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Record 27614

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life in Sarawak"] as soon as I ought to have done. Upon my word it's a marvellous volume [...]. The Ranee's book is delightfully ladylike but her sentiment for the land and the people is so obviously genuine that all her sins of omission shall be forgiven her.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1914 and 23 Jan 1914
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Title: A Hatchment
Genre: Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Geography / Travel, see additional comment
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1913 Duckworth
Provenance: owned
gift from author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27614  
Source - Print  
  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: 336
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham 23 January 1914, 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. 336, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27614, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Classified in COPAC entry as short stories, but fn.1 p.336 of source text refers to the work as a 'collection of tales, essays and sketches' and the titles of the content tend to support this.

 

 

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