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Record Number: 28807


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I return here the first volume with many thanks. It is very curious reading, but somehow one cannot take it very seriously.'


[Hence follow thirteen lines of mainly negative comments.]

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1919 and 19 Aug 1919

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Wye
county: Kent
specific address: Spring Grove

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:

Wilfred Scawen Blunt

Title:

My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events,1888-1914

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Secker 1919

Provenance

borrowed (other)


Source Information:

Record ID:

28807

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:

468

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Sydney Cockerell dated 19 August 1919, Spring Grove.

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. 468, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28807, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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