Record Number: 28704
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I ought to have thanked you before, for the very curious pamphlet containing Swinburne's sweet little joke. I enjoyed both the verse and the prose (especially the prose) immensely.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 10 Dec 1918 and 2 Jan 1919
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:Orlestone nr. Ashford
Kent
Capel House
(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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:A Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Ephemera, see additional comments
Form of Text:Print: Pamphlet
Publication Details1918
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28704
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:2002
Vol:6
Page:345
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to T. J.Wise, dated 2 January 1919 Capel House
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919, (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 345, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28704, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
The text referred to is thought most likely to have been a letter originally written in 1874 but not published until well after the deaths of both Swinburne and Emerson. See also fn.1 p.345 of source text.
