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Record 28826

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Pray forgive me keeping your article on Mérimée so long. I read it as soon as it arrived — and then re-read it yesterday. It is one of the best pieces by you I've read, though your work never fails to delight.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 31 Aug 1920 and 18 Sep 1920
Country: unknown
Time: n/a
Place: city: Deal
county: Kent
specific address: South Eastern Hotel
   
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: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Gérard Jean-Aubry
Title: Mérimée
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Manuscript: Sheet
Publication details: subequently published in La Revue de Genève, 4 (October 1920)
Provenance: n/a

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28826  
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: 178
  Additional comments: Letter in French from Joseph Conrad to Jean Aubry 18 September 1920, Deal

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7 1920-1922 (Cambridge, 2005), 7, p. 178, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28826, accessed: 29 March 2024

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