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Record Number: 28823


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The book ["The Rescue"] which has found favour in your eyes has been inspired in a great measure by the history of the first Rajah's enterprise and even by the lecture [i.e.reading] of his journals as partly reproduced by Captain Mundy and others.[...]. It was a great pleasure to read "My Life in Sarawak" [...] I have looked into that book many times since.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Rodney Mundy

Title:

Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to the Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James Brooke

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

John Murray 1848

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

28823

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Laurence Davies and J.H.Stape

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7 1920-1922

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

2005

Vol:

7

Page:

137-8

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Margaret, Lady Brooke, Dowager Ranee of Sarawak, dated 15 July 1920, Oswalds

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and J.H.Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7 1920-1922 (Cambridge, 2005), 7, p. 137-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28823, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

While there is no definite evidence the date range, given that this text informed both "Lord Jim" and "The Rescue" (see fn.2 p.137 of source text), the range could span the period from 1900 to 1919. This also suggests repeated readings. For Conrad's reading of the Ranee's book, see record I.D. 27614

   
   
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