Evidence: | 'The second number of the "Standard" came to hand yesterday via Singapore.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 24 Nov 1885 and 25 Nov 1885 | ||||||||||
Country: | India | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Calcutta | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Dec 1857 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Mariner (First Mate) Masters certificate obtained 1886) |
Religion: | originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist |
Country of origin: | Poland |
Country of experience: | India |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | newspaper (London Evening Standard) |
Genre: | Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | 1885 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 18521 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1983 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 13 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad (signed as 'Conrad N. Korzeniowski') to Spiridion Kliszczewski, Polish emigrant and Cardiff watchmaker, dated 25 November 1885, Calcutta. According to eds. of source material (p. lxiv) this may be among the first letters Conrad wrote in English. See also record 18520. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18521, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
footnote in source text p.13 states that Conrad began reading the 'London Evening Standard' early in his career on British ships. |
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