Record Number: 15954
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
?I send you L. Stephen?s letter, which is certainly very kind and jolly to get. Please show it, if you get a chance, to Mrs Sitwell.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:15 May 1874
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Swanston
specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:13 Nov 1850
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Aspiring writer, 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:letter
Genre:Letter received by RLS on Saturday, probably 16 May 1874, commenting on RLS's essay on 'Victor Hugo's Romances'
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication DetailsEds' note 5, p. 8, says the letter is printed in Letters, I, 161-3
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:15954
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:9
Additional Comments:
Letter 273, [17 May 1874], pp. 9-10, to Sidney Colvin See entry ID 15361 and Letter 272, p.8, where RLS mentions Stephen?s letter. Editors? note 3 to Letter 272, page 8, says that Leslie Stephen?s letter mentioned here is reproduced in facsimile in Beinecke IV, facing p.1590 [presumably the RLS Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and MS Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut] and was dated 15 May.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15954, accessed: 29 November 2023
Additional Comments:
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