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Record 28365

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Yes. I've seen "Contact's" [Alan Bott's] work. It is very good . But he's not the only one.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1917 and Feb 1918
Country: 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: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Alan Bott [pseud. "Contact"]
Title: An Airman's Outings
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Blackwood 1917
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28365  
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: 186
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Samuel Everitt dated 18 February 1918, 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. 186, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28365, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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