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Record 28927

Reading Experience:

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?'
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
   
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: 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

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28927  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

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.

 

 

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