| Evidence: | 'Mme Garschine's was rather sad and gave me the blues a bit'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 14 May 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Swanston (according to editors) 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, 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: | Letter 272, to Frances Sitwell, dated Thursday (i.e. [14 May] in letter of Wednesday-Sunday, dated by eds as [13-17 May 1874] |
| Author: | Sophie Garschine |
| Title: | letter |
| Genre: | Letter received by RLS probably shortly before he wrote Letter 272. |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 15147 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 7 | |
| 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. 7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15147, accessed: 04 December 2023 | |
| Acc to editorial note 1, this sentence refers to a 7-page letter to RLS from Mme Garschine, dated 7 May 1874. She was a Russian friend of RLS, met at Menton, and the aunt and adoptive mother of Pella, who wrote the letter quoted just before. was the |
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