| Evidence: | 'You know Marris--the man of the East who wrote the letter I read to you? Well he is going back to his Malay princess wife and his kid, right away. I have asked him to come on Monday here for the day.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 6 Aug 1909 and 26 Aug 1909 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Trottiscliffe, nr East Malling and Wrotham county: Kent |
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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) |
Perceval Gibbon |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Carl Murrell Marris |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | personal letter |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 25750 | |
| 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: | 273 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Perceval Gibbon, dated either 11 or 18 September 1909, Aldington. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 273, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25750, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Conrad was on holiday with the Percevals for three weeks in August 1909. This reading experience has been recorded because the letter and subsequent meeting revived for Conrad memories of his time in the Malay Archipelago and resulted in the dedication to Captain Marris of "'Twixt Land and Sea" (1912). |
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