| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexandre Dumas | [novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel de Montaigne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Moliere [pseud] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Robert Louis Stevenson to Henry James, November-early December 1887: "I must break out with the news that I can't bear... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Pot-Bouille"; "Pot-Bouille" made me laugh, there is one good character' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Emile Zola | Pot-Bouille | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just returned from reading a chapter of your book to my wife and her daughter. There was not a dry eye at the ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Forbes-Mitchell | Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | One of them asked what he had been reading.
'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye.
'L... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Lawrence L. Lynch | Shadowed by Three: A Detective Story | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | One of them asked what he had been reading.
'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye.
'L... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Dashing Kate, the Female Detective | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Taking a book of Browning's poems from his pocket he showed Louis a verse which he said he could not understand...bend... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Louis announced that he had written something he wanted us to hear. When we had taken our seats round the centre table... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he h... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Weir of Hermiston | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he h... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Witch Woman | |
| 1850-1899 | One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune,... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Margaret Oliphant | Review of The Master of Ballantrae | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Noona seems to have a very interesting story in his bound up Cassell's Paper and I think we have one of them in our o... | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '.. there is a picture in Punch and it is a man beating a great many drums ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'And I saw a Punch which I thought I would like so much....there was one queer picture in Mr Punch which I must tell y... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got the book from Mrs Bell it is Martin Rattler.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | R M Ballantyne | Martin Rattler or a Boy's Adventures in the Forests of Brazil | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am getting on very well with Ovid.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ovid | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Oh my vessel's on the say says the shan van voght
And I do not know what to say says the shan van voght.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Traditional Ballad | Shan Van Voght | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you ever read Alroy by Disraeli?' [includes quotations from Alroy]. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Benjamin Disraeil | Alroy: a Romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read Bragelonne'. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexandre Dumas | Le Vicomte de Bragelonne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At present I am going for Macaulay's History and no novels at all.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is a nice little bit of poetry about that in an old number of Good Words.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | .'.. poor old Jack Sheppard. I doubt not Ainsworth meant to be moral.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you seen anything of the Broadway: I rather like it.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Broadway | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I spent most of yesterday in the Advocates' Library and got about half way through the catalogue.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | ?Robert ?Wodrow | [MSS in the Advocates' Library] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you know Henry Kingsley. Read Mademoiselle Mathilde by him, now coming out in the Gentleman's Magazine ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Kingsley | Mademoiselle Mathilde | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I suppose Poems and Ballads will stand in the way of a Laureateship.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems and Ballads [first series] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... such cursed nonsense as the last thing in Good Words. Oh! Alfred Tennyson! Alfred Tennyson, oh!' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | '1865-1866' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way what awful trash Tennyson's serial poetry is just now. To think of the man who wrote the 'Lotus Eaters' 'S... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alfred Tennyson | The Lotus Eaters/St Simeon Stylites | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I send you three translations of a bit of Horace, in order to hear what you think of the last measure.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Horace | Book II Ode III | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All the reading up is Macaulay, p.530 to 535 and then p. 616 to 630'. [The context of the reference suggests the text... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Can you find and send to me the last lines of Longfellow's Golden legend, beginning 'It is Lucifer, son of the air,' ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Golden Legend | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Hegel must either be frightfully clever, or a most egregious ass: I incline to the latter position.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'It contains more detailed accounts than anything I ever saw, except Wodrow ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Wodrow | The History of the Suffrings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading a good deal of Herbert ...
"Carve or discourse; do not famine fear,
Who carves is kind to two, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Herbert | The Temple: The Church Porch xxii | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime? | Robert Louis Stevenson | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "Do you think Job's birthday was the 29th of February 'As for that night let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joi... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am better now; but it leaves me in a state of intellectual prostration, fit for nothing but smoking, and reading Ch... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Baudelaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Christopher Marlowe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Fletcher | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Webster | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Clarendon's Hist. Rebell. at present with which I am more pleased than I expected, which is saying a goo... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Hyde (1st Earl of Clarendon) | The True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have possessed myself of Mrs Hutchinson, which, of course, I admire, etc'. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Lucy Hutchinson | Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It is necessary to explain, O Argive youth, that I have been reading the translations of Bohn, cunningly written with... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry George Bohn | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Honore de Balzac | Contes Drolatiques | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today, I got rather a curiosity - Lieder und Balladen von Robert Burns, translated by one Silbergleit, and not so ill... | Robert Louis Stevenson | L G Silbergleit | Robert Burns' Lieder und Balladen [etc] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have just been reading "Maud". Do not fear, dear; it has not been unpleasant to me; I see and know and accept all t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Maud; A Monodrama | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Roman Law...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | [Roman law] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading...Calvin.'
