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Record 18758

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The Guide book simply magnificent Everlastingly good! [sic].I've read it last night having only then returned home.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 4 Mar 1898
Country: England
Time: evening
night
Place: city: Stanford-le-Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm
   
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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Title: Notes on the District of Menteith
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1895
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18758  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1986
  Vol: 2
  Page: 41-42
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham 5 March 1898 Stanford-le-Hope.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 41-42, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18758, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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