Record Number: 28874

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I must thank you for the volume which has just arrived.[...]. What I have felt and thought is more suitable for talk, warm and many coloured than for the cold blue tint of the typewriter.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

24 May 1922

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

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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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Edward Garnett

Title:

Friday Nights: Literary Criticism and Appreciation, First Series

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Jonathan Cape 1922. Comprised reprints of essays in various periodicals

Provenance

owned
sent by author

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28874

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:

471

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett 24 May 1922 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. 471, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28874, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None