Record Number: 21524

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am sending you with my love a pretty edition of "Emaux et Camées" [of Théophile Gautier]. I don't think you have anything on your shelves of the bon poète. I haven't seen these poems since, since the days before the Deluge. How simple they were those great romantics!'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

unknown

Time

daytime

Place:

n/a

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:

unknown

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Théophile Gautier

Title:

Emaux et Camées

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

first published 1852, unclear which French edition Conrad would have originally read. and which edituon he was sending to Ford.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

21524

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1988

Vol:

3

Page:

403

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford dated 8 January 1907, Montpellier.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907, (Cambridge, 1988), 3, p. 403, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21524, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

None