Evidence: | 'I have been reading a good deal of Herbert ...
"Carve or discourse; do not famine fear,
Who carves is kind to two, who talks to all."' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 7 Sep 1868 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland/England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Wick | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | Church of Scotland |
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: | George Herbert |
Title: | The Temple: The Church Porch xxii |
Genre: | Other religious, History, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1863 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 13578 | |
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: | 144 | |
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. 144, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13578, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
RLS's copy of The Poetical Works of George Herbert; and the Synagogue, by C. Harvey (1863), a gift from Cummy 1 January 1866 (footnote p 144 Booth and Mehew, Letters). |
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