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Record Number: 28814


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am just fresh from the second reading of your vol ["Brought Forward"]'. Hence follow twelve lines of admiring comment.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 25 Oct 1919 and 22 Nov 1919

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Bishopsbourne
county: Kent
specific address: Oswalds

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:

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Title:

Brought Forward

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Duckworth 1916

Provenance

owned
sent by author


Source Information:

Record ID:

28814

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:

531

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B. Cunninghame Graham dated 22 November 1919, Oswalds.

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. 531, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28814, accessed: 23 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Date range is deduced from fn.3, p.531 of source text.

   
   
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