| Evidence: | 'Next to tell you that "H.[Hernando]de Soto" is most exquisitely excellent: your very mark and spirit upon a subject that only you can do justice to-with your wonderful English and your sympathetic insight insto the souls of the Conquistadores.' Thence follows half a page of praise. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Jul 1903 and 26 Dec 1903 | ||||||||||
| 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: | Hernando de Soto: together with an account of one of his captains, Gonçalo Silvestre. |
| Genre: | History, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London: William Heinemann, 1903 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 20392 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 100-101 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 126th December, 1903, Pent Farm. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 100-101, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20392, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
| This work and Cunninghame Graham's earlier works set in South America, such as 'A Vanished Arcadia' (1901), see letter 19th March 1903 (p.25 of source text) almost certainly informed 'Nostromo' published the following year. |
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