Record Number: 14930

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Yesterday I received a letter that gave me much pleasure from a poor fellow student of mine who has been all winter very ill, and seems to be but little better even now. He seems very pleased with "Ordered South". "A month ago," he says, "I could scarcely have ventured to read it -- today I felt on reading it as I did on the first day that I was able to sun myself in the open air" And much more to the like effect. It is very gratifying.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

Scotland

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Swanston
specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

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:

Church of Scotland (wavering)

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

From Letter 268, to Frances Sitwell, written in parts dated by the writer as of Wednesday-Friday-Monday and situated by the editors from [29 April 1874] to [6 May]. The words cited occur in section headed 'Wednesday' [6 May 1874].

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Text Being Read:

Author:

a fellow student of Robert Louis Stevenson

Title:

letter

Genre:

Letter received by RLS on Tuesday [5 May 1874]

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

14930

Source:

Print

Author:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Editor:

Bradford A. Booth

Title:

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879

Place of Publication:

New Haven and London

Date of Publication:

1994

Vol:

2

Page:

4

Additional Comments:

Co-editor Ernest Mehew

Citation:

Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=14930, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None