Record Number: 18529

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Yesterday evening I escaped from the ship for the pilgrimage to the station. I have my parcel No.4000 and something. Just imagine a work of art called parcel No.4000, etc,etc,etc [...] It was late. I have read only the first chapter. I cannot judge even if I dared. But from the first pages I am in the presence of your chraming originality.It is really you! I do not have time to read the book at one sitting but I will really savour it.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

6 Jan 1894

Country:

France

Time

evening
night

Place:

city: Rouen
other location: probably on board the 'Adowa' moored in the port of Rouen.

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

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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

Religion:

originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist

Country of Origin:

Poland

Country of Experience:

France

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Marguerite Poradowska

Title:

Le Mariage du fils Grandsire

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1894 Paris Hachette

Provenance

owned
probably sent as gift from author

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18529

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1983

Vol:

1

Page:

143

Additional Comments:

Letter in French to Marguerite Poradowska dated dated 3 January 1894 from Rouen, where Conrad was waiting orders which never came, to sail to Canada.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 143, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18529, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None