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Record 28811

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have read (before breakfast) your "Gambetta" a most excellent thing both as picture and appreciation of the man.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 24 Sep 1919
Country: England
Time: morning: before breakfast
Place: Wye
Kent
Spring Grove
   
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: Sidney Colvin
Title: Gambetta
Genre: History, Biography, Politics
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: subsequently included in "Memories and Notes of Persons and Places 1852-1912", London Edward Arnold 1921
Provenance: unknown
sent by author for comment

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28811  
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: 492
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Sidney Colvin dated 24 September 1919, Spring Grove.

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. 492, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28811, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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