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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

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House

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.|Henry] M.[Major] Tomlinson

Title:

The Fog

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

English Review, 2 (1909)

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

27578

Source:

Print

Author:

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.

   
   
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