Record Number: 16902
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'"Victor Hugo" has come; I like all your alterations vastly, except one which I don?t like, tho? I own something was needed there also.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 4 Jun 1874
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Swanston (according to editors) for the first of the letters referred to here by RLS
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 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:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:"Victor Hugo's Romances"
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?
Publication DetailsWould be published in the Cornhill Magazine in August 1874
Provenanceborrowed (other)
In his possession but to be corrected and returned to the editor
Source Information:
Record ID:16902
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:18
Additional Comments:
Co-edited by Ernest Mehew. Letter 278, RLS to Sidney Colvin [? 4 June 1874]. Dates in square brackets added by the editors.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 18, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=16902, accessed: 06 June 2023
Additional Comments:
None
