Evidence: | 'I received the volume ["A Motley"] the day before yesterday and laid it aside till this afternoon.'
Hence follow one and a half pages of almost unqualified praise for the short stories and sketches in this collection, apart from Conrad's rejection of one piece, "A Reversion To Type". |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 18 Jun 1910 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Aldington, Nr Hythe county: Kent specific address: Forehead |
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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: | John Galsworthy |
Title: | A Motley |
Genre: | Fiction, Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Heinemann 1910 |
Provenance: | owned Inscribed copy from author sent via publisher (see text of letter) |
Record ID: | 26465 | |
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: | 338-9 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy dated 18 June 1910 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. 338-9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26465, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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