Evidence: | 'My warmest thanks for the inscribed copy which arrived yesterday. The first time I read the book was in 1908, the last was in '12 or early '13 when the copy disappeared [...] Directly the little friendly looking vol. was put into my hands yesterday afternoon I read [...] the intro. and the first 15 pages where there are passages for which I have a special affection [...].' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 30 Apr 1918 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon | ||||||||||
Place: | Orlestone nr. Ashford Kent 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: | Edmund Gosse |
Title: | Father and Son:A Study of Two Temperaments |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Heinemann 1907 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 28369 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 2002 | |
Vol: | 6 | |
Page: | 208-209 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edmund Gosse dated 1 May 1918, Capel House |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 208-209, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28369, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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