Evidence: | 'The River of Cathay is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Feb 1903 and 3 Feb 1903 | ||||||||||
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: | Ernest Dawson |
Title: | The River of Cathay |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | Blackwood's Magazine Vol. 173, pp. 222-30 February 1903 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 20273 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 15 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ernest Dawson, Pent Farm dated 3rd February 1903. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 15, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20273, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Ernest Dawson (1884-1960) soldier and magistrate in Burma was a friend of the Conrads and a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine. The article cited was 'an evocation of the Irrawaddy'. (see fn.1 p.15 and pp.xxxiv of source text) and also Owen Knowles and G.M. Moore 'Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad' (OUP: Oxford ,2000) p.85. |
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