Record Number: 18876
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Your photograph came yesterday (It's good!) and the book [Mogreb-el-Acksa] arrived by this evening's post. I dropped everything--as you may imagine and rushed at it paper knife in hand. It is with great difficulty I interrupt my reading at the 100th page -- and I interrupt it only to write to you. A man staying here has been reading over my shoulder; for we share our best with the stranger within our tent. No thirsty men drank water as we have been drinking in, swallowing, tasting, blessing, enjoying, gurgling, choking over, absorbing, your thought, your phrases, your irony [...Then follows ten lines of enthusiastic praise for the book.]
Century:1850-1899
Date:1 Dec 1898
Country:England
Timeevening
night
city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
unnamed male house guest who read the text over Conrad's shoulder.
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author:R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Title:Mogreb-el-Acksa
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon Heinemann 1898
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:18876
Source: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:124
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham, 1st December 1898, Pent Farm, Kent
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 124, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18876, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
None