Evidence: | 'The lecture is splendid. It is striking in its expression [...]and in its eloquence too [...].I call it scientific eloquence--that is eloquence appealing not to the passions like the eloquence of the orator but to the reason..[...] All the criticism I've seen (now after reading the lecture) strike me as extremely unfair --[...] ' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 24 Jan 1902 and 28 Feb 1902 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells |
Title: | The Discovery of the Future |
Genre: | Science |
Form of Text: | Print: Book, Pamphlet |
Publication details: | February 1902 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19390 | |
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: | 386 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to H.G.Wells, speculatively dated as February 1902. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 386, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19390, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
According to fn.1 p.386 of source text this was probably the 96 page printed version of Wells's lecture of the same title delivered at the Royal Instuitution on 24 January 1902. |
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