Record Number: 18134
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[?] though I can do no original work, I get forward making notes for my ?Knox? at a good trot.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 8 Jan 1875
Country:Scotland
Timemorning
afternoon
evening
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:Uncommitted.
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:Various unspecified books concerning John Knox.
Genre:Other religious, History, Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18134
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:100
Additional Comments:
From section headed Friday [8 January] in Letter 347, To Frances Sitwell, Monday [4 January 1875]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The dates in square brackets have been added by the editors.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. 100, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18134, accessed: 30 November 2023
Additional Comments:
RLS it seems would still have been reading, in order to take notes from, source material for the two-part article on Knox that would be published in "Macmillan?s Magazine"in September and October 1875. See p.48, Letter 311 and note.