Evidence: | 'I will talk to you at length about the stories when you are well enough to come down here for the weekend.[...]. The value of these tales relies in the "nuances" of colour of half light and in [an] almost evanescent tremor of emotions.'
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 14 Feb 1916 and 22 Feb 1916 | ||||||||||
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) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Richard Curle |
Title: | The Echo of Voices |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | 1917 New York, Alfred Knopf. No record found of a British edition. |
Provenance: | n/a |
Record ID: | 27717 | |
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: | 556 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Richard Curle, dated 22 February 1916 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. 556, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27717, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
The reference is to a MS received ten days earlier (see letter 12th February 1916, p. 553 of source text), the reading of which was deferred for at least two days because of Conrad's own writing commitments. |
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