| Evidence: | '"Higginson's Dream" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flattered that you discern some points of similitude. Of course I am in complete sympathy with the point of view. For the same accomplishmnet in expression I can never hope--and Robert [Cunninghame Grahame] is too strong an individuality [sic] to be influenced by anyone's writing. He desired me to correct the proofs but the "Sat. Rev" people did not send me the proofs.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Oct 1898 and 16 Oct 1898 | ||||||||||
| 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: | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham |
| Title: | Higginson's Dream |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | story published in Saturday Review 1 October 1898 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18871 | |
| 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: | 104-105 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to the Hon.A.E.Bontine [mother of Robert Cunnighame Graham] 16 October 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. 104-105, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18871, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
| "Higginson's Dream" was a story of colonial squalor in the South Seas (fn.4 p.104 source text) re-published in "Thirteen Stories" 1900 (fn.1 p.105 source text). |
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