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Record 27602

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I am sending today the "Grand Elixir" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects admirable there can be no doubt.' Hence follow 12 lines of constructive criticism.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 23 Sep 1913 and 24 Oct 1913
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: Francis Warrington Dawson
Title: Grand Elixir (The Green Moustache)
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: eventually published as 'The Green Moustache' Chicago: Bernard, 1925ishing Co.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27602  
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: 297
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Warrington Dawson dated 24 October 1913, 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. 297, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27602, accessed: 23 April 2024

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