Record Number: 28346

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thank you very much for sending me your contribution towards the solution of the great problem [Polish independence].[...] Your arguments and your conclusions seem to me absolutely incontrovertible.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 15 Sep 1917 and 1 Oct 1917

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:

Roman Dmowski

Title:

Russian Realities and Problems (chapter) or Problems of Central and Eastern Europe

Genre:

Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book, Pamphlet, see additional comment, identity of text uncertain

Publication Details

Cambridge University Press 1917

Provenance

n/a

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28346

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

2002

Vol:

6

Page:

127

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Roman Dmowski (Polish nationalist writer and politician), dated 1 October 1917, Capel House.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 127, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28346, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

It is not clear whether Conrad had been sent Dmowski's chapter from this book, or the complete book, or whether the reading experience refers instead to a privately printed statement "Problems of Central and Eastern Europe" which also appeared in 1917. See fn.1 and 2 p 127 of source text. Fn. 2 suggests the latter text.