Evidence: | 'Thanks ever so much for the book. One would want a long and warm talk about it.To set down the several trains of thought suggested by your pages would take many pieces of papers like this. I must resist the temptation.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 15 Feb 1908 and 4 1908 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Luton Hoo Estate county: Bedfordshire specific address: Someries |
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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: | H. G.(Herbert George) Wells |
Title: | New Words for Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Archibald Constable and Co.: London, 1908 (first publication) |
Provenance: | owned Gift from author |
Record ID: | 24744 | |
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: | 4 | |
Page: | 53 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to H.G.Wells dated 4 March 1908, Someries. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 53, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24744, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Date range speculative but likely to be very much tighter, since Conrad unless travelling or ill/incapacitated, generally replied immediately to his correspondents particularly those who sent him books. |
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