Evidence: | 'Your photograph came yesterday (It's good!) and the book [Mogreb-el-Acksa] arrived by this evening's post. I dropped everything--as you may imagine and rushed at it paper knife in hand. It is with great difficulty I interrupt my reading at the 100th page -- and I interrupt it only to write to you.
A man staying here has been reading over my shoulder; for we share our best with the stranger within our tent. No thirsty men drank water as we have been drinking in, swallowing, tasting, blessing, enjoying, gurgling, choking over, absorbing, your thought, your phrases, your irony [...Then follows ten lines of enthusiastic praise for the book.] |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 1 Dec 1898 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening night |
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Place: | city: Stanford near Hythe county: Kent specific address: Pent Farm |
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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 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) |
unnamed male house guest who read the text over Conrad's shoulder. |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham |
Title: | Mogreb-el-Acksa |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | London Heinemann 1898 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 18876 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 124 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham, 1st December 1898, Pent Farm, Kent |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 124, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18876, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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