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Record Number: 26681


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The book has arrived too. It was very kind of you to think of sending it to me. As everything that Professor [William] James ever wrote it's most suggestive and interesting and morally valuable.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 18 Nov 1911 and 30 Nov 1911

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House

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


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



Text Being Read:

Author:

William James

Title:

Memories and Studies

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Biography, Autobiog / Diary, Philosophy,

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Longmans,Green 1911

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

26681

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

4

Page:

514

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Quinn dated ?30 November 1911, Capel House.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911, (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 514, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26681, accessed: 14 May 2024


Additional Comments:

See also letter from John Quinn to Conrad 15 November 1911, in ' "My Dear Friend": further letters to and about Joseph Conrad' ed. Owen Knowles, (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008) p.55 in which Quinn indicates despatch of a copy of this book from New York.Idetifd as 'Memories and Shades' in fn.2 p.55 of source text.

   
   
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