| Evidence: | '[...] but now since I've received the "Sat. Review" I've something to write about. The "german Tramp" is not only excellent[...] but it is something more. Of your short pieces I don't know but this this is the one I like best. The execution has a vigour-the right touch-- and an ease that delight me.'
Hence follows around ten lines of appreciative criticism including a reference to two other stories published in the Saturday Review in 1899. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 13 Jan 1900 and 19 Jan 1900 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Stanford near Hythe county: Kent specific address: 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: | In a German Tramp |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | 13 January 1900, Saturday Review |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19322 | |
| 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: | 242 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 19th January 1900, 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. 242, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19322, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
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