Evidence: | 'Many thanks for your letter. The enclosure was most intetesting. It reveals an original personality and to me attractive. It is at the same time a most flattering recognition of my qualities and shortcomings. I shall write to Mr Constable in a day or two.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Frank Challice Constable |
Title: | (letter) |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) letter forwarded by publisher to Conrad |
Record ID: | 19372 | |
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: | 327 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood dated 24th May 1901, 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. 327, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19372, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Frank Challice Constable 1846-1937 was a former Indian Civil Service officer and one of Blackwood's novelists. (see fn.2,p.326 source text.) His best known books were "The Curse of Intellect" (1895) and " Myself and Dreams" (1919). |
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