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Record 19367

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Many thanks for the "Cinque Ports" which came today as a most agreeable surprise. In the matter of outward characteristics the book has substance, appearance an air of sober finish which to me is very pleasing. [...] Hueffer's talent has been from the first sympathetic to me. throughout his feeling is true and his expression genuine with ease and moderation.' Hence follow nine lines of restrained praise.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 7 Nov 1900
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: Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)
Title: The Cinque Ports
Genre: History, Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Blackwood 1900. An illustrated and expensive limited edition (see fn.3 p.300 in source text)
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19367  
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: 300
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood, dated 7th November 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. 300, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19367, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

In the same letter (p.301) Conrad makes reference to having read a review of this work in Blackwood's Magazine.

 

 

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