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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945

'I return here the first volume with many thanks. It is very curious reading, but somehow one cannot take it very seriously.'


[Hence follow thirteen li...

Joseph Conrad Wilfrid Scawen BluntMy Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events,1...Print: Book
1900-1945'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is lost and the book produces the effect of being a mer...Joseph Conrad George Bradshaw (ed)Bradshaw's Monthly General Railway and Steam Navig...Print: Book
1900-1945'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is lost and the book produces the effect of being a mer...Joseph Conrad The ABC or Alphabetical Railway GuidePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'This is a very interesting journal and I read it with a particular pleasure derived both from the matter and from the expression of the writer's personality.'Joseph Conrad Christopher Sandeman[untitled]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have read (before breakfast) your "Gambetta" a most excellent thing both as picture and appreciation of the man.'Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinGambettaManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Let me thank you for the Swinburne bibliography which I've read with the greatest interest.'Joseph Conrad Thomas James WiseA Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse ...Print: Book
1900-1945

'At the beginning I must say that I have not read the tales ["Tales of a Cruel Country"] through as yet'.


[Conrad then makes several comments indicatin...

Joseph Conrad Gerald Cumberland (pseud.)Charles Frederick KenyonTales of a Cruel CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am just fresh from the second reading of your vol ["Brought Forward"]'. Hence follow twelve lines of admiring comment.Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamBrought ForwardPrint: Book
1900-1945

'I was laid up directly on arriving here, and this is the explanation of the delay in thanking you for the precious copy of the book. Pray convey to your brother my gr...

Joseph Conrad David Bone Merchantmen-at-Arms:The British Merchants' Service...Print: Book
1900-1945'I know the work of Paul Adam very little and all I have in the house is his "Lettres de Malaisie".Joseph Conrad Paul AdamLettres de MalaisiePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the "Saint-Simon", which to my great joy arrived this morning. I finished the play the day before yesterday. Tonight I finish revising. Tomorrow I plunge i...Joseph Conrad Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-SimonLes Mémoires de Saint-SimonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Just a line to thank you for the book. As I turn the pages my consideration for you grows to the proportions of respect. There is a beauty of easy moving prose - charm o...Joseph Conrad Richard CurleWanderingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks too for the "Life and Miracles" which I have just read for the second time.There is no one but you to render so poignantly the pathetic and desperate...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Brazilian Mystic, being the Life and Miracles of...Print: Book
1900-1945

'I finished your MS yesterday and am very much impressed by the ampleness of the scheme, the masterly ease in the handling [of] the subject and (in sober truth) the sh...

Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyIn ChanceryManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945

'I finished your MS yesterday and am very much impressed by the ampleness of the scheme, the masterly ease in the handling [of] the subject and (in sober truth) the sh...

Jessie Conrad John GalsworthyTatterdemalionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Warm thanks for the charming copy of "Wild Oranges" which it was a great pleasure to have in this interesting form. [...] You will be good enough to give my most friendl...Joseph Conrad Joseph HergesheimerWild OrangesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book ["The Rescue"] which has found favour in your eyes has been inspired in a great measure by the history of the first Rajah's enterprise and even by the lecture [...Joseph Conrad Rodney MundyNarrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to ...Print: Book
1900-1945'E. [Edward] Grey's book, of which I have already read a considerable portion, has certainly the charm of a genuine feeling expressed in plain language worthy of a great ...Joseph Conrad Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of FallodonRecreationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Pray forgive me keeping your article on Mérimée so long. I read it as soon as it arrived — and then re-read it yesterday. It is one of the best pieces by you I've read, ...Joseph Conrad Gérard Jean-AubryMériméeManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945

'This is only to tell you that I have read the book.'


[Hence follow six lines of praise.]

Joseph Conrad Hugh WalpoleThe Captives: A Novel in Four PartsPrint: Book


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