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
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
specific address: [17 Heriot Row]
(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: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 DetailsProvenance
owned
Source Information:
Record ID:18016
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: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: 23 March 2023
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.
