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Record Number: 18016


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'[?] it was that paper of yours that made me think of the book[Baudelaire's "Petits Poemes en Prose"]' (see RED ID18015)

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 7 Nov 1874

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edinburgh
specific address: [17 Heriot Row]

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


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:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Katharine de Mattos

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Fiction, Pieces of imaginative writing, referred to in letter 323.

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Sheet, Referred to here by RLS as "that paper of yours".

Publication Details

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

18016

Source:

Print

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:

80

Additional Comments:

Letter 332, To Katharine de Mattos [7 November 1874]. 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. 80, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18016, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

A piece of her own writing by Katharine de Mattos sent earlier by her to RLS, See also Letters 308 and 323 in same volume both addressed by RLS to K de M.

   
   
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