Record Number: 28775

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I ought to have thanked you before for the book ["Siri Ram"] which I read directly it reached my hands.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1918 and 12 Nov 1918

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:

Edmund Candler

Title:

Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Constable 1914

Provenance

owned
sent by author

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28775

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:

303

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edmund Candler dated 12 November 1918, 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. 303, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28775, accessed: 18 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

see also Record ID 28772 concerning Conrad's second reading of this novel.