Record Number: 20273
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The" River of Cathay" is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Feb 1903 and 3 Feb 1903
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm
(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:The River of Cathay
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsBlackwood's Magazine Vol. 173, pp. 222-30 February 1903
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:20273
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:15
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ernest Dawson, Pent Farm dated 3rd February 1903.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907, (Cambridge, 1988), 3, p. 15, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20273, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
Ernest Dawson (1884-1960) soldier and magistrate in Burma, was a friend of the Conrads and a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine. The article cited was 'an evocation of the Irrawaddy'. (see fn.1 p.15 and pp.xxxiv of source text) and also Owen Knowles and G.M. Moore 'Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad' (OUP: Oxford, 2000) p.85.