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Record 21524

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I am sending you with my love a pretty edition of "Emaux et Camées" [of Théophile Gautier]. I don't think you have anything on your shelves of the bon poète. I haven't seen these poems since, since the days before the Deluge. How simple they were those great romantics!'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: unknown
Time: daytime
Place: n/a
   
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: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
 n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Théophile Gautier
Title: Emaux et Camées
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: first published 1852, unclear which French edition Conrad would have originally read. and which edituon he was sending to Ford.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21524  
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: 403
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford dated 8 January 1907, Montpellier.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 403, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21524, accessed: 20 April 2024

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