| Evidence: | 'I only secured lately not so much the leisure as the proper freedom of mind, to read through and get on terms with your novel.[...] The book is captivatng enough in all conscience as a piece of writng and of course as a story too.'
[Hence follow 9 lines of comment.] |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between Jan 1917 and 29 Aug 1917 | ||||||||||
| 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) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | E.[Elliot] L. [Lovegood] Grant Wilson |
| Title: | The Mainland |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London: Duckworth, 1917 |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 28337 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 118 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to E.L. Grant Wilson (naturalist and writer), dated 29 August 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. 118, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28337, accessed: 29 November 2023 | |
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