Record Number: 18762

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'This morning I had the "Aurora" from Smithers, No.2 of the 500 copies. C'est tout simplement magnifique yet I do not exactly perceive what on earth they have been making a fuss about.[...] I notice variations in the text as I've read it in the typewritten copy.This seems the most fnished piece of work you have ever done.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

30 Jul 1898

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stanford-le-Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm

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 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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Title:

Aurora la Cujini: A Realistic sketch in Seville

Genre:

Biography, Geography / Travel, see additional comments

Form of Text:

Print: Book, Pamphlet, see additional comments

Publication Details

Leonard Smithers 1898

Provenance

owned
sent to Conrad by publishers

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18762

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1986

Vol:

2

Page:

80

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, 30 July 1898 Stanford-le-Hope.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 80, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18762, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

The work is referred to in fn.5 p80 of the source text as 'a booklet about a legendary gypsy dancer'.