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Record 20540

Reading Experience:

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.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 2 Feb 1905
Country: Italy
Time: evening
night
Place: city: Capri
county: Napoli
specific address: Villa di Maria
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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

 

Text Being Read:

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.

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20540  
Source - Print  
  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: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

See also letter to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 16 February 1905, p.217 of source text.

 

 

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