| Evidence: | 'Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as you ought: verse five is surely not [italics]quite melodious[end italics]. I confess I like the Sonnet in the last number of the "Review"− the ‘Sonnet to England’.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between Jun 1877 and Dec 1877 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Probably Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Probably 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: | Writer |
| Religion: | Uncommitted |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Probably Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Arthur Patchett Martin |
| Title: | 'Noll and Nell'; 'England - 1877'. |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Both (2 poems, one in a book, one in a periodical). |
| Publication details: | See 11, Additional Comments. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 27947 | |
| 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: | 228 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 492, To Arthur Patchett Martin, [December 1877], 17 Heriot Row. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The foregoing 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. 228, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27947, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| Editors’ Note 3 to Letter 492 reads: “Martin’s poem ‘Noll and Nell’ was collected in his "Lays of Today" (Melbourne, 1878); he must have sent RLS an (untraced) periodical publication. Editors’ Note 4 to Letter 492 reads: “‘England − 1877’ in "The Melbourne Review", October 1877.” |
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