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Record 28884

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I hasten therefore to tell you without a moments delay what did mean to write (or have perhaps written) that the book ["Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas"] in its human zest for impressions, in its pervading sympathy for strange mankind, its acuity of observation [...] has given me a very real pleasure [...] You will see that neither the lapse of 2 months [since receiving and reading the book?] nor the fact of re-reading, has altered my original judgement "by first impression".'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Aug 1922 and 23 Oct 1922
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: Clarence Andrews
Title: Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Hurst and Blackett 1922
Provenance: owned
sent by author (book dedicated to Conrad)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28884  
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: 547
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Clarence Andrews dated 23 October 1922, 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. 547, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28884, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

See also letter 6 February 1922, p. 412 of source text, anticipating receipt of this book.

 

 

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