Record Number: 18921

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

''I was delighted with the number. Gibbon especially fetched me quite. But everything is good. Munro's verses--excellent, and Whibley very interesting--very appreciative,very fair. I happen to know Rimbaud's verses.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1899 and 8 Feb 1899

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent 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:

Title:

Blackwood's Magazine

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

presumed to be February 1899 number (vol 165)

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18921

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:

162

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood, 8th February 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. 162, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18921, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

fn.1 and 2, p.162 of source text identify the items referred to as, respectively , "From the New Gibbon" an unsigned essay by G.W Steevens, academic and war correspondent, the Scottish poet Neil Munro's "To Exiles" and Charles Whibley's piece on Rimbaud "A Vagabond Poet".