Record Number: 19312

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I send you my affectionate thanks for the book ["The Plattner Story and Others"] and for the terms of the inscription on the fly-leaf; for the more I know of you--in our inconclusive talks--the more I feel that such should be the terms of our intercourse. I've of course read the book more than once. You get hold of one by your immense power of presentation, by your capacity to give shape, colour, aspect to the invisible.[...] ' Hence follows about twenty lines of appreciative comment and some negative criticism of one of the stories "The Cone".

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm

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:

H.G. Wells

Title:

The Plattner Story and Others

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1897 no other details available

Provenance

owned
inscribed copy from author

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19312

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph c

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:

239

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to H.G.Wells, dated 6th January 1900, Pent Farm

Citation:

Joseph c, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902, (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 239, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19312, accessed: 18 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

This book is listed in the Hodgson sale catalogue 1925 (Item 23) as an autograph presentation copy,second edition and is described as 'uncut'.