| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances... | Margaret Oliphant | Robert Louis Stevenson | Wrecker | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan." | Leslie Stephen | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ordered South | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...' | King Kalakava | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmilla... | Leslie Stephen | Robert Louis Stevenson | article on Victor Hugo | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | 'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot... | George Acorn | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield obtained his first copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" on the Conway and was soon enraptured... | John Masefield | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi... | John Masefield | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave hi... | Gwen Raverat | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to... | Ellen Crofts | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters, on James's feelings regarding publication of letters: "He oppos... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", as I always do when in the sick room.' | Hilary Spalding | Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Kidnapped". Not up to much... Dr came and said I couldn't go down [into lessons] until... | Hilary Spalding | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 December 1884: "I read only last night your paper in the December Longman's i... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam James, 29 November 1888: " ... I have had in my hands the earlier sheets of the Master of Ballan... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Master of Ballantrae | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "To-day what I am grateful for is your new ballad-book, which ... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "I read with unrestrictive relish the first chapters of your p... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | The South Seas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 13 January 1891 (in letter begun 12 January 1891): "Since yesterday I have ... ... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "... I have just read the last page of the sweet collection of s... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Across the Plains | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 8 June 1893: "It was only when I came back [from travels abroad] the other day ... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Island Nights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | D.E. Stevenson | Listening Valley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Ita... | Edwin Muir | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Robert Louis Stevenson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In my new vol. of the Edinburgh Stevenson, there is a luminous essay, reprinted for the first time from a Fortnightly... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Louis Stevenson | Some technical elements of style in literatue | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Louis announced that he had written something he wanted us to hear. When we had taken our seats round the centre table... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he h... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Weir of Hermiston | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he h... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Witch Woman | |
| 1850-1899 | One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they... | anon | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune,... | Margaret Oliphant | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Master of Ballantrae | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'My brothers and I have lived the book ["Treasure Island"] many times and the Bois de Boulogne is full of places that ... | Arthur Vanson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday I received a letter that gave me much pleasure from a poor fellow student of mine who has been all winter v... | Robert Louis Stevenson | a fellow student of Robert Louis Stevenson | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | ?Morley has accepted the "Fables" and I have seen it in proof and think less of it than ever.?
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | "On Lord Lytton's Fables in Song" | Manuscript: Sheet, Proof of the article |
| 1850-1899 | ?Yesterday, by the bye, I received the proof of "Victor Hugo"; it is not nicely written, but the stuff is capital, I t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Victor Hugo's Romances | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances? |
| 1850-1899 | '"Victor Hugo" has come; I like all your alterations vastly, except one which I don?t like, tho? I own something was n... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | "Victor Hugo's Romances" | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances? |
| 1850-1899 | ?Goodbye. I am at "Knox and the Women", which seems good stuff when I come to put it down; but the arrangement cost me... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | [material on John Knox] | Print: Book, Presumably numerous works by, and of general and specific reference to, Knox |
| 1850-1899 | I don?t know whether I imagined it, but I thought there seemed something wrong between us this afternoon.[?] Perhaps, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Bob Stevenson | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many thanks. I have received the 15 quid, and the "Portfolio" proof.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Notes on the Movements of Young Children. | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have another letter from Groves [sic] about my ?John Knox?, which is flattering in its way: he is a very gushing an... | Charles Grove | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Knox | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have the "PTFL" proof; and it is very fourth rate, I am afraid; not quite [italics] dead [end italics] you know, bu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | "On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places" | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I found the proof of ?John Knox? waiting me here, and have despatched it.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | ?John Knox and his Relations with Women?? | Print: Proof copy. |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Camp... | Sarah Harriet Burney | W.B. Stevenson | Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twety Years' Residence in South America | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Piano again disentangled; and some hope, not for it only, but for the tale. I have read it to my mother, who thought ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown "Tale" | Manuscript: Unknown, Seems to refer to one of a set of stories that RLS had at various stages of planning and completion, see Letter 329. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have found what should interest you dear. A paper in which I had sketched out my life, before I knew you. Here is t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Desiderata | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Well, I was at the annual dinner of my old Academy schoolfellows last night. We sat down ten, out of seventy-two.[?] ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | [unknown verses] | Manuscript: Unknown, Probably sheets of paper or pages from a notebook. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been working all the morning at my second ?John Knox? proof, and got it pretty right, I fancy.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Knox and the Controversy about Female Rule | Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have also got ?An Autumn Effect? in proof: I shall send it to you to read, I think.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | An Autumn Effect. | Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay. |
| 1850-1899 | 'And now I have taken up an old story, begun years ago; and I have now rewritten all I had written of it then and mean... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | A Country Dance | Manuscript: Earlier draft of one of his stories. |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I should like, by the way, to hear more about my father's lecture; was it much on the same rails as the Good Words ar... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | 'British Storms' in Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | letter (in "Nature") | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My discouragement is from many causes: among others the re-reading of my Italian story. Forgive me, Colvin, but I can... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | When the Devil Was Well. | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I cannot think how I omitted to tell you that I was pleased extremely with the dedication; it seemed to me and Fanny ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | Lighthouse Construction and Illumination | Manuscript: Unknown, possibly proof copy |
| 1850-1899 | From Thomas Wilson's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64):
'He came into my room one day looking for any new book ... | Alfred Tennyson | Stevenson | Praying and Working | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a b... | Charles Causley | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy... | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b... | Members of the XII Book Club | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b... | John Ridges | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Alfred and Janet Rawlings | Robert Louis Stevenson | Apology for Idlers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Christmas at Sea' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Tropic Rain' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Vagabond' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Ernest E. Unwin | Robert Louis Stevenson | Travels with a Donkey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Louis Stevenson | Master of Ballantrae, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Charles and Katherine Evans | Robert Louis Stevenson | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | members of XII Book Club | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | members of XII Book Club | Robert Louis Stevenson | Island Nights' Entertainments | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Robert Louis Stevenson | St Ives | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received my father’s pamphlet and read it with great pleasure. I shall try and write of it more at large to himse... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | Christianity Confirmed by Jewish and Heathen Testimony and the Deductions from Physical Science | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Katherine Evans | Robert Louis Stevenson | [letters] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the preface once a day about, tell Nestor so much.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your last letter was very nice.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Margaret Isabella Stevenson | | Manuscript: Letter |