Evidence: | 'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outlines” in this month’s "Cornhill" − poems which have made a great sensation here, where the portraits are easily recognized; and though these have not the same extrinsic interest, they seem to me better as workmanship and more agreeable altogether. Henley is a singularly fine fellow, whose constancy under great trouble is as remarkable as his verse. Let me add that he is not the richest person in the world, so (should these sonnets suit you for the magazine) an early publication will be of great service to him.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 12 Feb 1875 and Jul 1875 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Edinburgh county: Lothian specific address: Perhaps Swanston Cottage. |
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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: | William Ernest Henley |
Title: | Notes on the Firth |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Sheet, Unknown |
Publication details: | Would be published in Macmillan's Magazine for October 1875. |
Provenance: | borrowed (private library) RLS is passing on and recommending his friend's poems to a prospective editor. |
Record ID: | 20688 | |
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: | 148 | |
Additional comments: | Letter 401, To George Grove, [Early July 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. 148, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20688, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
RLS’s reading experience here is of the Henley sonnets mentioned this letter. On p.148 the Editors’ Note to this letter reads, referring to the sonnets: “ Published as ‘Notes on the Firth’ in "Macmillan’s Magazine" for October 1875.” |
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