| Evidence: | 'Today, from your kindness, I received the "Chronicle" with Robert's [Cunninghame Graham] letter. C'est bien ca -- c'est bien lui!' [Its good, that-- it's really him!] |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 12 Jan 1899 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | Stanford near Hythe Kent Pent 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: | letter in Daily Chronicle "Pax Britannica" |
| Genre: | Ephemera |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | Daily Chronicle 11th January 1899 |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 18894 | |
| 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: | 150 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to the Hon. A.E. Bontine, mother of Robert Cunninghame Graham, 12th January 1899, Pent Farm. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 150, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18894, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
| According to fn.2 p.150 of source text the letter was 'an attack on colonial double-think and "the safe massacre of spear-armed men falling like corn before the reaper two miles away from our brave fellows".' It is presumably not a reference to the Second Anglo Boer War 1899-1902 which had not yet started; it may be a reference to Kitchener's defeat of armed Sudanese tribesmen in the Battle of Omdurman 2nd September 1898 . |
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