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.' |
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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 |
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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: | 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. |
Record ID: | 20611 | |
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: | 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 |
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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