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Record 20401

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
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: 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

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20401  
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=20401, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

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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