Evidence: | 'All right, I'll see what I can do. Before I could answer, I had to see the book; and my good father, after trying at all our libraries, bought it for me. I like the book; that is, some of it; and I'll try to lick up four or five pages for the "Fortnightly."' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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 271, to Sidney Colvin, dated by the editors [May 1874] |
Author: | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
Title: | Fables in Song |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 14931 | |
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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: | 6 | |
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. 6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14931, accessed: 06 December 2023 |
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