| Evidence: | 'Thanks for the book. You know what I think of it in so far as I have been able to express it. I did not do it very well. There is a singular fascination about this last volume of the trilogy. I've been dropping into it ever since it came and I am as far as ever from discovering a particularly precise formula of my admiration.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 27 Mar 1908 and 31 Mar 1908 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Luton Hoo Estate county: Bedfordshire specific address: Someries |
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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: | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) |
| Title: | The Fifth Queen Crowned |
| Genre: | Fiction, History |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | Eveleigh Nash,1908 |
| Provenance: | owned Gift from author |
| Record ID: | 24758 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | 4 | |
| Page: | 69 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford dated 31 March 1908, Someries. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 69, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24758, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| See also letter from Conrad to Ford dated 20 February, 1908, Record 24501. Since the book (the third of his trilogy about Katherine Howard) was only published on 26 March 1908 his earlier appreciative comments presumably refer to Conrad's reading of the manuscript or proofs. |
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