Record Number: 28810
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'This is a very interesting journal and I read it with a particular pleasure derived both from the matter and from the expression of the writer's personality.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:Wye
Kent
Spring Grove
(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:[untitled]
Genre:Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown
Publication Detailsunpublished
Provenanceunknown
sent by author for comment
Source Information:
Record ID:28810
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:489
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Christopher Sandeman dated 19 September 1919, Spring Grove.
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. 489, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28810, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
A 93-page account of a journey across Spain on horseback, which was never published.