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Record 20399

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls short of its domain. One can depend upon him. The other volume I have been reading with a surprised admiration. It shall be an abiding delight-I see that much.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 18 May 1904 and 2 Jul 1904
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: W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson
Title: The London Sparrow in Kith and Kin: Poems of Animal Life ed. H.S.Salt
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Bell 1901
Provenance: owned
Internal evidence indicated a gift from R.B.Cunninghame Graham

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20399  
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: 149
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 2nd July 1904, 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. 149, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20399, accessed: 28 March 2024

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