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Record Number: 18017


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have found what should interest you dear. A paper in which I had sketched out my life, before I knew you. Here is the exact copy even to spelling.[?]'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

14 Nov 1874

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edinburgh
specific address: In 1874 [17 Heriot Row]; ? in 1873

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:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Title:

Desiderata

Genre:

A tentative project for RLS's own future.

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Sheet

Publication Details

Later published in "The Lark", June 1895. There is a facsimile in "The Bookman Extra Number" (1913), 56.

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

18017

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:

81

Additional Comments:

Letter 333, To Frances Sitwell, Saturday [14 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. 81, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18017, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Editors? Note 1, p. 81, to the words ?a paper?: "The MS of "Desiderata" is in Rosenbach [i.e. the Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia]. It was reproduced in facsimile by William Doxey of San Francisco in 1895 and published in "The Lark" June 1895.There is a facsimile in "The Bookman Extra Number" (1913), 56.?

   
   
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