| Evidence: | 'I spent most of yesterday in the Advocates' Library and got about half way through the catalogue.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 29 Dec 1867 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Advocates' Library, Edinburgh | ||||||||||
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| 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: | Church of Scotland |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Letter to Bob Stevenson |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | ?Robert ?Wodrow |
| Title: | [MSS in the Advocates' Library] |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | Wodrow MSS? |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 13552 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 120 | |
| Additional comments: | Additional editor Ernest Mehew |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 120, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13552, accessed: 23 March 2023 | |
| The footnote to the Booth/Mehew edition suggests that the MSS Stevenson was reading were those of the historian Robert Wodrow. Stevenson was researching the history of the Covenanters for his projected life of David Hackson of Rathillet. |
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