Talk:Joseph Conrad

Date of birth
Considering the contested nature of the place where Conrad was born, it isn't obvious whether his birth date was recording in the Gregorian or Julian calendar. If it was recorded in the Julian calendar, it isn't clear whether some of the sources we might use have translated it from Julian to Gregorian. If someone can find out, an appropriate footnote should be added to indicate which it is.

If it turns out to be Julian the Birth date and Death date and age templates should be removed because they emit false metadata for Julian dates.
 * Conrad's birth and death dates, as stated in "Joseph Conrad", are the same as those given in Zdzisław Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life, translated by Halina Najder, Rochester, New York, Camden House, 2007, pp. XXI–XXII, which is sufficiently authoritative.
 * Nihil novi (talk) 08:53, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * That doesn't answer the question. Does Najdler say whether 3 December 1857 is a Julian calendar date or a Gregorian calendar date? Jc3s5h (talk) 16:52, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Footnote, p. 12:
 * "Bobrowski's 'Document' gives the date and place of birth as 21 November (Old Style) 1857, at Berdyczów, at which place the child was christened with water... Conrad himself gave the date as 3 December; both that date and the fact of the previously performed private baptism are confirmed by an extract from the Żytomierz parish register, preserved in the Jagiellonian Library, Cracow... The formal christening was registered at Żytomierz in 1862; paradoxically, Conrad was not present at the ceremony!... 'A Song for the Day of Christening,' a poem written by Apollo for his son, bears the date 13 November (obviously Old Style) 1857, Berdyczów..."
 * I wonder whether the "21 November" quoted above ("Bobrowski's 'Document'") is an error and should actually have been "11 November".
 * Nihil novi (talk) 04:03, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * 21 November to 3 December is 12 days. At the time, this was the number of days the Gregorian calendar was ahead of the Gregorian calendar, so 21 November 1857 Julian calendar was the same day as 3 December 1857 Gregorian calendar. Jc3s5h (talk) 15:19, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Just a note that we have to go by what reliable sources say. Discrepancies can be noted in the text or a footnote. Trying to interpret what his birth date "really" was is OR. - Donald Albury 17:37, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Jessie's cookbook
Jessie Conrad wrote A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House, published in 1923 (see [Https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67482/67482-h/67482-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67482/67482-h/67482-h.htm], for which JC wrote a rather touching preface. I think that's worth a mention in the Personal Life section. Thoughts? Plutonium27 (talk) 14:46, 3 May 2024 (UTC)