Record Number: 21876

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Many thanks for your letter and the instalment of Forrester which accompanied it, and which I read with amusement and pleasure.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

8 Apr 1880

Country:

America

Time

n/a

Place:

city: San Francisco

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:

America

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

letter to James Walter Ferrier

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

James Walter Ferrier

Title:

Forrester

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

21876

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:

3

Page:

74

Additional Comments:

additional editor Ernest Mehew

Citation:

Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 3, p. 74, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=21876, accessed: 23 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

Ferrier had sent RLS an instalment of an unpublished autobiography (footnote Booth/Mehew p 74)