

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Richard Curle dated 6 November 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. 130-1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27582, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Richard Curle (1883-1968) was a traveller essayist and critic and subsequently developed a close working relationship and friendship with Conrad. See fn1 p.130 of source text, also Knowles and Moore (2000) p.82

   
   
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