Record Number: 21387
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I find here (of all places in the world) your Essays on Art, which I have read with signal interest.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Oct 1879 and 31 Oct 1879
Country:America
Timen/a
Place:city: Monterey
Type of Experience(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 Oct 1850
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:atheist
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:America
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Art Essays
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:21387
Source: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:3
Page:20
Additional Comments:
additional editor Ernest Mehew. letter to P G Hamerton.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 3, p. 20, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=21387, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Hamerton wrote a book entitled Art Essays (which almost matches the title RLS quotes), but I have not been able to find any other publication date for it earlier than 1880, New York. It is possible that the book was published elsewhere at an earlier date, or that RLS's letter, the date of which is not given precisely by Booth/Mehew, was written later than October 1879. The footnote on p 20 Booth/Mehew suggests that the book RLS refers to here is Thoughts About Art (published 1873).
