Evidence: | 'Yesterday I received a letter that gave me much pleasure from a poor fellow student of mine who has been all winter very ill, and seems to be but little better even now. He seems very pleased with "Ordered South". "A month ago," he says, "I could scarcely have ventured to read it -- today I felt on reading it as I did on the first day that I was able to sun myself in the open air" And much more to the like effect. It is very gratifying.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Swanston specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, 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: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
Religion: | Church of Scotland (wavering) |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | From Letter 268, to Frances Sitwell, written in parts dated by the writer as of Wednesday-Friday-Monday and situated by the editors from [29 April 1874] to [6 May]. The words cited occur in section headed 'Wednesday' [6 May 1874]. |
Author: | a fellow student of Robert Louis Stevenson |
Title: | letter |
Genre: | Letter received by RLS on Tuesday [5 May 1874] |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 14930 | |
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Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 4 | |
Additional comments: | Co-editor Ernest Mehew |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14930, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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