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Record Number: 28592


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that its writer, who knows so much of human affairs, thinks so well of my work. I trust we may meet [...] on your return from Damascus next year.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1918 and 25 Mar 1919

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Orlestone nr. Ashford
Kent
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:

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
sent by author


Source Information:

Record ID:

28592

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:

341

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to unidentified recipient date range between October 1918 and 25 March 1919, 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. 341, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28592, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

see fn.3, p.340 of source text, for three possible correspondents and all of whom travelled and wrote about the Middle East. T.E. Lawrence has also been identified as a possible recipient.

   
   
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