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.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 6 Jan 1894 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | evening night |
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Place: | city: Rouen other location: probably on board the 'Adowa' moored in the port of Rouen. |
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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: | 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 |
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 |
Record ID: | 18529 | |
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: | 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 |
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