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Record 28823

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The book ["The Rescue"] which has found favour in your eyes has been inspired in a great measure by the history of the first Rajah's enterprise and even by the lecture [i.e.reading] of his journals as partly reproduced by Captain Mundy and others.[...]. It was a great pleasure to read "My Life in Sarawak" [...] I have looked into that book many times since.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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: Rodney Mundy
Title: Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to the Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James Brooke
Genre: History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: John Murray 1848
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28823  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Laurence Davies and J.H.Stape
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7 1920-1922
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 2005
  Vol: 7
  Page: 137-8
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Margaret, Lady Brooke, Dowager Ranee of Sarawak, dated 15 July 1920, Oswalds

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and J.H.Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7 1920-1922 (Cambridge, 2005), 7, p. 137-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28823, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

While there is no definite evidence the date range, given that this text informed both "Lord Jim" and "The Rescue" (see fn.2 p.137 of source text), the range could span the period from 1900 to 1919. This also suggests repeated readings. For Conrad's reading of the Ranee's book, see record I.D. 27614

 

 

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