Record Number: 28772
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Many thanks for the inscribed copy. [...]. On the 28th May I finished correcting the last pages of "Rescue" [...]. The same evening I picked up "Sri Ram" as I limped to bed, and went on reading it through the still, very still, hours of night to the end, marvelling and musing over the pages.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:28 May 1919
Country:England
Timeevening
night: continous reading all night
city: Wye
county: Kent
specific address: Spring Grove
location in dwelling: Study/library followed by bedroom
(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: Title:Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsConstable 1914
Provenanceowned
sent by author
Source Information:
Record ID:28772
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:2002
Vol:6
Page:435
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edmund Candler dated 14 June 1919, Spring Grove.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919, (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 435, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28772, accessed: 04 May 2024
Additional Comments:
see also letter 12 November 1918 p. 303 of source text concerning Conrad's first reading of this novel.
