| Evidence: | 'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve. It is an amazing bit of biography. [...] The boat thing ["The Open Boat"] is immensely interesting.I don't use the word in its common sense.' [Hence follows several more lines of general praise]. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 16 Nov 1897 and 1 Dec 1897 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Stanford-le-Hope county: Essex specific address: Ivy Walls Farm |
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| 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, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Stephen Crane |
| Title: | The Open Boat |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | June 1897 Scribner's Magazine |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18656 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1898-1902 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1983 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 415 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Stephen Crane Stanford-le-Hope 1 December 1897 |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 415, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18656, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| See also letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett 5 December 1897 praising both these stories. |
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