Record Number: 33621
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I will send you soon a note on Miss Kingsley's book on Africa. C'est un voyageur et un écrivain très remarquable. Her opinions on questions dealing with the colonies are thought a great deal of.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1897 and 7 Feb 1899
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Stanford-le Hope OR Stanford near Hythe
county: Essex OR Kent
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm OR 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:West African Studies
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Macmillan, 1897.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33621
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Frederick Karl and Laurence Davies
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1986
Vol:2
Page:156
Additional Comments:
Letter from Conrad to Aniela Zagorska, 7 February 1899
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick Karl and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902, (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 156, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33621, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
It is not clear which of Mary Kingsley's two books is referred to here. It is posible that Conrad had read her first book, and given the date of the letter only read a review of her very recent second book, Travels in West Africa, Congo française, Corisco and Cameroons (1897).
