Record Number: 26472
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'All these sketches have the quality without which neither beauty, nor I am afraid, truth, are effective, that is they are interesting in themselves. I've spent all yesterday with your pages [...].' Hence follow almost two pages of constructive criticism.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 15 Oct 1910 and 22 Oct 1910
Country:England
Timedaytime
Place:city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:3 Dec 1857
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility
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
Text Being Read:
Author:Helen Sanderson (pseud. 'Janet Allardyce')
Title:African Sketches and Impressions
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown
Publication Detailssome sketches published in Scribner's Magazine 1910 and 1912
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:26472
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:4
Page:374
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Helen Sanderson, dated 16 or 23 October, 1910 Capel House.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911, (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 374, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26472, accessed: 04 May 2024
Additional Comments:
See fn.2 and 3 p. 374 of source text.
