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Record 26479

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Now I have looked [at the verses] I have to thank you for the kind thought of sending me the little volume and for the pleasure it has given me.' Hence follow eight lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jun 1910 and 4 Dec 1910
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: Orlestone nr. Ashford
Kent
Capel House
   
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: Douglas Goldring
Title: A Country Boy and Other Poems
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: London: Adelphi Press, 1910
Provenance: owned
sent by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 26479  
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: 394
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Douglas Goldring dated 4 December, 1910 Capel House.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 394, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26479, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

See also fn.1 p. 394

 

 

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