Evidence: | 'I am glad I read the little book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] before coming to your essays ["Philosophical Essays"]. If in reading the first I felt moving step by step, with delight, on the firmest ground, the other gave me the sense of an enlarged vision in the clearest, the purest atmosphere.' Hence follow another 10 lines of praise and gratitude. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 12 Dec 1913 and 22 Dec 1913 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Orlestone nr. Ashford county: Kent specific address: Capel House |
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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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Bertrand Russell |
Title: | Philosophical Essays |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1910 Longmans |
Provenance: | owned gift from author |
Record ID: | 27605 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 317 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Bertrand Russell dated 22 December 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. 317, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27605, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See also letter 12 December 1913 record 27604 referring to Conrad's initial reading of "Problems of Philosophy" the 'little book'. |
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