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Record 27717

Reading Experience:

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.'
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
   
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: 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

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27717  
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: 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

Additional comments:

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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