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Record Number: 21663


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The first instalment of your story in the PMM ["Pall Mall Magazine"] opens the year brilliantly. How good you are in presenting the human interest of a story in terms of jesting.' Hence follow about eight lines of praise and encouragement.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

1 Jan 1908

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: near Luton
county: Bedfordshire
specific address: Someries, Luton Hoo Estate

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:

H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells

Title:

The War in the Air

Genre:

Fiction, Science

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

London, Pall Mall Magazine January 1908

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

21663

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4, 1908-1911

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

6

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to H.G Wells dated 1st January 1908, Someries,Luton

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4, 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), p. 6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=21663, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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