Evidence: | 'I had a treat in the shape of a number of the "Singapore Free Press" 2 and a half columns about "Mr Conrad at home and abroad". extremely laudatory but in fact telling me I don't know anything about it. Well I never did set up as an authority on Malaysia.I looked for a medium in which to express myself. I am inexact and ignorant no doubt (most of us are) but I don't think I sinned so recklessly. Curiously enough all the details about the little characteristic acts and customs which they hold up as proof I have taken out (to be safe) from undoubted sources--dull,wise books.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1898 and 13 Dec 1898 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Hugh Clifford |
Title: | Article in Singapore Free Press |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | Singapore, 1st September 1898 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18880 | |
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: | 130 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood 13th 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. 130, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18880, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
According to fn.2 p.130 of source text, Conrad was not aware at the time that article was by Hugh Clifford whose book "Studies in Brown Humanity" he had read and reviewed for the "Academy" (see letter to C.L.Hind 16th April 1898 p.57 of source text). Norman Sherry in "Conrad's Eastern World" (1971) devotes a whole chapter (pp.139-170) to the 'dull wise books' that he read as background for his South East Asia stories. |
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