| Robert Louis Stevenson | John Calvin | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '...I have been continuing to work at Roman Law...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | [Roman law] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '...I have been continuing to work at ... John Knox...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Knox | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Struggling away at "Fables in Song" .' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | Fables in Song | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday I received a letter that gave me much pleasure from a poor fellow student of mine who has been all winter v... | Robert Louis Stevenson | a fellow student of Robert Louis Stevenson | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'All right, I'll see what I can do. Before I could answer, I had to see the book; and my good father, after trying at ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | Fables in Song | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'All right, I'll see what I can do....Does the "sans extract" mean that I [italics] simply God-damn-mustn't [end itali... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Jenkin wrote to say he would second me in such a nice little notelet. I shall go in for it (the Savile I mean) whethe... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mme Garschine's was rather sad and gave me the blues a bit'. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sophie Garschine | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | ?Friday. I have got on rather better with the ?Fables?; perhaps it won?t be a failure, though I still fear...Saturday.... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | Fables in Song | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have received such a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen today; about my ?V. Hugo?. It is accepted.? | Robert Louis Stevenson | Leslie Stephen | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | ?I send you L. Stephen?s letter, which is certainly very kind and jolly to get. Please show it, if you get a chance, t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Leslie Stephen | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | ?You can tell Lang this. I heard from him, and will answer soon.? | Robert Louis Stevenson | Andrew Lang | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | ?Your letter came this morning. I own I am troubled about its contents: I fear for your health, dear friend, in such a... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frances Sitwell | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | ?I am doing principally my Roman Law just now. It is really to me a great pleasure; and it keeps me out of the way of ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Roman Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Morley has accepted the "Fables" and I have seen it in proof and think less of it than ever.?
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | "On Lord Lytton's Fables in Song" | Manuscript: Sheet, Proof of the article |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Herbert Spencer just now very hard.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Herbert Spencer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you yet seen Middlemarch? You would not be quite so unsophisticated a visitor to Rome as Miss Brooke.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have had all things considered and thanks principally to Philip, a very passable Christmas day [...] then went upst... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Adventures of Philip | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then there is Mr Brand's lantern and his Highland cloak; and the tale of how he, John Brand, right royally attired in... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Erskine | The Garb of Old Gaul | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'You may be interested to hear that the Miss Jaffrays are reading: having only eyes and not a 'pair of patent double m... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers Chapter 34 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Part III is 'the reconciliation', in Spencer's phrase, - a mean term between I and II, a minimistic retrospect on both.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Herbert Spencer | A System of Synthetic Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I got a quiet seat behind a yew hedge and went away into a meditation. It [i.e. the windswept scene in the garden at ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frances Sitwell | letter | Manuscript: Letter, Passage refers to various letters from Frances Sitwell to RLS, dates and subjects unspecified here. Letters received by RLS before 4 June 1874 [date ascribed by the editors to the cited passage]. |
| 1850-1899 | ?Yesterday, by the bye, I received the proof of "Victor Hugo"; it is not nicely written, but the stuff is capital, I t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Victor Hugo's Romances | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances? |
| 1850-1899 | ?I was out, behind the yew hedge, reading the "Comtesse de Rudolstadt" when I found my eyes grow weary and looked up f... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Comtesse de Rudolstadt | |
| 1850-1899 | ?By the way, dear, I must send you "Consuelo"; you said you had quite forgotten it, if I remember aright. And surely a... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Consuelo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I bought Darwin's last book in despair, for I knew I could generally read Darwin, but it was a failure.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Darwin | The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Victor Hugo" has come; I like all your alterations vastly, except one which I don?t like, tho? I own something was n... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | "Victor Hugo's Romances" | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances? |
| 1850-1899 | ?Goodbye. I am at "Knox and the Women", which seems good stuff when I come to put it down; but the arrangement cost me... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | [material on John Knox] | Print: Book, Presumably numerous works by, and of general and specific reference to, Knox |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is rather a nice article of Colvin?s in this "Macmillan".' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | The Shadow of Death | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I can?t be more satisfactory [= about his travel plans]. I think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near he... | Robert Louis Stevenson | D.V. Thomas | advertisement | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '?I am reading Ruskin?s "Stones of Venice"with great pleasure. He can [italics] write [end italics] a few, can?t he?' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Ruskin | Stones of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I [...] was singing after my own fashion "Du hast diamentem und Perlen"[...]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Heinrich Heine | Du hast Diamenten und Perlen | Print: song |
