Record Number: 26849

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

It would not be very easy for me to give you any idea of the pleasure I found in your present….I can assure you, your little book, coming from so far, gave me all the pleasure and encouragement in the world...' [Note 1]Martin read RLS’s essay ‘Virginibus Puerisque’ in "Cornhill" for August 1876 and wrote to him expressing his pleasure.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: Jul 1877

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edinburgh
county: Lothian

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:

Uncommitted

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Arthur Patchett Martin

Title:

Sweet Girl Graduate: A Christmas Story and Random Rhymes

Genre:

Fiction, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Melbourne, Australia, 1876

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

26849

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:

212

Additional Comments:

Letter 473, To Arthur Patchett Martin, [June or July 1877], [? Edinburgh] and Note 1. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The foregoing material 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. 212, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=26849, accessed: 31 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

According to Note 4 on p.212 the ‘present’ in question was Martin’s "Sweet Girl Graduate: A Christmas Story and Random Rhymes" (Melbourne, 1876), a 94-page booklet containing the story plus seven poems. The Editors’ Note 1 to Letter 473 states that Martin (1851-1902), editor 1876-82 of and contributor to "The Melbourne Review" “read RLS’s essay ‘Virginibus Puerisque’ in 'Cornhill' for August 1876 and wrote to him expressing his pleasure.” The implication seems to be that the note or letter expressing this pleasure accompanied the book.