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Record 19225

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In reading the last number of the "Mercure [de France]" I had a moment of very lively pleasure, and I owe it to you. Thanks. you have given your opinin in words that go straight to my heart. The phrase "who is one of ours" touched me, for, truly I feel bound to France by a deep sympathy [...]'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jun 1899 and 10 Jul 1899
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent 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:
Title: Mercure de France
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: June or July 1899
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19225  
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: 186
  Additional comments: Trans. of letter in French to H.-D (Henry-Durand) Davray, 10th July 1899, Pent Farm. See additional comments

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 186, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19225, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Henry-Durand Davray was a regular contributor to the 'Mercure de France' and editor of its Collection of Foreign Authors. (entry in source text p.xxx)

 

 

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