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
Timen/a
Place:city: Stanford near Hythe
Kent
specific address: 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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Duckworth, 1904
Provenanceowned
Internal evidence indicates a gift from R.B.Cunninghame Graham
Source Information:
Record ID:20401
Source: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'.