| Evidence: | '?Miss Griffin? is capital stuff; not the least dull, a little ragged and loquacious, of course. Go on. Give me more types in the same style; and when I have the lot , I?ll tell you about the?[end of extract]'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 30 Sep 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Swanston specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh and 17 Heriot Row |
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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: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
| Religion: | Church of Scotland (wavering) |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Katharine de Mattos |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Unknown, Apparently a draft of a piece of her writing communicated to RLS by his cousin K. de Mattos, born Stevenson. |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown Probably lent for him to give his opinion of her work. |
| Record ID: | 17528 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 44 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 308, To Katharine de Mattos, [Early September 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The date in square brackets has been added by the editors. There is more criticism of Katharine de Mattos?s writing on pp. 61-3, Letter 323, [? October 1874] to the same correspondent. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 44, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17528, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
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