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Record 24778

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Send me Lane's exact address and I will forward him the MS of "[The Holy] Mountain". I've just finished re-reading the whole. My impression--which you know of--is generally strengthened. The book stands looking into very well, very well indeed.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 May 1908 and 31 May 1908
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Luton Hoo Estate
county: Bedfordshire
specific address: Someries
   
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: Stephen Reynolds
Title: The Holy Mountain
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Manuscript: Sheet
Publication details: later published by John Lane 1909
Provenance: owned
presumably sent by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 24778  
Source - Print  
  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: 84
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Stephen Reynolds probably May,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. 84, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24778, accessed: 24 April 2024

Additional comments:

Stephen Reynolds(1881-1919) was a fisherman, writer and social commentator. See fn.2, p.84 of source text.

 

 

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