| Evidence: | 'At one o'clock [Neil] Munro and I went into the street.We talked. I had read up "The Lost Pibroch" which I do think wonderful in a way.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
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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: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Neil Munro |
| Title: | The Lost Pibroch and Other Sheiling Stories |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Blackwood 1896 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18870 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 95 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett 29 September 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. 95, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18870, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| Neil Munro (aka Hugh Foulis) 1863-1930 Scottish journalist and storyteller. Date of Conrad's reading expereince unknown but context of letter suggests he read it soon before going to, or while already in Glasgow in Sept 1898 and meeting Munro, possibly at the home of Dr John Macintyre, his host and a friend of R.B. Cunninghame Graham (see also fns. pp. 94-95 in source text.) |
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