| Evidence: | Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant: 'I've "suggested" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occurred to me as improvement. Your work and your corrections are all right. The preface is extremely good.' Hence follow twelve lines of minor comment about the translation, including delicately skirting around Mrs.Hueffer's naive misuse of the French verb 'baiser' instead of 'embrasser'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 18 Jul 1903 and 15 Jul 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: | Guy de Maupassant |
| Title: | Stories from De Maupassant [English title] |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Proofs |
| Publication details: | 1903. trans. by E.[Elsie]M.[Martindale] [Hueffer] with preface by F.M.Hueffer. Published by Duckworth. |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) Proofs sent to Conrad for comment. |
| Record ID: | 20359 | |
| 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: | 49-50 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter to Elsie Hueffer (wife of Ford Madox Ford) tentatively dated early August 1903, Pent Farm. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 49-50, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20359, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| See fn.1, p.49 of source text and also second letter to Elsie Hueffer p.50 of source text . |
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