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Record Number: 28704


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I ought to have thanked you before, for the very curious pamphlet containing Swinburne's sweet little joke. I enjoyed both the verse and the prose (especially the prose) immensely.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 10 Dec 1918 and 2 Jan 1919

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Orlestone nr. Ashford
Kent
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:

Algernon Swinburne

Title:

A Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Ephemera, see additional comments

Form of Text:

Print: Pamphlet

Publication Details

1918

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

28704

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:

345

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to T. J.Wise, dated 2 January 1919 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. 345, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28704, accessed: 26 April 2024


Additional Comments:

The text referred to is thought most likely to have been a letter originally written in 1874 but not published until well after the deaths of both Swinburne and Emerson. See also fn.1 p.345 of source text.

   
   
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