Evidence: | ' I have just finished the book ["Mr. Apollo"] which reached me this morning [...].It comes off magnificently.'
Hence follow 14 lines of almost unqualified praise. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 31 Jul 1908 and 7 Aug 1908 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening night |
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Place: | city: Luton Hoo Estate county: Bedfordshire specific address: Someries |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) |
Title: | Mr. Apollo |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: proofs |
Publication details: | Methuen, August 1908 |
Provenance: | n/a |
Record ID: | 24812 | |
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: | 98 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford, 31 July or 7 August 1908, Someries. See fn.2 p.98 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. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24812, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Fn. 2, p.98 of source text places date of the letter ane hence the reading experience as either Friday 31 July or Friday 7th August 1908. |
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