Record Number: 28346
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Thank you very much for sending me your contribution towards the solution of the great problem [Polish independence].[...] Your arguments and your conclusions seem to me absolutely incontrovertible.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 15 Sep 1917 and 1 Oct 1917
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:Russian Realities and Problems (chapter) or Problems of Central and Eastern Europe
Genre:Politics
Form of Text:Print: Book, Pamphlet, see additional comment, identity of text uncertain
Publication DetailsCambridge University Press 1917
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:28346
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:127
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Roman Dmowski (Polish nationalist writer and politician), dated 1 October 1917, 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. 127, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28346, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
It is not clear whether Conrad had been sent Dmowski's chapter from this book, or the complete book, or whether the reading experience refers instead to a privately printed statement "Problems of Central and Eastern Europe" which also appeared in 1917. See fn.1 and 2 p 127 of source text. Fn. 2 suggests the latter text.