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Record 28930

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'As to your verses. May I keep them? Of course now you say you will not finish the poem — and it may be true — now.[...] But its charm and music are for me. I have read it more than once.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 28 Oct 1896 and 14 Nov 1896
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Stanford le Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Victoria Road
   
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: Edward Lancelot Sanderson
Title: An Episode of Southern Seas
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: n/a

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28930  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 2007
  Vol: 9
  Page: 40
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to E. L. (Ted) Sanderson, 14 November 1896, Stanford le Hope.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923 (Cambridge, 2007), 9, p. 40, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28930, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

See also letter 21 November 1896 (Collected Letters vol. 1, p.318-320.)

 

 

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