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Record Number: 28831


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'What to me [...] seems most wonderful in the Carthagena book is its inextinguishable vitality, the unchanged strength of feeling, steadfastness of sympathies and force of expresssion. I turned the pages with unfailing delight [...].

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Dec 1920 and 23 Dec 1920

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Bishopsbourne
county: Kent
specific address: Oswalds

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:

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Title:

Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinu

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Heinemann 1920

Provenance

owned
probably sent by author


Source Information:

Record ID:

28831

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

2005

Vol:

7

Page:

223

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B. Cunninghame Graham dated 23 December 1920, Oswalds.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922 (Cambridge, 2005), 7, p. 223, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28831, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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