Record Number: 28883
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'When your book ["The Problem of China"] arrived we were away for a few days. Perhaps [...] I should have acknowledged the receipt at once. But I preferred to read it before I wrote. Unluckily a very unpleasant affair was sprung on me and absorbed all my thinking energies for a fortnight. I simply did not attempt to open the book till all the worry and flurry was over, and I could give it two clear days.'
[Hence follow three pages of commentary.]
1900-1945
Date:Between 22 Sep 1922 and 23 Oct 1922
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Bishopsbourne
county: Kent
specific address: Oswalds
(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 Problem of China
Genre:Politics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsAllen and Unwin 1922
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28883
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:2005
Vol:7
Page:542
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Bertrand Russell dated 23 October 1922, Oswalds.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922, (Cambridge, 2005), 7, p. 542, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28883, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
The evidence contained within this and other letters does not allow a more precise date range other than after 22 September when the Conrads returned from a visit to Liverpool and North Wales, but it is most likely to have been only two or three days before this letter was written.