Record Number: 18894
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Today, from your kindness, I received the "Chronicle" with Robert's [Cunninghame Graham] letter. C'est bien ca -- c'est bien lui!' [Its good, that-- it's really him!]
Century:1850-1899
Date:12 Jan 1899
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:Stanford near Hythe
Kent
Pent Farm
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author:R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Title:letter in Daily Chronicle "Pax Britannica"
Genre:Ephemera
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication DetailsDaily Chronicle 11th January 1899
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:18894
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:150
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to the Hon. A.E. Bontine, mother of Robert Cunninghame Graham, 12th January 1899, Pent Farm.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 150, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18894, accessed: 29 March 2024
Additional Comments:
According to fn.2 p.150 of source text the letter was 'an attack on colonial double-think and "the safe massacre of spear-armed men falling like corn before the reaper two miles away from our brave fellows".' It is presumably not a reference to the Second Anglo Boer War 1899-1902 which had not yet started; it may be a reference to Kitchener's defeat of armed Sudanese tribesmen in the Battle of Omdurman 2nd September 1898 .