Evidence: | 'My gouty wrist has kept me from thanking you immediately for the volume of poems that you so kindly sent me. [...] What more can I say to give you an idea of the pleasure (complete and faultless) that the reading of your verses has given me?' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 15 Apr 1924 and 29 May 1924 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Bishopsbourne county: Kent specific address: Oswalds |
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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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Louis-Marie-Emile Roché |
Title: | Temps perdu |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Paris: Le Divan, 1924 |
Provenance: | owned sent by author |
Record ID: | 28927 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8, 1923-1924 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 2008 | |
Vol: | 8 | |
Page: | 370 | |
Additional comments: | Letter in French from Joseph Conrad to Louis Roché 30 May 1924, Oswalds. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8, 1923-1924 (Cambridge, 2008), 8, p. 370, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28927, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Date range is speculative and approximate, relying on Conrad's references, in late April and much of May, to his gouty wrist which had prevented him hand-writing responses to letters in languages other than English, as these could not be dictated. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)