| Evidence: | 'As to "The Hist[ory] of the British Army" it is "tout bonnement admirable!". No other phrase can do justice to it.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Apr 1918 and 21 Oct 1918 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| 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: | John William Fortescue |
| Title: | History of the British Army: Extracts from British Campaigns in Flanders |
| Genre: | History, Military history |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Macmillan 1918 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 28590 | |
| 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: | 291 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Sidney Colvin dated 21 October, 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. 291, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28590, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Identity of text being read is speculative, see fn.1 p.291 of source text. |
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