Evidence: | 'I say, how nice S.C.’s ‘Walker’ is.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 29 Jun 1875 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Edinburgh county: Lothian specific address: [Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn] ? |
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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) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Sidney Colvin |
Title: | Frederick Walker. In Memoriam. |
Genre: | Biography, Obituary article. |
Form of Text: | Print: Given the date of the letter, RLS may have read the article in proof. |
Publication details: | July 1875, Cornhill Magazine. |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 20506 | |
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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: | 145 | |
Additional comments: | Letter 398, To Frances Sitwell, Tuesday [29 June 1875], [Swanston]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew, The material 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. 145, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20506, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
On p.145, the Editors’ Note 2 to this letter reads: “Colvin’s article, ‘Frederick Walker. In Memoriam’ in the July Cornhill. Frederich Walker (1840-750, painter and prolific book-illustrator.” |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)