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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very French it is too and yet with something individual-- and...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonLe Nègre aux Etats-UnisPrint: Book
1900-1945'[...] the volume ["Charity"] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word of the wonderful preface to the last short sketch o...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamCharityPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am delighted and honoured by your gift of an inscribed copy [presumably of "Voices of Tomorrow" but see additional comment]. It is with great pleasure that I discover ...Joseph Conrad E.(Edwin) A.(August) BjorkmanVoices of Tomorrow:Critical Studies on the New Spi...Print: Book, Serial / periodical, see additional comment
1900-1945'I do hope you are not too disgusted with me for not thanking you for the "[The Brothers] Karamazov" before. It was very dear of you to remember me; and of course I was e...Joseph Conrad Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. After you went away I re-read your Fog on the River p...Joseph Conrad Thomas ReedHouse Flags and Funnels of English and Foreign Ste...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. After you went away I re-read your Fog on the River p...Joseph Conrad H.|Henry] M.[Major] TomlinsonThe FogPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'This ["Fountains in the Sand"] is first rate. I have seldom read prose d'une si belle tonalité.' Hence follow 23 lines of praise and constructive commentary. Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasFountains in the Sand: Rambles among the Oases of ...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a whole, up to that sample then it is distinctly stuff...Francis Warrington Dawson Francis Warrington DawsonThe SinManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'It's ["The Inn of Tranquillity"] wholly excellent and certainly fascinating.[...] Of course I had read many of the papers before.' Hence follow ten lines of praise for t...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Inn of TranquillityPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the meantime I thank you heartily for your more than in one way very interesting vol.["Shadows out of the Crowd"]. We shall have a talk about it when you come, with t...Joseph Conrad Richard CurleShadows out of the CrowdPrint: Book
1900-1945'From that far distant day [in 1903] when (you remember?) you sent me "Leonora" it's great fundamental quality of absolutely genuine expression has been with me an unshak...Joseph Conrad Arnold BennettLeonoraPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to a reading of Oliver Cromwell by John Drinkwater'.Members of XII Book ClubJohn DrinkwaterOliver CromwellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's an...Joseph Conrad Tristan BernardunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's an...Joseph Conrad Elémir BourgesLe Crépuscule des Dieux: Moeurs ContemporainesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's an...Joseph Conrad Elémir Bourges(probably) Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs t...Print: Book
1900-1945'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's mo...Joseph Conrad Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) Print: Book
1900-1945'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's mo...Joseph Conrad Jean Masbrenier (Mariel)Pierre Loti: Biographie-critiquePrint: Book
1900-1945'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's mo...Joseph Conrad Jean Masbrenier (Mariel)L'enseignement de GoethePrint: Book
1900-1945'The novel --Good! Très fort!! As Pinker could not have done much with it before Easter I held it up here for a second reading.'Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonThe Novel of George (published as The Pyramid)Manuscript: Unknown


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