Record Number: 28927
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'My gouty wrist has kept me from thanking you immediately for the volume of poems that you so kindly sent me. [...] What more can I say to give you an idea of the pleasure (complete and faultless) that the reading of your verses has given me?'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 15 Apr 1924 and 29 May 1924
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Bishopsbourne
county: Kent
specific address: Oswalds
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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:Temps perdu
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsParis: Le Divan, 1924
Provenanceowned
sent by author
Source Information:
Record ID:28927
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8, 1923-1924
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:2008
Vol:8
Page:370
Additional Comments:
Letter in French from Joseph Conrad to Louis Roché 30 May 1924, Oswalds.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8, 1923-1924 (Cambridge, 2008), 8, p. 370, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28927, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Date range is speculative and approximate, relying on Conrad's references, in late April and much of May, to his gouty wrist which had prevented him hand-writing responses to letters in languages other than English, as these could not be dictated.
