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Record 28704

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I ought to have thanked you before, for the very curious pamphlet containing Swinburne's sweet little joke. I enjoyed both the verse and the prose (especially the prose) immensely.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 10 Dec 1918 and 2 Jan 1919
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: Orlestone nr. Ashford
Kent
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: Algernon Swinburne
Title: A Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Ephemera, see additional comments
Form of Text: Print: Pamphlet
Publication details: 1918
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28704  
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: 345
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to T. J.Wise, dated 2 January 1919 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. 345, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28704, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

The text referred to is thought most likely to have been a letter originally written in 1874 but not published until well after the deaths of both Swinburne and Emerson. See also fn.1 p.345 of source text.

 

 

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