| 1850-1899 | 'Try two of Schubert?s songs ?Ich ungl?cksel?ger Atlas? and ?Du sch?nes Fischerm?dchen?. They are very jolly. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Heinrich Heine | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read aloud my death-cycles from Walt Whitman this evening. I was very much affected myself, never so much befo... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walt Whitman | probably Leaves of Grass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I don?t know whether I imagined it, but I thought there seemed something wrong between us this afternoon.[?] Perhaps, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Bob Stevenson | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | '... I find I have nothing to say that has not been already perfectly said and perfectly sung in Adelaide.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Friedrich von Matthison | Adelaide | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a shop in Buchanan Street, there was exposed a little gold wristlet with 'Phil. 1.3' upon it; look it up in the Ne... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Paul | Epistle to the Philippians, I.3 | Print: wristlet |
| 1850-1899 | 'One gravestone was erected by Scott .. to the poor woman who served him as a heroine in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: gravestone |
| 1850-1899 | 'Try, by way of change, Byron?s "Mazeppa", you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Gordon Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many thanks. I have received the 15 quid, and the "Portfolio" proof.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Notes on the Movements of Young Children. | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a review of Lauder?s "Scottish Rivers" for the "Academy" which I think you will like; I should not hav... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Dick Lauder | Scottish Rivers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You may remember that I used to desire to outlive you: I have changed my cue: I should be left to speak in the words ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Emery Tylney | (in) Foxe's Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '?Miss Griffin? is capital stuff; not the least dull, a little ragged and loquacious, of course. Go on. Give me more t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | unknown | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today we saw the cathedral at Chester; and, far more delightful, saw and heard a certain inimitable verger who took u... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I' wonder if you ever read Dickens?s [italics] Christmas Books [end italics] ? I don?t know that I would recommend you... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Dickens | Christmas Stories (2, unnamed) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have the "PTFL" proof; and it is very fourth rate, I am afraid; not quite [italics] dead [end italics] you know, bu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | "On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places" | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I found the proof of ?John Knox? waiting me here, and have despatched it.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | ?John Knox and his Relations with Women?? | Print: Proof copy. |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Katharine, I have gone over your paper at last (I would have done it sooner, had I found the time) [?].' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | Included "Miss Griffin"? | Manuscript: Sheet, RLS calls it "your paper". |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and tha... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Francis Quarles | Emblems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and tha... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I can say this much that your paper has impressed me very much, and I shall never get the village out of my head; I k... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Bunyan | The Pilgrim?s Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And yet I am going to send you a book that was written altogether in the spirit of that place. I send it however, bec... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Baudelaire | Petits poemes en prose | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is it the third or the fifth book of Virgil you so much liked; I have taken to reading the third.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Virgil | The Aeneid, Books III and probably V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I tried to read Tennyson?s Ode on the Dook of Wellington (which is the finest lyrical poem in the language in case yo... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I somehow could not think the gulph so impassable and read him some notes on the Duke of Argyll.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll | The Reign of Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Transcription]
'Das Herz ist mir bedruckt und sehnlich
Gedenke ich der alten Zeit;
Die Welt war damals noch so w... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Heinrich Heine | Die Heimkehr. XXXIX Buch der Lieder | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Hallam | Constitutional History of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read Morley's second article on Education today' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Morley | The Struggle for National Education | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Last night, after reading Walt Whitman a long while for my attempt to write about him, I got the tete-montee, rushed ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have meditated also a large work, on the Plan of ... Campbell's Chancellors ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Lord Campbell | Lives of the Lord Chancellors etc | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I find I have no time for reading except times of fatigue when I wish merely to refresh myself. O − and I read ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Gustave Flaubert | La Tentation de Saint Antoine. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... but I suppressed it at once and kept on at Wodrow's Analecta (a Covenanting book) and made my notes as best I cou... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Wodrow | Analecta | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The authorship of these beautiful verses has been most truculently fought about; but whoever wrote them (and it seems... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michael Bruce | Ode to the Cuckoo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am alone in the house, and so I allowed myself, at dinner, the first light reading I have indulged in since my retu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Les Essais | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As Montaigne says, talking of something quite different:"Pour se laisser tomber a plomb, et de si haut, il faut que s... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Les Essais, Livre III, Ch XII, De la physionomie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have had a day of open air; only a little modified by Le Capitaine Fracasse before the dining room fire.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Theophile Gautier | Le Capitaine Fracasse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It has the same talent as Emaux et Camees and no other.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Theophile Gautier | Emaux et Camees | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had almost as soon have it in the Portfolio, as the Saturday; the P. is so nicely printed and I am gourmet in type.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Philip Gilbert Hamerton (editor) | The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today I have been to church which has not improved my temper I must own. The clergyman did his best to make me hate h... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Bible, O.T., Judges, Chapter 5. | Print: Book, Bible or possibly prayerbook |
