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Record 27582

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In the meantime I thank you heartily for your more than in one way very interesting vol.["Shadows out of the Crowd"]. We shall have a talk about it when you come, with the corpus delicti there before us to refer to.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Nov 1912 and 6 Nov 1912
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: Richard Curle
Title: Shadows out of the Crowd
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1912 Stephen Swift
Provenance: owned
sent by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27582  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1996
  Vol: 5
  Page: 130-1
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Richard Curle dated 6 November 1912, Capel House.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916 (Cambridge, 1996), 5, p. 130-1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27582, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Richard Curle (1883-1968) was a traveller essayist and critic and subsequently developed a close working relationship and friendship with Conrad. See fn1 p.130 of source text, also Knowles and Moore (2000) p.82

 

 

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