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Record Number: 20274


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I ought to have thanked you before but I preferred to read the book first. I've read it twice with casts back here and there. The book is remarkable- and that it will be very much remarked I have no doubt.' Thence follows eleven lines of qualified praise though comparing the book rather unfavourably with Clifford's 1898 work "Since the Beginning".

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

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


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



Text Being Read:

Author:

Hugh Clifford

Title:

A Free Lance of Today

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Methuen 1903

Provenance

borrowed (other)
Provenance unknown but presumably a pre publication copy sent by author, was read before publication


Source Information:

Record ID:

20274

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1988

Vol:

n/a

Page:

20-21

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Hugh Clifford,dated 26th February, 1903, Pent Farm.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 20-21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20274, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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