Record Number: 18684
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I send back the MS tonight.The chapters are all as they should be. The last line excellent. Good luck to the book.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Stanford-le-Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm
(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:Jocelyn
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown, probably a typed MS
Publication Detailsrejected by Fisher Unwin and subsequently published by Duckworth 1898 under name of John Sinjohn
Provenanceunknown
sent by author
Source Information:
Record ID:18684
Source: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:11
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy undated but considerd to be early January 1898, Stanford-le- Hope
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902, (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 11, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18684, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
None