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Record 28851

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have been good enough to send me.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1921 and 30 Aug 1921
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Bishopsbourne
county: Kent
specific address: Oswalds
   
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: Frederick O'Brien
Title: Mystic Isles of the South Seas
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: London: Hodder and Stoughton, and New York: Century Co. 1921
Provenance: owned
sent by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28851  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 2005
  Vol: 7
  Page: 334
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Frederick O'Brien 30 August 1921, Oswalds

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922 (Cambridge, 2005), 7, p. 334, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28851, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Frederick O'Brien was an American journalist and travel writer, see fn.3, p.3 of source text. It is not apparent whether Conrad was sent the New York or the London edition of this illustrated text. See also recoord ID 28854.

 

 

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