| Evidence: | "Can you find and send to me the last lines of Longfellow's Golden legend, beginning 'It is Lucifer, son of the air,' and so on. 'Since God put him there, he is God's minister for some good end.'" |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 13 Nov 1850 and 14 Jul 1868 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland/England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Anstruther | ||||||||||
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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: | student |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland/England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Letter to mother, Margaret Stevenson |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Title: | The Golden Legend |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 13565 | |
| 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: | 132 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 132, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13565, accessed: 30 May 2023 | |
| RLS misquoted the final lines of Longfellow's The Golden Legend. |
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