Record Number: 21547
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have been a few times to the Town [Montpellier] Library- with an object. And the object is reading up all I can discover there about Napoleon in Elba.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 8 Jan 1907 and 25 Jan 1907
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Montpellier
county: Herault
specific address: Public Library
(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:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Napoleon, roi de l'ile d'Elbe
Genre:History, Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsParis: Hachette,1906 (see also additional comment)
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:21547
Source: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:409
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to J.B.Pinker dated 25 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. 409, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21547, accessed: 17 May 2024
Additional Comments:
See fn.3 p.409 of source text, which indicates that in 1907 the Montpellier public library held only the volume cited above , with no other material on Napoleon on Elba, so it is reasonable to assume that this constituted Conrad's reading experience.
