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.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 18 May 1904 and 2 Jul 1904 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Stanford near Hythe 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: | W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson |
Title: | Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | London: Duckworth, 1904 |
Provenance: | owned Internal evidence indicates a gift from R.B.Cunninghame Graham |
Record ID: | 20401 | |
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: | 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=20401, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
The identity of the second book referred to in the citation is uncertain, but according to fn.2,p.149 of source text, Cunninghame Grahame's biographer Cedric Watts considers that it was Hudson's 'Green Mansions'. |
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