| 1850-1899 | 'MacMahon's address is pasted up everywhere and political pictures fill the windows.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Patrice de MacMahon | unknown | Print: Poster |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have bought Sainte-Beuve's Chateaubriand and am immensely delighted with the critic.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | Chateaubriand et son groupe litteraire sous l'Empire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dowson has lent me Clough, which I like a good deal ..' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Hugh Clough | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Miss Edgeworth's Popular Tales for the Young with thorough gusto.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Maria Edgeworth | Moral Tales for Young People | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Andrews seems very pleasant and we had a fierce forenoon of it over meteorology. He has Bookan (as he calls him)...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexander Buchan | Handy Book of Meteorology [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must tell you about my way of life, which is regular to a degree. Breakfast 8.30; during breakfast and my smoke aft... | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | works on the Reformation | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for the newspapers and for having marked them. Baildon has rather got it; I cannot but feel sympathy with the ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | The Scotsman/Edinburgh Courant | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was much surprised at [what] Charteris said of John Stuart Mill. "Seemed to have been kind and benevolent" is used ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Edinburgh Courant | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | [After a break in the letter:] 'There I had the wisdom to stop and look over Japanese picture books until lunch time.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | [Japanese picture books] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have gone in for a course of George Sand with immense delight and good results to health, sprits and poor bemuddled... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, please read, Francois le Champi by George Sand; it is like a dream of goodness and virtue and gentle heroism.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Francois le Champi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have the whole of her novels before me. Even La Petite Fadette, for as long as it was in the house, I had not read.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | La Petite Fadette | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Disraeli's, Tulloch's and Greyfriars' addresses were all three excellent; Disraeli's brilliant.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Piano again disentangled; and some hope, not for it only, but for the tale. I have read it to my mother, who thought ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown "Tale" | Manuscript: Unknown, Seems to refer to one of a set of stories that RLS had at various stages of planning and completion, see Letter 329. |
| 1850-1899 | '[?] I could not [?] pay the postage for the book. [?]
The book, you will receive shortly. Do not run away with the i... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Baudelaire | Petits Poemes en Prose | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[?] it was that paper of yours that made me think of the book[Baudelaire's "Petits Poemes en Prose"]' (see RED ID18015) | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | unknown | Manuscript: Sheet, Referred to here by RLS as "that paper of yours". |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have found what should interest you dear. A paper in which I had sketched out my life, before I knew you. Here is t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Desiderata | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is not this verse pretty?
Thou wast that all [sic] to me, love,
For which my soul did pine --
A green isle i... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edgar Allan Poe | To One in Paradise (1834) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have made myself so ill with a story of Poe?s − ?King Pest?, by name. I did not sleep last night and I have s... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edgar Allan Poe | King Pest: A Tale Containing An Allegory. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As soon as I have done, I shall begin my ?Pastoral Drama? business; I have so many nice things to say about "Midsumm... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Colvin?s article on B.C. was so much better than I had expected; he had the courage (which I lacked) to find fault; i... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | Review of Basil Champneys' book A Quiet Corner of England. | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[?] though I can do no original work, I get forward making notes for my ?Knox? at a good trot.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Various unspecified books concerning John Knox. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No skating scene in "Wilhelm Meister" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and/or Wanderjahre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This is E. A. Poe:
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edgar Allan Poe | To my Mother. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then again, I have nice books to read. The new French poets. Prudhomme is adorable − I shall have a lot of Sull... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Rene-Francois-Armand Sully-Prudhomme | unknown poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you know Soulary and Sully-Prudhomme? Such birds, both of them: Soulary a really consummate artist, More akin to R... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Soulary | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Well, I was at the annual dinner of my old Academy schoolfellows last night. We sat down ten, out of seventy-two.[?] ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | [unknown verses] | Manuscript: Unknown, Probably sheets of paper or pages from a notebook. |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read Mademoiselle Merquem? I have just finished it ..' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Mademoiselle Merquem | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [a child relative?s speculations about the nature of fairies] was a good deal in the vein of Herbert Spencer?s des... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Herbert Spenser | Principles of Biology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading "The Village on the Cliff", and cannot tell you how beautiful I think it. I am inclined to give up liter... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Anne Isabella Thackeray | The Village on the Cliff. A Novel. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been working all the morning at my second ?John Knox? proof, and got it pretty right, I fancy.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Knox and the Controversy about Female Rule | Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have also got ?An Autumn Effect? in proof: I shall send it to you to read, I think.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | An Autumn Effect. | Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I say Colvin, your Titian is no end, and has pleased my mother as much as me: no end, also, is your description of th... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | [Notices on Titian and Daniel Maclise] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'And now I have taken up an old story, begun years ago; and I have now rewritten all I had written of it then and mean... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | A Country Dance | Manuscript: Earlier draft of one of his stories. |
