Record Number: 20311

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

5 Feb 1874

Country:

Monaco

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Mentone

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

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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:

writer

Religion:

atheist

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Monaco

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Thomas Stevenson

Title:

letter (in "Nature")

Genre:

Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

29 January 1874?

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20311

Source:

Print

Author:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Editor:

Bradford Booth

Title:

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson

Place of Publication:

New Haven and London

Date of Publication:

1994

Vol:

1

Page:

478

Additional Comments:

additional editor Ernest Mehew. letter to mother, Margaret Stevenson.

Citation:

Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 478, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20311, accessed: 23 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

Footnote Botth/Mehew p 478 expresses some doubt about the exact paper by Thomas Stevenson RLS refers to.