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Record 20273

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The River of Cathay is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.'
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
   
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: 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

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20273  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

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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