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Record 18529

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Yesterday evening I escaped from the ship for the pilgrimage to the station. I have my parcel No.4000 and something. Just imagine a work of art called parcel No.4000, etc,etc,etc [...] It was late. I have read only the first chapter. I cannot judge even if I dared. But from the first pages I am in the presence of your chraming originality.It is really you! I do not have time to read the book at one sitting but I will really savour it.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 6 Jan 1894
Country: France
Time: evening
night
Place: city: Rouen
other location: probably on board the 'Adowa' moored in the port of Rouen.
   
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
Religion: originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist
Country of origin: Poland
Country of experience: France
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Marguerite Poradowska
Title: Le Mariage du fils Grandsire
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1894 Paris Hachette
Provenance: owned
probably sent as gift from author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18529  
Source - Print  
  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: 143
  Additional comments: Letter in French to Marguerite Poradowska dated dated 3 January 1894 from Rouen, where Conrad was waiting orders which never came, to sail to Canada.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 143, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18529, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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