| 1850-1899 | 'My poet writes good stuff; it is slack still and unequal, but I think some of it capital.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have a poet in stock here, a poor ass in the infirmary with one leg off and the other more than shaky − scrof... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is only one very good thing in the world: the acting of Sarah Bernhardt. I beg your pardon, there is another: P... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Pierre Veron | Le Pantheon de Poche | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading John Racine: it is very standard − damnd[sic] standard, I beg your pardon.[…] I like John... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jean Racine | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jules Michelet | French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... some verses which I wrote turn out, on inspection, to be not quite equal to "Kubla Khan".' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Kubla Khan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'However I forgave him, and read him that bit of Walt Whitman about the widowed bird, which I thank God affected him q... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walt Whitman | Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am to act Orsino (the Duke) in "Twelfth Night" at the Jenkins’. I could not resist that; it is such a delightful ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Look here, you had better get hold of G.C. Lichtenberg’s "Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche": ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution with much interest.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jules Michelet | French Revolution/Histoire de la Revolution francaise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am nearly done with McCrie's Knox.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas McCrie | Life of John Knox | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Colvin has brought home Woodstock from Nice and we have started reading it aloud, which is a huge institution.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | Woodstock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I should like, by the way, to hear more about my father's lecture; was it much on the same rails as the Good Words ar... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | 'British Storms' in Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '... and then nearly fell asleep over the Fortnightly. Morley is very jolly; so is Marat.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Fortnightly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Imagine my delight to find a footnote in Capefigs thus conceived ... Immediately after, Capefigues talks of la grande... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jean Baptise Honore Raymond Capefigue | Histoire de la Reforme, de la Ligue, et du Regne de Henri IV | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I cannot tell how I feel, who can ever? I feel like a person in a novel of George Sand’s; I feel a desire to go out... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Henley,
Sketches
III line 11. More laughter comes from them than moan.
IV As a whole.
VII Both quatrain... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits | Print: Probably proof. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am all right. I am reading law, and writing beautiful poems in prose. […]Do write, son of perdition, do write. I ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | law books | Print: Book, Textbooks on Scottish Law, including Civil Law. |
| 1850-1899 | [On blank recto flyleaf at the beginning of the volume:] 'My Dear Brown,/ Here it is, with the mark of a San Francisco... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Penn | Fruits of Solitude | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have finished Nanon...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Nanon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article: (a fine article it was too);[…].' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Kingdom Clifford | The Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a Future State | Print: Serial / periodical, Review article. Probably read in print after publication, but possibly in another earlier form since RLS was acquainted with its author. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Hay Athole Macdonald | election speech | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | letter (in "Nature") | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The gay and free S.C. has at last written to me; but has not pleased me: does he think I can do anything with my “S... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I met a rum old army doctor, called Lewins, who sent me a paper of his, full of matter that would not be very gratify... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Lewins | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [Signature] R.L.H. Stevenson
'You don’t know what H. means, ha? I have been reading Nym; and that’s the humour of... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am still ... doing a pleasanter spell of work over the Waverley novels.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | Waverley novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read one after another ... The Fortunes of Nigel.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | The Fortunes fo Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Waverley is so poor and dull.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | #Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of "V. Hugo's Romances" ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Victor Hugo | various romances | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading such lots of law, and it seems to take away the power of writing from me. From morning to night, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | [law books] | Print: Book, Law books in the plural. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I say, how nice S.C.’s ‘Walker’ is.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | Frederick Walker. In Memoriam. | Print: Given the date of the letter, RLS may have read the article in proof. |
| 1850-1899 | '[…] I’ve been to church and am not depressed − a great step. I was at that beautiful church my P.P.P.[Petit... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Anon [Apprently the father of the dead child] | [memorial on grave] | Manuscript: Inscription carved on school slate. |
| 1850-1899 | 'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outline... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | Notes on the Firth | Manuscript: Sheet, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outline... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits. | Manuscript: Unknown, Probably a proof copy. |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Colvin, Thanks for your pencilations. One thing only, remains; how am I to call the followers of Orso and Man... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | annotations | Manuscript: Letter, annotations |
