| 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.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 10 Dec 1918 and 2 Jan 1919 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | Orlestone nr. Ashford Kent 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: | 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 |
| Record ID: | 28704 | |
| 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: | 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: 31 March 2023 | |
| 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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