Record Number: 28363
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old and too wooden-headed to appreciate him as perhaps he deserves.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 8 Aug 1917 and 6 Feb 1918
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:London
4C Hyde Park Mansions NW1
(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:New Adventures
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Book, Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsNew York: G.H.Doran, 1917
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28363
Source: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:180
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Quinn dated 6 February 1918, 4C Hyde Park Mansions NW1
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. 180, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28363, accessed: 16 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Identity of text being read is uncertain (see fn.1 p. 180 of source text) but is assumed to be Monahan's most recent publication.
