Record Number: 28937

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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

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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:

Edmund Candler

Title:

The General Plan

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Edinburgh: Blackwood 1911

Provenance

unknown

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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://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28937, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

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