Record Number: 27569
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very French it is too and yet with something individual-- and even racial--glowing through it and adding to the fascination of the perfectly simple diction.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1912 and 9 Apr 1912
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House
(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:Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis
Genre:History, Social Science, Geography / Travel, anthropology
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsE.Guilmot Paris 1912
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:27569
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1996
Vol:5
Page:51
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Francis Warrington Dawson dated 9 April 1912, Capel House.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916 (Cambridge, 1996), 5, p. 51, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27569, accessed: 18 April 2024
Additional Comments:
See also records 26469 and 26677 for Conrad's earlier reading of Dawson's works.
