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.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | 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 |
Record ID: | 28823 | |
Source - | ||
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 |
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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