Record Number: 17610
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have the "PTFL" proof; and it is very fourth rate, I am afraid; not quite [italics] dead [end italics] you know, but ailing − very ailing.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:19 Sep 1874
Country:Wales
Timen/a
Place:city: Llandudno?
Type of Experience(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:Wales
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:"On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places"
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay.
Publication DetailsThe essay would be published in the November 1874 Portfolio (magazine).
Provenanceborrowed (other)
Source Information:
Record ID:17610
Source: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:54
Additional Comments:
From section headed Saturday [19 September 1874] in Letter 314, To Frances Sitwell. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The date 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. 54, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17610, accessed: 22 March 2023
Additional Comments:
This seems to refer to the proof of RLS?s essay ?On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places?, published in the Portfolio for November 1874. See p. 43, Letter 307 and note 1.
