Record Number: 28880

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I dictate these few words to thank you most heartily for your letters and especially for your little tale which I have read with absolute delight and appreciation of every point, and greatest sympathy wth the mind which conceived it and the literary gift which guided the pen. During the last few weeks I have been finishing a novel and have been too absorbed to write to anyone.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 27 Jun 1922 and 19 Jul 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:

Bruno Winawer

Title:

Slepa latarka (Dark Lantern)

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

We Lwowie : Nakładem Polskiego Wydawnictwa "Nowa Era", 1922.

Provenance

owned
sent by author

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28880

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:

493

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Bruno Winawer, dated 19 July 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. 493, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28880, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

The letter to Eric Pinker of 27 June 1922 (p.482 of source text) indicating completion of the text of "The Rover" allows a tentative attribution of a date range for this reading experience.