| Evidence: | 'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely reading) there occurs a simple sentence which came forcibly to my mind. He had been looking at some picture in a provincial gallery--and he says: All this is painted in a manner to bring tears into one's eyes. I don't quote literally--(the book is downstairs where it is dark and I feel too fagged out doing nothing to move from my chair)--but that's just it!' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown, likely England or France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | Luton Hoo Estate Bedfordshire 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: | unknown, likely England or France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Henry James |
| Title: | A Little Tour in France |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published 1885, new illustrated cheap edition Heinemann 1907 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 24811 | |
| 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: | 95-96 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy probably 25 July 1908, Someries. See fn.1 p.95 of source text |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 95-96, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24811, accessed: 01 June 2023 | |
| Since Conrad's asociation with James only began with an exchange of books in 1886, and he received his first presentation copy from James, 'The Spoils of Poynton' in 1887, it is most likely that the edition of 'A Little Tour in France' read by Conrad, referred to here and recommended to Ada Galsworthy, was that of 1907. |
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