| 1850-1899 | 'I say your pavement is d−d jolly.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | The History of a Pavement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Herewith you receive the rest of Henley’s hospital work. He was much pleased by what you said of him, and asked me ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | [second series of] Hospital Poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My discouragement is from many causes: among others the re-reading of my Italian story. Forgive me, Colvin, but I can... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | When the Devil Was Well. | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I am very busy with Beranger for the "Britannica". | Robert Louis Stevenson | Pierre-Jean Beranger | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'O when we woke in London docks, the first steamer I saw go past was the "Charles", and the next the "Cygnet": I was a... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | | Manuscript: Letter, Painted (or stencilled?) on ships' sides. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just made my will and am reading Aimard's novels.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Gustave Aimard | unidentified novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I find here (of all places in the world) your Essays on Art, which I have read with signal interest.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Philip Gilbert Hamerton | Art Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Weg, I received your book last night ... You know what a wooden hearted curmudgeon I am about contemporary ve... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmund Gosse | New Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bancroft's History of the United States, even in a centenary edition, is essentially heavy fare ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Bancroft | History of the United States of America from the Discovery of the American Continent | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'From time to time, Lang writes charming articles in the "Daily News": witness one, a week or so past, on Montaigne: i... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Andrew Lang | [article on Montaigne] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The best trumpet that I can suggest is to read Thomas Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. Sick as I am of reading anything in... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Carlyle | Essay on Burns | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way, I have tried to read the Spectator, which they all say I imitate, and - it's very wrong of me I know - bu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [I have seen] 'Your "Art and Criticism", likewise there'. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | 'Art and Criticism' in Appleton's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'When last observed, he was studying with apparent zest the exploits of one Rocambole by the late Viscount Ponson of T... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail | Les Exploits de Rocambole | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read M. Auguste.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Joseph Mery | Monsieur Auguste | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read M. Auguste and the Crime Inconnu, being now abonne to a library.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Joseph Mery | Un crime inconnu | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Damned Ones of the Hindies now occupy my attention.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Joseph Mery | Les Damnes de Java | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have fallen in love with the Charles of Orleans period and cannot get enough of it. I see six essays at least, on s... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Various | [Texts by or about 15th-century French literary and historical figures] | Print: Probably books and articles. |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Brittany game is simply “on it”. There are no two ways of that. [ref.to Note 1] Look here, my young and lovel... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | At the Land's End of France. | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Burns | unknown | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Allan Ramsay | The Gentle Shepherd | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Fergusson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I idle finely. I read Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"[…]'
| Robert Louis Stevenson | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Martin’s "History of France"[…]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henri Martin | History of France | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Allan Ramsay […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Allan Ramsay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Olivier Basselin […]
"On dit qu’il nuit aux yeux; mais
seront-ils les maistres?
Le vin est gu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Olivier Basselin | A Son Nez | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many thanks for your letter and the instalment of Forrester which accompanied it, and which I read with amusement and... | Robert Louis Stevenson | James Walter Ferrier | Forrester | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'The family is all very shaky in health but our motto is now "Al Monte!" in the words of Don Lope, in the play the sis... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Lope de Vega | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] all sorts of rubbish a proposof Burns […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | material about Burns | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Comines […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Philippe de Commines | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Juvenal des Ursins, etc. [….]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jean Juvenal des Ursins | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I believe I have not written to you since I saw the end of the Undiscovered Country.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Dean Howells | Undoscovered Country | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'An old idea, first started while I was reading your history of Scotland, has just been revived over your Queen Anne, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Hill Burton | History of the Reign of Queen Anne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was pleased to see your quotation from Clough. I used it myself in an approximate form, and with doubtful attributi... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Hugh Clough | Amours de Voyage | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gen. Robertson called and presented me with Hamley's Operations of War in which I am now drowned a thousand fathoms d... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Bruce Hamley | Operations of War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote l... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne | Guido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have done rather an amusing paragraph or two for "Vanity Fair" on the "Inn Album". I have slated R.B. pretty handso... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Browning | The Inn Album | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'It is truly not for nothing that I have read my Buckley.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Theodore William Alois Buckley | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since my books have come I have read every day ... 100 or thereby pp of Stewart's Highland Regiments.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | David Stewart of Garth | Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlands of Sctland, with Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I cannot think how I omitted to tell you that I was pleased extremely with the dedication; it seemed to me and Fanny ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | Lighthouse Construction and Illumination | Manuscript: Unknown, possibly proof copy |
