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Record 20611

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I've just read Nelson. It is very good. Some criticism can be made mainly on the point that you presuppose too much knowledge of facts in your readers. Still we shall try to place it where it may be judged sympathetically.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 17 May 1905 and 29 May 1905
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm
   
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: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Norman Douglas
Title: unknown
Genre: History, Biography,
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown
presumably a MS sent either by author or agent to Conrad for comment.

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20611  
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: 254
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Norman Douglas dated 29 May 1905, 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. 254, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20611, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Conrad had met Douglas in Capri. No information can be found about Douglas having written a book on Nelson. the text is presumed to be an article on the subject See fn.1. p. 254 of source text relating to articles on Trafalgar centenary.

 

 

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