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
Timen/a
Place:city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: 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:Memories and Studies
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Biography, Autobiog / Diary, Philosophy,
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLongmans,Green 1911
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:26681
Source: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: 16 February 2025
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.
