Evidence: | 'I send you my affectionate thanks for the book ["The Plattner Story and Others"] and for the terms of the inscription on the fly-leaf; for the more I know of you--in our inconclusive talks--the more I feel that such should be the terms of our intercourse. I've of course read the book more than once. You get hold of one by your immense power of presentation, by your capacity to give shape, colour, aspect to the invisible.[...] '
Hence follows about twenty lines of appreciative comment and some negative criticism of one of the stories "The Cone". |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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: | H.G. Wells |
Title: | The Plattner Story and Others |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1897 no other details available |
Provenance: | owned inscribed copy from author |
Record ID: | 19312 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph c | |
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: | 239 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to H.G.Wells, dated 6th January 1900, Pent Farm |
Citation: | Joseph c, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 239, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19312, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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