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Record 18684

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I send back the MS tonight.The chapters are all as they should be. The last line excellent. Good luck to the book.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Stanford-le-Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm
   
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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Galsworthy
Title: Jocelyn
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown, probably a typed MS
Publication details: rejected by Fisher Unwin and subsequently published by Duckworth 1898 under name of John Sinjohn
Provenance: borrowed (private library)
sent by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18684  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1986
  Vol: 2
  Page: 11
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy undated but considerd to be early January 1898, Stanford-le- Hope

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 11, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18684, accessed: 28 March 2024

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