| Evidence: | '[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Sep 1874 and 13 Sep 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | North Wales | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Barmouth county: Gwynedd specific address: Cors y Gedol Arms other location: Garden |
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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: | North Wales |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | unknown |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | quarto |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17572 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 52 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 313, To Sidney Colvin, [13 September 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew The date in square brackets has been added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 52, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17572, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Identity of the ?aged quartos? not indicated in text or footnotes. Perhaps they were just "old books"? related to RLS's current writings and/or his law studies. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)