Record Number: 27578
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. After you went away I re-read your Fog on the River paper. In the E.[nglish] R.[eview]. Jolly well done and rightly felt and artistically expressed. '
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jul 1912 and 29 Jul 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:The Fog
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsEnglish Review, 2 (1909)
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:27578
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:91
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to H.M. Tomlinson dated 29 [?]July 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. 91, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27578, accessed: 29 March 2024
Additional Comments:
Henry Major Tomlinson (1873-1958) was a sailor and journalist,subsequently a war correspondent and later still an essayist and writer of fiction. See fns.2 and 6, p.91 of source text.