| Evidence: | 'I have the complete text of "The Isle" in my possession.[...]. The short passage [on Giovanni de Procida, 13th century Sicilian doctor and instigator of the Sicilian Vespers massacre] interested us very much.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 29 Sep 1908 and 8 Oct 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: | Norman Douglas |
| Title: | The Isle of Typhoeus |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Sheet |
| Publication details: | Appeared in February 1909 issue of the 'English Review'. |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 25037 | |
| 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: | 140 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Norman Douglas dated 8 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. 140, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25037, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| The identity of this text referred to in the evidence as 'The Isle' and not further commented on in footnotes is fairly obviously, from the context and from a previous letter to Douglas dated 29 September 1908, (p. 130 of source text), the travel article 'The Isle of Typhoeus', parts of which were later used in 'Siren Land' (1911) Douglas's book about Capri and the Sorrento area around Naples. |
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