Record Number: 28369
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'My warmest thanks for the inscribed copy which arrived yesterday. The first time I read the book was in 1908, the last was in '12 or early '13 when the copy disappeared [...] Directly the little friendly looking vol. was put into my hands yesterday afternoon I read [...] the intro. and the first 15 pages where there are passages for which I have a special affection [...].'
Century:1900-1945
Date:30 Apr 1918
Country:England
Timeafternoon
Place:Orlestone nr. Ashford
Kent
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:Father and Son:A Study of Two Temperaments
Genre:Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsHeinemann 1907
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28369
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:208-209
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edmund Gosse dated 1 May 1918, 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. 208-209, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28369, accessed: 20 April 2024
Additional Comments:
None
