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Record 18921

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
''I was delighted with the number. Gibbon especially fetched me quite. But everything is good. Munro's verses--excellent, and Whibley very interesting--very appreciative,very fair. I happen to know Rimbaud's verses.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1899 and 8 Feb 1899
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent 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:
Title: Blackwood's Magazine
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: presumed to be February 1899 number (vol 165)
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18921  
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: 162
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood, 8th February 1899, Pent Farm.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 162, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18921, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

fn.1 and 2, p.162 of source text identify the items referred to as, respectively , "From the New Gibbon" an unsigned essay by G.W Steevens, academic and war correspondent, the Scottish poet Neil Munro's "To Exiles" and Charles Whibley's piece on Rimbaud "A Vagabond Poet".

 

 

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