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Record 28937

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'That's first rate stuff. I have read all but two of the stories, which'll have their turn this afternoon and I shall take up your copy on Monday myself and deliver it to Pinker with my own hands.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 5 Jan 1918 and 14 Jun 1918
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: Wye
Kent
Spring Grove
   
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: Edmund Candler
Title: The General Plan
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Edinburgh: Blackwood 1911
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28937  
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: 219
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edmund Candler 14 June 1919, Spring Grove

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. 219, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28937, accessed: 16 April 2024

Additional comments:

Identity of text speculative, see fn.4, p.219 of source text.

 

 

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