| Evidence: | 'The book ["The Year of Trafalgar"] arrived. Some day I will bring it to London for you to write your name and mine on the flyleaf, thus making it specially valuable apart from its intrinsic worth, which I have been eagerly absorbing.'
Hence follow eight lines of unqualified praise. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 16 Jun 1905 and 19 Jul 1905 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Stanford near Hythe county: Kent specific address: Pent Farm location in dwelling: Probably bedroom or sitting room, see additional comments |
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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: | Henry Newbolt |
| Title: | The Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the battle and of the events which led up to it, with a collection of the poems and ballads written thereupon between 1805 and 1905 |
| Genre: | History, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London: John Murray, 1905 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 20883 | |
| 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: | 275-276 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Henry Newbolt, dated 19th July 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. 275-276, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20883, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
| In the same letter Conrad indicated that he has been reading lying on his back, unable to write, and therefore enjoying reading (source text p.276.) |
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