| Evidence: | 'This moment I receive "Progress", or rather the moment (last night) occurred favorably to let me read before I sat down to write. Nothing in my writing life[...] has give mre a greater pleasure, a deeper satisfaction of innocent vanity [...] than the dedication of the book so full of admirable things, from the wonderful preface to the slightest of the sketches between the covers.' Hence follow nine more lines of unqualified praise. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 2 Feb 1905 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening night |
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| Place: | city: Capri county: Napoli specific address: Villa di Maria |
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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: | Italy |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham |
| Title: | Progress and Other Stories |
| Genre: | Fiction, |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London: Duckworth, 1905 |
| Provenance: | owned Copy from author, with dedication to Conrad. |
| Record ID: | 20540 | |
| 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: | 214 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 3 February 1905, Capri. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 214, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20540, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
| See also letter to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 16 February 1905, p.217 of source text. |
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