Evidence: | "Do you think Job's birthday was the 29th of February 'As for that night let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.' [....] 'Where wast though when I laid the foundations of the earth? ... Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?' And so on to the end:'Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty answer him? He that reproveth God, let him answer it.'" |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Sep 1868 and 30 Sep 1868 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Wick | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | student |
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 |
Author: | |
Title: | Bible |
Genre: | Bible |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 13596 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 152 | |
Additional comments: | Additional editor Ernest Mehew |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 152, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13596, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Presumably RLS was reading from copy of Bible, Book of Job (3:6, 38:4, 40:2), as he wrote out the quotations. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)