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Record 19359

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
''The MS heralded by your letter arrived tbhis morning. I've had the time to read it . it is wonderfully well done: technically and in the clearness of the idea it is superior to the "Villa [Rubein]". Jack [Galsworthy] is making giant strides;[...]' Hence follows twenty lines of encouragement.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 5 Sep 1900
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: John Galsworthy
Title: The Cosmopolitan (eventually known as A Knight)
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned
sent by author's sister

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19359  
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: 290
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Mabel Reynolds, younger sister of John Galsworthy, dated 5th September 1900, 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. 290, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19359, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

See also letters from Joseph Conrad to David Meldrum 1st September 1900 and John Galsworthy 9th September 1900 pp.288-289 and p.291 of source text.

 

 

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