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Record Number: 20731


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I say your pavement is d−d jolly.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 7 Jul 1875

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edinburgh
county: Lothian

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

13 Nov 1850

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Aspiring writer and intermittent law student

Religion:

Uncommitted

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Sidney Colvin

Title:

The History of a Pavement

Genre:

Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

July 1875, in the Fortnightly Review.

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

20731

Source:

Print

Author:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Editor:

Bradford A. Booth

Title:

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879

Place of Publication:

New Haven and London

Date of Publication:

1994

Vol:

2

Page:

148-9

Additional Comments:

Letter 402, To Sidney Colvin, [7 July 1875], [Swanston]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The material in square brackets has been added by the editors.

Citation:

Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 148-9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20731, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

On p.149, the Editors’ Note 2 to Letter 402 reads: “Colvin’s article, ‘The History of a Pavement’ in the July "Fortnightly Review" about the engraved and inlaid marble floor of the Cathedral in Siena. The Fitzwilliam Museum had acquired a set of drawings which Colvin used as the basis for a series of lectures.”

   
   
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