Evidence: | 'Arrived: A book with a Chinese title of Scandinavian authorship translated by Mrs Reynolds. I am touched and pleased indeed by the kind`attention. Have looked into it alreday with the translator alone in view. And that is all right. That's all I have to say. If I were to talk of skill and fluency and mastery and the rest of the journalese bosh you would not believe me and you would be right. But the thing will do and that's the most an honest man can say of any writing.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 16 Jun 1904 and 2 Jul 1904 | ||||||||||
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: | Henri Jean François Borel |
Title: | Wu Wei:A Phantasy Based on the Philosophy of Lao-Tse |
Genre: | Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Luzac and Co. 1903, trans. by 'Meredith Lanson' Mabel Reynolds, John Galsworthy's sister. |
Provenance: | owned Internal evidence indicates gift from the translator. |
Record ID: | 20397 | |
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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: | 148 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy dated 2nd July 1904, 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. 148, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20397, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Borel (1869-1933) was a Dutch writer and journalist, not Scandinavian as Conrad thought. The text was first published in 1897 as ‘Wu Wei.Eene studie, naar aanleiding van Lao Tsz's filosofie.’ (Information from Dutch digital library website 'Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren' accessed through Borel entry in Wikipedia (Dutch language version). |
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