| Evidence: | 'Well, I was at the annual dinner of my old Academy schoolfellows last night. We sat down ten, out of seventy-two.[?] I read them some verses. It is great fun: I always read verses, and in the vinous enthusiasm of the moment they always propose to have them printed; [italics]ce qui n?arrive jamais, du reste[end italics]: in the morning, they are more calm.'
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 15 Jan 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh county: Lothian |
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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: | Uncommitted. |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Nine other rmembers of his class at Edinburgh Academy. |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Title: | [unknown verses] |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown, Probably sheets of paper or pages from a notebook. |
| Publication details: | See below under Additional Comments. |
| Provenance: | owned . |
| Record ID: | 18445 | |
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| 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: | 108-9 | |
| Additional comments: | From section headed Saturday [16 January} in Letter 354, To Frances Sitwell, Thursday [14 January 1875]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The dates in square brackets have 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. 108-9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18445, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| The Editors? Note 1 to p. 108 reads: ??The Thompson Club Class? was composed of the old pupils who belonged to the class of D?Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Every year a master began with a junior class and stayed with it through the school. The verses ?Poem for a Class Reunion? were posthumously printed in BBS [= Boston Bibliophile Society] III (1921)and are in "Collected Poems"; = Robert Louis Stevenson, "Collected Poems", ed. Janet Adam Smith, (London, 1950; second edition , 1971), 333-4. Other verses were written for these dinners in 1883 (see Letter 1202) and 1885 ("Underwoods", II, X).? "Underwoods" was published in 1887. |
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