Evidence: | 'Last night, after reading Walt Whitman a long while for my attempt to write about him, I got the tete-montee, rushed out up to Magnus Simpson, came in, took out Leaves of Grass, and without giving the poor unbeliever time to object, proceeded to wade into him with favourite passages.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 29 Sep 1873 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | evening: 11 pm | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh | ||||||||||
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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) |
Magnus Simpson |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Walt Whitman |
Title: | Leaves of Grass |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17720 | |
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: | 322/3 | |
Additional comments: | additional editor Ernest Mehew. Letter to Frances Sitwell. |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 322/3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17720, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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