| Evidence: | 'In a shop in Buchanan Street, there was exposed a little gold wristlet with 'Phil. 1.3' upon it; look it up in the New Testament and take the text, meine schone Freundin, as a message from me.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 19 Sep 1873 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Terreglestown, Dumfries | ||||||||||
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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: | writer |
| Religion: | atheist |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
letter to Frances Sitwell |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Paul |
| Title: | Epistle to the Philippians, I.3 |
| Genre: | Bible |
| Form of Text: | Print: wristlet |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ seen in a shop window |
| Record ID: | 17418 | |
| 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: | 304 | |
| 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. 304, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17418, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| RLS not reading Bible at the time. The wristlet he saw in a shop window had a reference to a line in Paul's Epistle to the Philippians. RLS must have been sufficiently familiar with his Bible to decode the reference and use it for his own purposes. |
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