Record Number: 24758

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thanks for the book. You know what I think of it in so far as I have been able to express it. I did not do it very well. There is a singular fascination about this last volume of the trilogy. I've been dropping into it ever since it came and I am as far as ever from discovering a particularly precise formula of my admiration.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 27 Mar 1908 and 31 Mar 1908

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

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

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:

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)

Title:

The Fifth Queen Crowned

Genre:

Fiction, History

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

Eveleigh Nash,1908

Provenance

owned
Gift from author

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Source Information:

Record ID:

24758

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

4

Page:

69

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford dated 31 March 1908, Someries.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 69, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=24758, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See also letter from Conrad to Ford dated 20 February, 1908, Record 24501. Since the book (the third of his trilogy about Katherine Howard) was only published on 26 March 1908 his earlier appreciative comments presumably refer to Conrad's reading of the manuscript or proofs.