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 31 May 1875 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Ernest Henley |
Title: | Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits. |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown, Probably a proof copy. |
Publication details: | Accepted by the Cornhill in April 1875. |
Provenance: | owned See 11, Additional comments |
Record ID: | 20689 | |
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=20689, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
For RLS’s reading experiences of of “Hospital Outlines” see also Letter 390 and ID =20134. |
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