Record Number: 18894

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Today, from your kindness, I received the "Chronicle" with Robert's [Cunninghame Graham] letter. C'est bien ça -- c'est bien lui!' [Its good, that-- it's really him!]

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

12 Jan 1899

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Stanford near Hythe
Kent
Pent Farm

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Joseph Conrad

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

3 Dec 1857

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry
'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility

Occupation:

Master mariner and author

Religion:

Roman Catholic

Country of Origin:

Poland

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Title:

letter in Daily Chronicle "Pax Britannica"

Genre:

Politics, Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

Daily Chronicle 11th January 1899

Provenance

n/a

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18894

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1986

Vol:

2

Page:

150

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to the Hon. A.E. Bontine, mother of R.B.Cunninghame Graham, 12th January 1899, Pent Farm.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902, (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 150, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18894, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

According to fn.2 p.150 of source text the letter was 'an attack on colonial double-think and 'the safe massacre of spear-armed men falling like corn before the reaper two miles away from our brave fellows".' It is presumably not a reference to the Second Anglo Boer War 1899-1902 which had not yet started; it may be a reference to Kitchener's defeat of armed Sudanese tribesmen in the Battle of Omdurman 2nd September 1898 .