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Record 28882

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I read with the greatest of interest your communications to the "Times [Literary Supplement]" in the Dumas-Maquet affair. All this story is quite new to me.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 22 Jun 1922 and 7 Sep 1922
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Bishopsbourne
county: Kent
specific address: Oswalds
   
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: Robert Garnett
Title: The Dumas Maquet Case (and) Dumas and Maquet
Genre: Essays / Criticism, History
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
Publication details: TLS 22 June and 20 July 1922
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28882  
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: 517
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Robert Garnett dated 7 September 1922, 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. 517, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28882, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

See also fn.1 and 3 p.517 of source text.

 

 

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