Record Number: 18921
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
''I was delighted with the number. Gibbon especially fetched me quite. But everything is good. Munro's verses--excellent, and Whibley very interesting--very appreciative,very fair. I happen to know Rimbaud's verses.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1899 and 8 Feb 1899
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Blackwood's Magazine
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailspresumed to be February 1899 number (vol 165)
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18921
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:162
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood, 8th February 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. 162, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18921, accessed: 19 August 2025
Additional Comments:
fn.1 and 2, p.162 of source text identify the items referred to as, respectively , "From the New Gibbon" an unsigned essay by G.W Steevens, academic and war correspondent, the Scottish poet Neil Munro's "To Exiles" and Charles Whibley's piece on Rimbaud "A Vagabond Poet".
