Record Number: 20392

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Next to tell you that "H.[Hernando]de Soto" is most exquisitely excellent: your very mark and spirit upon a subject that only you can do justice to-with your wonderful English and your sympathetic insight insto the souls of the Conquistadores.' Thence follows half a page of praise.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 9 Jul 1903 and 26 Dec 1903

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:

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

Title:

Hernando de Soto: together with an account of one of his captains, Gonçalo Silvestre.

Genre:

History, Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: William Heinemann, 1903

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20392

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:

100-101

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 126th December, 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. 100-101, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20392, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

This work and Cunninghame Graham's earlier works set in South America, such as 'A Vanished Arcadia' (1901), see letter 19th March 1903 (p.25 of source text) almost certainly informed 'Nostromo' published the following year.