Evidence: | 'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very French it is too and yet with something individual-- and even racial--glowing through it and adding to the fascination of the perfectly simple diction.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1912 and 9 Apr 1912 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Orlestone nr. Ashford county: Kent specific address: Capel House |
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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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Francis Warrington Dawson |
Title: | Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis |
Genre: | History, Social Science, Geography / Travel, anthropology |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | E.Guilmot Paris 1912 |
Provenance: | n/a |
Record ID: | 27569 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1996 | |
Vol: | 5 | |
Page: | 51 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Francis Warrington Dawson dated 9 April 1912, Capel House. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916 (Cambridge, 1996), 5, p. 51, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27569, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See also records 26469 and 26677 for Conrad's earlier reading of Dawson's works. |
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