| 1850-1899 | '[…] I keep reading XVth Century […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | various | [works on the fifteenth century] | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Read Stephen’s “Macaulay”. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Leslie Stephen | Hours in a Library, No. XII. − Macaulay | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lang’s French ballads is neatly enough ticked off.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Andrew Lang | French Peasant Songs. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Here I am, here. And very well too. And I read your hymn, which is a very good hymn. And I was delighted with how you... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | ‘A Greek Hymn’. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read one half (about 900 pages) of Wodrow's Correspondence, with some improvement but great fatigue.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Wodrow | The Correspondence of the Rev Robert Wodrow | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Stephen's admirable, arch-admirable, 'George Eliot', in that Cornhill.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Leslie Stephen | 'George Eliot' in Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'By Swinburne's conversion, I meant no reference to his divagations about 'Rizpah', which I did not honour with perusa... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Fortnightly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'You are right about that adorable book; F. and I are in a world, not ours; but pardon me, as far as sending on goes, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Carlyle | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerique”. In the la... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Illustrated London News | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just seen the Academy of April 9.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | The Academy: A Monthly Record of Literature, Learning, Science and Art | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your last poem in the Cornhill was first class.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmund Gosse | 'Timasetheos' in The Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The other day I borrowed a volume of Symonds's poems from himself and returned it to him without a word of comment.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Addington Symonds | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just been reading your Odes; a lovely little book.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmund Gosse | English Odes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Fortune has written another book, the Equipage of the Devil, which is fully worse than words can describe.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Castille (Boisgobey) | L'Equipage du Diable (Equipage of the Devil) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Debans, the Dead Man's Shoes fellow has also disgraced himself in a work entitled Baron John.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Camille Debans | Le Baron Jean (Baron John) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Symonds has gone off to Italy with your Bouvard et Pecuchet, a most loathsome work.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Gustave Flaubert | Bouvard et Pecuchet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Who did the Athenaeum I know not, but it is very kind.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | A J Butler | Review in Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The swollen, childish and pedantic vanity that moved the said revisers to put 'bring' for 'lead', is a sort of litera... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Revised Version of New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lang's Library is very pleasant reading.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Andrew Lang | The Library | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have not finished re-reading your book, so I cannot say whether all is improved; but much is.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Grant Robertson | Kurum, Kabul and Kandahar: being a Brief Record of Impressions in Three Campaigns under General Roberts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'These brave words of Scott remind me of the song in The Antiquary, which I have just re-read ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | The Antiquary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The two middle verses of that song have haunted me ever since I was a child and used to go up into the dark drawing-r... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I like your "Byron" well ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | Athenaeum, 'The Poetry of Byron' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I liked your ... "Berlioz" better.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | Cornhill Magazine 'Hector Berlioz: a Biography' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A thousand thanks for Johnson who is a brick.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Johnson | A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerisque”. In the l... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | The Graphic | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Don't read noble old Fred's Pirate anyhow; it is written in sand with a salt spoon: arid, feeble, vain, tottering pro... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederick Marryat | The Pirate | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In reference to 'N.A.'s' notes on young Rob Roy, I should like to ask the writer if he will kindly inform us what aut... | Robert Louis Stevenson | N. A. | 'Young Rob Roy' in Stirling Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Look here, my fame is even more complete than I had dreamed of. Get the "Spectators" for August 5th and 12th; and you... | Robert Louis Stevenson | anon | Review article; and 'Husbands and Wives'. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have found […] a "Courant" which was speedily dismembered and has been read eagerly down to the Theatre Advertise... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Le Courant | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your "Daniel Deronda" is uncommonly jolly, and right. I don’t know that you’ve ever written anything which please... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sydney Colvin | Review of George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'This [i.e. letter] had been lying a long while. I must send it off in proof I didn’t quite forget you. I saw yours ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Baxter | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'You are quite right, according to me, in being dissatisfied with my work; but not right at all in expressing your dis... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Glasgow Brown | letter | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rondeau
On reading a work by M. Auguste Maquet entitled Les Vertes Feuilles.
See, "The Green Leaves", I leave them ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Auguste Maquet | Les Feuilles Vertes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Symonds has lent me Pontanus ... You can twig the argument; he is delicious.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Giovanni Pontano | Pontani Opera, 'Hendecasyllaborum, Liber Primus' xx | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The seventeen-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson, when he read the novel that year, wrote to his mother: “Isn’t the d... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Translation enclosed, very literal, for the fun’s sake.
