Evidence: | 'I have tasted, sipped, and consumed the delectable nectar prepared surely with the milk of human kindness and spiced with your wit. [...]; This is delightful [...].'
Hence follow 15 more lines of praise. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1908 and 6 Oct 1908 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Luton Hoo Estate county: Bedfordshire specific address: Someries |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | E.[Edward] V. [Verrall] Lucas |
Title: | Over Bemerton's: An Easy-going Chronicle |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1908 Methuen |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 24970 | |
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: | 136-137 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to E.V.Lucas dated 6 October 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. 136-137, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24970, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
The identity of the text being read is not clear but the title has been inferred by the editors fn.5 see p.136 in the source text |
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