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Record Number: 20401


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls short of its domain. One can depend upon him. The other volume I have been reading with a surprised admiration. It shall be an abiding delight-I see that much.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 18 May 1904 and 2 Jul 1904

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stanford near Hythe
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:

W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson

Title:

Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Duckworth, 1904

Provenance

owned
Internal evidence indicates a gift from R.B.Cunninghame Graham


Source Information:

Record ID:

20401

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:

149

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 2nd July 1904, 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. 149, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20401, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

The identity of the second book referred to in the citation is uncertain, but according to fn.2,p.149 of source text, Cunninghame Grahame's biographer Cedric Watts considers that it was Hudson's 'Green Mansions'.

   
   
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