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Record 13551

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Have you seen anything of the Broadway: I rather like it.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 21 Nov 1867
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: specific address: 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh
   
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: writer
Religion: Church of Scotland
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: Scotland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Letter to Bob Stevenson
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Broadway
Genre: Ephemera
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: No 3, November 1867
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 13551  
Source - Print  
  Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
  Editor: Bradford Booth
  Title: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
  Place of Publication: New Haven and London
  Date of Publication: 1994
  Vol: 1
  Page: 119
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 119, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13551, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

RLS interested in Robert Buchanan's review of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

 

 

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