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Record 28287

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The story you sent me (I'm glad to have it) I remembered of course very well. It isn't the sort of thing that is ever forgotten.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1911 and 1917
Country: Probably England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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: Probably England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Francis Warrington Dawson
Title: The True Dimension
Genre: Fiction, Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: (Secker, 1916)
Provenance: n/a

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28287  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 2002
  Vol: 6
  Page: 76
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Warrington Dawson dated 22 April 1917, Capel House

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 76, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28287, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Identity of story referred to, and timing of reading experience unclear , see fn.3 ,P75 and fn.2 p. รจ- of source text.

 

 

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