| Evidence: | ?I send you L. Stephen?s letter, which is certainly very kind and jolly to get. Please show it, if you get a chance, to Mrs Sitwell.'
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 15 May 1874 | ||||||||||
| 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, 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: | n/a |
| Author: | Leslie Stephen |
| Title: | letter |
| Genre: | Letter received by RLS on Saturday, probably 16 May 1874, commenting on RLS's essay on 'Victor Hugo's Romances' |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | Eds' note 5, p. 8, says the letter is printed in Letters, I, 161-3 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 15954 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 9 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 273, [17 May 1874], pp. 9-10, to Sidney Colvin See entry ID 15361 and Letter 272, p.8, where RLS mentions Stephen?s letter. Editors? note 3 to Letter 272, page 8, says that Leslie Stephen?s letter mentioned here is reproduced in facsimile in Beinecke IV, facing p.1590 [presumably the RLS Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and MS Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut] and was dated 15 May. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15954, accessed: 23 March 2023 | |
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