| Evidence: | 'And of all the men who write today it is only Hueffer who writes for love[...]. I took up the "H[eart]of [the]C[ountry]" which was lying there and opening it at hazard I showed sentences here and there asking whether they could have been written from any other conceivable motive.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Feb 1908 and 18 Feb 1908 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Luton Hoo Estate county: Bedfordshire specific address: Someries location in dwelling: sitting room, study or library |
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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 |
| Country of origin: | Poland |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Unidentified visitor to Someries possible Douglas Tarver or Stephen Reynolds (see fn.2 p.46 of source text) |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) |
| Title: | The Heart of the Country: A Survey of Modern Land |
| Genre: | Social Science, Geography / Travel, Natural history, Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1906 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 24501 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 46-47 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford dated 20 February 1908, Someries, in which he describes his defence to an unidentified visitor, of Ford's work |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), p. 46-47, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24501, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
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