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Record 26671

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have the read the two July articles just before that period [of depression or at least writer's block] began. Evidently my dearest boy it is your synthesis, of course sketched in merely.' Hence follow three more lines of approval.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jul 1911 and 30 Jul 1911
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: 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: Stephen Reynolds
Title: unidentified
Genre: Unknown,
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
Publication details: July 1911
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 26671  
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: 484
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Stephen Reynolds dated ?30 September 1911, 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. 484, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26671, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

text untraced, see fn.1, p. 484 of source text.

 

 

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