I have taken stock/made acquaintance of the ["Treatise of ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederic Andre | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'See No. 571, last page; an article, called Sir Claude the Conqueror ... The story in question, by the by, was a last ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Villiers | Sir Claude the Conqueror (in Young Folks) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Observe in the same number, how Will. J. Sharman girds at your poor friend ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Will. J. Sharman | article in Young Folks | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Talking of which, in Heaven's name, get the Bondage of Brandon (3 vols) by Bracebridge Hemming.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Bracebridge Hemyng | Bondage of Brandon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter to Colvin and have roared over it ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Oscar Wilde | letter to Sidney Colvin | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter ... I read his poems and found, with disappointment, they were not e... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Oscar Wilde | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had already spotted your Dickens; very pleasant and true.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | review of Vol 3 Letters of Charles Dickens in Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Morris's Sigurd is a grrrrreat poem; that is so.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Morris | translation of The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read your “Giotto”; it’s almighty well written, I don’t know how the devil you can write like that.'
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | "Giotto's Gospel of Labour" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read your “Grosvenor”; I’ve seen more interesting articles of yours (beg parding!); but it seemed to me very ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | "The Grosvenor Gallery" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | It would not be very easy for me to give you any idea of the pleasure I found in your present….I can assure you, you... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Patchett Martin | Sweet Girl Graduate: A Christmas Story and Random Rhymes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for your beautiful book, which I admired with my eyes and then read with great amusement.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Peter Christen Asbjorsen | Round the Yule Log | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... and I agree with you I could choose no better model than Colvin's admirable Landor.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | Landor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading "Clarissa Harlowe" with all the pleasure in the world…It is the cleverest book in some ways that can b... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I knew I had forgot something: Furnivall is too free; it is permitted to be insolent, but not to be so strangely dull.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederick James Furnivall | Review in The Academy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for Sordello, I read it four times in youth, and never could make out who was speaking; yet I liked it - as one li... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Mag has come; the only thing I liked was your Japanese.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | 'A Note on Japanese Art' in Magazine of Art | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Why the hell did you or your printers - a lousy lot whom I abominate - pass over a correction of mine and send me spr... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'O boy, I'm deep in Lanfry.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jean-Pierre Lanfry | Histoire de Napoleon 1er | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'His Majesty, once more disobeying the Dook's orders, had granted to some creature an Irish peerage. 'I observe' wrote... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald | Life of George IV | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have your List of Writings etc: a copy of it was lent to me by Mr Bain the bookseller.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexander Ireland | List of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt : chronologically arranged with notes, descriptive, critical, and explanatory; and a selection of opinions regarding their genius and characteristics, by distinguished contemporaries and friends as we | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The elections are coming on, and Paris is full of the strangest manifestoes from this or the other candidate. Some &#... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | | Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sunday morning, as I was out getting chocolate, I found two new manifestoes on the walls. One from a private person, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | By or on behalf of Edme-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon | [political manifesto] | Print: Poster, election posters. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received my father’s pamphlet and read it with great pleasure. I shall try and write of it more at large to himse... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | Christianity Confirmed by Jewish and Heathen Testimony and the Deductions from Physical Science | |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Omadhaun" was very funny by the Lord; I saw Constable who said both Payn and Kegan Paul had very highly lauded y... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | 'The Omadhaun at the Queen's'. | Print: Serial / periodical, Account of an Irish melodrama by H.P. Grattan. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wish I could lay my hands on the numbers of the "Review", for I know I wished to say something on that head more pa... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Patchett Martin | Bret Harte in Relation to Modern Fiction. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I agreed pretty well with all you said about George Eliot […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Catherine Spence | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did you − I forget − did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel De... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Patchett Martin | 'Noll and Nell'; 'England - 1877'. | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Both (2 poems, one in a book, one in a periodical). |
| 1850-1899 | 'Please, if you have not, and I don’t suppose you have, already read it, institute a search in all Melbourne for one... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was in Paris during the elections for the Chamber, when a triumphant majority was returned, as of course you know, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmé-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon, comte de | | Print: Poster |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the preface once a day about, tell Nestor so much.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your last letter was very nice.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Margaret Isabella Stevenson | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'At last, son of night, I receive a communication […] Oh no, it is not the penny. It is the one-volume story demande... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Symonds, talking of cultshaw, has just written a book of sonnets, which I think really should interest and amuse a fe... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Addington Symonds | Animi Figura | Manuscript: Proof copy |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you heartily for the Bible, which is exquisite.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederic Soulie | La Lionne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by L... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederic Soulie | La Comtesse de Monrion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by L... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederic Soulie | Le Fils de la Folle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A capital review of Inland Voyage in the New York Critic for June 2nd.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | [review of "Inland Voyage" in the "New York Critic"] | Print: Serial / periodical |