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Record Number: 28287


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The story you sent me (I'm glad to have it) I remembered of course very well. It isn't the sort of thing that is ever forgotten.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1911 and 1917

Country:

Probably England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Probably England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Francis Warrington Dawson

Title:

The True Dimension

Genre:

Fiction, Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

(Secker, 1916)

Provenance

n/a


Source Information:

Record ID:

28287

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

2002

Vol:

6

Page:

76

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Warrington Dawson dated 22 April 1917, Capel House

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 76, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28287, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Identity of story referred to, and timing of reading experience unclear , see fn.3 ,P75 and fn.2 p. รจ- of source text.

   
   
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